Famous Quotes & Sayings

Mikhail Baryshnikov

You don't measure life by receiving awards.

Mark Hoppus

There is nothing more awkward and more laughable than a naked dude with his wiener flopping.

Mitt Romney

I like music of almost any kind - including this.

Mitt Romney

I don't like vampires personally. I don't know any.

Psy

I'm not that good looking. That's why 'Gangnam Style' works. If someone handsome uses that phrase it's just awkward. But if someone like me uses it, it's funny.

Priyanka Chopra

I never had any awkward situations with Shah Rukh.

Portia de Rossi

Just look at all the awards shows now. It has turned into a catwalk. You have to be wearing a certain designer, a certain dress, and everyone's critiquing.

Noam Chomsky

WikiLeaks is a service to the population. Assange should get an award for - presidential medal of honor.

Jodi Picoult

Lawyers were notorious for finding cases in the most unlikely places, especially ones with huge potential damagers awards.

Jodi Picoult

There's that unwritten schism that literary writers get all the awards and commericals writers get all the success.

Kenny Rogers

I have awards right now that I do not remember walking on stage to get.

L. Frank Baum

And I' declared the Sawhorse, filling an awkward pause, 'am only remarkable because I can't help it.

L. Frank Baum

Familiarity with any great thing removes our awe of it.

Maajid Nawaz

The Bosnian Genocide was something that triggered my consciousness and led to an awakening politically for me.

Michael Jackson

I can tell you there are rewards that go far beyond money and public acclaim and awards.

Nick Hornby

Where's the superficial? I was, and therefore am, dim, gloomy, a drag, unfashionable, unfanciable, and awkward. This doesn't seem like superficial to me. These aren't flesh wounds. These are life-threatening thrusts into the internal organs.

John Green

There is always the risk: something is good and good and good and good, then all at once it gets awkward.

Matthew Fox

Awe is the beginning of wisdom. Awe is the beginning of education.

Mary Hart

At these award shows, I love to see what people are going to wear.

Marguerite Young

The first money I ever had was when I received an award from the American Association of University Women.

Markus Zusak

Everything was good. But it was awful, too.

Mark Twain

Human beings can be awful cruel to one another.

Marilyn Manson

To me, Columbine is just as awful as Vietnam, and it's just as awful as anything else.

Marilyn Manson

Sometimes you feel awkward being what you're best at, you feel like you have to be something new.

Michael Haneke

Awards are important for all directors because they improve your working conditions. You're only as good as your last film, so if you get prizes or large audiences, then you get more money for your next film.

Frank Ocean

Of course awards matter.

George C. Scott

The (Academy Award) ceremonies are a two-hour meat parade, a public display with contrived suspense for economic reasons.

Christina Ricci

I get so nervous. I happen to be socially awkward and shy. I spent a lot of my time as an adult not going places.

Christina Ricci

I went through an awkward adolescence and had braces.

Friedrich Nietzsche

And once you are awake, you shall remain awake eternally.

Micky Dolenz

I've never been one to chase awards or anything like that, to be honest.

Jonathan Tropper

As far as rapprochements go, it's awkward and vague, but the advantage of being as emotionally inarticulate as we are is that it will do the trick.

The awesome thing about failure is that it is only temporary. Embrace it, learn the lesson and come back blazing.