Sheldon Lee Glashow Quotes

Believe it or not, I was just given an honorary doctorate degree from the University of Tennessee.

The tremendous honour of the Nobel Prize is of the strongest incentive to me in my work, while the amount of the Prize will greatly simplify my task and provide me with much valuable help in my work.

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

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

I've been voted one of Australia's 50 national treasures. I've even had my face on an Australian stamp - the only non-Australian to do so, apart from the Queen, of course.

The dream of any scholar has, for me, come true by virtue of this award. The Nobel Prizes are justly famous in the hard sciences, in literature, and for peace.

It's pretty exciting. An honorary doctorate of the arts. It doesn't get any better.

A lot of people have been telling me that I was going to be in the Hall of Fame and those are nice words and I try not to think about it, but when the call came, it made it real. It was a pretty darned good feeling.

I have an Oscar on my mantel.

Winning the Oscar was like winning all the prizes in one single night that I never won as a kid.

Boy, oh, boy, people get jaded fast. I got nominated for an Emmy.

I won the Nobel prize for literature. What was your crime?

If one wants to measure oneself by the facile accruement of awards, then I've done very well.

I want to get me one of those titles.

I don't think about awards when I set out to do something. If that happens, it's great.

Blacks gave me a standing ovation when they put the cap and gown on me, and that was the proudest I've ever been.

Winning the Ballon d'Or is the consequence of your work.

It's not bad at all, getting a Nobel and making so many old fossils explode with rage.

Now, I'm ahead of my father. He got other prizes... But he did not get a Nobel Prize.

When I was 24, I won a Rhodes Scholarship.

I am really happy that my daughter Janhvi has been honoured with the 'Arets Stjerneskudd' award as the rising talent of the year by Royal Norwegian Consulate General.

I was 18 when I was presented with the Arjuna Award. To say it feels really good would be an understatement. But I don't know how else to convey the feeling. I am grateful for having received this prestigious award at such a young age.

I could never have dreamed of picking up an Ivor Novello for anything... but for Songwriter Of The Year, it's just amazing.

It's an honor to be named Rookie of the Year by the media.

It's an honour to be a world champion, and it can never be taken away from you.