Nobel Prize Winners Quotes:

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.

- Joseph Stiglitz

topic: Air, Firsts, Winner, Nobel Prize, Nobel Prize Winners

Of course, today at the Karolinska Institute, I am working with some top experts - even some Nobel prize winners. They have the latest news and I have the technique.

- Lennart Nilsson

topic: Technique, Experts, News, Nobel Prize, Nobel Prize Winners

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.

- John F. Kennedy

topic: Knowledge, Science, Thinking, White House, Human Knowledge

I think there is a huge difference between writers who have very big sales, and writers who have small sales. Even writers with very high reputations, even Nobel prize winners, often sell in very low figures.

- Kazuo Ishiguro

source: Source: www.spiegel.de

topic: Thinking, Differences, Reputation, Nobel Prize Winners

It is not the same thing if I sign Jean-Paul Sartre or if I sign Jean-Paul Sartre, Nobel Prize winner. A writer must refuse to allow himself to be transformed into an institution, even if it takes place in the most honorable form.

- Jean-Paul Sartre

topic: Honesty, Integrity, Character, Paul Sartre, Nobel Prize Winners

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." .

- Stephen Dobyns

source: Source: www.bostonglobe.com

topic: Nobel Prize Winners

I was never going to be one of Nobel prize winners.

- Lewis Schiff

topic: Winner, Nobel, Prize, Nobel Prize Winners

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.

- Lewis Schiff

topic: New York, School, America, Bronx, Nobel Prize Winners

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.

- Nadine Gordimer

source: Source: progressive.org

topic: Commitment, Years, Political, Quality Work, Nobel Prize Winners

Misguided liberal Joseph Stiglitz.Columbia University professor and Nobel Prize winner, claims the American dream is dead.

- Jedediah Bila

source: Source: www.foxnews.com

topic: Dream, Winner, Claims, University Professors, Columbia University

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

- Jon Porter

topic: Pregnancy, Community, Facts, Jewish Community, Nobel Prize Winners

We [Corbis] make it so easy to call up images, whether art or people or beaches or sunsets or Nobel Prize winners.

- Bill Gates

topic: Nobel Prize Winners

I thought maybe I would become a god, or a goddess, or a president or a Nobel Prize winner.

- Amelie Nothomb

topic: President, Winner, Goddess, Amelie, Nobel Prize Winners

My two Jamaican cousins ... were studying engineering. 'That's where the money is,' Mom advised. ... I was to be an engineering major, despite my allergy to science and math. ... Those who preceded me at CCNY include the polio vaccine discoverer, Dr. Jonas Salk ... and eight Nobel Prize winners. ... In class, I stumbled through math, fumbled through physics, and did reasonably well in, and even enjoyed, geology. All I ever looked forward to was ROTC. Autobiographical comments on his original reason for going to the City College of New York, where he shortly turned to his military career.

- Colin Powell

topic: Mom, Cousin, New York, Allergies, Polio

As a Nobel Prize winner I cannot but regret that the award was never given to Mark Twain, nor to Henry James, speaking only of my own countrymen. Greater writers than these also did not receive the prize. I would have been happy - happier - today if the prize had been given to that beautiful writer Isak Dinesen.

- Ernest Hemingway

source: Ernest Hemingway, Matthew Joseph Bruccoli (1986). “Conversations with Ernest Hemingway”, p.78, Univ. Press of Mississippi

topic: Beautiful, Regret, Awards, Countrymen, Nobel Prize Winners

And this indifference is still very much present in modern South Africa. Just listen to Nobel Prize winner Nadine Gordimer - a representative of the British elite in this country: Afrikaner women are lower than rats, closer related to plants, just fit enough to be raped in an act of genus preservation.

- Nadine Gordimer

topic: Country, Rats, Winner, Nobel Prize Winners