Quotes About Award

Winning an Oscar ain't about performance. There's a lot of politics involved.

I guess I really haven't thought much about winning an Oscar, but if I had the opportunity, I'm sure I would like it.

I was very proud to win the PFA trophy because usually an attacker or a midfielder wins it.

Award season is such an exciting time of the year and I enjoy seeing who is nominated, who wins and - like most women - the fashions.

I want to thank the Academy for its courage and generosity.

Winning 'Best Vlogger of 2013' from MTV is a really wonderful honor, and I wanted to thank all of you out there that used your fingers and clicked a button and made this happen, and to all of you that accidentally clicked my name and you were trying to click Jack and Finn, I'm sorry.

The MVP award was very satisfying in terms of personal accomplishments, but the championship was the most important thing of all.

Maybe the biggest award show of the largest entertainment importer in the world needs an economic incentive to embrace diversity. Indeed, maybe we should boycott the show and pressure advertisers to do the same. Or maybe the Academy should learn the lesson of history and change because it's the right thing to do.

If there were an Oscar for best theatrical performance by a country, Israel would win every year. It's a country based on theater. It's a lunatic state - completely insane.

There was a theft! But, of course, if it was up to me, every two years I would win an Oscar.

The Nobel Peace Prize has become hopelessly politicized. I think it cheapens the prize itself.

I don't believe I can let this subject pass by leaving my own conflicted emotions unconfessed. When Carl Sagan won the Pulitzer Prize for nonfiction in 1978, I dismissed it as a minor achievement for a scientist, scarcely worth listing. When I won the same prize the following year, it wondrously became a major literary award of which scientists should take special note.

Annie Dillard was a pioneer in her Pilgrim at Tinker Creek, which won a Pulitzer Prize in 1974. Among other notable examples are David M. Carroll's Following the Water: A Hydromancer's Notebook (2009); David George Haskell's The Forest Unseen (2012); and Dave Goulson's A Buzz in the Meadow: The Natural History of a French Farm (2015).

We're basking in language itself. The silence of my friend. My love. The one beyond words in her silence. She is always eternally before. When she speaks it is shit, a gift, something to do. In our moment, of waiting, pointing, silent gear, what we went out for—that is pointing. Shit is the award. The award is shit.

A dullard only feels exalted upon being conferred with a coveted award that s/he never deserved, but surprisingly even then that shameless person expresses via own word as how s/he feels humbled or honored to the watchful audience of this world.

A person does not become respectable simply by occupying high position in an organization or a nation; accepting an award or reward from a doubtful character is not respect but insult to a recipient who is worth to trust by the people.

An intelligent or brilliant feels ebullient only upon receiving the reward or award from the hands of genuine master, whereas the stupid or sycophant feels buoyant even when getting it from the hands of servant.

Bravery reward is to be bestowed to a person who stands strong as single; Slavery award is to be given to a man who goes down on the toes of a woman to remain long as a married couple.

The reward of slavery has been made to look perhaps more aesthetically pleasing than the award of bravery and that's so the reason why many people are attracted towards the former than the latter.

Robert Pattinson is an incredibly gifted actor. Every role that Pattinson plays is a contender for an acting award.

The Dave Clark Five was basically a live band. During '63 we got the Gold Cup for being the best live band in Britain.

Wired gave 'Duke Nukem Forever' the first Vaporware Award, and then the next year it won No. 1 vaporware again, and then again and again until Wired decided, you know what? 'Duke Nukem' is just going to get the lifetime achievement award for vaporware.

Neither praise or blame is the object of true criticism. Justly to discriminate, firmly to establish, wisely to prescribe, and honestly to award. These are the true aims and duties of criticism.

For us to win a VMA without even dropping our first album was kind of amazing. It felt like a dream, and then I woke up the next morning like, 'Oh my God - I've got a Moonman!'