#prize

All prizes have a role, if they are run with integrity and with a clear focus on reading and quality writing. I don't think any of them is necessary, but they all play an incredibly important role in building a body of literature, in introducing new authors to new readers, and extending reading. ↗

— Kate Mosse

#authors #body #building #clear #extending

In high school, I won a prize for an essay on tuberculosis. When I got through writing the essay, I was sure I had the disease. ↗

— Constance Baker Motley

#essay #got #had #high #high school

While I was there I became deeply interested in photography, and indeed the most noteworthy event in my early life was winning first, third, fourth and seventh prizes in an international competition for college and high school students. ↗

— Douglass North

#college #competition #deeply #early #early life

There is no doubt that, as a society, we have become blase about the importance of marriage as a stabilising influence and less inclined to prize it as a worthwhile institution. ↗

— Keith O'Brien

#become #doubt #importance #inclined #influence

I believe we can do more in making the President's vision for space exploration a reality by awarding cash prizes to encourage greater participation of the private sector in the national space program. ↗

— Dana Rohrabacher

#believe #cash #encourage #exploration #greater

Far and away the best prize that life has to offer is the chance to work hard at work worth doing. ↗

— Theodore Roosevelt

#away #best #chance #doing #far

I am the same person I was before receiving the Nobel Prize. I work with the same regularity, I have not modified my habits, I have the same friends. ↗

— Jose Saramago

#before #friends #habits #i #i am

The corsets I wore in The Railway Children are still in my undies drawer, a prized relic of my favourite film. ↗

— Dinah Sheridan

#corsets #drawer #favourite #film #i

B is for Breasts Of which ladies have two; Once prized for the function, Now for the view. ↗

— Robert Paul Smith

#function #ladies #now #once #prized

Forget about Nobel prizes; they aren't really very important. ↗

— Herbert Simon

#forget #important #nobel #prizes #really