Quotes About Prize

The president already has a Nobel Prize for peace. I think he's shooting for one in fiction.

If I don't finish in the top three for the next Nobel Peace Prize, something's seriously wrong.

When His Holiness won the Nobel Peace Prize, there was a quantum leap. He is not seen as solely a Tibetan anymore; he belongs to the world.

The Nobel Peace Prize has become hopelessly politicized. I think it cheapens the prize itself.

It [Obama's Nobel peace prize] would be like giving someone an Oscar in the hope that it would encourage them to make a decent motion picture.

Enjoy the peace your valor won. Let independence be our boast, Ever mindful what it cost; Ever grateful for the prize, Let its altar reach the skies!

It was quite a sight to see Obama next to President Hu. Obama has a Nobel Peace Prize in his basement, and Hu has a Nobel Peace Prize winner in his.

As an American I am not so shocked that Obama was given the Nobel Peace Prize without any accomplishments to his name, America gave him the White House based on the same credentials.

I'm lucky to have met so many people who have been involved in peace and who have been peace prize winners.

Obama's Nobel Peace Prize is an exquisite act of condescension from Norwegians, a dog biscuit and a pat on the head to the American hyperpower for agreeing to spay itself into a hyperpoodle.

The Oscar seems to have been confused with the Nobel Peace Prize.

Political satire became obsolete when Henry Kissinger was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.

Showing cats is addictive. All you need is one rosette and you're hooked.

Some poems are written great, some poems are written swell. But then there are poems that could win a prize in Hell.

It is wrong to expect a reward for your struggles. The reward is the act of struggle itself, not what you win.

To the victor belong the spoils of the enemy.

In a society like ours, politics is improvisation. To the artful dodger rather than the true believer goes the prize.

Marilynne Robinson's Gilead, which had won the Pulitzer Prize in 2005,

In Other Rooms, Other Wonders by Daniyal Mueenuddin, had just been published. The other was a Pulitzer Prize–winner, Olive Kitteridge by Elizabeth Strout,

He who refuses to embrace a unique opportunity loses the prize as surely as if he had failed.

Later that day, when Rhoda returned from church, she had her prize tucked under her arm; it was a copy of Elsie Dinsmore, and, going at once to the park, she opened her book and began eagerly to read, as though she hoped to find there an understanding of those puzzling values she saw in others

Blinded by the prize, they did not see that there was a contest.

Were an election for President to be held tomorrow, Old Abe would, without the special aid of any of his friends, walk over the course, without a competitor to dispute with him the great prize which his masterly ability, no less than his undoubted patriotism and unimpeachable honesty, have won.

Amidst all this bustle it is not reason, which carries the prize, but eloquence; and no man needs ever despair of gaining proselytes to the most extravagant hypothesis, who has art enough to represent it in any favourable colours. The victory is not gained by the men at arms, who manage the pike and the sword; but by the trumpeters, drummers, and musicians of the army.