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


Naguib Mahfouz

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Home to me is the world because my books have been translated into more than 30 languages.
NAWAL EL SAADAWI There must have been something in the air of Gary that led one into economics: the first Nobel Prize...
JOSEPH STIGLITZ I had had intimations that (a nomination was) in the works for the Nobel Prize, ... I didn't put my ...
WILLIAM VICKREY Alas, you're right, I don't have control over how quickly the books get translated into other langua...
KATHERINE KURTZ If I had not been discriminated against or had not suffered persecution, I would never have received...
RITA LEVI-MONTALCINI There is no other prize in any country that carries the prestige that a Nobel bestows.
BARRY MARSHALL Madness is the acme of intelligence.
نجيب محفوظ April. Month of dust and lies.
NAGUIB MAHFOUZ If I could explain it to the average person, I wouldn't have been worth the Nobel Prize.
RICHARD FEYNMAN My first reaction on being awarded the Nobel Prize was, actually, I thought of Fischer Black, my col...
MYRON SCHOLES The prestige of the Nobel Prize is such that one is suddenly promoted to a new status.
LUIS FEDERICO LELOIR If I could explain it to the average person, I wouldn't have been worth the Nobel Prize.
RICHARD P. FEYNMAN I thought of my father and felt a deep sorrow that he should no longer be alive, and that I could no...
SELMA LAGERLOF It's a pity that nobody has found an exploding black hole. If they had, I would have won a Nobel...
STEPHEN HAWKING The Nobel Peace Prize has always been a joke - albeit a grim one. Alfred Bernhard Nobel famously inv...
P. J. O'ROURKE Let us see whether it is the New Order or me who will be the loser before Indonesian history. I have...
PRAMOEDYA ANANTA TOER I was absolutely convinced that I wouldn't win the Nobel Prize. My impression was that the Nobel...
MARIO VARGAS LLOSA For years I've thought more people should be studying languages like Arabic or Chinese. It seems eve...
GERALD LAMPE I thought you'd be interested in these things as a government man. Ain't you mixed up in the prices ...
ERNEST HEMINGWAY In fact, 37 percent of all United States Nobel Prize winners in the 20th century have been represent...
JON PORTER Our lives!!! We have just all of a sudden discovered that here we are with something called life see...
SUNDAY ADELAJA I can forgive Alfred Nobel for having invented dynamite, but only a fiend in human form could have i...
GEORGE BERNARD SHAW The journey that 'In Praise of Slowness' has made since publication shows how far this messa...
CARL HONORE That startup cost has been prohibitive for us getting it into other languages.
DEBBIE MORGAN We're obviously very pleased to have yet another Nobel Prize awarded to someone in our department.
RICHARD SHOEMAKER It seems to me that the Swedish Academy of Science may be qualifying for the Nobel Peace Prize. It r...
CHARLES GLOVER BARKLA Present-day Spain translates as many books into Spanish, annually, as the Arab world has translated ...
MARTIN AMIS The Nobel Peace Prize is not awarded for what one has done, but hopefully what one will do.
BETTY WILLIAMS I grew up hoping that my father might win a Nobel Prize.
BRUCE BEUTLER My books have sold largely in England, have been translated into many languages, and passed through ...
CHARLES DARWIN Never have a picture of a well-adjusted African on the cover of your book, or in it, unless that Afr...
BINYAVANGA WAINAINA A lot of kids don't realize he was a minister, that he had a number of college degrees, that he won ...
ZOE SEYMOUR I did not win the Nobel Fart Prize
BART SIMPSON There is no magical formula for winning a Nobel Prize.
VENKATRAMAN RAMAKRISHNAN Interpreter: One who enables two persons of different languages to understand each other by repeatin...
AMBROSE BIERCE I'd kill for a Nobel Peace Prize
STEVEN WRIGHT I'd kill for a Nobel Peace Prize.
STEVEN WRIGHT I have received the greatest honor in my life - and the greatest surprise. Never did I dream that th...
LARS ONSAGER I have never cared very much for personal prizes. A man does not become a freedom fighter in the hop...
NELSON MANDELA He spent his most productive years in Cuba. It was here that he won the Pulitzer Prize in 1953 and t...
GLADYS RODRIGUEZ All I ever did to that apartment was hang fifty yards of yellow theatrical silk across the bedroom w...
JOAN DIDION We can never make proper goodbyes. It was your last ride in a Checker cab and you had no warning. It...
COLSON WHITEHEAD I have never made more than one three pointer in a game. I have been working hard in practice and th...
MICHAEL WONG I am really honoured, but if the prize had gone to Mahatma Gandhi before me, I would have been more ...
KAILASH SATYARTHI Interpreter, n.: One who enables two persons of different languages to understand each other by repe...
AMBROSE BIERCE One indicator of Ernest Lawrence's influence is the fact that I am the eighth member of his labo...
LUIS WALTER ALVAREZ Concepts are vindicated by the constant accrual of data and independent verification of data. No pri...
STANLEY B. PRUSINER With a total endowment of $400 million, [the Institute] has worked with 21 Nobel Prize winners and p...
CHARLES SIMONYI Novelists and the literary world play an important part in shaping languages. The Swahili they write...
ENOCK MAREGESI Between the ages of 24 and 27, I read Freud's complete works, everything that had been translate...
NATHANIEL BRANDEN I feel a deep emotion and pride for the honor of having been awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for 1992.
RIGOBERTA MENCHU He had a real social conscience that he translated into action.
HERBERT STEINER A vaccine that prevented tuberculosis would merit a Nobel Prize, but it's just very difficult to...
TOM FRIEDEN Thanks to the high standing which science has for so long attain and to the impartiality of the Nobe...
GUGLIELMO MARCONI I wish I had my beta-blockers handy.

[Comment when told that he had won a Nobel prize,...
JAMES WHYTE BLACK If you pour everything you have into this life, this world, which is temporary and fading, you're je...
CRAIG GROESCHEL If there were a Nobel Prize in psychology, he would have won it. Every student of social psychology ...
FRANK BARRETT By working with GIATA, we can offer our hotel customers the opportunity to have their detailed prope...
DENNIS LAW This is going to take a lot of teacher training. We don't have a lot of high school teachers that te...
DANIEL COLLINS Next generations will not know what is to have childhood.
DANIEL MELGAçO Compassion is an unstable emotion. It needs to be translated into action, or it withers. The questio...
SUSAN SONTAG He's a colleague and a friend, and it's also a wonderful thing that the Nobel Prize has come to Sout...
NADINE GORDIMER On the other hand, Greenspan seems satisfied that his tightening has had a lasting effect. He's like...
BERNARD BAUMOHL This is one more surprise for people in this area; we not only had a Nobel Prize winner, but a Pulit...
KATHIE PONTUS We have to think carefully about which languages those are. French, for example, is declining as an ...
DAVID GRADDOL As a theoretical physicist, I feel at once proud and humble at the thought of the illustrious figure...
MURRAY GELL-MANN I am the same person I was before receiving the Nobel Prize. I work with the same regularity, I have...
JOSE SARAMAGO Nobel prize money is a lifebelt thrown to a swimmer who has already reached the shore in safety.
GEORGE BERNARD SHAW Not everyone has the time to be normal.
LJUPKA CVETANOVA Because many squid have brain nerve fibres that are hundreds of times thicker than those of humans, ...
DAVID GRANN Not all my work features black actors. I mean, it's funny: someone was reading back to me all th...
BARRY JENKINS For some decades now, it seems, there has been a ukase in place in American journalism to the effect...
STOCKWELL DAY Is there no context for our lives? No song, no literature, no poem full of vitamins, no history conn...
TONI MORRISON There are two things in life you cannot choose. The first is your enemies; the second your family. S...
CARLOS RUIZ ZAFóN I have been told by hospital authorities that more copies of my works are left behind by departing p...
ROBERT BENCHLEY Political satire became obsolete when Henry Kissinger was awarded the Nobel peace prize.
TOM LEHRER Political satire became obsolete when they awarded Henry Kissinger the Nobel Peace Prize.
TOM LEHRER Nobel prize money is a life-belt thrown to a swimmer who has already reached the shore in safety
GEORGE BERNARD SHAW Personally, ... I would give a Nobel prize to the doctor who could eliminate hot flushes. It really ...
LESLEY FALLOWFIELD My claim is simply that the literary approach is one necessary way to read and interpret the Bible, ...
LELAND RYKEN -----LOVE-----
-----HOVE-----
-----HAVE-----
-----HATE-----
Love can turn into h...
ANTHONY T.HINCKS We wanted to hopefully get more volume, but if it had a negative effect on MasterCard or Visa, I cer...
HARVEY GOLUB It seems to have had a good effect. Over the weekend we had just a couple of property crimes where n...
LT. DAVID PIERSON I believe that there is a Matrix and... to be more accurate I am in the Pornography Matrix.
DEYTH BANGER The effect of having other interests beyond those domestic works well. The more one does and sees an...
AMELIA EARHART The effect of having other interests beyond those domestic works well. The more one does and sees ...
AMELIA EARHART Over the past 30 years, our studies have demonstrated a strong relationship between journal article ...
HENRY SMALL The best effect I have on the other competitors, is the fact that I have a good time.
LOU FERRIGNO The essence of science is independent thinking, hard work, and not equipment. When I got my Nobel Pr...
C. V. RAMAN It was amazing. Therapy for six and one-half years seems to have driven a dramatic effect.
DAVID NATHAN Don't do it, because you have to do it. Do it, because you love to do it.
PRITISH PATTANAIK To learn, sometimes you have to feel the fool.
JEFFREY FRY I'm never going to be in danger of getting the Nobel Prize for literature.
DAVID EDDINGS If there is a Nobel prize for dirt and filth, India will win it, no doubt.
JAIRAM RAMESH I have been over into the future, and it works.
LINCOLN STEFFENS The citation for the 1971 Nobel Prize in Chemistry reads, 'for contribution to the knowledge of ...
GERHARD HERZBERG A big sacrifice is coming, and you won't have the courage to make it. That will cost you dearly. It ...
RICK RIORDAN The biggest downside of my current job is that I have to wear a suit to work. Wearing uncomfortable ...
BEN BERNANKE To have more... Be more. Do more. Give more.
LORRIN L. LEE I’ve read countless literary works that detail the longing and ache that characters have for someo...
JESSICA PARK

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NAGUIB MAHFOUZ I was a government employee in the morning and a writer in the evening.
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NAGUIB MAHFOUZ The writer interweaves a story with his own doubts, questions, and values. That is art.
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NAGUIB MAHFOUZ God did not intend religion to be an exercise club.
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NAGUIB MAHFOUZ Without literature my life would be miserable.
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NAGUIB MAHFOUZ If we reject science, we reject the common man.
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NAGUIB MAHFOUZ I have condemned Khomeini's fatwa to kill Salman Rushdie as a breach of international relations and ...
NAGUIB MAHFOUZ When will the state of the country be sound?... When its people believe that the end result of cowar...
NAGUIB MAHFOUZ I am the son of two civilizations that at a certain age in history have formed a happy marriage. The...
NAGUIB MAHFOUZ The real malady is fear of life, not of death.
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NAGUIB MAHFOUZ You can tell whether a man is clever by his answers. You can tell whether a man is wise by his quest...
NAGUIB MAHFOUZ An allegory is not meant to be taken literally. There is a great lack of comprehension on the part o...
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NAGUIB MAHFOUZ Events at home, at work, in the street - these are the bases for a story.
NAGUIB MAHFOUZ We are passing through a very sensitive time, and on the whole, this country is facing very big prob...
NAGUIB MAHFOUZ It is simply not part of my culture to preserve notes. I have never heard of a writer preserving his...
NAGUIB MAHFOUZ الدنيا من غير طلعة محياها لا تساوي ذره من رماد
NAGUIB MAHFOUZ I consider Khomeini's position dangerous. He does not have the right to pass judgment-that is no...
NAGUIB MAHFOUZ The Nobel Prize has given me, for the first time in my life, the feeling that my literature could be...
NAGUIB MAHFOUZ Happy is he who can give himself up.
NAGUIB MAHFOUZ No blasphemy harms Islam and Muslims so much as the call for murdering a writer
NAGUIB MAHFOUZ Hosni Mubarak... his constitution is not democratic, but he is democratic. We can voice our opinions...
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NAGUIB MAHFOUZ I found myself in a sea in which the waves of joy and sorrow were clashing against each other.
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home is where all your attempts
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NAGUIB MAHFOUZ ...love is like health. It is taken lightly when present and cherished when it departs.
NAGUIB MAHFOUZ An anxious heart is like a string that's out of tune.
NAGUIB MAHFOUZ April. Month of dust and lies.
NAGUIB MAHFOUZ الحــب : لعله جنون أو مرض، ولكنه على أي حال يمثل السعادة...
NAGUIB MAHFOUZ Laugh till you're exhausted.
NAGUIB MAHFOUZ -إنها قسمة عادلة ، فالثراء للأقوياء و الأخلاق للضعفاء
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- متى يصلح حال البلد؟
ف...
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NAGUIB SAWIRIS I was never someone that was attached to any party. You know, I've always been an independent pe...
NAGUIB SAWIRIS Letters have been found with my name on assassination lists.
NAGUIB SAWIRIS Mubarak's regime is dead and finished. People will not go back to this. This is a farce being pr...
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