The Nobel is a ticket to one's own funeral. No one has ever done anything after he got it.

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

Winning a Nobel Prize is no big deal, but winning it with an IQ of 124 is really something.

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

America can no longer afford to get the Nobel Prizes while our competitors get the profits.

If the Nobel Prize was awarded by a woman, it would go to the inventor of the dimmer switch.

It is a great honor for me to be able to express my sincere gratitude to the Nobel Foundation.

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

In many ways, when you're a Nobel peace laureate, you have an obligation to humankind, to society.

I want to win Nobel Peace Prizes, as many Grammys as I can, Emmys, Golden Globes, VMAs, everything.

I feel a deep emotion and pride for the honor of having been awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for 1992.

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

Alfred Nobel believed that social changes are brought about slowly, and sometimes by indirect means.

I do not think the Nobel institution gives you a certificate that everything you say is always right.

Alfred Nobel really understood very well the necessary supra-natural character of the human enterprise.

It's a pity that nobody has found an exploding black hole. If they had, I would have won a Nobel prize.

I think it's fair to say that the Nobel Prize is the highest honor any scientist or artist can achieve.

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

There are just two things you can do to win a Nobel prize - have a good idea and pursue it effectively.

It's a great relief for me that no one will ask me anymore: "Orhan, when will you get the Nobel Prize?"

To say I was near our president, performing at the Nobel Peace Prize... I think that's an amazing thing.

I wish to thank the Nobel Foundation for granting me the greatest honor to which a scientist may aspire.

A vaccine that prevented tuberculosis would merit a Nobel Prize, but it's just very difficult to develop.

I am one of those who think like Nobel, that humanity will draw more good than evil from new discoveries.

The Nobel thing is like dying and going to heaven for a while. It's like being transported to a fairyland.

The stabilising power of economic union was one of the reasons the E.U. was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.

Oscars just ain't gonna do it for me anymore. I need the Nobel Peace Prize. The Oscars have worn off, man.

Maybe if you win a Nobel Prize in economics, you make a lot of money by giving talks... but not in my area.

Dr. King's Nobel Prize had a more powerful transforming effect on him than I think he realized at the time.

The Nobel Prize is going to be 'fun money' - for an occasion, when my wife and I want a $50 bottle of wine.

We are going to see a steady stream, I predict, of Nobel prizes coming out of chemistry and given to women.

Alfred Nobel stipulated that no distinction of race or colour will determine who received of his generosity.

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

The American president just won the nobel peace prize, by any reasonable measure, all Americans should be proud.

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

I believe it would demean Nobel Prizes if they were awarded to research students, except in very exceptional cases.

I cannot think of a greater symbol of human resistance and courage than our Nobel laureate colleague Andrei Sakharov.

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

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.

I have a film out called 'Nobel.' Film is something I would love to explore more, even though I love being on the stage.

You need to be curious, competitive, creative, stubborn, self-confident, skeptical, patient and be lucky to win a Nobel.

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

I'm honored and humbled to win the Nobel Prize. I thank all my friends for the support and assistance throughout my life.

I share Alfred Nobel's conviction that war is the greatest of all human disasters. Infectious disease runs a good second.

When the Nobel Committee chose to honor me, the road I had chosen of my own free will became a less lonely path to follow.

I lived my childhood as a village girl in Kojo, south of Sinjar region. I did not know anything about the Nobel Peace Prize.

I hadn't looked at all the Nobel Prizes and thought, my goodness, there's no women. So it was a little bit surprising to me.

I am thankful to the Nobel committee for recognising the plight of millions of children who are suffering in this modern age.

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.

I think it is true to say that I am not the first Nobel Prize winner in economics to have little formal training in economics.

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