Awards Quotes

591 quotes by 495 authors

Affirmative action is a little like the professional football draft. The NFL awards its No. 1 draft choices to the lowest-ranked team in the league.… — J C Watts
I love getting presents. And awards. I'd do whatever they told me to do. — Jacki Weaver
First of all, I never make a movie for awards consideration. — Harvey Weinstein
Shoot a few scenes out of focus. I want to win the foreign film award. — Billy Wilder
I feel very blessed to have two wonderful, healthy children who keep me completely grounded, sane and throw up on my shoes just before I… — Reese Witherspoon
It's funny that it all becomes about clothes. It's bizarre. You work your butt off and then you win an award and it's all about… — Reese Witherspoon
I'm used to seeing it, but it's weird having an Academy Award. You usually only see one of them on the TV show when they… — Steven Wright
Who do readers expect to see when they pick up this book? Who has won the Most Troubled Romantic Lead at the BookWorld Awards seventy-seven… — Jasper Fforde
The man that I named the Giver passed along to the boy knowledge, history, memories, color, pain, laughter, love, and truth. Every time you place… — Lois Lowry
Thomas Jefferson once said: 'Of course the people don't want war. But the people can be brought to the bidding of their leader. All you… — Jon Stewart
And I'm going to tell the truth: I didn't like that Sean Penn movie Into the Wild so much. Yes! I know it was critically… — Meg Cabot
On the other hand, winning awards is cool. Aside from the warm fuzzy, it creates publicity, and that helps spread the word about the book.… — Patrick Rothfuss
I have never cared very much for personal prizes. A person does not become a freedom fighter in the hope of winning awards. — Nelson Mandela
(While accepting the Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award) I've been thinking about why you have to get famous to get an award for helping other people...If… — Frank Sinatra
Having waited my entire life to get an award for something, anything...I now get awards all the time for being mentally ill. Itâ€™s better than… — Carrie Fisher
Lawyers were notorious for finding cases in the most unlikely places, especially ones with huge potential damagers awards. — Jodi Picoult
Here is the point about myself and my co-thinkers. Our belief is not a belief. Our principles are not a faith. We do not hold… — Christopher Hitchens
Honey, thereâ€™s not a single woman in this town who doesnâ€™t know about Sanctuary, Land of the Bodacious Gods. Heck, me and my girlfriends want… — Sherrilyn Kenyon
So, when people try to give you some book with a shiny round award on the cover, be kind and gracious, but tell them you… — Brandon Sanderson
...my little blurb wasn't going to win me any speaker-of-the-year awards, but at least I hadn't tripped and fallen off the stage, crushing and killing… — Jordan Sonnenblick

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