“I do feel quite strongly about this that probably one of the things that unfortunately this age now to get a Nobel Prize is to really use part of it to help the young people get excited about science.” PeopleFeelsHelpingUseAgeYoungExcitedPrizeNobelNobel Prize Author:Ahmed H. Zewail
“I think the Nobel Prize helps for a number of reasons. Number one, if I can be frank, there is these people will feel by getting a Nobel Prize that I'm one of them, that it is possible to contribute on the world map of science and technology. And the other thing also which I'm hoping for is that the government in Egypt is willing and interested in promoting science and technology and this is an ideal time now to be able to do something.” PeopleIfsThinkingWorldFeelsI CanReasonHelpingGovernmentAbleNumbersTechnologyWillingIdealsPrizeMapsFrankEgyptPromotingNobelScience And TechnologyNobel Prize Author:Ahmed H. Zewail
“Harkening back to a story about my grandfather, I was lucky to attend a great high school in New York, Bronx High School of Science, which has produced more Nobel prize winners than any other high school in America.” StoriesSchoolAmericaNew YorkLuckyHigh SchoolWinnerPrizeGrandfatherMy GrandfatherNobelNobel PrizeBronxNobel Prize Winners Author:Lewis Schiff
“I was never going to be one of Nobel prize winners.” WinnerPrizeNobelNobel PrizeNobel Prize Winners Author:Lewis Schiff
“The Yeas are relatively uniform. They view [Bob] Dylan as one of the greatest artists of his or any era, who deserves to be taken as seriously as any litterateur. Where they vary is in some cases not even accepting the distinction: Dylan in their eyes is a literary titan, and the award of the Nobel Prize for Literature is simply official affirmation of what they already knew.” EyeArtistLiteratureViewsAcceptingCasesTakenDeserveErasOfficialsDistinctionPrizeAwardsBobUniformsAffirmationDylanVaryNobelNobel PrizeTitans Author:David Bennun
“The [Nobel] prize is for literature.[Bob] Dylan is a songwriter. Here is where the argument starts to get interesting, because here is where it is no longer a question of either cultural orthodoxy or personal taste.” LiteratureInterestingTasteArgumentPrizeBobSongwritersDylanOrthodoxyNobelNobel PrizePersonal Taste Author:David Bennun
“I have seen quite a few folk whom I know to be both fair minded and, as it happens,[Bob] Dylan fans, take up cudgels for this position. To them, it's not necessarily that Dylan doesn't merit the highest honour. It's that he doesn't merit this specific highest honour [Nobel prize], in the way a champion pole vaulter shouldn't be given a medal for the long jump. It is in this group that the Wahey!s are mainly to be found, firing off jests, or mock solemnly reciting Dylan's sillier lyrics as if these are entirely representative of his oeuvre.” IfsKnowsWayLongHappensFoundGivenGroupsFansPositionHighestFairsFolksMeritChampionPrizeHonourBobRepresentativesMedalDylanNobelMockNobel PrizeFiringRecitingLong Jump Author:David Bennun
“[I have] my own view about [Bob] Dylan's Nobel prize. Which is, I'm firmly in the Nay camp. I do think the award is a category error, but that's not why. Not in itself. What bothers me is the perceived status of the categories. If pop lyricists were routinely considered for the prize as are authors and poets, I'd still think it mistaken, but I wouldn't much care. But I am quite certain that Joni Mitchell and Leonard Cohen, for example, both at the very least Dylan's equals as writers, have never been in the running and never will be.” IfsThinkingStillsCareRunningCertainMy OwnViewsExamplePoetErrorsPopsBotherPrizeWhy NotAwardsCategoriesCampsBobMistakenDylanNobelNobel PrizeLyricists Author:David Bennun
“There's no reason - not yet, anyway - to believe [Bob] Dylan himself endorses such an attitude; or that he would think of himself as a more profound and worthy recipient than, for instance, any of the brilliant Motown or girl-group lyricists who are more likely to be awarded a Nobel prize for chemistry than for literature. Whether there is more truth and humanity in his best lyrics than in Abba's, or less, is unquantifiable, and it would be meretricious to attempt such a calculation in contesting an argument he has been dragged into.” ThinkingBelieveHas BeensReasonWould BeHumanityGirlLiteratureAttitudeGroupsArgumentProfoundWorthyBrilliantInstanceNo ReasonPrizeChemistryBobDylanCalculationsNobelNobel PrizeMotownAbbaLyricistsGirl Groups Author:David Bennun
“If you wanted to, it would be easy to find some crappy lyrics [of Bob Dylan] from the Eighties to undermine the Nobel Prize.” IfsWould BeWantedEasyPrizeBobDylanEightyNobelNobel Prize Author:Bob Dylan
“[Bob] Dylan thus deserves the Nobel Prize, not just for "new poetic expressions within the great American song tradition," as the Nobel committee aptly described his work, but also for embodying the contradictions within it.” SongExpressionDeserveTraditionContradictionPrizePoeticBobCommitteesDylanNobelNobel PrizeGreat American Author:Jay Michaelson
“[Bob Dylan] is a worthy laureate for the Nobel Prize.” WorthyPrizeBobDylanNobelNobel Prize Author:Sjon
“[Bob Dylan] builds his lyrics, of course, from personal experience, but it's also a literary work. He draws heavily on his knowledge of American lyric tradition as well as European modernism. But he should let the Nobel Prize Committee know if he is accepting it or not.” IfsKnowsShouldWellsCoursesAcceptingDrawsTraditionPrizeBobCommitteesDylanNobelModernismPersonal ExperiencesNobel PrizeLiterary Works Author:Sjon
“[ Bob Dylan] should let the Nobel Prize Committee know if he is accepting it or not. He will not be the first one who declines the prize for political or personal reasons. He should just tell them.” IfsKnowsShouldFirstsReasonPoliticalAcceptingPrizeDeclineBobCommitteesDylanNobelNobel Prize Author:Sjon
“If you're reading something from a Nobel Prize-winning physicist next to some guy in his underwear writing in his basement, or his mom's basement, on text, it looks like it's equally plausible.” IfsWritingLooksGuyReadingNextWinningMomPrizePhysicistNobelUnderwearBasementsNobel PrizePlausiblePrize Winning Author:Barack Obama
“I won't comment on what Bob Dylan said, but I will comment on his receiving the Nobel Prize, which to me is like pinning a medal on Mount Everest for being the highest mountain.” SaidMountainHighestPrizeCommentReceivingBobMedalDylanNobelNobel PrizeEverestMount Everest Author:Leonard Cohen
“[Albert Camus] wasn't writing under the influence of the Nobel Prize. That was an external thing for the artist in him.” WritingArtistInfluencePrizeNobelNobel Prize Author:Catherine Camus
“The Nobel Prize comes from outside, it's a social recognition [reconnaissance] in a way. And I think a true artist is driven by interior necessities.” ThinkingWayArtistSocialDrivenRecognitionPrizeInteriorsNobelNobel PrizeTrue Artists Author:Catherine Camus
“[Albert] Camus writes his acceptance speech for the Nobel Prize in thanks to his teacher.” WritingTeacherAcceptanceSpeechThanksPrizeNobelNobel PrizeAcceptance Speech Author:Catherine Camus
“Recognition, gratefulness exist.[ Speech for the Nobel Prize] is to show that this is what has come from what [Albert Camus] teacher did for him. And also throughout the world there are Monsieur Germains [his old schoolteacher] everywhere. That's why I published the letters, so that he could have a place in the work.” WorldShowsTeacherSpeechLettersRecognitionPrizeNobelOld SchoolNobel PrizeGratefulness Author:Catherine Camus
“That was unfortunate. I should have compared religion with religion and compared Islam not with Trinity College but with Jews, because the number of Jews who have won Nobel Prizes is phenomenally high.” ShouldNumbersCollegeShould HaveIslamJewPrizeUnfortunateNobelNobel PrizeTrinityTrinity College Author:Richard Dawkins
“I think more than 20 percent of Nobel Prizes have been won by Jews.” ThinkingHas BeensPercentJewPrizeNobelNobel Prize Author:Richard Dawkins
“Most of the ones [Nobel prizes] that have gone to Muslims have been peace prizes, and the [number of Muslims] who have gotten them for scientific work is exceedingly low. But in Jews, it is exceedingly high.” Has BeensNumbersGoneLowsJewPrizeNobelNobel Prize Author:Richard Dawkins
“Just to put that in some context, 1954 was the same year that From Here to Eternity won an Oscar. Swanson's manufactured its first TV dinner. The Army-McCarthy hearings were televised. The term "under God" was inserted into the "Pledge of Allegiance." Steve Allen's Tonight Show premiered. Ernest Hemingway won the Nobel Prize for Literature. And Bob Dylan was bar mitzvahed.” YearsFirstsShowsLiteratureTermTvsEternityArmyHearingDinnerBarsTonightPrizeBobOscarsDylanPledgeAllegianceNobelNobel PrizePledge Of AllegianceBar Mitzvah Author:Kevin Sessums
“I think we need to sort of broaden our definition of poetry, which maybe it's a good thing that they just gave this Nobel Prize to [Bob] Dylan because blurring the lines of song lyrics and also hip-hop for me is like some of the greatest uses - most innovative uses of language in my lifetime.” ThinkingNeedsUseSongLanguageLinesGood ThingsLifetimeDefinitionsHip HopHipsHopsPrizeBobInnovativeDylanNobelNobel PrizeUse Of Language Author:Jim Jarmusch
“I think this is the most extraordinary collection of talent, of human knowledge, that has ever been gathered at the White House - with the possible exception of when Thomas Jefferson dined alone.” ThinkingHumansScienceHouseWhiteKnowledgeTalentPoliticianExtraordinaryLibertarianPresidentialCollectionsExceptionWhite HouseNobel PrizeHuman KnowledgeUs PresidentAchieve GreatnessNobel Prize WinnersThose Who Came Before Us Author:John F. Kennedy
“I had a period when I read Nobel Prize winners. I figured they had to be good. I discovered some people I didn't know about, like the Icelandic writer Halldor Laxness, who wrote "Independent People." .” PeopleKnowsPeriodsIndependentBe GoodWinnerPrizeNobelNobel PrizeNobel Prize Winners Author:Stephen Dobyns
“Of course I've enjoyed having the Nobel Prize, the prestige that goes along with it, the money that came with it in particular. I was the typical, still am to some extent, impecunious writer, just struggling to make ends meet, so that, nobody's going to deny that at all. In fact, if they want to give it to me a second time, I'm standing by, ready to receive it, but it's a problem, it's a real problem and then expectations and then you have monsters like Sani Abacha who come up from time to time and who would have died a happy man if he'd succeeded in hanging a Nobel Laureate for literature.” IfsMenWantGivingStillsRealEndsFactsProblemCoursesLiteratureStruggleParticularReadyExpectationsStandingDiedCome UpDenyMonstersEnjoyedPrizeTypicalNobelPrestigeReal ProblemsNobel PrizeHappy Man Author:Wole Soyinka
“If you look at the recent Nobel Prize winners, one couldn't say that the work didn't matter and the political commitment did. Who had ever heard of the Egyptian writer Naguib Mahfouz? He is not politically involved. Octavio Paz is a great poet, also not politically involved. The Nobel Prize is for literature, for the quality of work over the years.” IfsYearsLooksMatterPoliticalLiteratureQualityHeardPoetInvolvedCommitmentWinnerPrizeNobelNobel PrizeEgyptianGreat PoetQuality WorkNobel Prize Winners Author:Nadine Gordimer
“As a Greek woman, the most important thing you can do in life is get married and have children. You could win the Nobel Prize, but if you don't have a husband and kids everyone feels bad for you because you're a failure.” ChildrenImportantKidsWinningHusbandMarriedGreekPrizeNobel Prize Author:Iris Smyles
“Alfred Nobel regretted that his invention, dynamite, was converted to degrading use, hence his creation of the Nobel Prize, as the humanist counter to the destructive power of his genius.” CreationGeniusInventionPrizeHumanistNobel PrizeDegradingDynamite Author:Wole Soyinka
“I believe that even an airport can be an inspiring place for an artist. A Nobel Prize laureate once said something along the lines of, "The more one travels, the more intelligent one becomes," however, I think that you can still travel a lot and remain sheltered.” ThinkingBelieveArtistI BelieveIntelligentPrizeNobel Prize Author:Isa Genzken
“If you try to come to Australia by boat, even if we think you are the best person in the world, even if you are a Nobel Prize winning genius, we will not let you in.” ThinkingWorldTryingWinningGeniusBoatPrizeNobel Prize Author:Malcolm Turnbull
“Two years ago I was on the train from Berlin to Frankfurt when I heard that the Nobel Peace Prize had been awarded to my close friend, the writer Liu Xiaobo, who is imprisoned in China. To me it was confirmation that universal values and a moral code do exist, and that the point of the Nobel Prize is to encourage writers to stand up for this moral code. Last Thursday I was once again on the train from Berlin to Frankfurt when I heard that the Nobel Prize for Literature had gone to Mo Yan. He is a state poet. I am utterly bewildered. Do these universal values not exist after all?” ValuesLiteratureMoralPoetTrainCodePrizeNobel PrizeClose FriendsConfirmation Author:Liao Yiwu
“Martin Luther King really was a safety valve for white people. Any time it appeared that the black community was on the verge of really doing what we ought to do based on having been attacked, they put Martin Luther King on television. He was always saying, "We must use nonviolence. We must overcome hate with love." White people loved that. That's why they gave him a Nobel Prize. But when Martin Luther King started condemning the Vietnam War, that's when white people turned against him.” PeopleWarHateBlackCommunityOvercomingSafetyPrizeNonviolenceLutherVietnam WarNobel Prize Author:Ernie Chambers
“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.” WorldSelfRunningIndustryVoteTunesPrizePublishingCommitteesNobelNobel PrizePublishing Industry Author:Doris Lessing
“If I had not been discriminated against or had not suffered persecution, I would never have received the Nobel Prize.” IfsPrizePersecutionNobelNobel Prize Author:Rita Levi-Montalcini
“One effect that the Nobel Prize seems to have had is that more Arabic literary works have been translated into other languages.” Has BeensSeemsLiteratureLanguageEffectsPrizeNobelNobel PrizeLiterary Works Author:Naguib Mahfouz
“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.” FeelsFiguresProudHonorHumblePrizePhysicistTheoreticalNobelNobel Prize Author:Murray Gell-Mann
“I wonder what the most intelligent thing ever said was that started with the word 'dude.' 'Dude, these are isotopes.' 'Dude, we removed your kidney. You're gonna be fine.' 'Dude, I am so stoked to win this Nobel Prize. I just wanna thank Kevin, and Turtle, and all my homies.'” SaidHumorFunnyWinningWonderFineIntelligentPrizeI'm SorryNobelNobel PrizeKevinTurtlesKidneysHomiesIsotopes Author:Demetri Martin
“Please stop teaching my children that everyone gets a trophy just for participating. What is this, the Nobel Prize? Not everybody gets a trophy.” ChildrenTeacherTeachingPleaseMy ChildrenPrizeRetirementNobelTrophiesParticipatingNobel Prize Author:Glenn Beck
“Probably the single most important thing about the Nobel Prize for most people is whether they get the coveted parking space on campus.” PeopleImportantSpaceImportant ThingsPrizeNobelCampusParkingNobel PrizeParking Space Author:Saul Perlmutter
“If I found a cure for a huge disease, while I was hobbling up onstage to accept the Nobel Prize they'd be playing the theme song from 'Three's Company'.” IfsSongThreeFoundCompanyAcceptingHugeDiseaseCuresThemePrizeNobelNobel Prize Author:John Ritter
“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.” PersonsHabitPrizeReceivingNobelNobel PrizeRegularityGmos Author:Jose Saramago
“Forget about Nobel prizes; they aren't really very important.” ImportantForgetPrizeNobelNobel Prize Author:Herbert Simon
“There must have been something in the air of Gary that led one into economics: the first Nobel Prize winner, Paul Samuelson, was also from Gary, as were several other distinguished economists.” FirstsHas BeensAirEconomicsWinnerPrizeEconomistDistinguishedNobelNobel PrizeGaryNobel Prize Winners Author:Joseph Stiglitz
“I'd kill for a Nobel Peace Prize.” LifeHumorFunnyPeaceIronyPrizeNobelNobel PrizeUbuntuNobel Peace Prize Author:Steven Wright
“It was almost as incredible as if you fired a 15-inch shell at a piece of tissue paper and it came back and hit you.” IfsPiecesPaperIncrediblesInchesShellsTissuesNobel PrizeNucleusNuclear PhysicsTissue Paper Author:Ernest Rutherford
“But if you caught my informant,' said Achilles, 'why in the world would Chamrajnagar—or Graff, if it was him—launch the shuttle anyway? Was catching me doing something naughty so important they’d risk a shuttle and it’s crew just to catch me? I find that quite… flattering. Sort of like winning the Nobel Prize for scariest villain.” IfsWorldSaidImportantWinningRiskCaughtPrizeVillainCrewCatchingNobelNaughtyFlatteringNobel PrizeAchillesCatch MeInformants Book:Shadow Puppets Source: Shadow Puppets