Quotes About Accolade

No. 1 career highlight? It would have to be getting the MBE from Prince Charles at Buckingham Palace.

If you wanna give me an award, I'll take it. Just don't make me go to the party afterwards.

I respect the Hall of Fame, and if they think that I'm worthy enough, I would be very honored. And if they don't, I gave it all that I had to this game.

I'm not sure whether I could win a Nobel Prize or not, but the Nobel Committee called me, and, 'You got the Nobel Prize.' So, I was so, so happy, and I was so surprised.

The general sentiment among the Yeas is, no accolade is too high for their man; and the Nobel being, literally, the gold standard among prizes, it is surely his [Bob Dylan] due.

When someone pursues music through your music, that's the greatest accolade anybody can get.

The Oscar seems to have been confused with the Nobel Peace Prize.

I've learned in my career, it is much better to be recognized for all the great things you do on the field.

One honor won is a surety for more.

That indeed would be a great accolade, Monodonock stuttered, his hands frenziedly plucking at his spikey hair, but the more I think on it, I believe I should miss my little home in the Blue Stack Mountains too much. And indeed, it is an important posting; you never know when the gabha might start stiring up trouble again...

Goose Gossage is a friend of mine, and he's definitely a Hall of Fame pitcher in my mind.

That accolade, to be the best at your position in your conference, you want that on your resume.

I don't give a damn about MVP.

Success listens only to applause. To all else it is deaf.

The farther the experiment is from theory, the closer it is to the Nobel Prize.

Often God takes what is intended as a criticism and turns it into a compliment. The Pharisees said of Jesus, "This man receiveth sinners, and eateth with them" (Luke 15:2). Christ's enemies meant it as an accusation; we take it as an accolade!

I'm not aiming for the Nobel Peace Prize!

I've always felt that the Nobel Prize gives me nothing as far as science is concerned.

Forget about Nobel prizes; they aren't really very important.

Acclaim is a distraction.

Anyone who says that awards make no difference to him is lying through his teeth!

accolade. In medieval times men were knighted in a ceremony called the accolata (from the Latin ac, "at," and collum, "neck"), named for the hug around the neck received during the ritual, which also included a kiss and a tap of a sword on the shoulder. From accolata comes the English word accolade for an award or honor.

Being named among the best is special and beautiful. But if there are no titles, nothing is won.

It's perceived as an accolade to be published as a 'literary' writer, but, actually, it's pompous and it's fake. Literary fiction is often nothing more than a genre in itself.