Quotes of: Awards Keyword

Among all the 'awards' that I have hitherto collected, I consider the title of 'patita' or 'fallen woman' to be the highest. This is an achievement of my long-struggling life as a writer and as a woman.

Taslima Nasrin

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.

Jennifer Nettles

The most important days, more than any Grammy award thing or anything, is the day that you're responsible for snacks after the game.

Garth Brooks

I can't say I want to earn a particular award or sell a certain number of records, because even if I do that, the satisfaction only lasts five minutes.

Chantal Kreviazuk

When I die, it's going to read, 'Game Show Fixture Passes Away.' Nothing about the theater, or Tony Awards, or Emmys. But it doesn't bother me.

Charles Nelson Reilly

It was surreal to think the Queen of England not only knew who I was but thought enough of what I do to give me an award.

Henry Winkler

I'm glad I won it because when I grew up the Pulitzer was the award that every composer wanted and I was like that too.

John Corigliano

If you wanna give me an award, I'll take it. Just don't make me go to the party afterwards.

John Cusack

Awards mean a lot, but they don't say it all. The people in baseball mean more to me than statistics.

Ernie Banks

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

Barbra Streisand

My mother thinks I'm a national treasure. She's the only one who thinks my Golden Kela award is the greatest gift ever.

Cyrus Broacha

I use my awards as doorstops. Others are in the office or in little cubbyholes in our library - they go between the books, because they actually look like arty pieces.

Helen McCrory

That's always - that's been another dream of mine, to do a Broadway play. An award winning Broadway play.

Janet Jackson

When you go to awards shows these days, you can walk through a room and they give you everything for free: sunglasses, guitars, stuff for the wife.

Jordan Knight

I tend to avoid things like award shows and panels and interviews, not remotely because I feel I'm above them or wish to cultivate the image of the intriguing recluse. I'm just not very good at them.

Christopher Lloyd

Everybody says how hard comedy is, but, when it comes time to honor things, whether it's on a weekly critical basis or whether it's award time, at that time of the year, comedy is the poor, dumb child of dramatic work.

Ivan Reitman

The first time I was nominated for an award for professional acting, I was in my mid-twenties. I was married and the mother of my first two daughters. I had been working for near to 15 years.

Tyne Daly

T.V. Director: I won an award. John: A likely story. T.V. Director: It's on the wall in my office.

A Hard Day's Night

Malcolm Crowe: [referring to the award his just received] Wow. We should hang it in the bathroom.

The Sixth Sense

I cannot think of anything more difficult than to say something which would be worthy of this impressive and, for me, memorable occasion, and of the ideals and purposes which inspired the Nobel Peace Award.

Lester B. Pearson

Science is the quintessential international endeavour, and the sterling reputation of the Nobel awards is partly due to the widely-perceived lack of national and other biases in the selection of the laureates.

John O'Keefe