Quotes About Nobel

Churchill drank twice what I did if you could believe the accounts and he had just been awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature. I was simply trying to step up my drinking to a reasonable amount when I might win the Prize myself; who knows?

When I came to Berkeley, I met all these Nobel laureates and I got to know that they were regular people. They were very smart and very motivated and worked very hard, but they were still humans, whereas before they were kind of mythical creatures to me.

I feel a deep emotion and pride for the honor of having been awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for 1992.

I am proud to perform at the Nobel Peace Prize Concert.

Some people think the Nobel Prize makes you bullet-proof. I never had that illusion.

To say I was near our president, performing at the Nobel Peace Prize... I think that's an amazing thing.

The Nobel Peace Prize is a powerful message. A durable peace is not a single achievement, but an environment, a process and a commitment.

The Nobel Prize has been a disturbance at the beginning of October for some years. It would be gratifying to win, but it would be quite an ordeal, too, with all the events which go on for two days. I'd think carefully about what I was doing the day it is announced and maybe not be around, or be around, but elsewhere.

I'm very honored and pleased to receive the Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine.

Political satire became obsolete when they awarded Henry Kissinger the Nobel Peace Prize.

The Nobel Peace Prize opened up a door in my heart.

There is no other prize in any country that carries the prestige that a Nobel bestows.

I would like to congratulate my partners in peace - Mr. Yitzhak Rabin, the Prime Minister of Israel, and Mr. Shimon Peres, the Israeli Foreign Minister - on being awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.

In the first place, the preparation of the Nobel lecture which I am to give has shown me, even more clearly than I knew before, how many others share with me, often, indeed, have anticipated me, in the discoveries for which you have awarded me the prize.

The Nobel Prize is without doubt the highest honour, the most coveted honour, which can be bestowed on a scientist.

The Nobel Prize is worth $1.5 million, but that's not the issue. Do the distinguished scientists who win the Nobel Prize need the money? Probably not. The honor is more important the money, and that's the case with the prize for African leadership as well.

I did not know that I can win the Nobel Prize.

It's a wonderful honor to win an Ignobel Prize.

I don't really like the Oscars; it's a commercial promotional event. It helps immeasurably to sell films, but it's hardly the Nobel prize.

I've always felt that the Nobel Prize gives me nothing as far as science is concerned.

My long-range mission is to be the first athlete to win the Nobel Prize.

The Nobel prize is a fairytale for a week and a nightmare for a year. You can't imagine the pressure to give interviews, to go to book fairs.

Being on 'Bandstand' was like getting a Nobel Prize. From 3 o'clock in the afternoon until 5:30, nobody was on the street. They were watching 'Bandstand.'

When I was nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize in 2018, I felt that this should go to all of the Hong Kong people who fight for democracy.