#prize

I was the fattest baby in Clark County, Arkansas. They put me in the newspaper. It was like a prize turnip. ↗

— Billy Bob Thornton

#baby #clark #county #fattest #i

Normally, I could hit hard enough, as anyone who studied my fights might have known. But the impression was that I was essentially defensive, the very reverse of a killer, the prize fighter who read books, even Shakespeare. ↗

— Gene Tunney

#books #could #defensive #enough #essentially

I'm hosting weekend retreats all over America. It is like a 24-hour slumber party for moms. We laugh, eat, play games, get massages, win prizes, talk about parenting and even cry a bit. ↗

— Lisa Whelchel

#america #bit #cry #eat #even

I have never received a Farthing of Prize Money either for Artillery Ammunition or Vessels. ↗

— Abraham Whipple

#artillery #either #farthing #i #money

I have never seen a wrestling match or a prize fight, and I don't want to. When I find out a man is interested in these sports, I drop him. ↗

— Hedy Lamarr

#fight #find #him #i #interested

May this plain statement of facts prevail on the friends of the rising generation to interpose for their welfare; that the education of children may no longer be to parent and master a lottery, in which the prizes bear no proportion to the enormous number of blanks. ↗

— Joseph Lancaster

#blanks #children #education #enormous #facts

The Nobel Prize is run by a self-perpetuated committee. They vote for themselves and get the world's publishing industry to jump to their tune. ↗

— Doris Lessing

#get #industry #jump #nobel #nobel prize

What men prize most is a privilege, even if it be that of chief mourner at a funeral. ↗

— James Russell Lowell

#even #funeral #men #most #mourner

One effect that the Nobel Prize seems to have had is that more Arabic literary works have been translated into other languages. ↗

— Naguib Mahfouz

#been #effect #had #into #languages

As a theoretical physicist, I feel at once proud and humble at the thought of the illustrious figures that have preceded me here to receive the greatest of all honors in science, the Nobel prize. ↗

— Murray Gell-Mann

#figures #greatest #here #honors #humble