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Quotes About Prize

The Price Is Right can really get me going.
~ Sam Peckinpah
I feel a deep emotion and pride for the honor of having been awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for 1992.
~ Rigoberta Menchu
I've never joined any organization - not even the ones I've organized myself. I prize my own independence too much.
~ Saul Alinsky
Everybody growing up where I came from that was the designer shoe. Nobody had Balenciaga's and all the stuff that we walk around in now. If you had Jordans, that was like a prize basically.
~ Davante Adams
I am proud to perform at the Nobel Peace Prize Concert.
~ Kygo
Some people think the Nobel Prize makes you bullet-proof. I never had that illusion.
~ Wole Soyinka
To say I was near our president, performing at the Nobel Peace Prize... I think that's an amazing thing.
~ Luis Fonsi
I think it's fair to say that the Nobel Prize is the highest honor any scientist or artist can achieve.
~ John O'Keefe
The Nobel Peace Prize is a powerful message. A durable peace is not a single achievement, but an environment, a process and a commitment.
~ Mohamed ElBaradei
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.
~ Peter Higgs
I'm very honored and pleased to receive the Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine.
~ Tasuku Honjo
The Nobel Peace Prize opened up a door in my heart.
~ Aung San Suu Kyi
There is no other prize in any country that carries the prestige that a Nobel bestows.
~ Barry Marshall
That's what we play this game for; the opportunity to go win the ultimate prize.
~ Davante Adams
The anchovy which is found in the sea at Athens, men despise on account of its abundance and say that it is a poor man's fish; but in other cities, they prize it above everything, even where it is far inferior to the Attic anchovy.
~ Chrysippus
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.
~ Frederick Soddy
The Nobel Prize is without doubt the highest honour, the most coveted honour, which can be bestowed on a scientist.
~ Charles Glover Barkla
Sacramento and the Kings organization were always in my thoughts and I often dreamed of having a role in helping our amazing fans realize the ultimate NBA prize.
~ Vlade Divac
Would offering the Mars Prize damage NASA? I don't think so.
~ Robert Zubrin
I believe that every Nobel Laureate has the feeling that this prize is really a gift - because nobody can or should work just for this prize.
~ Klaus von Klitzing
I was the fattest baby in Clark County, Arkansas. They put me in the newspaper. It was like a prize turnip.
~ Billy Bob Thornton
I also read modern novels - I have just had to read 60 as I am one of the judges for the Orange Fiction Prize.
~ Kate Adie
I'm never going to be in danger of getting the Nobel Prize for literature.
~ David Eddings
My countrymen have the right to shake my hand and talk to me if they so wish. Don't forget that their support and their reading of my works is what brought me the Nobel prize.
~ Naguib Mahfouz