As for me prizes are nothing. My prize is my work.

When women kiss it always reminds one of prize fighters shaking hands.

This ceremony and the intellectual aura associated with the Nobel Prizes have grown from the wisdom of a practical chemist who wrote a remarkable will.

What we want to do is reform the welfare system in the way that Tony Blair talked about 13 years ago but never achieved - a system that was created for the days after the Second World War. That prize is now I think achievable.

In war there is no prize for runner-up.

Do not trust your memory it is a net full of holes the most beautiful prizes slip through it.

We won a contest at the teen fair in Vancouver and the first prize was a recording contract and we recorded at a radio station on the stairway and we did a record and it got put out.

That work led to the emergence of the recombinant DNA technology thereby providing a major tool for analyzing mammalian gene structure and function and formed the basis for me receiving the 1980 Nobel Prize in Chemistry.

Please stop teaching my children that everyone gets a trophy just for participating. What is this the Nobel Prize? Not everybody gets a trophy.

Anyone could be in the orchestra or sports team or arts club at my school. It was precisely the kind of inclusivity that now meets with a sort of scorn and derision as a prizes-for-all culture that generates only mediocrity. There's something so insulting about the idea that including lots of people means mediocrity.

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.

If your man is a sports enthusiast you may have to resign yourself to his spouting off in a monotone on a prize fight football game or pennant race.

In a society that tries to standardize thinking individuality is not highly prized.

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.

To be selected was an honor and in respect of the family member chosen to run families held feasts and gave away prized beaver coats quilled tobacco bags and buffalo hides.

The only prize much cared for by the powerful is power.

The Nobel Peace Prize is a powerful message. A durable peace is not a single achievement but an environment a process and a commitment.

When His Holiness won the Nobel Peace Prize there was a quantum leap. He is not seen as solely a Tibetan anymore he belongs to the world.

Political satire became obsolete when they awarded Henry Kissinger the Nobel Peace Prize.

I'm not aiming for the Nobel Peace Prize!

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.

It is by such means as the prize offered by your Committee that the attention of the world will be focused and that men and women will be inspired to greater efforts in the interest of peace.

The Nobel Peace Prize has become hopelessly politicized. I think it cheapens the prize itself.

The Nobel Peace Prize opened up a door in my heart.