#prize

He's as cool as a prized marrow! ↗

— Sid Waddell

#marrow #prized

The Nobel Prize is an honor unique in the world in having found its way into the hearts and minds of simple people everywhere. It casts a light of peace and reason upon us all; and for that I am especially grateful. ↗

— George Wald

#casts #especially #everywhere #found #grateful

Society prizes a girl for being thin more than anything else she might bring to the table. ↗

— Arabella Weir

#being #bring #else #girl #might

I can say without hesitation that there is certainly no greater show to be a contestant on than 'Price' - the prizes can be huge, and the whole world loves and watches the show. It's an American institution! ↗

— Randy West

#certainly #contestant #greater #hesitation #huge

I can't read music. Instead, I'd do stuff inside the piano, do harmonics and all kinds of crazy things. They used to put me in these annual piano contests down at Long Beach City College, and two years in a row, I won first prize - out of like 5,000 kids! ↗

— Eddie Van Halen

#beach #city #college #contests #crazy

I can't read music. Instead, I'd do stuff inside the piano, do harmonics and all kinds of crazy things. They used to put me in these annual piano contests down at Long Beach City College, and two years in a row, I won first prize - out of like 5,000 kids! The judges were like, 'Very interesting interpretation!' I thought I was playing it right. ↗

— Eddie Van Halen

#beach #city #college #contests #crazy

Awards are important for all directors because they improve your working conditions. You're only as good as your last film, so if you get prizes or large audiences, then you get more money for your next film. ↗

— Michael Haneke

#awards #because #conditions #directors #film

Odd, the years it took to learn one simple fact: that the prize just ahead, the next job, publication, love affair, marriage always seemed to hold the key to satisfaction but never, in the longer run, sufficed. ↗

— Carolyn Heilbrun

#ahead #always #fact #hold #job

I don't value prizes of any sort. ↗

— David Hockney

#i #prizes #sort #value

I would like to win the Pulitzer Prize. I would like to win the Nobel Prize. I would like to win a Tony award for the Broadway musical I'm now working on. Aside from these, my aspirations are modest ones. ↗

— Evan Hunter

#aspirations #award #broadway #i #like