Achievement Awards Quotes

#1. Honorary degrees and lifetime achievement awards are very encouraging. I know that it might sound strange that a writer who has published many books still needs encouragement, but this is true.

Joyce Carol Oates

#2. It's crucial that I kind of keep up, without drifting into the backslapping land of cliche and lifetime achievement awards.

Robert Plant

#3. The things you get fired for when you're young are the same things that you get lifetime achievement awards for when you're old.

Francis Ford Coppola

#4. I sometimes wonder how many of these lifetime achievement awards you can accept before you have to do the decent thing and die.

James Taylor

#5. It's nice to get any awards, whether it's lifetime achievement or the Keith Richards award for being alive one more year.

Randy Bachman

#6. I'd like to thank the Academy for my lifetime achievement award that I will eventually get.

Donald O'Connor

#7. I'm 62 years old. Am I old enough to win a lifetime achievement award? Yes, I am. Thank you very much.

Steven Spielberg

#8. All she had left of her old life and her old uncertainties was attacking familiar targets.

J.K. Rowling

#9. Out of this moment when the world melted away all around him, when he stood alone like a star in the sky, out of this moment of cold and despair, Siddhartha emerged, more himself than before, firmer in his resolve.

Hermann Hesse

#10. The sort of lifetime achievement stuff that I'm getting now is kind of like Tom Sawyer's funeral because they all know I'm sick. I am getting buildings named after me and awards and stuff.

Sam Simon

#11. History is always written to serve the powerful.

Kevin Emerson

#12. The measure of achievement is not winning awards. It's doing something that you appreciate, something you believe is worthwhile.

Julia Child

#13. Of course I know that, Louisa. I do not see the application of the remark.' To do him justice he did not, at all. She

Charles Dickens

#14. Something happens when you become an elder rock & roller and you're still functioning. People start to give you awards and recognize achievements. It's the life achievement period of your career.

Geddy Lee

#15. Then, early, early, early in the morning-just as in countless Disney films-I heard a rooster crow. But guess what? They don't do it just once.

Vivian Vande Velde

#16. There is no better boat than a horoscope to help a man cross over the sea of life.

Varahamihira

#17. The Country Music Awards were held Wednesday night at Universal City. The best country songs are always about drinking and guns and love gone wrong. Next year they're giving Robert Blake the Lifetime Achievement Award.

Argus Hamilton

#18. Travel makes a wise man better, and a fool worse.

Thomas Fuller

#19. Among all the 'awards' that I have hitherto collected, I consider the title of 'patita' or 'fallen woman' to be the highest. This is an achievement of my long-struggling life as a writer and as a woman.

Taslima Nasrin

#20. It's very rare that I play cool people. I'm not sure what that says about me.

Matt Smith

#21. If you want your program to be readable, consider supplying the argument.

Larry Wall

#22. I like fighting Tories ... that's what I do.

Anthony Albanese

#23. Don't buy much but make sure that what you buy is good.

Christian Dior

#24. It seems quite proper to fear achievement, which, after all, is proof that you've successfully moved an experience from the delightfully anticipated future into the forever and sadly lost past. Avoid as long as you can the ultimate indignity: a lifetime achievement award.

Terry Rossio

#25. [He] carefully put a funky-looking pair of reading glasses on her. "There we go. How are they?"
She blinked experimentally, peering around the room. "Good, I think. Thank you."
"Wear them the next time we f***. That would be thanking me."
"Aww. You say the sweetest things."
"Don't I?

Kylie Scott

#26. My mother has all my awards, because if I walked downstairs every day and saw all my achievements it would be so easy to become complacent.

Lauryn Hill

#27. I think I'd rather win, for example, a Writer's Guild award than almost anything on earth. And the few nominations I've had with the guild, and the few awards I've had, represented to me a far more legitimate concrete achievement than anything.

Rod Serling

#28. I wouldn't have left you like that. Not like she did to me." I swallow hard. "She always said I'd die without her and she left anyway."
"But you didn't die," He says.
"I did," I say. "I'm just waiting for the rest of me to catch up.

Courtney Summers