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awards style trying
For a sampler, you could try my short story collection "Wireless". Which contains one novella that scooped a Locus award, and one that won a Hugo, and covers a range of different styles. Charles Stross
awards would-be knighthood
I turned down a knighthood. It would be like having to wear a suit every day of your life. Alan Bennett
award build drafted inferior left locker opportunity step stick time win won
By the time I left college, I had won every award you could win - I was Mr. Man! Then I got drafted by the Giants, and you step in that locker room, and you feel inferior in every way. You just have to stick around long enough to give yourself the opportunity to build your confidence. Michael Strahan
award billion commitment efforts energy helping households last partners products promote proud putting qualified recognizes save sound star whose year
We are proud of the commitment partners like Puget Sound Energy have made to helping Americans save energy. The Partner of the Year award recognizes partners whose efforts to promote energy-efficient products are exceptional. They have been instrumental in putting more than 2 billion ENERGY STAR qualified products into American households over the last decade. Kathleen Hogan
award board certain criteria golf official points rankings
There are certain criteria set by the Official World Golf Rankings Board to award world ranking points in a tournament,
awards upset female
All you do as a performer is keep doing it. If you keep doing it, then it depends on why you're doing it. If you're doing something for superficial, monumental reasons and if you're doing it for female attention, or if you're doing it for money, it's like being upset. Only way you can get upset is when you expecting something. If you don't get this award or don't get that award, that because you expect something. Bernie Mac
awards acting campaigns
Awards are meaningless to me, and I have nothing but disdain for anyone who actively campaigns to get one. Bill Murray
award people
We want our people to improve. We want them to get better. This is the most important award for us. Jamie Dixon
awards serious winner
I'm an Academy Award winner. I'm serious. Charlize Theron
basically serve state
We want to serve our state and our country, that's basically it.
basically felt kansas production time took town worked
I was in Kansas for about a month, and we worked most of the time in a very small town, so it felt like the production basically took the whole town over. In a way, we were the Martians in Kansas. Lukas Haas
basically beat efficient fully markets might trained
I'm from Berkeley, California, so I'm fully trained in socialism and all, but basically what they teach you there is markets are efficient and we can't beat them, so we might as well index.
basically certainly changes life relationships
'The Cardturner,' while it has bridge in it, you certainly don't need to know how to play bridge to read it. It's basically a book about relationships - between Alton and his great-uncle, and Alton and his friends, and how it changes his life. Louis Sachar
basically came played team
The other team played better than us today. That's basically what it came down to.
basically crowd energy felt half knew people positive received
The positive energy I received from the crowd was awesome. I felt like I basically knew half of the people in the gallery. Michelle Wie
basically example football large lead plate players position rally taken team
The personality of the quarterback, he has a large plate and he is going to lead by example and by his play. That's basically where our football team is. Our players do rally around Eli and his play and that's the position he has taken and that's the way it should be. Tom Coughlin
basically looking stay
We've actually got a mail-order pharmacy looking at us. They've basically told us, if we stay at 2 -to-1, they're not coming.
basically days steel work
There are some days we play excellent, basically like a steel curtain. But we still have a lot of work to do.
choices fruit good-intentions
Good intentions are very mortal and perishable things. Like very mellow and choice fruit, they are difficult to keep. Charles Simmons
choices tests faces
The difficulties we face originate from one of three sources. Some are sent to us by the Lord to test our faith, others are the result of Satan's attacks, and still others are due to our own sinful choices. Charles Stanley
choices demand tough
Leadership demands that we make tough choices. Alan Autry
choices today tomorrow
When we make a choice today, we are deciding who we will be tomorrow. Aiden Wilson Tozer
choices remember clinton
Remember, this is a binary choice. It's going to be the approach that Donald Trump takes or the approach that Hillary Clinton takes, not some other approach. And the Clinton approach is just a completely unacceptable one, it's an unlawful one. Chris Christie
choices assistants sides
When he faced me again, he looked ashamed of himself. "I have gravely underestimated you, Darren," he said. "I will not do so again. I made a wiser choice than I realized when I chose you to serve as my assistant. I feel honoured to have you by my side. Darren Shan
choices doe ends
Everybody's got something. In the end, what choice does one really have but to understand that truth, to really take it in, and then shop for groceries, get a haircut, do one's work; get on with the business of one's life. That's the hope, anyway. David Rakoff
choices style singing
I enjoy all aspects of singing and I'm luckily given the choice to be part of different styles of music. Bryn Terfel
choices holiness mature
We don't accidentally drift into holiness; rather we mature gradually and purposefully, one choice at a time. C. J. Mahaney
competition way said
Intelligence is not a competition," she said. "There is plenty to go around, and there are many ways it can be demonstrated. Chris Colfer
competition loser winner
Global competition is about winners and losers. David Korten
competition experience ought particular people players time
During such a competition players are there for a long time as well as all the people around them. They need to train, to eat, to go out. There ought to be something in it for everyone. On that particular point, my experience has been a bonus. Michel Patini
competition concerns rising
There are concerns about rising competition and there is still more to come.
competition fighting fights-and-fighting win won
We?re in it to win it, but we?d be out there fighting the same way if we had never won anything. We don?t see it as pressure. We see it as competition, and competition is fun.
competition due greatest slow
We started off slow also due to us not having the greatest competition come at us.
competition olympics
I don't rank competitions - every single one is the Olympics to me. Blanka Vlasic
competition age competence
I've reached the age where competence is a turn-on. Billy Joel
competition tradition
The competitions are as much a part of the tradition as the actual dances. Eddie Murphy
created creates federal government job people project work
The federal government has never created one job that is sustainable long term. It creates government project work but not creating real work where people are. Michael Steele
created general government inspector position
The position of the (Interior Ministry) general inspector was not created by the government, it had been there before the new government was formed.
created defense floor greatest man played press switch
We started out on a full-court press, but we had to switch to a man all over the floor when the press was not working. We created a lot of turnovers and our defense made opportunities for our offense. That is the greatest defense we have played all year.
created genre gretzky mario wayne
Wayne Gretzky and Mario Lemieux created a whole new genre of players.
created dominated open today view wealth
Wealth today has been created by a world view dominated by fast-moving networks, open information, bottom-up entrepreneurialism. Jacqueline Novogratz
created hurt player playing style totally touch wake
We were totally playing their style most of the game. Then their player got hurt and we started playing our style which is 1-2 touch pass. We didn't wake up but once we did, we created chances.
created saying
What we're saying is that the documentation has been created to the same standard.
created creating easily few finish game handle last minutes played
What a disappointing way to finish the match, especially after creating so many opportunities that we should have put away. It should have easily been 2-1 at halftime. We played to win, we created enough opportunities to win, and we didn't handle the last few minutes of the game very well at all. Steve Sampson
created invested worked
I have invested in companies. I have worked in companies. We have built companies; we have created jobs. Kenneth Langone
fighting words-of-wisdom shadow
But injustice breeds injustice; the fighting with shadows and being defeated by them necessitates the setting up of substances to combat. Charles Dickens
fighting pay had-enough
Had enough of my poetry yet? That's why they pay me to fight demons instead.
fighting winning battle
Fight all your battles on your knees and you win every time.
fighting errors evil
A church that does not exist to reclaim heathenism, to fight evil, to destroy error, to put down falsehood, a church that does not exist to take the side of the poor, to denounce injustice and to hold up righteousness, is a church that has no right to be. Not for yourself, O church, do you exist, any more than Christ existed for Himself. Charles Spurgeon
fighting decision soul
The petitions of Moses discomfited the enemy more than the fighting of Joshua. Yet both were needed. No, in the soul's conflict, force and fervor, decision and devotion, valour and vehemence, must join their forces, and all will be well.
fighting iraq america
The promise of America is one immigration policy for all who seek to enter our shores, whether they come from Mexico, Haiti or Canada, there must be one set of rules for everybody. We cannot welcome those to come and then try and act as though any culture will not be respected or treated inferior. We cannot look at the Latino community and preach 'one language.' No one gave them an English test before they sent them to Iraq to fight for America. Al Sharpton
fighting people corporations
Sometimes you're fighting corporations and forget that people can talk to each other. Al Pacino
fighting night missing
I went into a restaurant one night and ordered lobster, and the waiter brought me one with a claw missing. I called him over and told him about it. He told me that in the back there's a tank they keep the lobsters in and while they're in there, they fight and sometimes one loses a claw. I told him 'then bring me a winner.' Al McGuire
fight
We want to take the fight to the enemy. George Galloway
fully privilege situation sure
What he's doing is violating attorney-client privilege in this whole situation and I'm not sure he fully understands or comprehends the import of what he's doing, Johnnie Cochran
fully unfold watching
We're just watching the other things unfold in the east. We're fully operational. James Anderson
fully integrated operations people special
We're fully integrated with the Special Operations Command. We have people who've done operations from a Special Ops perspective.
fully life realized talents truly worn
Life has worn me down to a very real shape. I'm a fully realized person, one that is truly in the world with talents and flaws. Linda Hamilton
fully great knowing powerful shoot
Going into a shoot not fully knowing what I want to do - that excitement, that thing that happens, is just so powerful and makes such great pictures. Terry Richardson
fully importance instant moment recognize single true
should recognize the true importance of a single moment in time, the instant when you are fully and completely alive. John Mortimer
fully whether
Milosevic is now fully discredited or will be shortly whether he is in the Hague or in a Belgrade cell. Politically he is over. Richard Holbrooke
fully murphy pleased review
Mr. Murphy co-operated fully with the RCMP review and is pleased with the outcome.
fully life prepared twins
There are two things in this life for which we are never fully prepared and that is twins Josh Billings
means
The perception of what a thing is and the perception of what it means are not separate, either. James J. Gibson
means police sit
We are police officers. We don't sit back and watch. We have to get out and do something. Being able to do something means a lot.
means next propose range rifle trail year
We're not going to propose a trail ... through the rifle range next year as a means to the end. Tom Reilly
means names people science whenever
Whenever you do science it's important to know individuals. And that means you have to distinguish one from another, just like we give names to people we have to be able to give names to penguins. And we often do that with bands.
means share slowing
When everyone else is slowing and you're not, it means share gains.
means time whenever wherever
For Net-A-Porter and its customers, luxury means exceptional service, 24-7 - wherever they are, whenever they have time. Natalie Massenet
means speed start
We're so young that when they start to press, we think that means we need to speed up.
means progress promote secret service social society unity
Unity is the secret of social progress, and service to society is the means to promote it. Sathya Baba
means regime settled
We're more settled. A new regime means changes, and things have settled down. Jimmy Smith
mechanical plane sat seattle sent waited
The plane to Boise had some kind of mechanical problem; we were actually on the plane before they sent us back. And then we just sat and waited and there was no other way to get us to Boise, so they sent us to Seattle and put us up for the night.
mechanical pencils tips
My problem with mechanical pencils is that I break the lead tips constantly. Mark Frauenfelder
mechanical mechanics
I like mechanical things; my first book was a mechanics guide - that was what my parents couldn't pry away from me; that was the blanket. Philipp Meyer
mechanical tough
It was a tough day for us because of mechanical problems.
player games profound
As in the game of billiards, the balls are constantly producing effects from mere chance, which the most skillful player could neither execute nor foresee, but which, when they do happen, serve mainly to teach him how much he has still to learn; so it is in the most profound and complicated game of politics and diplomacy. In both cases, we can only regulate our play by what we have seen, rather than by what we have hoped; and by what we have experienced, rather than by what we have expected. Charles Caleb Colton
player sight league
It's important that top clubs don't lose sight of the fact that it's the English Premier League and English players should be involved. Alan Pardew
player nhl cities
I played with Joey Mullen back in Salt Lake City before he got called up to St. Louis. He was the first player ever to score 20 goals in the American League and 20 in the NHL. I've kept in contact with him and he's a great guy. Alain Vigneault
player league different
All of a sudden I'm in the major leagues and we're traveling from town to town. I see the other players dressing different every day. I've got only one suit and I keep wearing it over and over. I'm really embarrassed. Al Kaline
player long stylist
In my opinion, Louis Armstrong is the greatest trumpet stylist of all time and has influenced every trumpet player of his time and long after Al Hirt
player thinking long
I think I earned the players' respect, and that's the ultimate in life, isn't it? I didn't care if they liked me or disliked me, as long as I had their respect. Al Barlick
player dictator guilty
Once again, as a flawed evaluator of dictators and failed strategist who has permitted Russia back in as a major player in the Middle East, is Hillary Clinton guilty or not guilty?
player trying being-the-best
I'm just trying to be the best player that I can be. Chris Bosh
player games watches
When you're not in the game, you can watch. Certain players have mannerisms, and they do the same things repetitiously.
song writing pay
All poets pretend to write for immortality, but the whole tribe have no objection to present pay, and present praise. Lord Burleigh is not the only statesman who has thought one hundred pounds too much for a song, though sung by Spenser; although Oliver Goldsmith is the only poet who ever considered himself to have been overpaid.
song world this-life
And O there are days in this life, worth life and worth death. And O what a bright old song it is, that O 'tis love, 'tis love, 'tis love that makes the world go round!
song blue rivers
Heaven above was blue, and earth beneath was green; the river glistened like a path of diamonds in the sun; the birds poured forth their songs from the shady trees; the lark soared high above the waving corn; and the deep buzz of insects filled the air.
song remember lows
I can not sing the old songs now! It is not that I deem them low, 'Tis that I can't remember how They go. Charles Stuart Calverley
song pain men
Song of God and Son of Man, there He hangs, bearing pains unutterable, the just for the unjust, to bring us to God.
song names heaven
Praise is the rehearsal of our eternal song. By grace we learn to sing, and in glory we continue to sing. What will some of you do when you get to heaven, if you go on grumbling all the way? Do not hope to get to heaven in that style. But now begin to bless the name of the Lord.
song nature believe
The best thing is to go from nature's God dawn to nature; and if you once get to nature's God, and believe Him, and love Him, it is surprising how easy it is to hear music in the waves, and songs in the wild whisperings of the winds; to see God everywhere in the stones, in the rocks, in the rippling brooks, and hear Him everywhere, in the lowing of cattle, in the rolling of thunder, and in the fury of tempests. Get Christ first, put Him in the right place, and you will find Him to be the wisdom of God in your own experience.
song grief mars
Our griefs cannot mar the melody of our praise, we reckon them to be the bass part of our life's song, 'He hath done great things for us, whereof we are glad.'
song heart night
He who sings a song to Christ in the night, sings the best song in all the world; for he sings from the heart.
steps backing-up steady
History has spurts and then is steady, and then maybe even backing up a step, and then forward again. Alan Bean
steps surprise reader
I really like it when you can step outside of what's come before and find a surprise for the reader and find a surprise for yourself. Dave Gibbons
steps tough push-yourself
You take yourself to a place where you've got absolutely nothing left and then you find out you have to push yourself one more step. That's a tough place to be in. Bryan Clay
steps comfort grows
It is only when You really STEP OUT of Your comfort zone that You GROW. Bear Grylls
steps problem illegal
Illegal immigrants are already a very big problem for us. We are already taking big steps to disallow illegal immigrants from coming in. Antonis Samaras
steps commencement experiments
One failed experiment is one step closer to Success Denzel Washington
steps should
Until we see what we are, we cannot take steps to become what we should be. Charlotte Perkins Gilman
steps looks hard
It's hard to see things when you're too close. Take a step back and look. Bob Ross
steps roles muhammad
When a 'Life of Brian' comes out with Muhammad in the lead role, directed by an Arab equivalent of Theo van Gogh, it will be a huge step forward. Ayaan Hirsi Ali
winter darkness scrooge
Darkness is cheap, and Scrooge liked it.
winter age lapland
Cheerfulness ought to be the viaticum vitae of their life to the old; age without cheerfulness is a Lapland winter without a sun.
winning race looks
If we look backwards to antiquity it should be as those that are winning a race.
wine order water
In order to try whether a vessel be leaky, we first prove it with water before we trust it with wine.
wings gone originality
All the poets are indebted more or less to those who have gone before them; even Homer's originality has been questioned, and Virgil owes almost as much to Theocritus, in his Pastorals, as to Homer, in his Heroics; and if our own countryman, Milton, has soared above both Homer and Virgil, it is because he has stolen some feathers from their wings.
wind literature wave
Commerce flourishes by circumstances, precarious, transitory, contingent, almost as the winds and waves that bring it to our shores.
wind fire tale-of-two-cities
Then tell Wind and Fire where to stop," returned madame; "but don't tell me.
winning race obstacles
Ride on! Ride on over all obstacles and win the race.
wine paris six
Along the Paris streets, the death-carts rumble, hollow and harsh. Six tumbrils carry the day's wine to La Guillotine.