All Quotes

The Nobel Peace Prize is not awarded for what one has done, but hopefully what one will do.
‐‐ Betty Williams

The Nobel Peace Prize opened up a door in my heart.
‐‐ Aung San Suu Kyi

The Nobel Prize gives one the opportunity to take public stands.
‐‐ Philip Warren Anderson

The Nobel Prize has been a disturbance at the beginning of October for some years. It would be gratifying to win, but it would be quite an ordeal, too, with all the events which go on for two days. I'd think carefully about what I was doing the day it is announced and maybe not be around, or be around, but elsewhere.
‐‐ Peter Higgs

The Nobel Prize has given me, for the first time in my life, the feeling that my literature could be appreciated on an international level.
‐‐ Naguib Mahfouz

The Nobel Prize in Economics is an incredible recognition for the work that my students, colleagues and I have done over the years. We all worked hard, but we were also lucky that the financial applications were so important.
‐‐ Robert F. Engle

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

The Nobel Prize is given as a personal award but it also honors the field of research in which I have worked and it also honors my students and colleagues.
‐‐ Robert Hofstadter

The Nobel Prize is not very important for the winners - they are usually pretty successful people already. But it is valuable as a way of drawing the public's attention to important work in economics.
‐‐ Eric Maskin

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

The Nobel prize is unquestionably the most famous prize in the world, and very often, the prize is an object of prestige not only for a person but also for a research center, a country, or for a particular area of interest.
‐‐ Klaus von Klitzing

The Nobel Prize is without doubt the highest honour, the most coveted honour, which can be bestowed on a scientist.
‐‐ Charles Glover Barkla

The Nobel Prize is worth $1.5 million, but that's not the issue. Do the distinguished scientists who win the Nobel Prize need the money? Probably not. The honor is more important the money, and that's the case with the prize for African leadership as well.
‐‐ Mo Ibrahim

The Nobel Prize, so long regarded in our science as the highest reward a man's work can earn, must bring to its recipient a most solemn sense of his debt to his fellow scientists and those of the past.
‐‐ Edward M. Purcell

The Nobel Prizes are much more than awards to scholars; they are a celebration of civilization, of mankind, and of what makes humans unique - that is their intellect from which springs creativity.
‐‐ Stanley B. Prusiner

The Nobel prizes memorialize Alfred Nobel's faith in the contribution that human thought, directed to science and art, can make to human welfare.
‐‐ Herbert A. Simon

The nobility of a human being is strictly independent of that of his convictions.
‐‐ Jean Rostand

The noble gases, which reside on the East Coast of the periodic table, are its aristocrats - detached and aloof, never bothering to interact with the rabble of common elements that make up the vast majority of the world.
‐‐ Sam Kean

The noble man is only God's image.
‐‐ Ludwig Tieck

The noble simplicity in the works of nature only too often originates in the noble shortsightedness of him who observes it.
‐‐ Georg C. Lichtenberg

The nobler a man, the harder it is for him to suspect inferiority in others.
‐‐ Marcus Tullius Cicero

The noblest men of all ages, Christian saints of the most transcendent spirituality have attained their wonderful development through the spiritual rays of this planet because of the intense feeling of Oneness with the divine and with all that lives and breathes in the universe.
‐‐ Max Heindel

The noblest pleasure is the joy of understanding.
‐‐ Leonardo da Vinci

The noblest search is the search for excellence.
‐‐ Lyndon B. Johnson

The noblest spirit is most strongly attracted by the love of glory.
‐‐ James A. Baldwin

The noir hero is a knight in blood caked armor. He's dirty and he does his best to deny the fact that he's a hero the whole time.
‐‐ Frank Miller

The noise resembles the roar of heavy, distant surf. Standing on the stirring ice one can imagine it is disturbed by the breathing and tossing of a mighty giant below.
‐‐ Ernest Shackleton

The nomads' egalitarian lifestyle astonished the Greeks, who kept their own women indoors weaving and minding children. The exotic Scythian lifestyle fueled the Greek imagination and led to an outpouring of myths about fierce Amazons, 'the equals of men.'
‐‐ Adrienne Mayor

The nominee is Mitt Romney. Paul Ryan joins Mitt Romney. The budget plan, the approach on Medicare and all of that is going to be the Romney plan. What he has is a man as his number two who understands the details of budgets, who has demonstrated a willingness to take on tough issues.
‐‐ John Sununu

The Non-Conformist Conscience makes cowards of us all.
‐‐ Max Beerbohm

The non-utility of my kitchen could be transformed into its utility for art. To do a show there would mix art and life, naturally.
‐‐ Hans-Ulrich Obrist

The Nondiscriminatory Transportation Screening Act provides a commonsense approach for the TSA to update its policies on permissible verifying documents.
‐‐ Bill Flores

The nonexistent is whatever we have not sufficiently desired.
‐‐ Nikos Kazantzakis

The nonphysical law allows you to use nonphysical causes to create nonphysical effects and also physical effects. This does not mean that you are not in control of what you create. On the contrary! It means that you are entirely free to create what you want, provided you are aware of how the nonphysical law of cause and effect works.
‐‐ Gary Zukav

The Nordic countries are leading the way on women's equality, recognizing women as equal citizens rather than commodities for sale.
‐‐ Johanna Siguroardottir

The norm is white, apparently, in the view of people who see things in that way. For them, the only reason you would introduce a black character is to introduce this kind of abnormality. Usually, it's because you're telling a story about racism or at least about race.
‐‐ Octavia E. Butler

The normal 21-year-old doesn't have to worry about their night out being put on TMZ.
‐‐ Lauren Conrad

The normal profits of a business concern in the United States are six, eight, ten, and sometimes twelve percent. But war-time profits - ah! that is another matter - twenty, sixty, one hundred, three hundred, and even eighteen hundred per cent - the sky is the limit.
‐‐ Smedley Butler

The normal storyline of a horror film or a slasher film is the young, beautiful college folks go camping and get systematically killed by the person in a mask. So that's how it normally is.
‐‐ John Schneider

The Normans came over, lance in hand, burning and trampling down every thing before them, and cutting off the Saxon dynasty and the Saxon nobles at the edge of the sword; but the right of petition remained untouched.
‐‐ Caleb Cushing

The Norse way of speaking, no one really knew what the Vikings sounded liked, they were Norsemen. The accent is really a combination of a Scandinavian accent, maybe with a Swedish accent and an old way of speaking.
‐‐ Katheryn Winnick

The North African mule talks always of his mother's brother, the horse, but never of his father, the donkey, in favor of others supposedly more reputable.
‐‐ Clifford Geertz

The North American Free Trade Agreement marked a fundamental change in the global trade scheme.
‐‐ Enrique Pena Nieto

The North American intellectual tradition began, I maintain, in the encounter of British Romanticism with assertive, pragmatic North American English - the Protestant plain style in both the U.S. and Canada, with its no-nonsense Scottish immigrants.
‐‐ Camille Paglia

The north coast of Brittany is eaten into bays from which the sea retreats to considerable distances, and is fringed with reefs and islands. It is a favourite resort of Parisians throughout its stretch, from Dinard to Plestin.
‐‐ Sabine Baring-Gould

The North Korean landscape is strikingly beautiful in places. It could be said to resemble America's Pacific Northwest - but substantially drained of color.
‐‐ Barbara Demick

The North Koreans have gained, or bought, a lot of time through the six-party-talks framework to pursue their own agenda.
‐‐ Lee Myung-bak

The North Koreans or Chinese may have a million men in uniform but it's about how you perform.
‐‐ Philip Hammond

The North Koreas of the world are trying very hard to acquire the material they need to acquire nuclear weapons, as is the case with Iran.
‐‐ Richard Fadden