Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charles Stross

For a sampler, you could try my short story collection "Wireless". Which contains one novella that scooped a Locus award, and one that won a Hugo, and covers a range of different styles.

Alan Bennett

I turned down a knighthood. It would be like having to wear a suit every day of your life.

Bernie Mac

All you do as a performer is keep doing it. If you keep doing it, then it depends on why you're doing it. If you're doing something for superficial, monumental reasons and if you're doing it for female attention, or if you're doing it for money, it's like being upset. Only way you can get upset is when you expecting something. If you don't get this award or don't get that award, that because you expect something.

Bill Murray

Awards are meaningless to me, and I have nothing but disdain for anyone who actively campaigns to get one.

Charlize Theron

I'm an Academy Award winner. I'm serious.

Charles Ives

Awards are merely the badges of mediocrity.

Natalie Massenet

The British Fashion Awards gives us the chance to commend not only the winners but celebrate all of the individuals that contribute to the incredible achievements that make London the best fashion destination in the world.

Jennifer Nettles

When we were at the CMT Awards this year, Robert Plant was there. What an icon, I love him... But I can't go up and speak to him, because I don't want to seem like a goob.

Barbra Streisand

Most awards, you know, they don't give you unless you go and get them - did you know that? Terribly discouraging.

Barry Sanders

The Heisman is the biggest award I've ever won.

Azealia Banks

The Grammys are supposed to be awards for artistic excellence… Iggy Azalea’s not excellent,

We're honored to have three of our products recognized as best-of-breed offerings within such a large competitive field. We're bringing these awards home for our customers, partners and employees who support our products everyday by trusting us to deliver the solutions that meet the toughest security challenges.

Top awards like these really generate interest in our state's wine industry. Consumers know they will enjoy quality when they choose a Missouri wine.

With the new trophies in his pocket, his chance of winning Oscar awards has risen even further.

Bobby Knight

For me to get an award from the press, I know there's been no favoritism.

Jane Kaczmarek

Awards shows are my greatest inducement to get back into shape.

Jane Elliot

Submitting myself for awards feels like a weird kind of horn-blowing that's not comfortable for me. I'm really happy when someone likes my work, but I don't like marketing myself, putting myself on display.

Elizabeth Taylor

I gave a very dear friend of mine my humanitarian award. Because you don't need an award to be, or not be, a humanitarian.

Arthur Hiller

It's so embarrassing to receive an award for doing what you should be doing.

She's a big team player. She knows she's not anything without the rest of them. She always thinks somebody else deserves the awards and all that.

There are very few scholarships that give money simply for breathing. Probably most of the scholarships are merit-based. Awards that are need-based tend to be loans.

We didn't win any awards but the kids did well and had a great time. We were definitely in the competition. Everyone was impressed by the show these kids put on.

Guy Pearce

The reality is that we have all these awards and all these festivals that give out awards, so you sort of go, 'okay, well, people liked the film, and I think it's a good film, and it's up for an award - well, I guess it should win the award then.'

Nina Tassler

Shes an incredibly multi-talented performer whose comedic skills and energy promise to deliver an Emmy Awards broadcast to remember.

Jared Leto

She's so heartbreaking in this movie. I don't think they make enough awards to give her.

She's famous around the world, but Pamela will feel right at home in Halifax. She can expect a hearty east coast welcome for what promises to be a spectacular awards broadcast.

Natalie du Toit

I've been lucky enough to travel the world and win awards and medals, but it was time to stop.

Ira Sachs

As independent filmmakers, we are actually deeply dependent on each other. The Spirit Awards are a public expression of those bonds, the intricate set of relationships and histories that we filmmakers depend on to make our most personal work.

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.

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.

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.