Quotes About Honors

On one occasion I saw a banner where my name read 'Sarvasri Bharat Balachandra Menon.' I was amused and decided to find out the reason for this coinage. One of the organizers confessed rather sheepishly that they were sure about me getting the Bharat award but were doubtful if I was a Padma Shri awardee.

Awards are merely badges of mediocrity.

To win one Moonman is amazing, to win two is incredible.

I've won some pretty cool things in my life and I have a lot of great titles.

Caesar and Augustus both have months named after them (July for Julius Caesar and August for Augustus).

Woolf turned her back on a number of tokens of her rising eminence in the 1930s, including an offer of the Companion of Honour award, an invitation from Cambridge University to give the Clark lectures, and honorary doctorate degrees from Manchester University and Liverpool University. 'It is an utterly corrupt society,' she wrote in her diary, '. . . & I will take nothing that it can give me

I've been Offensive Player of the Week. I've been Offensive Player of the Month.

I've won the African Cup, I've won an Olympic gold medal. That says everything.

The opportunity to represent my country at the Olympic Games is one of the greatest honors I've experienced in my career.

The problem, dear professor, is that you wanted someone who could be made intelligent but still be kept in a cage and displayed when necessary to reap the honors you seek. The hitch is that I'm a person.

At age 31, in 1981, I was voted the best player in basketball, and the most valuable player in the league.

As Walter Shewring rightly said, both "the plowman and the potter have a cosmic function." And bad art in any trade dishonors and damages Creation.

Throughout his life, honors he had sought, honors he had not sought, were his, often at a younger age than anyone before him. Now, when he needed his magic the most, he was despised, abandoned, isolated, and utterly unable to control events around him, the first and only elected president in American history to be denied re-nomination by his own party. The last redoubt of Pierce supporters may have been within his own cabinet, the only one to remain intact over a four-year term.

1988 I also received from the city of Vienna the cross of honour for art and science. These titles and the various honors mean a great deal to me, most of all for the reason that they would mean a great deal to my parents too.

El dinero, los honores ganados a fuerza de envilecerse, la pugna por conseguir una felicidad terrenal, que se desvanece entre sus dedos y que se escapa para siempre, hacen que el rebaño humano se convierta en horda pululante, que se agita y corre hacia aquí y hacia allá, tropezando y destrozándose, en busca de una liberación que nunca se encuentra

Nahmanides appreciates that an acquaintance with death can ruin an appetite for life. And so he seeks to secure the mourner against such ruin—to describe an ideal of mourning that is not despair, that honors the encounter with death but does not succumb to it.

The Kennedy Center Honors reflects our humanity and higher purpose. We are a great nation, in part, because we value culture.

Making the best-seller list is a big deal; it's like being nominated for an Oscar. Hitting No. 1 is like actually winning the award. It's very gratifying.

Do you want to be the guy with a game named after you or be the one with 18 Oscar nominations?

There are actors who have never gotten an Oscar and have done amazing work.

I really don't care about the Oscars.

To go to the Oscars for 'Moneyball' - that was pretty amazing.

The Academy and the Oscars have been very gracious to me.

Even if the Tonys aren't as glitzy as the Oscars, being a part of the ceremony is no less exciting.