Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

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.

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.

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.

Emily Murphy

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

Paul Daniels

All awards and recognition, here and abroad, are to be cherished as recognition by your peers of what you have done in and out of magic.

Kenny Smith

We give more awards than a lot of tournaments do.

John Wilson

They are a logical counterpoint to the endless sea of self-congratulations ... We take ourselves a little less seriously than the others awards groups. We're basically here to poke fun of everyone else. It's not so much a slap in the face as a banana peel on the floor.

The wins are nice, coach-of-the-year awards are nice, the hall of fame is nice. But the award of coaching is when you get a wedding invitation from a former player, or when they stop in and talk to you after they've graduated. That's the ultimate, when you know you've had a positive impact on their lives.

They all did really well. It's the first time any South swimmers have been on the podium to receive awards so that's very exciting for us.

Andy Williams

The Yahoo Search Finds of the Year awards celebrates the huge diversity on the web and we've found some of the most informative, unusual, clever or bizarre websites out there.

The Woman of the Year Awards remind us of the value of gender diversity in the Hispanic economy, and this year's honorees are a real tribute to the achievements of Hispanic women throughout the United States.

I've turned down a few awards too. Being recognized makes you feel good, but I wasn't looking for any awards. I do it for my heart. People were good to me when I was young so I have to pay it back. It's the way I was brought up.

You have to win the district and regional Coach of the Year awards to get to here. It's nice to be recognized by the coaches you work with all year, but I'm where I'm at right now because of the strong support group I have in this program. One person doesn't do what we're doing, it takes a lot of dedicated people.

Tom Seaver

With his stature and the Cy Young Awards he has on his wall, he can say: 'No. I want to stay in there,' ... ... You've got to pitch seven innings, regardless of the score.

Rob Conway

This year's awards reflect the diversity, the vitality and the changing dynamics of our industry as the content and communications worlds converge. We are at the beginning of a new era of multimedia, entertainment, music, gaming and TV, in which GSM plays a starring role.

The top two awards don't even go to the robots.

The top 20 earn awards so it was cool to have two swimmers in that.

Suresh Raina

I sing really well, my friends say. I don't like my voice, but I sang on stage during the Sahara awards a few years ago, so I don't mind singing.

Angela Jones

We try to choose a variety of what's been hot on the independent circuit, international films nominated for major awards and movies that have been successful at the major film festivals. A lot of times around here, we don't get to see these films. It's usually the mainstream blockbusters that fill the theaters. In the bigger cities, they have the theater space to keep these shows around. We're really the only outlet to see these types of films locally.

We felt he had a legitimate shot of getting on the awards stand, but there was nothing we could do with his condition.

The kids look forward to hearing from him. He just spoke at our awards night, and you could hear a pin drop. The kids know there's something special there.

Calvin Ayre

In helping to grow the poker industry as a whole and to bring more exposure to the stars of poker, the players -- the Player of the Year Awards Show will further cement poker's prominence in the mainstream -- and Bodog.com is proud to be the gala's exclusive sponsor.

Individual awards do not mean anything. We won as a team. It's all about what it says on our T-shirts (pointing to the Big Ten Championship T-shirt he was wearing), team champions.