Quotes About Prize

My handwriting was so good I won a prize, a cardboard cut-out of a farmyard; my mother threw it away when we moved.

The Nobel is a ticket to one's own funeral. No one has ever done anything after he got it.

In 1982 when I showed up, the average age of the drivers in the series was something like 40, 41. The crowds were small. There was not much prize money. The competition wasn't very tight.

If happiness were easy, everybody would feel it all the time, and it wouldn't seem like such an elusive prize.

Tis an old lesson; time approves it true, And those who know it best, deplore it most; When all is won that all desire to woo, The paltry prize is hardly worth the cost.

Growth takes time. God knows that. I know that. And to my surprise, His abundance is mine in the process - not as a prize at the end.

Old books, old wine, old Nankin blue;- All things, in short, to which belong The charm, the grace that Time makes strong, All these I prize, but (entre nous) Old friends are best!

The Nobel Institute had nothing to say about him, other than that he had never won a Nobel Prize.

The great hurrah about wild animals is that they exist at all, and the greater hurrah is the actual moment of seeing them. Because they have a nice dignity, and prefer to have nothing to do with me, even as the simple objects of my vision. They show me by their very wariness what a prize it is simply to open my eyes and behold.

A mind risks real ignorance for the sometimes paltry prize of an imagination enriched. The trick of reason is to get the imagination to seize the actual world—if only from time to time.

You've been most happy; you've drawn a prize such as your wildest dreams could not have fancied. Had some elfish legend made you the heroine of a fairy's favour, who showered down blessings, could the tale have given a gift more precious than Count Upsel's love?

And though he had almost flunked in Greek, his thesis on 'Sixteen Ways of Paying a Church Debt' had won the ten-dollar prize in Practical Theology.

I, for one, prize less The name of king than deeds of kingly power; And so would all who learn in wisdom's school.

Never at my hands will the traitor be honored above the patriot. But whoever proves his loyalty to the state–I'll prize that man in death as well as life.

Sophocles had his full share of such rewards, for we have evidence that he won the first prize at the Dionysia eighteen times, and it is recorded that he never won the third prize.

Ladies, whose bright eyesRain influence, and judge the prize.

i used schutzhund methods of training to teach the duck to attack on command. we went on a killing rampage that lasted three days. we killed many small children and received the nobel prize for our achievements.

Friday was back to normal, if the actions of suspicious would-be heirs competing for a two-hundred-million-dollar prize could be considered normal.

This life's a long old road We shouldn't have to walk alone But if you find the right companion You won't feel so worn out when you've grown All life is precious And every day's a prize And sometimes you'll find an answer in the sky

Il tempo che niente può fermare non scorre solo per piangere sulle cose perdute ma anche per ottenere un'infinità di momenti bellissimi, uno dopo l'altro. Ah, questo è un piccolo premio, pensai.

Clearly prize money received more serious attention than scurvy or signals.

But you know, sometimes the fight itself is worthwile, even if the prize at the end ain't.

I don't recall making a conscious decision to become an actor. I just remember winning a prize at a theatre festival when I was 17 and saying: 'Oh, that's what I have to do.'

The nicest part of the prize, perhaps, is the effect on my friends and family. Each of them feels proud and happy to have the relationship with me that they do. In a way, it's as though they received an award too, and I like that very much.