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

- Naguib Mahfouz

If I had not been discriminated against or had not suffered persecution, I would never have received the Nobel Prize.

- Rita Levi-Montalcini

I don't understand what it's all about or what's worth what, but if the people in the Swedish Academy decide that x, y or z wins the Nobel Prize, then so be it.

- Richard P. Feynman

The years since the Nobel Prize have been productive ones for me.

- Philip Warren Anderson

The Nobel Prize gives one the opportunity to take public stands.

- Philip Warren Anderson

It is a remarkable honor to receive a Nobel Prize, because it not only recognizes discoveries, but also their usefulness to the advancement of fundamental science.

- Peter Agre

As murderous industrial magnates go, Alfred Nobel is right up there with Ray Kroc, franchiser of McDonald's.

- P. J. O'Rourke

I'm not aiming for the Nobel Peace Prize!

- Omar Bongo

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

- Naguib Mahfouz

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

- Naguib Mahfouz

They can't give a Nobel to someone who's dead so I think they were probably thinking they had better give it to me now before I popped off.

- Doris Lessing

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

- Naguib Mahfouz

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

- Naguib Mahfouz

Once in a while, I have to pinch myself to remind myself I am Nobel laureate, but that is not part of my work plan every day.

- Mohamed ElBaradei

Now, I'm ahead of my father. He got other prizes... But he did not get a Nobel Prize.

- Lloyd Shapley

The prestige of the Nobel Prize is such that one is suddenly promoted to a new status.

- Luis Federico Leloir

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

- Klaus Kinski

I got my Nobel Prize for my lab work.

- Joshua Lederberg

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

- John Bolton

Forget about Nobel prizes; they aren't really very important.

- Herbert Simon