(211 quotes found)
“Those prizes in Cracker Jacks are a joke. I once got a magnifying glass. It was so poorly made, ants were laughing at it.”
Scott Roeben
“I don't want anything. I don't want a job. I don't want to be respectable. I don't want prizes. I turned down the National Institute of Arts and Letters when I was elected to it in 1976 on the grounds that I already belonged to the Diners Club.”
Gore Vidal
“The passages of Shakespeare that we most prize were never quoted until within this century”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
“The prizes go to those who meet emergencies successfully. And the way to meet emergencies is to do each daily task the best we can.”
William Feather
“For it so falls out That what we have we prize not to the worth Whiles we enjoy it, but being lack'd and lost, Why, then we rack the value, then we find The virtue that possession would not show us Whiles it was ours”
William Shakespeare
“I was the fattest baby in Clark County, Arkansas. They put me in the newspaper. It was like a prize turnip.”
Billy Bob Thornton
“Nobel prize money is a life-belt thrown to a swimmer who has already reached the shore in safety”
George Bernard Shaw
“There is nothing on this earth more to be prized than true friendship.”
St. Thomas Aquinas
“To yield to the stronger is valor's second prize”
Marcus Aurelius
“The intensity will pick up. Everyone has eyes on the big prize. Everyone knows it's win or go home. It's still football. Try to play smart and put our team in good situations.”
Chris Simms
