Quotes About Award

By the way, I got a Grammy, which was a big thrill.

I was thrilled when this year's National Book Award for Young People's Literature went to Neal Schusterman's 'Challenger Deep.' This brilliant book takes you into the mind of a mentally ill teenager and deserves all the accolades it's received.

Well, it was the beginning of my film career. It was amazing to me that I got nominated for an Academy Award.

When you look at Darling and the Oscars, it has to be luck. It was a black and white film and it was the last time that there was a black and white Oscar.

You know, I was once named Minor League Player of the Year...unfortunately, I had been in the majors for two years at the time.

Oh, what a shock. My career must be slipping. This is the first time I've been available to pick up an award.

Every time an Oscar is given out, an agent gets his wings.

I am, incidentally, the only writer to have received the Somerset Maugham award twice - the first time for my first novel, the second time for my second first novel.

I admit I still recoil against a society that has so slipped in caring that ordinary human sharing and thoughtfulness appears to warrant ahumanitarian award and diligent effort seems too often the exception rather than the rule.

fallen asleep, because I could have sworn I was receiving an Oscar from the Queen.

Gifts are free. If you work for a gift, it is no longer a gift. Gifts in the truest sense are undeserved. If we feel we deserve it, then it ceases to be a gift and becomes an award. The eternal life God gives us is truly a gift because we don't deserve it in any way.

It's a little weird that I'm getting an award for being nice and generous and kind... which is what we're all supposed to do for one another. That's the point of being human. I think that kindness is an innate quality that we all have. We need to see more of it in the world. I want everyone to know that we all really, really love one another. Deep down, we all love one another. We need to get back to that. My wish is that we all try.

If you're in Bollywood and working in any category, and you receive a Filmfare Award for it, it's a huge thing for any creative person.

Our outrage at inequality is primal. But primal emotions are not always noble ones. Of course, when I see a colleague receive some award, I covet it. But this is not me at my best, and these are not the feelings we would instill and promote in our children.

There are many great players to have won the adidas Golden Ball Award, and it is a great privilege to receive this award and be part of this select group of players.

The Heisman - it would be a privilege and an honor to receive that award, but at the end of the day, I want to be the best I can be at my position and for my team.

I am overjoyed to receive the Michael H. Goldberg Coach of the Year Award from the National Basketball Coaches Association.

I couldn't stop looking at the award when I received it. It was as if my whole career flashed in front of me, from beginning to the moment I was handed the Golden Globe.

The nicest part of the prize, perhaps, is the effect on my friends and family. Each of them feels proud and happy to have the relationship with me that they do. In a way, it's as though they received an award too, and I like that very much.

I would like Albert Brooks to have received the Oscars for best actor, best director and best screenplay for 'Modern Romance.' I love that movie.

In 2013, after a challenging two years of long-term IV antibiotics and six weeks at a clinic in florida, I received the 'Star Light' award from the Lyme Research Alliance for my advocacy and strength to light the way of Lyme disease awareness.

The Strauss allowed me to be a writer. Without it, 'The Emperor's Children' would not exist. When I received the award, I was teaching, had one baby, and was pregnant with another. There was no time for writing.

In college I received the Best Actor award for four consecutive years under Calicut University.

I am honored to be receiving the Point Courage Award.