Famous Quotes & Sayings

John Pople

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 them. This Nobel Award honours them all.

Neil Gaiman

Also, I've already won all the awards.

Mercedes Ruehl

I find there's almost no place to put an award that one's quite comfortable with.

Mercedes McCambridge

At awards time, The Exorcist was nominated in 11 categories, everybody but the janitor was up for an Oscar. There was no category for what I did.

Jodi Picoult

Lawyers were notorious for finding cases in the most unlikely places, especially ones with huge potential damagers awards.

Jodi Picoult

There's that unwritten schism that literary writers get all the awards and commericals writers get all the success.

Rigoberta Menchu

I feel a deep emotion and pride for the honor of having been awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for 1992.

Hal David

He's one of the all-time great guitarists, and worked wonders making guitars, and here he is still around, still playing and having this great award on his birthday.

Aaron Peirsol

How often does one person get six medals at a World Championships? The way I look at it, not to downplay my accomplishments, but people break world records every year. So to win this award this year, I am completely humbled and very happy.

Calvin Ayre

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In contrast to IIHS' findings, the U.S. government's National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) awarded the Mazda MPV a rating of five-stars, the highest possible score, in both frontal and side impact tests, ... And, of course, the MPV meets or exceeds every NHTSA-required safety standard.

Individual awards do not mean anything. We won as a team. It's all about what it says on our T-shirts (pointing to the Big Ten Championship T-shirt he was wearing), team champions.

I know we have been awarded monies to buy a new plow truck. The figure is $393,000, which is a pretty good chunk of change. That's 95 percent grant funded.

I'm confident that I'll skate my best. I'm not really thinking about medals at this point just because the Olympics is an award in itself.

If there are any changes to the project itself, the scope, the cost, we always bring those issues up because we want to understand why the project has changed from the time when we awarded the money.

If we went to trial and the jury believed the plaintiff, I am sure the award would be in seven figures. I don't think the jury would believe that, but you never know what a jury is going to do.

I'm looking forward to the event-it's a great venue, tickets are selling fast and we'll have a lot of fun. I think it will be a welcome departure from the usual awards format, especially for those who don't really like chicken.

Vince Young

I'm just enjoying the moment right now. All of these awards mean a great deal to me, because of all of the hard work that me and my teammates have put in this year. I guess we've got another one to go (the Heisman) on Saturday.

Tim Smith

I have never received an award or honor that will be more cherished than this because it was given by my peers. The former winners are a distinguished collection of some of the finest sports writers in American history. To be included in that group is humbling and overwhelming. I hope that my future work will prove that I am indeed worthy. I will strive to live up to the honor.

I had no idea. It was so hard waiting (before the awards ceremony). It was really suspenseful this year. I had the flu or something today. Still, I knew I had to try my best today no matter how I felt.

Steve Irwin

I had to jump off and jump on a plane at the ranger's station airfield, flew straight down and walked off the plane into the awards ceremony,

I'm very honored to (have) received that award because I'm working with so many professional people.

Shaun Alexander

I never really thought about whether it could be done or not, because awards are exciting but they're not the end-all, be-all. Being 13-3 was a goal for us ... Those all come with setting the first goal, which is being good.

Jon Gruden

It's an award he's obviously earned. It's a reflection of him and his family, the kind of worker he is. But it also reflects our team. He's got a lot more awards coming if he keeps doing what he's doing. I promise you that.

Cary Fukunaga

It's hard because there's a part of me that wants 'True Detective' to win every award we're nominated for. But I'm a huge fan of 'Breaking Bad' and 'Game of Thrones.'

Jennifer Egan

It seemed impossible that a scrappy book like 'Goon Squad' could win an award like that. It's such an iconic honor. I think what the Pulitzer means to me is that I'll need to work very, very hard to try to live up to it.

It's a well-deserved award for Adam. He's a kid that's worked hard to be an all-around player. When he was younger, he had the potential to be a defensive force for us, but he came on as an offensive player too.

Jay Cutler

It says Vanderbilt is an up-and-coming program. Everything is going in the right direction. The players believe that they can win. And really this award honors the rest of the team.

Dan Wheldon

It's a challenge. Everybody believes that. Physically and mentally, it's tough. It awards you, though.

It's a great feeling. There are so many talented broadcasters in this league, so I feel honored to win this award again.

Dave Lewis

It's going to be difficult for whomever because it's so late. But if they do award a contract and the promoter can make it through this year, then they can charge hard next year. They've got five years to make a good show.

It's a very generous award by New Hampshire standards.

It's a very effective and cost-efficient way to bring Crash to the people who need to see it. The most important part of the awards process is the movie itself.