Famous Quotes & Sayings

Robert Hofstadter

The Nobel Prize is given as a personal award but it also honors the field of research in which I have worked and it also honors my students and colleagues.

Robert Horry

How do you know that I'm out of control? Maybe I'm just awkward.

Sarah Dessen

She said writting novels was like childbirth: if you truly remembered how awful it got, you'd never do it again.

Sandra Bullock

I don't like to fly. I've never been a good flyer. I have a lot of friends that have permanent nail marks in their arms... The moaning that comes from me when there is turbulence. It's awkward for everyone around.

Sandra Bullock

Every day is amazing, even when it's awful, because everything is for a reason. I know that this horrible thing that's happening today is going to bring something so amazing.

Rod Serling

I've never really topped myself, because awards in themselves really don't reflect major accomplishment. It's kind of a strange, backslapping ritual that we go through in this town where you get awards for almost everything. For surviving the day you're going to get awards.

Robert Smith

Living, it's awful for me.

Sarah Michelle Gellar

I don't do a television show for awards. You make it so people will enjoy watching it.

Richard Gere

There is a way of looking at an awful place from a certain angle that allows it to take on a beauty because it is what it is.

Rebel Wilson

I do acting for the awards... and cash money.

Vera Farmiga

I am drawn to intimate, often uncomfortable portraits of a woman persevering and awakening.

Vanessa Friedman

This is the potential start of something...awareness

Richard Dawkins

The feeling of awed wonder that science can give us is one of the highest experiences of which the human psyche is capable.

Vince Gill

Yes, the companionship is amazing. You know, you can get that physical attraction that happens is great, but then there's an awful lot of time and the rest of the day that you have to fill.

Robert Graves

The award of a pure gold medal for poetry would flatter the recipient unduly: no poem ever attains such carat purity.

Robert Osborne

I'm very enthusiastic about the Academy Awards because if there were no Oscars, we wouldn't have as many good movies as we do have.

Warren Christopher

I've got many close friends, but there's an awful lot about friendship that is not demonstrative in my case.

Salman Khan

There are people who want awards because it changes the perception of the audience. But I'm not into all that.

Sally Ride

Well, we spend an awful lot of our time working and doing experiments. It's very busy up on the shuttle.

Wanda Sykes

In '87, I used to do this awful, awful James Brown impression.

Waylon Jennings

One thing is that I wasn't getting booked that well, and they had control over who got the awards, they had control over who sold. And they really did not want Willie or me, either one, to “have a hit record. They wanted the money, but they didn't want us to be the ones.

Viggo Mortensen

Any nominations a movie gets helps to raise the level of curiosity in the public, so in that sense awards and nominations are important.

Russell Simmons

You have to be present, awake and happy now.

Roger Federer

I feel a bit awkward playing in a red shirt out at Wimbledon. But I don't dislike it.

Suraj Sharma

It is really awkward to see myself on screen.

Stephen Sondheim

That's the trouble with awards for a body of work. They always come at both a good time and a wrong time. Good because they tell you what you've been doing was worth the doing and wrong because they ought to come when you're young and excited and hungry for assurance that what you're doing is worth the doing.

Peter Frampton

I stopped singing and they gave me an award.

Penelope Cruz

Awards are great, as you get to meet up with friends and colleagues from your industry - a sort of reunion.

Peter Cameron

I felt this awful obligation to be charming or at least have something to say, and the pressure of having to be charming (or merely verbal) incapacitates me.

Phoebe Tonkin

I don't know, I'm literally the most awkward, socially strange person.

Queen Latifah

Award shows, like the Grammys, were tough on us early in hip-hop, not even televising our categories or splitting them up on best male or female or any of that. We had to earn them.

Queen Latifah

I've hosted the Soul Train awards, the American Music Awards... and I had my own talk show. So if I can't host by now, what the hell can I do?

Terence McKenna

What is needed, is an awakening.