Quotes About Award

Marilynne Robinson's Gilead, which had won the Pulitzer Prize in 2005,

Some Marines made fun of the fact that I had done plays and studied poetry, but then I won the award for physical training.

Obviously he deserved that Finals MVP award. He is a great talent and he is a huge reason why we are celebrating.

Oh, I've become immune to the Booker. I think we need something a little more like the Pulitzer prize, where there isn't this great race.

The cross of the Legion of Honor has been conferred on me. However, few escape that distinction.

It's an honor to win a Grammy, of course.

Being sued by your own record company, that's even better than receiving a Grammy

My main regret in life is that there is no MacArthur Fellowship awarded in the field of Panda Satire.

I would watch the Oscars and every award show with my parents. I would make lists of who was going to win. I'd be doing Oscar predictions months ahead of time, and not only for the Oscars, for the Grammys. This is just what excited me as a kid.

Berlin was the first, the very first to give me an award. I am eternally grateful to them. It sits on my desk - the Silver Bear. All the others are stored away. It's the only one I look at. It watches me while I work.

I gave John Wayne the push he needed to get that Oscar.

The thing I have in common with Donald Trump is, about a dozen years ago, we got a 'Man of the Year' award in New York City, the Hotel Plaza, from the USO.

Nothing gives me more pleasure than acting. But I don't enjoy going for award functions or giving interviews.

It is such a special thing. As a kid growing up, you look at the Ballon d'Or and how it is the top of the top from a personal point of view.

When I turn on an award show, I don't want to be lectured about politics, climate change or the NRA or a left-wing issue or a right-wing issue.

I would never have thought my collection of short stories would win the Giller.

I am now a commander of the British Empire.

I never thought I would get a National Award. For me, it was huge, and I got complacent.

Nowadays, what an award gives is a sense of solidarity with the poetry guild, as it were: sustenance coming from the assent of your peers on the judging panel.

After a year of post-graduate research, I won an 1851 Exhibition scholarship to work at Oxford with Robert Robinson. Two such scholarships were awarded each year, and the other was won by Rita Harradence, also of Sydney and also an organic chemist.

An Oscar is a symbol that is known in every corner of the world.

It was a symbolic moment when 'Moonlight' literally took the Oscar out of 'La La Land's' hand.

He has worked hard to disappear into achievement. Twice he has won the university's teaching award, and only last month he was nominated for the APA's Beauchamp Prize for research that empirically advances a materialistic understanding of the human mind. He has performed himself in public so long he's been fooled by his own vita.

Something up, and it has nothing to do with why you're bringing gifts. You just do that because you're awesome. Can I get that in writing? Casey's right, Dalton says. Not about the awesome part. That depends on what condition my town's in. Something's up, and it's making me think I might not be awarding you that awesome certificate anytime soon. There's a certificate? I have a stack of them. I say.