Prize Quotes - Page 3

Whoe'er excels in what we prize, appears a hero in our eyes.

It is war's prize to take all vantages; And ten to one is no impeach of valor.

I knew all along that the prize I had set my life on was not worth the winning.

The prize money for first place was $2,800, but I didn't take it because I was still an amateur.

There is something so arbitrary about prizes.

Nobody really expects a Nobel Prize call

Tennis Australia really led the charge as far as upping the prize money and trying to do the right thing by the players. They also led the way so women have equal prize money in all the grand slams too.

But few prize honour more than money.

The paper nominated me 12 or 13 times for the Pulitzer Prize.

One has to choose a word in English. If you want to be eligible for a literary prize you have to designate it as something.

The passages of Shakespeare that we most prize were never quoted until within this century.

Wisdom is the booby prize given when you've been unwise.

The prize seemed to change my professional life very little.

I'm hugely honored [with the Man Booker Prize].

Once you buy a prize, it's yours to keep.

I don't make films to win prizes. I make films to make films.

Prizes aren't essential. What is essential is poetry itself, it's what is said, it is clarity, it's loyalty, those are the essential values, the literary values.

This decision will only strengthen the bond between women players and one of the world's great sporting events [on equal prize money at Wimbledon

I was never going to be one of Nobel prize winners.

A girl's body was a prize. It had to be more than asked for. It had to be earned, worshipped, and avowed.

Livability has always struck me as a consolation prize.

We like the gift when we the giver prize.

I really prize and love great painting. It's so out of date now. It's slightly come back in.

George W. Bush will surely deserve that woolliest of all peace prizes, the Nobel.

If they gave a Nobel Peace Prize for work against big tobacco, not just in the industry, but also with the California tax initiative, he really deserves one.