Quotes About Award

I am both humbled and honored to receive the Honda Sports Award for women's basketball.

I would be surprised if they gave Meryl Streep her third Oscar for a film as light as 'Julie and Julia,' although, of course, Katharine Hepburn's third Oscar came with a very light performance from her in 'Guess Who's Coming to Dinner.'

General-in-Chief of the army, Lieutenant General Winfield] Scott not only believed that the idea [for a battlefield decoration, to wit, a Medal of Honor, or valor] smacked of Old World vanity, elitism, and snobbery, he also thought that such an award was entirely unnecessary.

Abby, listen to me. I can hear thoughts–" – Sundown "Little late now, bucko. I noticed. Thanks for volunteering that. Let me give you a Hero Award for your first confession. Big flippin' hairy doo dah…Woo. Hoo." – Abigail

The salary of the chief executive of a large corporation is not a market award for achievement. It is frequently in the nature of a warm personal gesture by the individual to himself.

Kendrick Lamar deserves a Grammy. He's one of the biggest, most influential rappers of my generation.

The Oscar or the Emmy says you've reached a level of competence in this business, and I would love to have one.

Does getting an award make you happy? When you imagine yourself at the ceremony, you're always so eloquent and gracious. In reality, it's kind of awkward.

I think every artist should go for a Grammy.

I think the Grammy is like the award, you know.

There are musicians who wait all their lives for this award while for me it came with my first album. People have started acknowledging my work because of the Grammy.

I believe that I'm going to have a Grammy.

I daydream about Backstreet Boys accepting a Grammy one day.

If I get a Grammy, that would be dope.

Macklemore gets a Grammy over Kendrick Lamar. I still can't get over that. But again, it's not Macklemore's fault. It's the way of the country.

Winning a Grammy is always going to be good.

I'm not going to lie: I'd love to win a Grammy.

I had somebody call and make a joke about it: 'Oh, Buddy Guy won the Grammy - You should have won.' I said, 'No. Buddy should have won it.' He's a very talented cat. And don't forget, he's my homeboy, too.

My goal is a Grammy so my songs will have to be good.

The Caldecott Award has allowed me to keep doing what I'm doing for some time longer, for which I am ever grateful.

I have won the hearts of many. So that matters more than any award. The love of my 'Nehearts' - my fans, is more than inspiring and encouraging.

I won this award for keeping my mouth shut, so I think I'll do it again now.

When I won the MacArthur, I didn't receive a different amount of money than the men did.

I had a novel in the back of my mind when I won an Ian St James story competition in 1993. At the award ceremony an agent asked me if I was writing a novel. I showed her four or five chapters of what would become 'Behind the Scenes at the Museum' and to my surprise she auctioned them off.