Famous Quotes & Sayings

Kevin Pietersen

It's fantastic for me and great to get this award on the day we win the Ashes, but respect to every player from both sides. I dropped six catches this summer so maybe it's not a bad thing I got lucky a couple of times today. That is the best innings I will ever play.

J. Taylor

It's a significant award. In this environment, it's going to be tough to make money on new cars, so that's going to require some real management in focusing on other revenue centers. The Malcolm Baldrige Award is affirmation of some real business skills.

Harvey Weinstein

I never make a movie for awards consideration. I will use the hope of getting an Academy Award a) to honor the people who work so hard and also b) it's the greatest Good Housekeeping seal in the world. It's the greatest brand. It's as good as Louis Vuitton and Dior in the world of moviemaking. It's the Super Bowl.

Jacki Weaver

I love getting presents. And awards. I'd do whatever they told me to do.

Elton John

But we came for the Kennedy Center Awards, which was an incredible honor. Being a British person, I was bestowed this honor. And my partner and I, David, came. And we were so pleasantly surprised by George Bush and his knowledge of AIDS. He really - he treated David and I - and Laura - treated us like - they were so friendly and so courteous.

Ellen DeGeneres

It's such an honor to receive the Mark Twain Prize. To get the same award that has been given to people like Bill Cosby, Tina Fey and Will Ferrell, it really makes me wonder… why didn't I get this sooner?

Jeff Bridges

The hoopla with all the award season is kind of mind-boggling. It kind of puts you on your heels.

Jerry Seinfeld

I do not know why anyone would host an awards show. No matter how unbelievably well you do at it, the only thing that can happen is you get asked again to host an awards show.

Jeffrey Tambor

The Emmy should be an ensemble award, too. I kept howling at everyone else's performances.

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.

Christopher Bailey

It's brilliant to get recognition. The CFDA was magic because it's such a big award in our industry. There's nothing more flattering than being honored by your peers.

Francis Ford Coppola

The things you get fired for when you’re young are the same things that you get lifetime achievement awards for when you’re old.

Halle Berry

I've always thought that when anyone receives an award for acting they should always thank their fellow actors, because the only way you're going to deliver your best performance is when you have other good actors on the set supporting you and being very present for you even when the camera is not on them.

Iain Banks

I'm not a great believer in awards-of course the fact that I've never won one has nothing to do with it at all!

Gena Showalter

Please, I'd love to meet the guy you couldn't handle, and give him and award.

Bruno Rossi was a giant at MIT, and as an MIT professor, I am humbled to receive an award named in his honor.

Blythe Danner

Bruce had been so ill, his father was very ill. And she had been, you know, she felt all of those awards being presented at that tremendous, tremendous acclaim, I think, was difficult for her to even digest. And so every time that she'd won an award she, she would fall to pieces.

Mark Ellis

Somebody told us before the game he has better stuff than (Cy Young award winner) Johan Santana, ... He doesn't know how to pitch like Johan Santana yet. But once he does, he will be real good.

Speaking on behalf of the Hollywood Foreign Press Assn., we are not as heavily invested in ratings as they are. We continue to have the second-highest ratings of any awards show on TV, and our concentration is on producing the best show possible.

Ron Gardenhire

No matter how good he did, he wasn't very happy at the end of last year. It wasn't about the awards or anything else. It was about us not winning - and not getting back to the playoffs. That tells you a little bit about his makeup.

The three awards the CAD Society presents every year are our way of recognizing those who have contributed to the CAD/CAM industry in various ways. We are looking forward to hearing what the community has to say when they help us select the 2006 nominees.

The suppliers who receive these awards have provided exceptional performance in Quality to our Toyota plants in Europe.

I've never won an MVP award before. I'll remember this day for the rest of my life.

Richie Sexson

It would be nice to win it; it would say I was able to stay on the field, ... But it's not an award you want to win more than once.

Jon Huntsman

It was tough to keep the tears back, quite frankly. As you pin the award on, you salute them shake their hands.

These centers have gotten smarter over the years. They are turning victories that would have just been a back-pay award into something more.

Frank Roberts

These awards simply reaffirm that the city is a community that strives to provide the best possible services for all its residents,

Jacqueline Wilson

These awards provide an opportunity for children to thank the adults that have had a positive impact on their life.

Prince Charles

These remarkable awards remind us of the compassion, decency and courage which still exists in every corner of the land.

The shelter was awarded some money that will help the homeless population in other ways. The impact of our decrease in income may not be as drastic as we first thought.

Emily Murphy

These cutoff dates provide a reasonable period for making awards by the end of the fiscal year,

...the State has left little choice, and this petition is consistent with the rules of the federal courts regarding award of attorney's fees to prevailing parties.