Nobel Enthusiasts Mugs

'Yeah, but would you want to have a beer with him.'

'Stuck on a desert island, in the middle of the ocean, with only a palm tree for company, it's a bloody joke.'

"...We've traced your lineage all the way back to a 15th-century East European Count."

"His Excellency the Lord Premier Gooboy."

Seamus Heaney

"It's badly sprained, McElroy, and you know as well as I do that I'd only slow you down. Go on without me—and that's a direct order!"

Museum of Art and Science. Monet. "Claude Monet, the father of impressionism, was a master of light. He sometimes painted in series, showing the passage of time with evolving sunlight and shadows." Einstein. "Albert Einstein won a Nobel Prize in Physics for his work in the dual nature of light, behaving like both a wave and a particle, and how this duality explains the photoelectric effect." I love that! Even though Einstein and Monet both worked with light, the only thing their work has

"And, finally, to my wife, my love and appreciation for her understanding and critical insights, without whom this project would never have been accomplished."

Ivan Bunin

Will Smith's Oscar

Saul Bellow

"Has anybody seen my old friend Nelson?"

"With all due respect, instead of the phrase 'bank robbery,' we request the alleged incident be referred to as an 'Elmore Leonard moment!'"

"This won best award show last year."

'Denson, I want this view moving so that we can see it from the West wing.'

J. M. Coetzee

'Camilo José Cela'

'Mario Vargas Llosa'

Toilet Paper

'This is a great book. Have you read it?'

"It's the price we pay for living an alternative lifestyle."

Baron de Munchausen

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

"I'm proud to accept this award on behalf of our dedicated employees. Ahh! I think that stupid thing broke my foot!"

Songs of the humpbacked whale

"Mmm, smell this one."

James Chadwick

William Golding

Aung San Suu Kyi

Stores of Mystery

'I'd love to be in Who's Who.'

'They're not just going to GIVE you a Nobel Peace Prize -- you have to FIGHT for it!'

'I deserve a medal for compiling this lot!'

Woodrow Wilson

John Strutt