Laureate Academy Quotes & Sayings

I am not interested in medals or titles. I don't need them. I need the love of the public and I fight for it. — Olga Korbut

Space is created by the interaction of individual quanta of gravity. — Carlo Rovelli

If one wants to know any man well, one must consider him gradually and carefully, so as not to fall into error and prejudice, which are very difficult to correct and smooth out later. — Fyodor Dostoyevsky

In America they have to know just what you are
novelist, poet, playwright ... Well, I've been all of them ... I think poems and novels and stories spring from the same seed. It's not like, say, playing polo and knitting. — Robert Penn Warren

In a lot of work places, you work at a lot of jobs and people work more with their colleagues than with their family. — Russell Hornsby

When God anoints a person, a pattern of testing appears to take place at specific times in the leader's life. God often takes each leader through four major tests to determine if that person will achieve God's ultimate call on his or her life. The person's response to these tests is the deciding factor in whether they can advance to the next level of responsibility in God's Kingdom. — Os Hillman

It was Hiss who won by stamping on another's foot, and he spent the meal staring at Poppy and missing his mouth with his spoon. — Laini Taylor

Death means that a form of life dissolves or that the imminent possibility of dissolution exists, whether through our own death or through illness or old age. — Eckhart Tolle

Slavery is an abomination and must be loudly proclaimed as such, but I own that I nor any other man has any
immediate solution to the problem. — Thomas Jefferson

Primroses and landscapes, he pointed out, have one grave defect: they are gratuitous. A love of nature keeps no factories busy. It was decided to abolish the love of nature, at any rate among the lower classes ... it was essential that they should keep on going to the country, even though they hated it. — Aldous Huxley