Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jamil Moledina

We are extremely happy to host the awards ceremony at the Game Developers Conference. We believe it's important to celebrate the individual recipients and provide them with as much exposure as possible.

Marsha Samitt

There is an awards committee that makes the decision on winners, and we look at the community in general for winners, not just members of the Chamber of Commerce.

Ryan Hall

The fact that "Léon: The Professional" doesn't have every award in the world is a sign that it is underrated. I'm not even ashamed to say that I cried during every scene.

Sarah Michelle Gellar

I don't do a television show for awards. You make it so people will enjoy watching it.

Rod Serling

I've never really topped myself, because awards in themselves really don't reflect major accomplishment. It's kind of a strange, backslapping ritual that we go through in this town where you get awards for almost everything. For surviving the day you're going to get awards.

Waylon Jennings

One thing is that I wasn't getting booked that well, and they had control over who got the awards, they had control over who sold. And they really did not want Willie or me, either one, to “have a hit record. They wanted the money, but they didn't want us to be the ones.

Robert Graves

The award of a pure gold medal for poetry would flatter the recipient unduly: no poem ever attains such carat purity.

Yoko Ono

Some people get medals and awards and all that, and maybe not intentionally - maybe the world is making them do it - but they sort of just follow what they were doing. Repeat or follow what they were doing all their lives, in their style of music or whatever. In my case, I always try to start from scratch. It's very nerve-wracking actually, but it's interesting.

Wynonna Judd

I used to only worry about the #1's and all of the awards. But that was a long time ago.

Jerry Sloan

Guys played a lot harder. They played a lot more determined to try to win, rather than the way we have been.

Mewelde Moore

He's a classy, determined individual. Those are the characteristics you love to see in a head coach.

Jim Clarke

Going back to the farm and isolating the virus will let us determine whether we have a concern.

Nick Cave

I was determined not to spend inordinate amounts of time on something I felt would fundamentally never get made.

Jay Weatherill

We've been very patient over the years but this is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to reset the rules for the River Murray and we're determined not to squander that opportunity.

Joe Barker

What is a threat to national security and who determines what is a threat to national security?

Alexei Miller

Today in fact we have determined the time frame and the scale. We are talking about large scale deliveries (of gas).

Linda Pinney

I thought, 'This is crazy; I have ADHD,' ... I was determined that this was a problem that needed to be solved.

Jeanne Shaheen

I think we need to get the measurements that Congress has mandated from the White House on how we're going to determine progress in Afghanistan.

Ken Hill

Mistakes can be good things, because it is an unexpected thing.

Charles Warren

I was like, 'Wow,' something's going on here, ... Something good is about to happen.

Ramon Hernandez

I was looking for a fastball. I got it on the good part of the bat. It went where no one could get it.

Carl Pohlad

Kirby's too good a guy to have something like this (stroke) happen.

Buck Showalter

Kenny was effective. They've seen Kenny so much. They hit some good pitches for hits. He bent, but he didn't break.

Kevin Towers

Khalil is an exciting, popular player. We think he's going to have a real good year, offensively and defensively.

John Crumbley

(Key West) had a tough week this week, but (starting pitcher Daniel) Foltz pitched a good game. It was good to be in this type of pressure situation.

Jim Brown

Kids today don't have any idea about these tools, or what they were used for. It a good history lesson for them.

Buck Showalter

Knuckleball guys are going to have their ups and downs. This was a down for R.A., who's had some good ones for us. We'll sit down and talk about it.

AJ Michalka

I want make more records with my sister. I want to go on the road. I want to tour around the world. I want to continue to make great films and work with incredible directors that I respect and look up to.

Regina Spektor

I don't really make records chronologically.

Robert Crumb

I still can't spend a lot of money on records at collector prices. There's something in me that just won't allow me to do that. But I will trade my artwork, which I know is worth thousands of dollars.

Robert Wyatt

This constant pressure from record companies to come up with a hit single or something like that, I find completely tiresome.

Warren Buffett

An irresistable footnote: in 1971, pension fund managers invested a record 122% of net funds available in equities - at full prices they couldn't buy enough of them. In 1974, after the bottom had fallen out, they committed a then record low of 21% to stocks.

Samuel Beckett

My notes have a curious tendency, as I realize at last, to annihilate all they purport to record.

Robert Pattinson

I definitely want to record an album, direct a film and start my own religion.

Ziggy Marley

A record is a message, timeless.

Waylon Jennings

Finally, my manager negotiated a deal where I got to produce my own records.

Johnny Rivers

He was signing everyone else up, ... He just didn't think I could sell any records.

Shaun Cassidy

If you're going out to sell a new show,

David Londoner

If you have this many bidders, the seller has a picnic. He'll play one off the other.

Shane Smith

If not doing VICE, I probably would be selling Cokes on the beach in Vietnam. I like the sea.

Mig Ayesa

I know they're not selling out. This is something they take very, very seriously,

Valentino Castellani

The interesting thing is that since Giorgio Rocca started winning his competitions, there is a correlation with the victories of Giorgio and the selling of tickets.

Mickey Gilley

All my money was made doing the dates and selling products when I was out there on the road.

Kay Granger

I started selling insurance in 1979 and continued doing that until 1985 when I opened my own insurance firm.

James Hansen

Because cap and trade is enforced through the selling and trading of permits, it actually perpetuates the pollution it is supposed to eliminate.

Mitch Mitchell

It is a big one. We have to win it to be in the playoffs.

Bobby Cox

I think you've got to do what you have to do to win right now.

Gerhard Schroeder

There is no alternative to this struggle, which we must win and will win,

Chad Qualls

We've got to win the first before we win the fourth.

Trent Strickland

We've got to play with a hunger. We've got to want a win and we've got to get a win.

Amani Toomer

To get a win we've got to play good. And we really didn't play that well at all.

Lindsay Davenport

I want to win this again, and as long as I can keep going I have a chance.

Roman Sebrle

I did not need glucose to win the silver.

James Stewart

I'd like to just win out, and I feel that I can do that.