Nobel Quotes

(about Abigail Breslin and her Oscar nomination) I hope she loses, frankly. No, I`m serious. I am not joking. What, next year she is going to get the Nobel Prize? It`s enough. She has had enough attention. I love her and I love her family, and I feel enough is enough. She is a kid, she needs to have a childhood.

- Alan Arkin

Everyone has these two visions when they hold their child for the first time. The first is your child as an adult saying `I want to thank the Nobel Committee for this award.` The other is `You want fries with that?`

- Robin Williams

We three chemists here are the most fortunate of Nobel Laureates, many of whom are rewarded after years of patient and painstaking work.

- George Porter

It is the Nobel Prize I want. It`s worth $400,000.

- Klaus Kinski

(But his role in the actual invention was murkier, disputed over decades in the courts and even now in scientific circles.) You would have a lot of argument, ... Laser: The Inventor, the Nobel Laureate, and the 30-Year Patent War.

- Nick Taylor

I served the famous professors and scholars, and eventually they learned that the Reverend Moon is superior to them. Even Nobel laureate academics who thought they were at the center of knowledge are as nothing in front of me.

- Sun Myung Moon

I can forgive Alfred Nobel for having invented dynamite, but only a fiend in human form could have invented the Nobel Prize.

- George Bernard Shaw

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

I think a lot of people believe that 60 years after the dropping of the atomic bombs on Nagasaki and Hiroshima, it was time that the Nobel committee would make a gesture to make a statement about the proliferation of nuclear weapons.

- Tom Kennedy

I think he should have won the Nobel Prize. I don`t know why he didn`t. He was sort of a shy person who didn`t promote himself outside the scientific community. He would rather work in the lab.

- David Patterson

Many Nobel Prizes are awaiting good research to understand and explain the many mysteries of our bodies, such as the basic mechanism of memory or imagination.

- John Cameron

The Arab world also won the Nobel with me.

- Naguib Mahfouz

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 Arab world also won the Nobel with me. I believe that international doors have opened, and that from now on, literate people will consider Arab literature also. We deserve that recognition.

- Naguib Mahfouz

One effect that the Nobel Prize seems to have had is that more Arabic literary works have been translated into other languages.

- Naguib Mahfouz

I thought they would never select an Eastern writer for the Nobel. I was surprised.

- Naguib Mahfouz

My wife thought I deserved it, but I always thought the Nobel a Western prize.

- Naguib Mahfouz

My countrymen have the right to shake my hand and talk to me if they so wish. Don`t forget that their support and their reading of my works is what brought me the Nobel prize.

- Naguib Mahfouz

I am practically in the employ of Mr. Nobel. I have to meet everyone he sends my way.

- Naguib Mahfouz

Winning Nobel imposed on me a lifestyle to which I am not used and which I would not have preferred.

- Naguib Mahfouz

When I received the Nobel Prize, the only big lump sum of money I have ever seen, I had to do something with it. The easiest way to drop this hot potato was to invest it, to buy shares. I knew that World War II was coming and I was afraid that if I had shares which rise in case of war, I would wish for war. So I asked my agent to buy shares which go down in the event of war. This he did. I lost my money and saved my soul.

- A. P. Herbert

Forget about Nobel prizes; they aren`t really very important.

- Alexandra Picavet

In fact, 37 percent of all United States Nobel Prize winners in the 20th century have been representatives of the Jewish community.

- Allan Meltzer

I am the same person I was before receiving the Nobel Prize. I work with the same regularity, I have not modified my habits, I have the same friends.

- Allan Radel

At this momentous event in my life - the acceptance of the Nobel Peace Prize - I want to speak as a scientist, but also as a human being.

- Allan Walsh

The big journals and Nobel laureates are the equivalent of Congressional leaders in science journalism.

- Amanda Zimmerman

I`m not aiming for the Nobel Peace Prize!

- Amitabh Ray

When I first encountered the name of the city of Stockholm, I little thought that I would ever visit it, never mind end up being welcomed to it as a guest of the Swedish Academy and the Nobel Foundation.

- Andrea Koncz

As a physician, Senator Frist has a moral calling to save lives and alleviate suffering. He joins Nancy Reagan, dozens of Nobel Laureates, thousands of scientists, and millions of patients across the nation in calling for an end to the restrictions that have shackled the search for new cures. I applaud his courage in putting patients over politics.

- Edward Kennedy