Famous Quotes & Sayings

Richard P. Feynman

I don't understand what it's all about or what's worth what, but if the people in the Swedish Academy decide that x, y or z wins the Nobel Prize, then so be it.

Robert Osborne

For a lot of filmmakers, their first goal is to be successful and make some money. But once people start doing that, the real goal is then to win an Academy Award. Because when they do, they know that their obit is going to start out, 'Academy Award winner so-and-so.'

Ronald Kessler

The FBI Academy teaches new agents that the best predictor of future behavior is past behavior.

Malcolm McDowell

It is true I'd rather get a hole in one than win an Academy Award.

Shawn Amos

Like any self-governing group of people, the Recording Academy has made missteps over the years. Still, it has corrected course and done more to open its arms to the future than nearly any other industry group around.

Jahangir Khan

Let's face it. There is no setup in Pakistan to train and groom young players at the grassroots level in different sports. Those of us who did make a name for ourselves and became champions did it with our own initiative - there was no academy to back us till we reached a certain level on our own.

Mark Ishikawa

Screeners have been distributed to Academy members and many of them are already appearing online.

Sean Conway

Senator Allard wants them to look at the Air Force Academy from leadership through process.

David DeMartini

Much like he had an opportunity to work with Puzo and kind of evolve the book into a screenplay - which obviously required some modification to what Puzo had done - I just hope that he respects that we were targeting a different customer and we're trying to keep this fiction alive. The book's a great book; the movie's Academy Award winning; and hopefully the game will get a tremendous amount of acclaim as well. Just respect each of those works for what they are, I think that's the best way for us all to look at it.

Brian Idalski

Obviously, I get to see the kids every day and see how hard they work, so I would like to see them get a little more recognition. If it came down to individual awards or a chance to keep playing, everyone would choose to keep playing.

Jane Elliot

Submitting myself for awards feels like a weird kind of horn-blowing that's not comfortable for me. I'm really happy when someone likes my work, but I don't like marketing myself, putting myself on display.

Inzamam-ul Inzamam-ul

Frankly speaking, I am hoping to win both the awards I have been nominated for. But any of the two would be more than welcomed because I think it would be a universal recognition of your achievements and performance,

Joe Thornton

From Day 1, I just played real well with Cheech. You don't plan for something like this. These two awards are definitely team-oriented, and we're just happy for each other.

Robert Cray

I gotta stay in the business! I gotta keep working! I mean, all of those awards and all that stuff is just something you put on your wall, man. The name of the game is to continue working. That's what it's all about. We're a working band. We can't just sit around and think, "Well, I don't have to work anymore".

Rudy Morrow

I loved it. I was very happy to be selected Freshman of the Year. Then you get hungry and you want to get all the awards like player of the week and all that. That got my mouth watering.

Steven Cojocaru

I have a big mouth and I'm very opinionated, like most of my friends are, especially my girlfriends the day after an awards show,

Nina Tassler

Shes an incredibly multi-talented performer whose comedic skills and energy promise to deliver an Emmy Awards broadcast to remember.

Jared Leto

She's so heartbreaking in this movie. I don't think they make enough awards to give her.

Barbara Boxer

Let's not rewrite history, it's too soon for that,

Nadia Boulanger

Liberty has never come from the government. Liberty has always come from the subjects of it. The history of liberty is a history of resistance. The history of liberty is a history of limitations of governmental power, not the increase of it.

Delphine Arnault

Louis Vuitton has a long history with collaborations.

Pankaj Mishra

Many writers from the suburbs of history, such as Ireland and Argentina, produced more original work than their counterparts in the United States; they still seem to.

Kim Anderson

Many thanks for your part in our history.

Frank Hadden

Scotland's history has been one or two occasions of tremendous over-achievement, and I am hoping this is the start of one for us.

Ronald Reagan

Mr. Gorbachev, open this gate! Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall!

Guenter Verheugen

May 1 will be a milestone in the history of Europe,

Grant Fairley

One of the weaknesses of our society is that history is still news to most people.