Award Quotes
326 Award quotes by 296 unique authors
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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…
— Anita Roddick
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Neither praise nor blame is the object of true criticism. Justly to discriminate, firmly to establish, wisely to prescribe and honestly to award - these…
— William Gilmore Simms
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I just want to thank people who take big risks in their daily lives when there aren't cameras rolling. I want to dedicate this award…
— Paul Haggis
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Within ten years, he had earned his college degree and was a millionaire from his business enterprises in real estate, landscaping, and bodybuilding. He was…
— Arnold Schwarzenegger
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It's so embarrassing to receive an award for doing what you should be doing.
— Arthur Hiller
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So many people have won Emmys, so many people have won multiple Emmys that I think it's a degraded award.
— Tony Randall
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[from the television show,"Evade the Question Time"]At the end of the first round, I will award three points to Mr. Kaine for an excellent nonspecific…
— Jasper Fforde
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George Clooney married Amal Alamuddin this year. Amal is a human rights lawyer who worked on the Enron case, was an advisor to Kofi Annan…
— Tina Fey
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When Laura Poitras asked me if she could film our encounters, I was extremely reluctant. I'm grateful that I allowed her to persuade me. The…
— Edward Snowden
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Who doesn’t want a Cy Young Award? What kid didn’t grow up wanting to be the best? I’m no different. I want to be the…
— R.A. Dickey
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School was a waste of time for me. I was bored and left at 16. I started taking correspondence courses at college instead. I did…
— Amber Heard
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I liked getting the best villain award. I thought that was funny.
— Stephen Dorff
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I did a short film called 'Disco' and won an award for Best Supporting Actor at an indie film festival, and that was nice. Hopefully…
— Charlie Rowe
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I remember when I first won the Academy Award and how much I loved it. I just wish there was an award around that you…
— Joanne Woodward
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There was an austerely dignified award ceremony. By that I mean we had to buy our own drinks - in clear violation of the international…
— P.J. O'Rourke
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It's really more about the moment than it is the award. You know how trophies are, you don't really think about them after a while.…
— Mark Hall
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The main criterion for an award (of a research contract from the NCI) is the capacity to demonstrate the relevance of the project to the…
— June Goodfield
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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…
— Francois Arago
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In fact, without a specification of a creature's goals, the very idea of intelligence is meaningless. A toadstool could be given a genius award for…
— Steven Pinker
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This is a big surprise I don't agree with the concept of award ceremonies, but I'm prepared to make an exception for the ones I'm…
— Banksy
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I actually got a part in 'The Love Guru', that Mike Myers film. I heard it's awful. I got a Razzie award for it, which…
— Daniel Tosh
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Fantasy gets a mixed reception - a lot of fantasy is formulaic but most of the award-winning fantasy on the contrary tends to be the…
— Graham Joyce
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I get an award for being the best dressed, but at the end of the day I'm not Daphne Guinness. I don't like people to…
— Carine Roitfeld
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I think anytime you get nominated for an award, its a very humbling thing.
— David Nail
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When I left I got an award for being the latest person in the history of the school. If you got three late marks for…
— Matthew Bellamy
Who Wrote These Award Quotes
296 authors contributed a total of 326 Award Quotes, led by these top contributors: