Prizes Quotes
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The one thing I was good at was winning scholarships and prizes, and that era was coming to an end.
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The world continues to offer glittering prizes to those who have stout hearts and stout swords.
Birkenhead, F(rederick) E(dwin) Smith, 1st Earl of— 1923 Rectorial address, Glasgow University,7 Nov.
The first-known public lottery was sponsored by Augustus Caesar to raise funds for repairing the city of Rome; the first public lottery awarding money prizes, the Lotto de Firenze, was established in Florence in 1530.
richard arnold epstein— Chapter Four, Coins, Wheels, And Oddments, p. 119
George W. Bush will surely deserve that woolliest of all peace prizes, the Nobel.
joe klein— Look Who Has a Shot at the Nobel Peace Prize, March 13, 2005.
People who get Nobel prizes aren't necessarily the most imaginative of people. People who sometimes find a system, develop a system, do very useful work.
aaron klug— Interview , 17 June 2005 [1].
This has been going on for 30 years. I've won all the prizes in Europe, every bloody one, so I'm delighted to win them all. It's a royal flush.
doris lessing— After being chosen as the 2007 recipient of the Nobel Prize For Literature "BBC News", BBC, London (11 October 2007)
The pretention that some of us are better than others, I don't think is a very good thing. And who is contributing what to our progress in science is not so obvious and many who don't get that Nobel Prize are better than people than some of us that do get the Nobel Prize. ... I think we should not be interested in prizes, we should be interested in learning about nature.
jack steinberger— Interview with the 1988 Nobel Laureate in Physics, Jack Steinberger, at the 58th Meeting of Nobel Laureates in Lindau, Germany, July 2008.
For more than twenty years he [Blanchard] toiled on through the most fatiguing paths of literary composition, mostly in periodicals, often anonymously; pleasing and lightly instructing thousands, but gaining none of the prizes, whether of weighty reputation or popular renown, which more fortunate chances, or more pretending modes of investing talent, have given in our day to men of half his merits.
samuel laman blanchard— Edward Bulwer-Lytton, Sketches from Life "Memoire" (1846)
Humility, a sense of reverence before the sons of heaven of all the prizes that a mortal man might win, these, I say, are wisest; these are best.
Euripides— Bacchæ l. 1150.
"It probably won a prize" is a disparaging remark in this book. Why? Because prizes tend to be given for some aspects of design, to the neglect of all others usually including usability.
donald norman— Ch. 6, p. 152
Well I don’t know how many pounds make up a ton, Of all the nobel prizes that I’ve never won, And I may be the mayor of simpleton, But I know one thing, And that’s I love you.
andy partridge— "The Mayor of Simpleton"
It's not the honors and the prizes and the fancy outsides of life which ultimately nourish our souls. It's the knowing that we can be trusted, that we never have to fear the truth, that the bedrock of our very being is good stuff.
fred rogers— Commencement Address at Middlebury College May, 2001
And we feel that the hero has lived all the details of this night like annunciations, promises, or even that he lived only those that were promises, blind and deaf to all that did not herald adventure. We forget that the future was not yet there; the man was walking in the night without forethought, a night which offered him a choice of dull rich prizes, and he did not make his choice.
jean-paul sartre— Diary entry of Saturday noon (10 February?)
The definitions of humanism are many, but let us here take it to be the attitude of those men who think it an advantage to live in society, and, at that, in a complex and highly developed society, and who believe that man fulfills his nature and reaches his proper stature in this circumstance. The personal virtues which humanism cherishes are intelligence, amenity, and tolerance; the particular courage it asks for is that which is exercised in the support of these virtues. The qualities of intelligence which it chiefly prizes are modulation and flexibility.
Lionel Trilling— Introduction
But, because the blacks were so close to the very civilization which sought to keep them out, because they could not help but react in some way to its incentives and prizes, and because the very tissue of their consciousness received its tone and timbre from the strivings of that dominant civilization, oppression spawned among them a myriad variety of reactions, reaching from outright blind rebellion to sweet, other-worldly submissiveness.
richard wright— p. xii (Native Son (1940))
Dear Erin, how sweetly thy green bosom rises! An emerald set in the ring of the sea. Each blade of thy meadows my faithful heart prizes, Thou queen of the west, the world's cushla ma chree.
John Philpot Curran— John Philpot Curran, Cushla ma Chree.
Diamond me no diamonds! prize me no prizes!
— Alfred Tennyson, Idylls of the King (c. 1842–1885).
Humility, a sense of reverence before the sons of heaven of all the prizes that a mortal man might win, these, I say, are wisest; these are best.
— Bacchæ l. 1150. (Quotes)
The definitions of humanism are many, but let us here take it to be the attitude of those men who think it an advantage to live in society , and, at that, in a complex and highly developed society, and who believe that man fulfills his nature and reaches his proper stature in this circumstance. The personal virtues which humanism cherishes are intelligence , amenity, and tolerance ; the particular courage it asks for is that which is exercised in the support of these virtues. The qualities of intelligence which it chiefly prizes are modulation and flexibility.
— Lionel Trilling, in his "Introduction" to The Portable Matthew Arnold (1949)
The Glittering prizes
Frederic Raphael— Title of novel
Let all the little poets be gathered together in classes And let prizes be given to them by the Prize Asses.
— 1950 Harold's Leap,'To School!'
