Quotes About Prize

Don't you want to go for tacos?" Vince called as I hit the door. "Go jump up your ass," I said. After all, if there really was a prize for saying "ass," I deserved a shot at it.

The cruiser was his prize, and he'd fall to his death before he let another group of marauders steal what he had rightfully commandeered.

Said Pinocchio's lover, midst sighs, My puppet's technique takes the prize. He gives me full measure Through dishonest pleasure: I sit on his face and he lies.

I really prize my freedom more than work. I prize just being human and doing other things.

No man needs sympathy because he has to work, because he has a burden to carry. Far and away the best prize that life offers is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.

There are certain people who prize celebrity over substance. That makes the media world go round. The media needs those people to exist.

Reading, conversation, environment, culture, heroes, mentors, nature – all are lottery tickets for creativity. Scratch away at them and you'll find out how big a prize you've won.

Quality will be prized as a precious possession.

Worries are the most stubborn habits in the world. Even after a poor man has won a huge lottery prize, he will still for months wake up in the night with a start, worrying about food and rent.

Now I'm on the rise, doin' business with my guys. Visions realize, music [your craft] affected lives. A gift from the skies, to be recognized, I'm keeping my eye on the people, that's the prize

Competition exists to choose who gets the prize when the prize can't be shared.

Fortune is a prize to be won. Adventure is the road to it. Chance is what may lurk in the shadows at the roadside.

prepubescent relative to collect your excellence-in-filmed-sodomy prize?—are met with bemused shrugs), "but I'm here to thank you on his behalf, and to say that I taught Jim everything he knows." [Enormous audience laugh and ovation, single spasmodic shudder from hunched ABC Radio lady.]

Men prize physical attractiveness more than women when looking for a mate, which is why this is one of the critical issues in competition among women, and also why one of the tactics women most frequently use to derogate their sexual rivals is public putdowns regarding a rival's appearance.

A man of power is a prize bargainer. Whatever he offers you, he will take more in return. Your challenge is to know yourself. Give only what you can, while remaining steadfast to your own truths.

Cigarettes took them to medals, which took them to guns, which took them to radios, which took them to jeeps. By midnight, Samad had won three jeeps, seven guns, fourteen medals, the land attached to Gozan's sister's house, and an IOU for four horses, three chickens and a duck.

If these are 'talents' – the ability to sing, or to quickly comprehend and reproduce musical notation – what kind of a thing is 'talent'? A commodity? A gift? A prize? A reward? For what?

What we want to do is reform the welfare system in the way that Tony Blair talked about 13 years ago but never achieved - a system that was created for the days after the Second World War. That prize is now I think achievable.

When people asked hilbert why he didn't prove Fermat's Last Theorem and win the Wolfskehl Prize, he said, "Why should I kill the goose that lays the golden egg?

The victor belongs to the spoils.

Victory means I knocked someone out, that I got paid, and that I'll be able to get it to my kids.

Winner gets to pick their spoils

Winning the [Nobel] prize wasn't half as exciting as doing the work itself.

Being pretty or knowing how to fix yourself up to look attractive is not a prize in itself.