Award Quotes

Such is the prestige of the Nobel award and of this place where I stand that I am impelled, not to squeak like a grateful and apologetic mouse, but to roar like a lion out of pride in my profession and in the great and good men who have practiced it through the ages. (John Steinbeck)
This award is meaningful because it comes from my fellow dealers in celluloid. View quote
Alfred Hitchcock
If you wanna give me an award, I'll take it. Just don't make me go to the party afterwards. View quote
John Cusack
An award means a lot to me. It brings happiness along with a kind of fear. It brings fear because the award is the responsibility which audiences have put on us. So a singer winning an award should always try to give best of him to the audiences. View quote
Shreya Ghoshal
I don't concern myself with award. I'd been to the party enough times to know it really didn't matter. View quote
Denzel Washington
Security is always going to be a cat and mouse game because there'll be people out there that are hunting for the zero day award, you have people that don't have configuration management, don't have vulnerability management, don't have patch management. View quote
Kevin Mitnick
I was very surprised when I heard that I had been chosen to receive the James Cardinal Gibbons Award. View quote
Aaron Neville
I love what I'm doing most of the time, but it's hard work. People only see your albums in the charts. They see us at award shows and after-show parties. They don't know about your doubts, the hard work that goes in. View quote
Gavin Rossdale
I don't want to see people decorating a house or digging a garden. As for guys like Jonathan Ross, he got an award there last Christmas. What for? He doesn't sing, dance or tell jokes, does he? View quote
Ian St John
In the end it's about the work, not an award you get for the work. View quote
Linda Fiorentino
I've received many honors and I'm grateful for them; but I've already received the highest award I'll ever receive, and that has been the privilege and honor of serving very proudly in the United States Navy. (Grace Hopper)
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. View quote
Lester B. Pearson
Let us award a just, a brilliant homage to those rare men whom nature has endowed with the precious privilege of arranging a thousand isolated facts, of making seductive theories spring from them; but let us not forget to state, that the scythe of the reaper had cut the stalks before one had thought of uniting them into sheaves! View quote
François Arago
I received an award for 25 million in [album] sales the night before the bus accident [in 1990]. View quote
Gloria Estefan
The salary of the chief executive of a large corporation is not a market award for achievement. It is frequently in the nature of a warm personal gesture by the individual to himself. View quote
John Kenneth Galbraith
I got my first lifetime achievement award years ago, and I was very excited, but then I got a sense of: Well, can one get a second lifetime award? View quote
Michael Palin
As a Nobel Prize winner I cannot but regret that the award was never given to Mark Twain, nor to Henry James, speaking only of my own countrymen. Greater writers than these also did not receive the prize. I would have been happy - happier - today if the prize had been given to that beautiful writer Isak Dinesen. View quote
Ernest Hemingway
There's a lot of great movies that have won the Academy Award, and a lot of great movies that haven't. You just do the best you can. View quote
Clint Eastwood
I do know there are a lot of people who seem to be in my corner, and that's, of course, wonderful. I'm really more interested in the nomination than in the award, because I think the nomination just puts you within a group of outstanding actors. View quote
Morgan Freeman
Perfidy and brutal force thwarted opportunities for calling President Wilson's Arbitral Award to life. Nevertheless, its significance is not to be underestimated: through that decision the aspiration of the Armenian people for the lost Motherland had obtained vital and legal force. View quote
Serzh Sargsyan
The dog always dies. Go to the library and pick out a book with an award sticker and a dog on the cover. Trust me, that dog is going down. (Gordon Korman)
An award does not change the quality of a book. View quote
Chris Van Allsburg
Oh, what a shock. My career must be slipping. This is the first time I've been available to pick up an award. View quote
Michael Caine
At The Body Shop we had always been measured by how many jobs we had created, and I got a major award from the Queen on that. View quote
Anita Roddick
An Oscar means a lot of things because it's like the ultimate award for a filmmaker so it feels great. But I think you have to consider awards with some distance and not get obsessed with it. When you're creating you shouldn't think about it. View quote
Alejandro Amenabar