Quotes About Prize

You were wearing your hair up like that the day we left for Harbor Springs, he said, his deep voice pitched seductively low. I like it. In that case, Lauren said lightly, I'll start wearing it down. He grinned. So that's the way we're going to play it,is it? Play what? This little game we started yesterday. I am not playing your game, she said with quiet firmness. I do not want the prize.

1 The Big Winner

Cumming unexpectedly drpped in to show me a meerschaum pipe he had won in raffle in the City, and told me to handle it carefully, as it would spoil the colouring if the hand was moist.

Hey when there's a chance to win a free spoon rest from Creative Pottery Studio, people can't pass that up!

Mastery itself was the prize of the venture."1

Fold me fast, O God-snake of Eden! ( Sing Eden Bower! ) What more prize than love to impel thee? Grip and lip my limbs as I tell thee! ... Lo! sweet Snake, the travail and treasure,---

The British Parliament, in its famed Longitude Act of 1714, set the highest bounty of all, naming a prize equal to a king's ransom (several million dollars in today's currency) for a "Practicable and Useful" means of determining longitude.

You won the Nobel Peace Prize," he said. "Are you kidding me?" "I promise you, sir, that I wouldn't wake you up to play a joke," Gibbs replied. "You've won the Nobel Peace Prize." "Gee," Obama said, absorbing the unlikely news. "All I want to do is pass health care.

Two Nobel Prize winners attributed their breakthroughs to their use of LSD.

it should be remembered that men always prize that most which is least enjoyed.

Alais: You saved them. You maneuvered it. Eleanor: Did I? Alais: They're free because of you. They'll kill him one day; you know that Eleanor: The next time or the next Alais: You always win, Maman. Eleanor: Except the prize.

The morning sleeper Has much undone The quick will catch the prize.

If the losers are dead, the dead are also losers. There is a contradiction here: If the prize for winning finite play is life, then the players are not properly alive. They are competing for life. Life, then, is not play, but the outcome of play. Finite players play to live; they do not live their playing. Life is therefore deserved, bestowed, possessed, won. It is not lived.

The outcome of a finite game is the past waiting to happen. Whoever plays toward a certain outcome desires a particular past. By competing for a future prize, finite players compete for a prized past.

I waited, uncertainly, my eyes on the Japanese chest. It was a beauty, a prize for a retired sea-captain's home in backwater Boston: scrimshaw and cowrie shells, Old Testament samplers cross-stitched by unmarried sisters, the smell of whale oil burning in the evenings, the stillness of growing old.

It startled him even more when just after he was awarded the Galactic Institute's Prize for Extreme Cleverness he got lynched by a rampaging mob of respectable physicists who had finally realized that the one thing they really couldn't stand was a smartass.

It startled him even more when just after he was awarded the Galactic Institute's Prize for Extreme Cleverness he got lynched by a rampaging mob of respectable physicists who had finally realized that the one thing they really couldn't stand was a smart-ass.

For the stakes for which the guilty person was playing were enormous.

Andre Ward got the chance to fight Sergey Kovalev twice. Triple G and Canelo are fighting again. People are getting paid to play king of the hill again.

The Commonwealth Prize is about celebrating the Commonwealth and the special relationship we have with the ex-colonies - which is part guilt and part warmth - and the Booker Prize isn't an essential part of that, but it is part of that.

Is the 'black designer' label there to warn everyone not to have the same level of expectations for me, or is it some type of prize? I just want to work in an even playing field where I can get press for my work and not just my race and my personal views on it.

Without ambition one starts nothing. Without work one finishes nothing. The prize will not be sent to you. You have to win it.

So you can experience your thoughts through a three-dimensional reality for the prize of experience called wisdom.

In Australia, the Man Booker is sometimes seen as something of a chicken raffle.