Consolation Prize Quotes

• Cuanto mayor es el artista, mayor es la duda; la confianza perfecta se concede a los menos talentosos como premio de consolación.

  Robert Hughes

  Inspiración, motivación, arte

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• Cuanto mayor es el artista, mayor es la duda.

  Robert Hughes

  Artista, Duda, Arte Inspirador

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• El mayor premio en un mundo de hombres es la mujer más bella disponible en su brazo y vivir allí en su corazón leal a usted.

  Norman Mailer

  Relación, Novio, Hermosa

  Norman Mailer (1973). "Marilyn: A Biography", New York : Grosset & Dunlap

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• No soy el premio de consolación, Dex. No soy algo a lo que recurres. Resulta que creo que valgo más que eso.

  David Nicholls

  Thinking, Resorts, Consolation

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• La habitabilidad siempre me ha parecido un premio de consolación.

  Jonathan Raymond

  Consolation, Prize

  "Q&A | El autor de Portland Jon Raymond". Entrevista con Michael Upchurch, www.seattletimes.com. 14 de enero de 2009.

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• Yet the women's misery is socually invisible. Despite our education and accomplishments, we are expected to keep our mouths shut and accept our infertility treatments as consolation prize. Our jobs are supposed to be our highest priority. We are expected to overlook the connection between our disappointment, the impossible ideology of equality, and the contraception that makes that ideology appear to be possible.

  Jennifer Morse

  Jobs, Disappointment, Accomplishment

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• Estos actos sencillos y constantes de bondad son la esencia del amor, la sustancia de la vida. Todos necesitamos amor, todos queremos amor. Todo lo demás es un premio de consolación. Lo que importa es el amor.

  Lloyd D. Newell

  Amabilidad, Simple, Lo Que Importa

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• It's always been a dream of mine, and a childhood fantasy, to play a great champion. I would much rather haven been an athlete than an actor. This is like some second place consolation prize.

  Mark Wahlberg

  Dream, Athlete, Play

  Fuente: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• Stories are consoling, fiction is one of the consolation prizes for having lived in the world.

  Don DeLillo

  Ficción, Historias, Mundo

  Don DeLillo, Thomas DePietro (2005). “Conversations with Don DeLillo”, p.31, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• You should get married. When I was younger, I was into the fame and fortune, and now I realize that a loving wife and happy children - that's life's greatest consolation prize.

  Emo Philips

  Children, Wife, Married

  Fuente: www.avclub.com

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• I mean to say, really, I am near to developing a neurosis - is there anyone around who doesn't want to study or kill me?" Floote raised a tentative hand. "Ah, yes, thank you, Floote." "There is also Mrs Tunstell, madam," he offered hopefully, is if Ivy were some kind of consolation prize. "I notice you don't mention my fair-weather husband." "I suspect, at this moment, madam, he probably wants to kill you." Alexia couldn't help smiling. "Good point.

  Gail Carriger

  Husband, Mean, Hands

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• Entiendo que es la música lo que me mantiene vivo... Esa es mi sangre vital. Y renunciar a eso por la televisión, los coches, las casas... eso no es el sueño americano. Ese es el premio teta, al final. Esos son los premios tontos. Y si caes en ellos -si, cuando los consigues, crees que eso es el fin en sí mismo-, entonces te han engañado. Porque esos son los premios de consolación, si no tienes cuidado, por venderte o dejar escapar lo mejor de ti mismo.

  Bruce Springsteen

  Soñar, Creer, Caer

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• Before an attack, the platoon pools all its available cash and the survivors divide it up afterwards. Those who are killed can't complain, the wounded would have given far more than that to escape as they have, and the unwounded regard the money as a consolation prize for still being here.

  Robert Graves

  War, Complaining, Survivor

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