Famous Quotes & Sayings

James Johnson

We hope these awards will help these young adults succeed in the future.

With all the awards she was given, she never put one on the wall. They're all under the bed. She said that she didn't need that; she knew what she'd done.

We?re delighted to be recognized for our work on this exciting facility. This award serves as recognition of Black & Veatch?s global leadership in helping utilities produce safe, ample drinking water for their customers, while sustaining and protecting the environment.

We're dealing with cases that could be very consequential. We're dealing with statutes that provide for massive financial awards for damages.

Natalie Maines

We finally got on the front row of an awards show,

Christian Scott

It doesn't matter if I ever win another award or get to play another major jazz festival in America. I would rather not garner any of those things and speak honestly about the things that I see my people endure in this country and all over the world.

James Smith

That was Valor Day, when the New York Police Department hands out medals. She's wearing the medal they awarded Moira, the department's highest honor, the Medal of Honor.

Sam Allardyce

That was also a clear penalty but I knew when he didn't award us the first one it was going to be one of those nights.

She's deserving of it. She had a pretty good year. We're happy for her because any award is really a team award.

SIH received this award by providing an employee-centered environment where people feel valued for who they are and what they do. This is not an award you buy; it's one you earn.

Alec Baldwin

I'm not an awards-driven person in anything. Anytime you do get caught up in that, you usually end up getting whacked.

Adele

Americans are always mortified when I tell them this, but in England, it's a tradition to put your plaques and photographs and awards and gold records and stuff in your bathroom. I don't know why.

Anil Kapoor

In India I've been to all the award functions, but that was in Hindi; now it's in English so it's a much bigger scale.

Doris Roberts

My awards are lovely. I love to show them of.

Amy Poehler

Being snubbed is not always a bad thing at awards shows because you end up getting a lot of people coming up to you and telling you how great you are.

The fact that he is the only three-time winner of the award is a testament to the consistency, commitment and dedication he has displayed throughout his career.

The fact she was awarded an emotional award is huge. It may not sound like a lot of money to a lot of people, but it is significant for Iowa. It may be significant enough that it may turn the tide on how the courts look at these cases.

What we've been seeing throughout awards season is very minimal jewelry.

Aamir Khan

Indian film awards lack credibility.

Aamir Khan

Apart from the National Film Awards, I don't see any other award ceremony that I should give value to. My personal experience about these award ceremonies is that I don't trust them. I have no faith in them so I would prefer to stay away.

The decision to award the contract to Reveal was based on the source selection team's conclusion that it offered the best value to the government.

Sharon Stone

Some people work hard in this business and become really popular, really big stars but they never receive an award from within the business. Somehow, when your colleagues and friends believe in you to the point of handing you an award it means so much more.

Aaron Neville

I was very surprised when I heard that I had been chosen to receive the James Cardinal Gibbons Award.

Donald O'Connor

I'd like to thank the Academy for my lifetime achievement award that I will eventually get.

We can deliver the infrastructure as soon as the Chinese government has awarded the licenses to carriers.

David Fincher

Awards movies are normally sort of... life-affirming and noble. It's probably too much of an intellectual conceit and, you know, people don't like it when you don't lead the bad guy off in cuffs.

Andy Kindler

Comedy Central made their own awards show. They were named best comedy channel.

Alicia Keys

The last thing I want is to walk into my house after a long day and see all the Grammys and awards. It would make me feel weird.

Danny Boyle

The great thing with film is that it doesn't have an ego. It's just a film. Everybody that makes them has an ego, and the problem with awards and stuff like that is that it always affects the egos, and everyone gets stained by it in some way. And that can be fine and very innocent, but it can be horrible as well.

Colin Firth

Comedy - particularly the frothy and frivolous - is notoriously neglected by festivals and awards. But it's bloody hard to get right.

Alfonso Cuaron

Y Tu Mama Tambien' is one of the first unrated movies to be nominated for an Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay. But many video stores won't take a movie that's not rated, so I had to make the movie an R.

Angela Carter

It may be the first in what I trust will be a rapidly growing and influential genre--the novel designed on purpose to be excludedfrom the Booker short-list.

Seth Shostak

The era during which only governments could put hardware on the Moon is coming to an end. There are 26 private teams competing for the $30 million Google Lunar X-Prize - to be awarded for sending a robotic spacecraft to this nearby world that can roam at least 500 meters, and send back data such as a photo.