Quotes About Prize

In the same year, it was announced that Tesla and Edison were potential laureates to share the Nobel Prize of 1915. Both men refused to accept the award together, or separately if the other were to receive it first.

Marconi was awarded a Nobel Prize in 1911 for his "achievements" in radio, and was hailed as the "father of radio.

You might be a redneck if you refer to the time you won a free case of oil as the day my ship came in.

Humility is the prize of the leaf-world. Vain-glory is the bane of us, the humans.

Understand from the first this certainty. Butterflies don't write books, neither do lilies or violets. Which doesn't mean they don't know, in their own way, what they are. That they don't know they are alive—that they don't feel, that action upon which all consciousness sits, lightly or heavily. Humility is the prize of the leaf-world. Vainglory is the bane of us, the humans.

I'm getting the Nobel Peace Prize." "That's wonderful, honey," she said, then rolled over to get a little more shut-eye.

I didn't feel that I deserved to be in the company of the transformative figures who'd been given the Nobel Peace Prize. Instead, I saw the prize as a call to action.

She sounded like a man, with that deep voice smokers get as their prize for their hundred millionth pack.

That is the idea behind a prize-linked savings (PLS) account.

Scheidel concludes, "All of us who prize greater economic equality would do well to remember that with the rarest of exceptions it was only ever brought forth in sorrow. Be careful what you wish for."28

For life, with all its yields of joy and woe Is just a chance o' the prize of learning love.

The prize of all too precious you.

Steadfast cross, among all other Thou art a tree of great prize; In branch and flower such another I ne wot non in wood nor rise. Sweet be the nails, and sweet be the tree, And sweeter be the burden that hangs upon thee.

Three hidden keys open three secret gates Wherein the errant will be tested for worthy traits And those with the skill to survive these straits Will reach The End where the prize awaits

The prize for the Earthworld contest was the Talisman of Penultimate Truth.

É preciso deixar um pouco mais difícil essa conquista, para que a vitória fácil demais não desmereça o preço.

He hates me now. She watched the viewscreen, seeing the distant stars rush past as the vast, sleek form of the Mother ship grew closer. He'd rather endure horrible pain than feel anything at all for me. But who could blame him? After all, it wasn't as though she was some kind of prize. Emotionally damaged, that's what I am. What happened with Burke, what he did to me, ruined everything. Everything. She

For me it's a remarkable thing that there is a prize celebrating and honouring and making for a brief moment short fiction the centre of the literary universe.

In Paul's day, instead of giving gold medals for winning first place in an Olympic event, a crown of olive or laurel leaves was placed on the winner's head. By the time the athlete went home that night, the wreath would already be wilting and falling apart. Think of that. All that energy expended for a wreath that didn't last beyond a day.

If at first you don't succeed, find out if the loser gets anything

My first event was in Nottingham, aged 11, and the prize was a bike. I thought, 'Wow.' I had no idea what to wear. I think I did it in swimming trunks, then just put on a T-shirt and shoes for the bike part. Triathlons felt exotic. There was a technical and tactical aspect to it as well as the endurance challenge. I was hooked.

I think sometimes we get wrapped up in awards... ultimately, it's just a moment in time, and it passes.

Any wrestler who will piledrive Lawler and injure him like he did me gets five thousand dollars from me!

As we make our way toward the finish line that some of us have already crossed, I never thought I'd get a Grammy Award. In fact, I was always touched by the modesty of their interest.