“Below is Pixar’s storytelling process overlayed on Malala’s Nobel Prize acceptance speech: Once there was a little girl who lived in a… — Carmine Gallo Copy Share Image
“Senator Kennedy from Massachusetts had won in the closest presidential election since 1916. Hatless and handsome, he had given people faith in… — Alice Hoffman Copy Share Image
Acceptance speeches can make or break presidential candidacies. It was Al Gore's 2000 acceptance speech that relaunched his candidacy and nearly saved… — Chuck Todd Copy Share Image
“We know every moment is a moment of grace, every hour an offering.... - Elie Wiesel, Nobel Peace Prize Acceptance Speech, 1986” — Edward Iwata Copy Share Image
“If I wrote, 'After delivering the acceptance speech, the candidate fainted,' you would know I was talking about a woman. Men do… — Deborah Tannen Copy Share Image
Oscar and I have something in common. Oscar first came to Hollywood scene in 1928. So did I. We're both a little… — John Wayne Copy Share Image
Like most novelists, I like to do exactly the opposite of what I'm told. It's in my nature as a novelist. Novelists… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
If we got one-tenth of what was promised to us in these acceptance speeches there wouldn't be any inducement to go to… — Will Rogers Copy Share Image
I said in my acceptance speech that I hope that readers remember this not as the year I won the Booker, but… — Richard Flanagan Copy Share Image
I remember watching the ACMs growing up. I would start on the couch and when the winner won the category, I had… — Jimmie Allen Copy Share Image
“As was the case for Nobel's own invention of dynamite, the uses that are made of increased knowledge can serve both beneficial… — Nicolaas Bloembergen Copy Share Image
I learned to read at the age of five, in Brother Justiniano’s class at the De la Salle Academy in Cochabamba, Bolivia.… — Mario Vargas Llosa Copy Share Image
“I believe that children in this country need a more robust literary diet than they are getting. …It does not hurt them… — Barbara Cooney Copy Share Image
You give hundreds, probably thousands of speeches in this business, but you only get one chance to make an acceptance speech at… — Jim Boeheim Copy Share Image
“Give the Audience Something to Cheer For Austin Madison is an animator and story artist for such Pixar movies as Ratatouille, WALL-E,… — Carmine Gallo Copy Share Image
I think at some point every actor has practiced their acceptance speech while they're having a shower. It's fun. — Jared Harris Copy Share Image
This sounds crazy, but my goal is to be nominated for an Oscar. I was the kid who was practicing my acceptance… — Ashley Benson Copy Share Image
On many young actors that don't give their parents proper credit: I'm still waiting for some actor to win, say, an Oscar...… — Bill Cosby Copy Share Image
People are falling all over themselves to send you free shoes and free cufflinks and colonic irrigations for two. Nobody ever offers… — Hugh Laurie Copy Share Image
“The writer is delegated to declare and to celebrate man's proven capacity for greatness of heart and spirit—for gallantry in defeat, for… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
[Albert] Camus writes his acceptance speech for the Nobel Prize in thanks to his teacher. — Catherine Camus Copy Share Image
During her Oscar acceptance speech, Patricia Arquette called for equal pay for women. Then Oprah stood up and said, 'She's right, I… — Conan O'Brien Copy Share Image
This moment is so much bigger than me. It's for every nameless, faceless woman of colour that now has a chance because… — Halle Berry Copy Share Image
A nap is not to be confused with sleeping. We sleep to recharge our bodies. We nap to care for our souls.… — Sarah Ban Breathnach Copy Share Image