The rapture of pursuing is the prize the vanquished gain.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
My wife thought I deserved it, but I always thought the Nobel a Western prize.
Naguib Mahfouz
I've never wanted just part of the package, part of the prize. I want it all!
Bill McCartney
Nobody really expects a Nobel Prize call.
Saul Perlmutter
Livability has always struck me as a consolation prize.
Jonathan Raymond
I am really honoured, but if the prize had gone to Mahatma Gandhi before me, I would have been more honoured.
Kailash Satyarthi
The paper nominated me 12 or 13 times for the Pulitzer Prize.
Robert Scheer
In war there is no prize for runner-up.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Some people think the Nobel Prize makes you bullet-proof. I never had that illusion.
Wole Soyinka
I was the fattest baby in Clark County, Arkansas. They put me in the newspaper. It was like a prize turnip.
Billy Bob Thornton