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Quotes About Prize

Your mind is a gift. Your heart is a prize. Your soul is a blessing. Your life is a reward.
~ Matshona Dhliwayo
A good woman is a pleasured treasure.
~ Habeeb Akande
I can't imagine life without my wife, but I don't think you should get a prize for staying together a long time.
~ Nikolaj Coster-Waldau
Seven cities warr'd for Homer being dead,Who living had no roof to shroud his head.
~ Thomas Heywood
Yonder's another vessel, I'll board her - if she be lawful prize, down goes her top-sail.
~ Thomas Middleton
They can't give a Nobel to someone who's dead so I think they were probably thinking they had better give it to me now before I popped off.
~ Doris Lessing
The Nobel thing is like dying and going to heaven for a while. It's like being transported to a fairyland.
~ Angus Deaton
Just to be nominated, and especially as a new artist and a female artist, is a feat. Winning anything is just a bonus.
~ Maren Morris
Obviously I want to win something important, this game is important to me.
~ Fabio Cannavaro
The highest prize in a world of men is the most beautiful woman available on your arm and living there in her heart loyal to you.
~ Norman Mailer
He was released in 2006, and his memoir, the book for which he was getting the prize in Dayton, In the Place of Justice, tells his story, from being a confused kid caught in a bank robbery gone bad, to a man who had fully taken
~ Norman Mailer
the only people who ever prize purity of ignorance are those who profit from a monopoly on knowledge.
~ Orson Scott Card
only people who ever prize purity of ignorance are those who profit from a monopoly on knowledge.
~ Orson Scott Card
that the only people who ever prize purity of ignorance are those who profit from a monopoly on knowledge.
~ Orson Scott Card
To rank the effort above the prize may be called love.
~ Confucius
Nothing worth while comes easy. Hard work just makes you appreciate it more.
~ Constance O'Day-Flannery
That which fundamentally motivates one still dictates the terms of what one thinks and does—[…] one's eyes should be on the prize, not on the perpetrator of one's oppression.
~ Cornel West
A reality show isn't unlike the Nobel Peace Prize, then," Mr. Bennet said. "In that they both require nominations.
~ Curtis Sittenfeld
O captain! My Captain! Our fearful trip is done. The ship has weather'd every wrack The prize we sought is won The port is near, the bells I hear The people all exulting While follow eyes, the steady keel The vessel grim and daring But Heart! Heart! Heart! O the bleeding drops of red Where on the deck my captain lies Fallen cold and dead.
~ Walt Whitman
O Captain! my Captain! our fearful trip is done, The ship has weathered every rack, the prize we sought is won, The port is near, the bells I hear, the people all exulting.
~ Walt Whitman
Thick-sprinkled bunting! flag of stars! Long yet your road, fateful flag—long yet your road, and lined with bloody death, For the prize I see at issue at last is the world
~ Walt Whitman
To the person who stole my place in line: I'm after you now. What is the center of gravity? The letter "v"! Why did the quiz show give away $10,000 plus one banana? They wanted the prize to have appeal. What do you call corn that joins the army? A kernel.
~ Charles Timmerman
A good story is being told of a prominent credit man for a New York hat house which runs thus: A Philadelphia magazine having offered a prize for the best answer to the question "Which are the four sweetest words in the English language?" our friend the credit man secured the prize by sending in a slip on which he wrote these words: "Enclosed please find check."
~ The American Hatter, 1903
Most 'reality' shows aren't reality at all. They're game shows with no prize. Like 'Rock of Love.' His aren't genuine feelings. Then again, Bob Barker didn't really care whether or not you won the toaster. Sorry to shatter everyone's dreams.
~ Hal Sparks