#award

I could have a roomful of awards and it wouldn't mean beans. ↗

— Bobby Darin

#beans #could #i #mean #roomful

Great, big, serious novels always get awards. If it's a battle between a great, big, serious novel and a funny novel, the funny novel is doomed. ↗

— Neil Gaiman

#awards #battle #between #big #doomed

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. ↗

— John Kenneth Galbraith

#award #chief #chief executive #corporation #executive

I had no idea what to expect when we did Ladies' Night. I didn't think it was going to get nominated for a Grammy. I didn't know that we would have to perform on the MTV Awards show. ↗

— Angie Martinez

#did #expect #get #going #grammy

As a songwriter, there's nothing better than winning Song Of The Year. But I couldn't really celebrate, because it wasn't right. Luther wasn't standing next to me, to receive the award. ↗

— Richard Marx

#because #better #celebrate #i #luther

They weren't impatient for the boys to turn into cartoons again. They awarded sympathy, gave compassion. Because deep down they had found parts of themselves in the characters. You said it George. ↗

— Audrey Meadows

#awarded #because #cartoons #characters #compassion

I don't know when acting came to be more about awards than about the work. Judging who's better than the other person shouldn't be part of why we're doing this job. It should be about entertaining people. ↗

— Anna Paquin

#acting #awards #better #came #doing

In view of the meaning given to this honor in the community to which I belong, I should abstain from the undeserved prize that has been awarded to me. Do not meet my voluntary refusal with ill will. ↗

— Boris Pasternak

#awarded #been #belong #community #given