Famous Quotes & Sayings

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".

Harold Russell

I got my award for special contributions, and I'm hanging around backstage. I found out, months later, that when I was nominated for Supporting Actor, they figured I didn't have a chance, the other guys had too much background. When they got to Supporting Actor, they practically threw me out on the stage.

Colleen Atwood

I grew up in a small town in Washington State, so I wasn't really aware of costume design as a career growing up, but I loved clothes. I remember I saved all my money, and the first thing that I bought was a white blazer, which was to the horror to my parents. But I have always had a strange connection with clothing.

Jo Beverley

I grew up in a small hotel with many rooms, so when I became aware of 'The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe,' I inspected all the wardrobes, sure one had to be a portal to another world. I was also a true believer in faeries, and perhaps still am.

I grew up in Africa surrounded by a lot of culture. It's made me aware that the world is a big place.

Peter Jackson

If we can improve the awareness of the AFL as a sport (in Japan), we can also use it as a vehicle for business activity.

Charlie Green

If they send someone $55 for a recorded instrument that they can get for $1 a page plus $1.50 for a certified copy, that's an awful lot of money to spend. They should be wary of paying that much money.

If this makes the climate loonies in the States realize we've got a problem, some good will come out of a truly awful situation,

John Daly

I have hit some towering drives in my time but to try and clear Niagara Falls would be an awesome feat,

Janet Reno

I have heard an awful lot in the last seven years, but that's about the worst rhetoric that I have heard,

I have had no formal discussions with Maurice. Everyone is acutely aware that Trent has a get-out clause for 2007 and that's where the speculation has come from.

Gioachino Rossini

Wagner is a composer who has beautiful moments but awful quarter hours.

Thomas Moore

And the heart that is soonest awake to the flowers is always the first to be touch'd by the thorns.

We knew we had to do something which would really create awareness, because our market position was very weak. And we knew if we tried to do the same as our competitor it wouldn't work. We needed to do something they wouldn't copy.

We learned last week we had no director. The executive committee then met (with the commissioners) but we were not told the reasons for Fred leaving. I wasn't aware of any problems and this sort of came out of the blue. He had been doing a good job, I thought, on our comprehensive plan and other projects.

Alex Tanguay

We're still way behind them (six points) in the standings, so I think we have to be aware of that, ... We knew it was going to be an important weekend for us, and they're a very good hockey team, so we have to make sure we're ready.

We're trying to raise awareness of fallen heroes. We support our president and his decision. We're proud of our military.

We're trying to make these awards as lucrative as possible. We also use a small portion of the money raised for some off-budget equipment needs.

Michael Taylor

We're trying to keep the motorists informed and up to speed on what's happening and just aware and safe as they travel the roads.

We're trying to get their intensity level up. It's something I've done for awhile and the kids seem to like it.

Alex Lifeson

Everybody has terrible things that they deal with. Everybody. Just because you're some big shot rock star doesn't mean you're immune to having these awful tragedies in your life.

Emraan Hashmi

I find awards frivolous. When I began my career, I was told that I deserved an award for a certain performance, but then I couldn't turn up on the day of the show. Then I was told that the award went to someone else. That's when I realised the truth behind it all.

John O'Donohue

The sacred duty of being an individual is to gradually learn how to live so as to awaken the eternal within you.

I sign off not only every investment, but every dollar that goes out the door - I'm aware of it.

I used to give out Mickey Mouse awards to people. I like Mickey Mouse because he represented certain values. He invested in people, was good to his friends and hard on his enemies. Once a year, I would have our management team from each division come to an offsite, and I would talk about Mickey Mouse.

Bill Viola

There is a big push that we all are engaged in, in wanting to have the newest in innovation - and I think that's all really great. But I also feel that human beings need to be aware of, and grounded in, history.

I was vaguely aware that people used to hijack planes to Cuba. But I didn't know much about how often it happened and what the motives were. I started looking into what was going on back then, and I was blown away by how common hijacking once was.

Bjorn Lomborg

We have to be aware that the scientific community throws up tons of different hypotheses and at a certain point we'll find out who was right and who was wrong. But we have to go with the best information right now, which I would claim to be the IPCC reports.

Billy Collins

I'm very aware of the presence of a reader, and that probably is a reaction against a lot of poems that I do read which seem oblivious to my presence as a reader.

The real problem with EOM is that one person's success creates another person's failure, and if the award is truly desirable, it creates destructive internal competition

The real problem is that until we get through this earnings period, there's going to be an awful lot of skepticism out there about whether or not companies met their objective, and concern over the economy.

The reality of it is Mr. Blair has already decided to stand down himself - it is a question of timing. The sooner that happens now and we get stability in our party with a new leader who makes their own mark, on what their policies are, what their government is and what the future is, that will be an awful lot better for British work, and men and women, and the British working public.

There are a lot of really positive things going on at GM. We want to get people's awareness higher for General Motors. What better way than for employees to offer what has traditionally been just for them?