#prize

A Swedish newspaper reporter called and said, You've been awarded the Prize. I was quite sure it was a practical joke. ↗

— Joshua Lederberg

#been #called #i #joke #newspaper

I was making a lot of momentous personal decisions. I was still very very young: when the prize was awarded, I was 33; the work I had done when I was 21. ↗

— Joshua Lederberg

#decisions #done #had #i #lot

I was never much of a one to win prizes... and certainly never placed too much value on their acquisition. ↗

— Annie Lennox

#certainly #i #much #never #placed

As soon as I got the Nobel Prize my back collapsed and I was in hospital. ↗

— Doris Lessing

#collapsed #got #hospital #i #nobel

I've won all the prizes in Europe, every bloody one. I'm delighted to win them all, the whole lot. ↗

— Doris Lessing

#delighted #europe #every #i #lot

And yet the Nobel Prizes, in singling out individuals, have done a great deal of good in pointing up to the world as a whole and setting forth clearly goals for achievement. ↗

— Willard Libby

#clearly #deal #done #forth #goals

The rapture of pursuing is the prize the vanquished gain. ↗

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

#prize #pursuing #rapture #vanquished

Our defense is in the preservation of the spirit which prizes liberty as a heritage of all men, in all lands, everywhere. Destroy this spirit and you have planted the seeds of despotism around your own doors. ↗

— Abraham Lincoln

#defense #despotism #destroy #doors #everywhere

My countrymen have the right to shake my hand and talk to me if they so wish. Don't forget that their support and their reading of my works is what brought me the Nobel prize. ↗

— Naguib Mahfouz

#countrymen #forget #hand #me #nobel

The highest prize in a world of men is the most beautiful woman available on your arm and living there in her heart loyal to you. ↗

— Norman Mailer

#available #beautiful #beautiful woman #heart #her