Famous Quotes & Sayings

Gena Showalter

Please, I'd love to meet the guy you couldn't handle, and give him and award.

I know Jonathan Ruffin really well. I worked a lot of camps with him. He won the Groza Award (in 2000), Kevin in my eyes can kick circles around Jonathan Ruffin.

Finn Taylor

I hope people are buying into the unique script and characters. We realized as the process unfolded that the studios would make a watered-down version of what we wanted to do. A watered-down version of The Darwin Awards wouldn't be funny.

I hesitate to call it landmark. Other people have called it landmark ... but it is one of the first times that a jury has found in favor of a morbidly obese person based on disability and awarded significant compensation.

I hold her, and her nonviolent struggle for democracy, in high regard, ... It is people like her who should be awarded the Nobel Prize for Peace, as opposed to presidents and other statesmen whose job it is, after all, to uphold peace, freedom and order.

Mo'Nique

How did the Oscar change my life? What it did was that it gave me a new reality. And it let me know that an award wasn't going to change my life - that I had to be in control of changing my life.

I didn't do the first triathlon but I used pinking shears on muslin to make numbers for the contestants, and I took care of the scoring and the awards ceremony. I have competed in the triathlon as a team member for many years; this year I was the swimmer.

Imelda Staunton

If you're at an award ceremony, you're against your mates.

(Hirsch) probably should have gotten some kind of an award for match-making. My dad always said marrying my mother was the best decision he ever made.

The international award is a symbol of the success that we have had in trying to completely remake this campus for the last 20 years. A lot of people have been working to bring the university into the twenty-first century and to use the campus to show what a quality institution this is.

David Fincher

Awards movies are normally sort of... life-affirming and noble. It's probably too much of an intellectual conceit and, you know, people don't like it when you don't lead the bad guy off in cuffs.

The only way that you can receive an award such as this is if your team excels. And I don't think there's any question about this team and what it accomplished this year.

We're playing in both leagues. We'll be playing in the Mid-Eastern Conference, but there's still going to be an Eastern Upper Peninsula Conference and EUPC championship awarded at the end of the season.

Mark Ellis

Somebody told us before the game he has better stuff than (Cy Young award winner) Johan Santana, ... He doesn't know how to pitch like Johan Santana yet. But once he does, he will be real good.

Speaking on behalf of the Hollywood Foreign Press Assn., we are not as heavily invested in ratings as they are. We continue to have the second-highest ratings of any awards show on TV, and our concentration is on producing the best show possible.

Bruno Rossi was a giant at MIT, and as an MIT professor, I am humbled to receive an award named in his honor.

Blythe Danner

Bruce had been so ill, his father was very ill. And she had been, you know, she felt all of those awards being presented at that tremendous, tremendous acclaim, I think, was difficult for her to even digest. And so every time that she'd won an award she, she would fall to pieces.

This award shows they have done so by upholding the traditional values of the game.

Faith Hill

This award show is different because it's all about the fans, and this is why we loving coming,

This award means more because it came from Dick and Connie.

Vince Young

This award (Maxwell) means a whole lot because people doubted me about being a quarterback and thought I should have been moved to another position. I wanted to show the world how good a quarterback I could be. If this doesn't silence those critics, then I'll just go back to work and try to fix whatever I need to fix.

Mukhtar Mai

This award is a victory for poor women; it's a victory for all women, ... End oppression with education.

This award is a tribute to the players. They just never gave up.

This award is as much for my teammates at Barcelona and Brazil,

Jennifer Smith

This award is an honor for us as founding members of the Midwest Call Center Group. It demonstrates that our program provides the most innovative and efficient care to members of our community.

Mark Russell

This award demonstrates MCI's continued leadership and commitment in delivering innovative services. Our focus is to ensure that we meet all our customers' requirements, from conferencing solutions to end-to-end connectivity to total management of their network. MCI's portfolio of services enables enterprise customers to conduct business more effectively and efficiently.

Tom Petty

This award comes at a particularly nice time as the Heartbreakers and I go into the thirtieth year of our career. I'm very honored that Billboard has acknowledged me with this award.

Tom Petty

This award comes at a particularly nice time, as the Heartbreakers and I go into the 30th year of our career, ... I'm very honored that Billboard has acknowledged me with this award.

E. B. White

This award belongs to our employees. They're what all this is about.

This is an award given to the efforts of a lot of people. It is wonderful to have recognized the efforts of the city and county and the commission's role in telling the history of Gonzales.

Tiger Woods

The Player of the Year award means a lot because it's from your peers,

Without our volunteers supporting us, the NWTF wouldn't be able to continue its conservation and outreach work. We honor our chapters for their efforts through the L.A. Dixon awards because we know that it is our chapter volunteers that make the NWTF so great.

Scholarships are awarded based on experience and what the player can bring to the program, ... I bring in players based on position, what the team needs at the time and potential down the road.