#prize

If I may take the liberty to speak for science at least, today his name and his prizes are without a peer in the world. He not only elevates science but he influences it as well. ↗

— Melvin Calvin

#his #i #influences #least #liberty

If I could explain it to the average person, I wouldn't have been worth the Nobel Prize. ↗

— Richard P. Feynman

#average person #been #could #explain #i

Of all the properties which belong to honorable men, not one is so highly prized as that of character. ↗

— Henry Clay

#character #highly #honorable #men #prized

When the target audience is American teenage kids, you can have problems. My generation prized really fine acting and writing. Sometimes you have to go back to the basic principles which underpin great visual comedy. ↗

— John Cleese

#american #audience #back #basic #basic principles

In its conception the literature prize belongs to days when a writer could still be thought of as, by virtue of his or her occupation, a sage, someone with no institutional affiliations who could offer an authoritative word on our times as well as on our moral life. ↗

— J. M. Coetzee

#authoritative #belongs #conception #could #days

She likes herself, yet others hates, For that which in herself she prizes; And while she laughs at them, forgets She is the thing that she despises. ↗

— William Congreve

#forgets #hates #herself #laughs #likes

But a progressive policy needs more than just a bigger break with the economic and moral assumptions of the past 30 years. It needs a return to the conviction that economic growth and the affluence it brings is a means and not an end. The end is what it does to the lives, life-chances and hopes of people. Look at London. Of course it matters to all of us that London's economy flourishes. But the test of the enormous wealth generated in patches of the capital is not that it contributed 20%-30% to Britain's GDP but how it affects the lives of the millions who live and work there. What kind of lives are available to them? Can they afford to live there? If they can't, it is not compensation that London is also a paradise for the ultra-rich. Can they get decently paid jobs or jobs at all? If they can't, don't brag about all those Michelin-starred restaurants and their self-dramatising chefs. Or schooling for children? Inadequate schools are not offset by the fact that London universities could field a football team of Nobel prize winners. ↗

— Eric J. Hobsbawm

#capitalism #economics #education #london #morality

I suppose my little Martin acoustic guitar is quickly becoming a prize possession. It's a lovely guitar. I bought it at the Cambridge Folk Festival in 2001 before I had cleaned up. ↗

— Graham Coxon

#acoustic guitar #becoming #before #bought #cambridge

They gave me away as a prize once - a Win Tony Curtis For A Weekend competition. The woman who won was disappointed. She'd hoped for second prize - a new stove. ↗

— Tony Curtis

#competition #curtis #disappointed #gave #hoped

Educational institutes can no longer be prizes in church politics or furnish berths for failure in other walks of life. ↗

— E. Franklin Frazier

#educational #failure #furnish #institutes #life