Dr. King's Nobel Prize had a more powerful transforming effect on him than I think he realized at the time.
On winning Literature Nobel Prize: I was actually in the street. Yes, I was in the street. It was my daughter who notified me.
Self-esteem is the prize awarded by you to you for playing by your own rules - in which case, you'd think it would be easier to come by.
A nation of well-informed men who have been taught to know and prize the rights which God has given them cannot be enslaved. It is in the region of ignorance that tyranny begins. ” Benjamin Franklin
Daring is the price of progress. All splendid conquests are the prize of boldness, more or less.
I prize the purity of his character as highly as I do that of hers. As a moral being, whatever it is morally wrong for her to do,it is morally wrong for him to do. The fallacious doctrine of male and female virtues has well nigh ruined all that is morally great and lovely in his character: he has been quite as deep a sufferer by it as woman, though mostly in different respects and by other processes.
The prize seemed to change my professional life very little.
If you try to come to Australia by boat, even if we think you are the best person in the world, even if you are a Nobel Prize winning genius, we will not let you in.
In life, understanding is the booby prize.
There must have been something in the air of Gary that led one into economics: the first Nobel Prize winner, Paul Samuelson, was also from Gary, as were several other distinguished economists.
The liberty of the whole earth was depending on the issue of the contest, and was ever such a prize won with so little innocent blood?
You got an all-out prize fight, you wait 'til the fight's over, one guy's left standing and that's how you know who's won.
Youth without beauty is half a prize.
Journalists prize independence - not teamwork.
The years since the Nobel Prize have been productive ones for me.
I think, about the distinction between fiction and nonfiction. Fiction is not really about anything: it is what it is. But nonfiction - and you see this particularly with something like the BBC Samuel Johnson Prize for Non-Fiction - nonfiction we define in relation to what it's about. So, Stalingrad by Antony Beevor. It's "about" Stalingrad. Or, here's a book by Claire Tomalin: it's "about" Charles Dickens.
I don't value prizes of any sort.
The Nobel Prize has given me, for the first time in my life, the feeling that my literature could be appreciated on an international level.
I am really honoured but if the prize had gone to Mahatma Gandhi before me I would have been more honoured
The Oscar seems to have been confused with the Nobel Peace Prize.