Famous Quotes & Sayings

Alice Walker

I know black people love the idea that we finally have a beautiful, good-looking black president. But if he is doing awful things to us, we should wake up.

The preparedness on all levels has increased 10-fold from the local citizens up to the government level. People are a taking it a lot more serious. I think everybody has seen how devastating these storms can be, both to their property and to their potential loss of life. I think the awareness level, seriousness and priority it has given has made it a lot easier for the preparation to take place.

The press needs the police and the police need the press. We all know our police departments are severely undermanned and they rely on the community. If the community is aware of what's going on and takes the bull by the horn with police, crime will diminish and fear will diminish.

Carl Smith

The quarterback was good. He was in command of everything that was happening out there. He was aware of the defense.

Those experiences made me aware of the grief process and helped me to recognize how important that is for the families that are left behind,

We are completely aware that the buying power of our salary has been diminished in the last decades, so we have to recover that power of the salary in Mexico.

Unfortunately, that's what happens with this awful disease. You feel good, you're responding and then the downturn.

We'll make people aware that they can volunteer for a short time.

We were just right there in some of it. We were awful close.

You learn a bit more from your losses. It was an awakening for our boys. They took the long scenic route. Every game was away, but it made it sweeter in the end.

Robert Hofstadter

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 honors my students and colleagues.

Robert Henri

The reason for the survival of the award system is purely commercial.

Tony Randall

Awards are only a publicity gimmick.

Tony Randall

You mustn't take any award so seriously.

Reese Witherspoon

Everything I sang sounded awful. So I went outside and I screamed. Everyone pretty much agreed it was awful.

Ruta Sepetys

Sometimes there is such beauty in awkwardness. There's love and emotion trying to express itself, but at the time, it just ends up being awkward.

Thomas Carlyle

A heavenly awe overshadowed and encompassed, as it still ought, and must, all earthly business whatsoever.

Tony Kushner

I tend to be sort of quiet and shy and awkward in social situations.

Stephen Sondheim

That's the trouble with awards for a body of work. They always come at both a good time and a wrong time. Good because they tell you what you've been doing was worth the doing and wrong because they ought to come when you're young and excited and hungry for assurance that what you're doing is worth the doing.

Rick Baker

I'm amazed that movies ever get finished at all - much less come out good once in a while. It's an awful lot of work and it can go wrong a thousand different ways.

Tim Roth

I get invited to an awful lot of Jewish functions.

Tika Sumpter

[Director Richard Tanne] was inspired by their [Barack and Michelle Obama] flirtation, and their connection. That's not normal with politicians who are married - they usually look forced or awkward.

Russell Simmons

You have to be present, awake and happy now.

Stephenie Meyer

Nudity was an inconvenient but unavoidable part of pack life. We'�d all thought nothing of it before Leah came along. Then it got awkward. - Jacob Black

Viggo Mortensen

Any nominations a movie gets helps to raise the level of curiosity in the public, so in that sense awards and nominations are important.

Victor Borge

You may not be aware of this but Leonard Bernstein won another award, for explaining the music of Igor Stravinsky... to Igor Stravinsky!

Suzanne Collins

It's ideal really. They will come up with a plan. No one will like it. Everyone will feel they have been treated unfairly, but will be happy that their neighbors feel the same. And that is the nature of compromise. Now let's go eat an awful lot.

Taylor Lautner

I get nervous before everything - dates, filming, awards shows.

Stephenie Meyer

It makes me . . . anxious . . . to be away from you.

Tom Felton

In England we are sort of very awkward.

Steve Lacy

When I came up, it was all about originality and collective research. There is an awful lot of imitation going on now.

Stephen Dorff

I liked getting the best villain award. I thought that was funny.

Shirley Knight

Hollywood -- that's where they give Academy Awards to Charlton Heston for acting.