Award Quotes

326 Award quotes by 296 unique authors

Winning an award is a great feeling but winning the Vodafone Crossword Popular Choice Award is particularly exhilarating because it is based upon public voting.… — Ashwin Sanghi
The man who occupies the first place in an undemocratic state can give himself any award that takes his fancy, but it does not increase… — Dmitri Volkogonov
Things with my dad were pretty good until I won an Academy Award. He was really loving to me until I got more attention than… — Tatum O'Neal
Finally, if you will permit me, I'd like to make a comment which in my mind, is indicative, perhaps, of the greater significance of football… — Nile Kinnick
Men, you are about to embark on a great crusade to stamp out runaway decency in the west. Now you men will only be risking… — Harvey Korman
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… — Ivan Reitman
An Academy Award nomination is stuff dreams are made of, — Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy
The first money I ever had was when I received an award from the American Association of University Women. — Marguerite Young
You see, with [designing]weapons, it is like a woman who bears children. For months she carries her baby and thinks about it. A designer does… — Mikhail Kalashnikov
Giving the Linus Torvalds Award to the Free Software Foundation is a bit like giving the Han Solo Award to the Rebel Alliance. — Richard Stallman
Award trophies, as opposed to letting the players define and claim their own. Ultimately, pay them to play so that their activity not only resembles… — John Thorn
Roxy Sorkin, your father just won the Academy Award. I'm going to have to insist on some respect from your guinea pig. — Aaron Sorkin
The Metropolitan Museum of Art some time ago held a display of contemporary art at which $52,000 was awarded to American sculptors, painters, and artists… — James Keller
I am delighted to have had students, friends and colleagues in so many nations and to have learned so much of what I know from… — John Pople
I'd say my happiest moment as an actress came when I learned I'd won the Look Magazine Best Supporting Actress Award for 1956 in The… — Marie Windsor
The Nobel Prize is given as a personal award but it also honors the field of research in which I have worked and it also… — Robert Hofstadter
Dan really came into his own pitching last year (during Legion play). He received the sportsmanship award during the regional tournament. — Wade Clark Mackey
My activities, for which I gratefully accept this Award, are today what they have been for over thirty-five years and will be for the rest… — Daniel Ellsberg
The people voting for the Oscars are so old. I haven't seen one Academy Award voter with a tampon in her purse. — Joan Rivers
Some people might say my coming out after just winning the MVP award is heroic, and I understand that, — Sheryl Swoopes
Us atheist people, we believe we have to act properly and honestly for a moral principle and not because we expect an award in Paradise. — Margherita Hack
I’ve never taken time off from being an actor. This is the kind of career I’d be so happy to do until I die. I… — Ansel Elgort
As artists, we do the work that we do. Receiving an award or not receiving an award in no way diminishes one's talent or value. — Phylicia Rashad
Larry Carlton is an incredibly versatile guitarist who has been a major force for guitar for many years. He is easily recognizable - all you… — George Benson
I will put my Butkus (Award) in storage. I will put my Alamo Bowl MVP trophy in storage. Jerseys, anything Penn State, in storage. Wherever… — LaVar Arrington

Who Wrote These Award Quotes

296 authors contributed a total of 326 Award Quotes, led by these top contributors: