I had a place at university to study theology and philosophy. I got the divinity prize at my school two years in a row. Probably because there were only 10 of us, but still.

- Ben Lloyd-Hughes

You would be amazed at the number of doors a Nobel Prize opens.

- Elie Wiesel

Is the prestige conferred by the Man Booker prize for the book or me? I would prefer it on the book and for me to be treated ordinarily.

- Eleanor Catton

I'm never going to be in danger of getting the Nobel Prize for literature.

- David Eddings

I was in 27 Broadway plays, and three of them got the Pulitzer Prize.

- Dick Van Patten

As soon as I got the Nobel Prize my back collapsed and I was in hospital.

- Doris Lessing

I think anyone who gets the Nobel Prize has to be a little bit embarrassed to be picked out when there have been so many people who have contributed.

- Christopher A. Sims

The Nobel Prize is without doubt the highest honour, the most coveted honour, which can be bestowed on a scientist.

- Charles Glover Barkla

I grew up hoping that my father might win a Nobel Prize.

- Bruce Beutler

I've never wanted just part of the package, part of the prize. I want it all!

- Bill McCartney

It is my express wish that in awarding the prizes no consideration be given to the nationality of the candidates, but that the most worthy shall receive the prize, whether he be Scandinavian or not.

- Alfred Nobel

Never have a picture of a well-adjusted African on the cover of your book, or in it, unless that African has won the Nobel prize.

- Binyavanga Wainaina

People could live very happily without the Turner Prize, but they could not live without real communication and emotion.

- Billy Childish

There is no other prize in any country that carries the prestige that a Nobel bestows.

- Barry Marshall

Everything that's supposedly caused by stress, I tell people there's a Nobel Prize there if you find out the real cause.

- Barry Marshall

I was the fattest baby in Clark County, Arkansas. They put me in the newspaper. It was like a prize turnip.

- Billy Bob Thornton

The Nobel Peace Prize is not awarded for what one has done, but hopefully what one will do.

- Betty Williams

I have never received a Farthing of Prize Money either for Artillery Ammunition or Vessels.

- Abraham Whipple

There can be no better prize for a writer than one awarded by an international book fair.

- Antonio Munoz Molina

The worth of a prize depends on the people who have received it before you.

- Antonio Munoz Molina