I can forgive Alfred Nobel for having invented dynamite, but only a fiend in human form could have invented the Nobel Prize.
George Bernard Shaw
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Knowing I lov'd my books, he furnish'd me From mine own library with volumes that I prize above my dukedom.
William Shakespeare
Far and away the best prize that life offers is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.
Theodore Roosevelt
Some prices are just too high, no matter how much you may want the prize. The one thing you can't trade for your heart's desire is your heart.
Lois McMaster Bujold
Americans are a free people, who know that freedom is the right of every person and the future of every nation. The liberty we prize is not America's gift to the world; it is God's gift to humanity.
George W. Bush
As we prepare for the growth of the series in conjunction with our new $3 million prize structure, this development will also level the playing field for new teams entering the series. All of the set-up data that teams acquired in the past will have to be reassessed.
Roger Bailey
When it became a million-dollar prize, the ante went up in all kinds of ways ... It's a daunting day and it's a heavy responsibility for judges. It's a million dollars!
Peggy Katalinich
My feelings are he [Yevgeny Kafelnikov] should take his prize money when he is done here and go and buy some perspective.
Andre Agassi
In my mind, I still don't feel that we're there, but we've got a lot of momentum. (Our success) is an honor and a prize, but I'm always thinking about what the next song is.
Luke Pettipoole
I've never wanted just part of the package, part of the prize. I want it all!
Bill Mccartney
Entertainment gives people more to enjoy their evening besides waiting in hopes of winning the grand prize.
Jim Herring
It's a great prize for anyone to win and I'm sure they'll be some good scores apart from Fletch's first effort!
Paul Scholes
We've got a tough schedule from now on. We have to keep focused and working hard for our ultimate prize.
Judd Anderson
Remember that you are an Englishman, and have consequently won first prize in the lottery of life.
Cecil Rhodes
They never said anything about not being able to gain a prize by using a mulligan, ... They never said it didn't count.
Adam Fisher
[About the Oscars] Is the ultimate prize for any producer. It would have been a dream if Javier Bardem had been nominated for best actor.
Alejandro Amenabar
The Hilton Prize was established in 1996 to call attention to organizations that are effective and innovative leaders in addressing humanitarian needs and to encourage others to contribute to their good work.
Judy Miller
The (X Prize) positioned St. Louis as being right in the center of innovation and entrepreneurial activity.
Richard Fleming
We're obviously very pleased to have yet another Nobel Prize awarded to someone in our department.
Richard Shoemaker
Everyone will walk away with some kind of prize.
Kent Castleman
Book will become a bestseller, and I'm sure even be proposed for the Nobel prize.
Radovan Karadzic
Europe is where 85 percent of the prize money is.
Renaldo Nehemiah
The Courage that we all prize and seek is not the courage to die decently, but to live manfully.
Thomas Carlyle
It looks like there is one grand-prize winner.
Courtney Hill
They are keeping their eyes on the prize.
Pete Jeffries
Children 10 and under are invited to dress as a story book character to win a cash prize. This year we have four local school librarians to be the judges. I am anxious to see what the big character will be this year.
Colleen Butler
It's hard to say what the jury is thinking, but I have liked both Clooney and Ang Lee, different films but both incredibly striking. Though sometimes they say there is no point in giving the prize to a U.S. film and in that case it might be 'Sympathy'.
Lee Marshall
Baja is one of the premier surf music bands. We'll give a prize to the person with the best surfing outfit that night.
Doris Welle
We prize wisdom, not just being right. Our children really get that. They get a sense of life bigger than themselves.
Jacqueline Landry
The Prize Winner of Defiance, Ohio.
Julianne Moore
We're ready to undertake two new prize competitions in the arena of suborbital rocket flights.
Brant Sponberg
Intervention are a wonderful opportunity for people to invent documentation. Just look at the prize.
David Fink
I had had intimations that (a nomination was) in the works for the Nobel Prize, ... I didn't put my chances more than about 50/50.
William Vickrey
It suggests that the escalation of the cost (of running) for governor has now moved on down the line. You wonder if it's not some destructive competition to see who can spend more to win the consolation prize.
Blease Graham
You get mad sometimes while playing matches at home but at tournaments you are happy when your brother is up there representing the family even though you yourself didn't actually do well. Then you are glad because you get half of the prize money, too.
Daniel Schellhase
Winning the Pulitzer is not that big a deal. I have seen hundreds of plays that have won the prize and you couldn't sit half way through it. The Pulitzer is a common prize that means very little.
Richard Harris
We need to keep our eyes on the prize of what's going to happen before the Court of Appeals.
Susan Sommer
Quite often when people get to a situation where there is a big prize, they are afraid to lose . . . they change their game.
Neil Craig
We hope to see a new world record set in our backyard. We are offering a $25,000 prize pool to power these athletes in their goal of reaching new and exciting heights.
Bob Corscadden
We're here to win it all. We're not here to just show up. We're going after the whole prize, and that's the state championship.
Bob Jesmain
To love the game beyond the prize.
Henry Newbolt
What custom hath endeared We part with sadly, though we prize it not.
Joanna Baillie
He spent his most productive years in Cuba. It was here that he won the Pulitzer Prize in 1953 and the Nobel Prize in 1954.
Gladys Rodriguez
This world is given as the prize for the men in earnest; and that which is true of this world, is truer still of the world to come.
Frederick William Robertson
It's been a perfect night. To win the game and reach the final and for it to be our first is a great prize. But you can't advance without hard work.
Juande Ramos
And should think freedom more to prize, than all the gold in world that is.
John Barbour
There's really only three people that should get any prize because of this film and that's the three people whose story it was.
Michael Winterbottom
Competing will be the 'prize' for good grades.
Mario Perez
The real prize at the Tate is becoming a trustee. It's worth far more money.
Charles Thomson
Because Big Wednesday Division One has jackpotted, a common occurrence with games of this type, we will be able to offer players an even bigger overall prize next week.
Trevor Hall
Be generous, be delicate, and always pursue the prize.
Henry James
My daughter didn't drink. She was not a run-around. Bingo was her thing, and she had won twice on the cruise already. She wanted to win the big prize.
Waldemar Knerler
We haven't heard from them. I think no one is likely to mistake our prize for the Booker Prize.
Stephen Fraser
I've repeatedly said that Bill Clinton is neither a leader nor a statesman and I'll say it again, ... I hope this prize will help change his mind.
Jody Williams
[News of the prize came at 6:45 a.m. in a phone call from] someone with a Swedish accent, ... We were pleased.
Thomas Schelling
It's a little bit disheartening that here we have the biggest (first) prize in the (golf) world and half the guys don't turn up.
Michael Campbell
There were a bunch of other teams competing [for the Ansari X Prize], that didn't get a Discovery Channel special made about them.
Dax Shepard
It opens up an opportunity for residents to win a bonus prize. That screenplay will get read by Hollywood producers and agents, too.
Karen Nordstrand
We learned that we can compete at a high level. But we can never take our eyes off the prize and have a mental lapse for two, three minutes.
Richard Corso
We are taking home the biggest prize in sport.
Sebastian Coe
This statistical manipulation of the vote amounts to a prize to those who advocate violence.
Leslie Manigat
The problem is, everybody is looking for a silver bullet. I want to be famous. If I can learn how to predict earthquakes I'll get the Nobel Prize or something, right?
Thomas Jordan
I'm up against these crazy gorgeous women and look who got (the prize). This is another goodie for me.
Doris Roberts
And when he received the Nobel Prize he accepted it on behalf of the American people because he said that he would not accept this prize for himself. He said, the American people are very generous people and I'm taking this back to them as a country.
Neil Baldwin
Man has proved to be a model sponsor and in particular has respected the independence and integrity of the prize.
Jonathan Taylor
Having so many big winners during a two-day period is always exciting for us as well as our players. We encourage all of our players to check their tickets and see if they've won a prize, regardless of the amount.
Peggy Gordon
It is embarrassing to collect this prize because I think that all those who were nominated deserve it more than I do, and many who weren't nominated. I dedicate it to all of them who inspired me to do music. Thank you so much.
Alejandro Sanz
You've got to be able to compete with those people and beat those people if you're going to get that grand prize in Omaha. If that truly is our goal, then we shouldn't shy away from anybody at any time.
Sunny Golloway
Success is a prize given to those who try and fail willingly.
Jeffrey Bryant
This is an enormous prize for us. We knew it would be hard, but you don't get anywhere without fighting and suffering.
Juande Ramos
Such a big prize leads to a lot of magical thinking. People forget about the odds.
Keith Whyte
[The prize] comes during a fantastic year and crowns the season.
Fernando Alonso
I do not prize the word "cheap." It is not a badge of honor. It is a symbol of despair. Cheap prices make for cheap goods; cheap goods make for cheap men; and cheap men make for a cheap country.
William Mckinley
Since I could only see the headlight of the locomotive in total darkness, I did not know until the flash was fired that I had captured this prize.
O. Winston Link
Doctor my eyes, they can not see the sky.Is this the prize for having learned now not to cry?
Jackson Browne
It's going to be like two prize fighters. We're the small ones, they're the big ones.
Haywood Boston
Journalists prize independence - not teamwork.
Ken Auletta
The total value of this prize encroaches half a million dollars.
Tom Mcevay
You have to have your eye on the prize. We've reached this point after more than 40 years of negotiating with Turkey. This is the next major step.
Michael Gunter
Combine this plan with the Domenici bill and it's clear Florida is dead in the sights of the oil industry and their allies in Congress and the White House. But the fight is far from over. It's a 10-round prize fight and we're in round 7.
Mark Ferrulo
Civility sometimes requires polite ruthlessness. Establish that what you prize most is civility.
Jimmy Bise Jr.
Today we are signing a letter formalizing the intent of NASA Centennial Challenges and the X Prize Foundation to work towards a future agreement for two X Prize Competitions.
Brant Sponberg
We decided to offer prize money in the half marathon only and spend more money on the people.
Lynn Flanagan
This H-Prize is a very interesting possibility.
David Bodde
She's made it to the top 12 so far. This is a pretty big contest, and people come from all over to compete. If she wins, the prize is $50,000.
Michelle Sandoval
Food is the consolation prize. So many times, it's not even close to what you really want.
Linda Spangle
I take pride in presenting the best shooter and dunker a prize for being the best in our area. We're looking forward to the 3-point contest and dunk contest becoming an event that people in our community can enjoy.
George Terrell
We like to think our prize money is driven by market data and fairness. The situation is that the women play much shorter matches.
Tim Phillips
Everything is free and open to the public, and it's important that people know this. One thing we're doing differently is allowing the audience to pick their favorites. There will be papers and pencils distributed at the end of the festival. We don't know what the prize will be, but there will be one.
Laura Vazquez
This is a generous prize that benefits the creative culture of Australian architectural design.
John Wardle
I'll say one word - pathetic. That cannot be. Sixteen golfers. Are you kidding me? And that is a huge prize fund.
Ian Poulter
Since the price of gas is on everyone's mind, let's compare how the price of gas and the prize money for he UAW-GM have changed since the first race in 1960.
Humpy Wheeler
It's a prize that's waiting to be taken.
Rick Kaplan
During the course of the two-day event our students acted with pride and professionalism in every way, and accepted their prize with the utmost class.
Rob Watson
Think of war as a game of Russian roulette. It is a game of chance with your life as the grand prize.
Ramman Kenoun
We're really firm in our desire to keep the National the tremendous value it's always been a full season will cost a competitor well under $40,000. With a cash season-end prize fund, a driver's net expenditure can be even less than that.
Todd Snyder
Absolutely. No question about that ... He looked upon Father Geoghan as a prize.
John Conte
Tucker looked like he was coming to the bench after losing a prize fight. They tried to intimidate us. They were doing anything necessary to come out with a win, and they got away with it.
Steve Ketchum
He who refuses to embrace a unique opportunity loses the prize as surely as if he had failed.
William James
I was the fattest baby in Clark County, Arkansas. They put me in the newspaper. It was like a prize turnip.
Billy Bob Thornton
The $500,000 is the top prize in that game.
Alfred Bea
In the play, Jabez is just the bait. To get out of his contract, Jabez hires this famous lawyer, Daniel Webster. From the Devil's standpoint, Webster is the real prize.
Robert Schenkkan
We'd like for everyone to wear a bonnet and the best bonnet will get a prize.
Joan Emanuel
By awarding this prize, we hope to contribute to a diplomatic solution to the conflict.
Francis Sejersted
And last year we even instituted the last place award and we plan to have it again. That prize is almost as good as the first place award.
Don Hansford
If I could explain it to the average person, I wouldn't have been worth the Nobel Prize.
Richard Feynman
If the committee wants to go further this year in widening its interpretation of peace, the prize could go to Bono or Geldof.
Stein Toennesson
I think the World Cup is the priority now, it doesn't matter about the money. I think whether it be a hundred dollars or a million dollars, I think the big prize is getting to the World Cup and all the rewards will come from that, both financially, and as a personal success.
Lucas Neill
It's not a bad booby prize.
Matthew Stainer
Even if someone, like your lawyer, is claiming the prize on your behalf, we still view you as the winner.
Alfred Bea
I think we have to try to be as annoying as we can, and take points off Australia to give ourselves an opportunity of the big prize at the end of it.
Graham Thorpe
It's hard to beat someone three times, especially when you have two teams of this magnitude. This was Ali-Frazier. We won two out of three, but they won the bigger prize.
Pete Vasil
The X Prize is about changing paradigms. The current paradigm is that it's perfectly acceptable to drive a car that only gets 20 or 30 miles per gallon. This prize is about leveraging cash and opportunity to effect positive change in the environment, economy and geopolitics.
Mark Goodstein
The Senegalese authorities insist that the Dakar continues as always with a podium finish and the prize presentations because this is a national event in Senegal.
Etienne Lavigne
I would like to win the Pulitzer Prize. I would like to win the Nobel Prize. I would like to win a Tony award for the Broadway musical I'm now working on. Aside from these, my aspirations are modest ones.
Evan Hunter
This is not going to be the re-fight of the Gulf War, with tanks rolling through the desert and ... the war being declared over well before you ever get to Baghdad. Baghdad is the prize of this campaign.
Eric Schmitt
It (the selection of Jelinek) has done irreparable damage to the Nobel literature prize, both those who came before Elfriede Jelinek and those who came after her.
Elfriede Jelinek
Prize-fighting is still accepted as a display worthy of a civilized people despite the fact that all those connected with it are fully aware it caters to the latent sadistic instincts.
Edith Clara Summerskill
We're excited to have the opportunity to showcase these fantastic films while they're still in contention for the big prize.
Eamonn Bowles
A lot of kids don't realize he was a minister, that he had a number of college degrees, that he won a Nobel Peace Prize.
Zoe Seymour
I am very proud. It is always fun to win such a prize, to be chosen as Sweden's best player a certain year.
Zlatan Ibrahimovic
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