Nobel Quotes

You have no idea how happy I am that you have won the Nobel Prize in literature. I think you absolutely deserve it. - Vaclav Havel

You can be famous for a lot of things. You can be a Nobel-prize winner. You can be the fattest guy in the world. - Evel Knievel

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

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. - Aung San Suu Kyi

When the Nobel award came my way, it also gave me an opportunity to do something immediate and practical about my old obsessions, including literacy, basic health care and gender equity, aimed specifically at India and Bangladesh. - Amartya Sen

When I was young my Father used to tell me that the two most worthwhile pursuits in life were the pursuit of truth and of beauty and I believe that Alfred Nobel must have felt much the same when he gave these prizes for literature and the sciences. - Frederick Sanger

When I first encountered the name of the city of Stockholm, I little thought that I would ever visit it, never mind end up being welcomed to it as a guest of the Swedish Academy and the Nobel Foundation. - Seamus Heaney

When His Holiness won the Nobel Peace Prize, there was a quantum leap. He is not seen as solely a Tibetan anymore; he belongs to the world. - Richard Gere

What a great story to inspire our children of today. Not only can you be a resident of Union City and go on to win a Nobel Prize, but you shouldn't be defeated by the failing of a subject. - Kathie Pontus