Famous Quotes & Sayings

Anthony Hamilton

After a while, you want to sell a lot of records, win awards and touch as many people as you can, but you have to secure the foundation with your family. I'm a family man, but I'm a businessman, too.

Antonio Munoz Molina

There can be no better prize for a writer than one awarded by an international book fair.

Adam Green

Hollywood is a roulette wheel. Each project dictates what's going to happen for you next, and it doesn't really matter that your project is critically acclaimed or won awards or has fans worldwide. It's a matter of how many movie tickets and DVDs and on-demand movies that you sell.

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.

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.

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.

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

Finding a good cleaner that will consistently treat you like a valued customer shouldn't be a guessing game. Having become an Award of Excellence cleaner, Holiday Cleaners is proof that quality cleaners do exist and now, the customers know where to look.

But she wasn't up for any award this year.

Anushka Sharma

Nothing gives me more pleasure than acting. But I don't enjoy going for award functions or giving interviews.

Jamie King

We're thrilled to have been awarded the business for this leading AAA club. This is a very strategic win for us as AAA fits squarely into the criteria we set out for new business opportunities. Not only does the relationship give us the opportunity to help create innovative work that will help expand a great brand, but the chance to work with a smart, forward thinking and passionate client.

There are a lot of wonderful candidates out there, and to be selected shocked me. It caught me off guard. It shows that this award is more than just being a great athlete. It shows you have to work hard in the classroom.

Tiger Woods

The Player of the Year award means a lot because it's from your peers,

Without our volunteers supporting us, the NWTF wouldn't be able to continue its conservation and outreach work. We honor our chapters for their efforts through the L.A. Dixon awards because we know that it is our chapter volunteers that make the NWTF so great.

The grants being awarded Thursday will fund critical local projects to protect and restore the state's natural resources and educate our citizens on natural stewardship.

The Oscars pose an unusual, and for many, insurmountable challenge for a host. You have to be big enough to command that stage, and smart enough to know when to step back and let the awards take over.

We will award prizes for the Best Costume and Best Jump.... We will recognize the oldest and youngest jumpers as well as those who have traveled the farthest, have the most interesting stories and who are repeat jumpers. Three levels of jumping platforms, decorated in 1996 Olympic memorabilia, will provide opportunity to give height to the gleeful plunges into Lake Lanier.

Robert Palmer

This was done for the purpose of having the people be able to use the playground equipment, ... I would never award a contract in a way that would have a negative effect on the people of Long Beach Township. This was all done in the best interest of them.

We wouldn't be able to continue to award projects at this rate without there being an impact on projects down the line.

Mike Sweeney

To be named one of the finalists for the Marvin Miller Award is an honor for me,

Tiffany Shlain

This year's Webby Awards winners are changing the way we live in ways big and small -- from how we listen to music to how we elect a president. We are proud to salute their fearlessness, ingenuity, and vision.

This year's NRMCA Award is another outstanding example of our management team's commitment to raise the environmental standards at CEMEX. The Navigation facility is our highest production plant in Texas, and is surrounded by water, which makes this award that much more significant in light of the technical challenges continuously confronted at this site. We are very proud of our team.

We are so proud of our Eagle Award winners and our championship teams. All of the GBA players worked extremely hard this year on their community service projects and on the court. We thank our sponsors for giving these kids a positive summer activity.

George H. W. Bush

To those of you who received honors, awards and distinctions, I say well done. And to the C students, I say you too may one day be president of the United States.

We only found out this week that they had awarded the contract and instructed the contractor to start work on Monday. We have been trying to have proper consultation with LMDC. It has been thwarted at every turn.

While not predictive of award night winners, search data on the nominated movies provides us with unprecedented insight into what is on the minds of US Internet users.

R. A. Salvatore

I don't know how many bestsellers I've got, or half the awards I've won, and I don't really care. I'm just having fun, doing something I love and getting paid for it. How cool is that?

Seth Green

I mean, we make a 15-minute show that's incredibly silly, even though all of our scenic designers, puppet builders. animators, everybody that works on the show take their work very seriously. So somebody saying that we'd even be in contention for a very respectable award is really nice.

We want to win another award this year.

It is a great honor to be awarded a Nobel Prize. This is a wonderful experience for my wife Betty and me. We received congratulations by email, phone and post, many from old friends we had not seen for some time.

We are grateful that Johnny Bench is the namesake for our award because he is, without a doubt, the greatest catcher to ever play the game. We are very excited to have someone of his caliber support our efforts in honoring the accomplishments of these college players.

Don Cornelius

Black music is too big and too powerful not to have its own awards show.

Don Cornelius

One motivation for the 'Soul Train' awards was the grumbling that all of us in the industry have heard about the way black music tends to be viewed as a secondary phenomenon by the other awards shows.