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  • Ninety-five percent of the time when I run a contest I've purchased the giveaway prizes with advertising money.

  • No more prizes for predicting the rain, only prizes for building the arks

    Rain   Ark   Building  
  • I give the president credit for at least one thing. He's proven that someone can deserve a Nobel prize less than Al Gore.

  • The judges who awarded the 1980 Commonwealth Poetry Prize to my first collection of poems, Crossing the Peninsula and Other Poems, cited with approval and with no apparent conscious irony my early poem, "No Alarms." The poem was composed probably sometime in 1974 or 1975, and it complained about the impossibility of writing poetry - of being a poet - under the conditions in which I was living then.

    "Walking with Her Muse: An Interview with Shirley Geok-lin Lim". Contemporary Women's Writing, Volume 8, Issue 2, 1 July 2014, Pages 123 - 135, academic.oup.com. June 22, 2013.
  • I like cast iron coated with enamel for longevity and forgiveness if I happen to take my eyes off the prize while pouring Chianti.

    Eye   Iron   Pouring  
    "An Introduction and Rallying Cry" by Mario Batali, www.esquire.com. August 24, 2011.
  • My prize, my pleasure and pain, my endless desire. I've never know anyone like you.

    Pain   Desire   Like You  
  • In a way, the Nobel Prize has been something of a pain in the neck, though there was at least one time that I got some fun out of it, Shortly after I won the Prize, Gweneth and I received an invitation from the Brazilian government to be the guests of honor at the Carnaval celebrations in Rio.

    Fun   Pain   Government  
  • The process for awarding Nobel prizes is so complex that it cannot be corrupted.

    "Rita Levi-Montalcini obituary" by Anthony Tucker, www.theguardian.com. December 30, 2012.
  • Concepts are vindicated by the constant accrual of data and independent verification of data. No prize, not even a Nobel Prize, can make something true that is not true.

  • I'm never going to be in danger of getting the Nobel Prize for literature.

  • But he did not understand the price. Mortals never do. They only see the prize, their heart's desire, their dream... But the price of getting what you want, is getting what you once wanted.

    Dream   Heart   Desire  
    Neil Gaiman, Sam Kieth, Mike Dringenberg (2006). “The absolute sandman”
  • I have done nothing important or distinguished since we met except to win the handicap prize, worth ?4 10/- at North Berwick.

  • The only prize much cared for by the powerful is power. The prize of the general is not a bigger tent, but command.

    Powerful   Prize  
    "Law and the Court". Speech at a dinner of the Harvard Law School Association of New York, library.law.harvard.edu. February 15, 1913.
  • The virtue lies in the struggle, not the prize.

    Life   Lying   Struggle  
  • You come out of the gate, you've got something new, you're subversive, nobody's ever done it before. But by your fifth novel and your fourth literary prize and your house in the country, can you really claim to be subversive?

    Country   House   Done  
    Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
  • In the end the great truth will have been learned that the quest is greater than what is sought, the effort finer that the prize (or rather, that the effort is the prize), the victory cheap and hollow were it not for the rigor of the game.

    Truth   Struggle   Games  
  • Look at what you could have won!

    "Bullseye", www.imdb.com. (1981– ).
  • Don`t give up! Don`t give in! Keep the faith! And keep your eyes on the prize!

    "All In With Chris Hayes, Transcript". www.msnbc.com. June 23, 2016.
  • ONLY in the release of the seen do you lay hold on the unseen, My little one. Heaven waits for those who are no longer bound to earth. The degree to which bondages are exchanged for liberties while still in the flesh is in proportion to the extent to which eternal values are held in higher esteem that worldly success and possessions. If a man loves Me, he will hold his soul more precious than his body and will pursue holiness at the expense of wealth; for to follow after that which perishes is to forfeit the prize of the high calling in Christ.

    Men   Heaven   Waiting  
  • Such simple and steady acts of kindness are the essence of love, the substance of life. All of us need love; all of us want love. Everything else is a consolation prize. What matters is love.

  • If I were to give a prize for the single best idea anybody ever had, I'd give it to Darwin for the idea of natural selection - ahead of Newton, ahead of Einstein - because his idea unites the two most disparate features of our universe: the world of purposeless, meaningless matter and motion, particles jostling on the one side, and the world of meaning and purpose, design on the other.

    Ideas   Two   Giving  
    "Big Thinkers on Evolution". NOVA-PBS, www.pbs.org. October 6, 2009.
  • Pythagoras used to say that life resembles the Olympic Games: a few people strain their muscles to carry off a prize; others bring trinkets to sell to the crowd for gain; and some there are, and not the worst, who seek no other profit than to look at the show and see how and why everything is done; spectators of the life of other people in order to judge and regulate their own.

    Life   Order   Games  
  • Politics is a dynamic process. When I was a young man in the 1970s, Yasser Arafat had just perpetrated various terrorist attacks. Just a few years later, after I had entered European Parliament, the same Yasser Arafat was given the Nobel Peace Prize.

    Source: www.spiegel.de
  • And what a prize we have to fight for: no less than the chance to banish from our land the dark divisive clouds of Marxist socialism.

    Dark   Fighting   Clouds  
    Margaret Thatcher, Iain Dale (1997). “As I said to Denis--: the Margaret Thatcher book of quotations”, Robson Book Ltd
  • Let us always keep before our eyes the fact that here on earth we are on a battlefield and that in paradise we shall receive the crown of victory; that this is a testing-ground and the prize will be awarded up above; that we are now in a land of exile while our true homeland is Heaven to which we must continually aspire.

    Eye   Land   Heaven  
  • Sometimes the prize is not worth the costs. The means by which we achieve victory are as important as the victory itself.

    Brandon Sanderson (2010). “The Way of Kings”, p.227, Macmillan
  • The trouble with conspiracies, even those that are to everybody's advantage in the long run, is that they are open to abuse. If manipulators really had the powers claimed, they could win the lottery every week. I prefer to point out that they could also win a Nobel Prize for discovering fundamental physical forces hitherto unknown to science.

    Running   Winning   Long  
    "The Selfish Gene". Book by Richard Dawkins, 1976.
  • I'm the least-educated person in my immediate family. My two other brothers have multiple advanced degrees, and I only have one. [...] Actually, now that I've got a Nobel Prize, I feel equal.

    Brother   Two   Degrees  
    Interview with Spencer Michels in "The NewsHour" on PBS, May 2, 2007.
  • If love and ambition should be in equal balance, and come to jostle with equal force, I make no doubt but that the last would win the prize.

    Michel de Montaigne, William Hazlitt (1860). “The Works of Michael de Montaigne: Comprising His Essays, Letters, and Journey Through Germany and Italy”, p.365
  • Competition exists to choose who gets the prize when the prize can’t be shared.

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