Quotes About Award Ceremony

#1. When I think about my MVP season, I will also think about the loss to Golden State. But winning the award as Most Valuable Player of the NBA is just a huge honor. I didn't really realize how big it was until Mark Cuban had tears in his eyes at the award ceremony.

Dirk Nowitzki

#2. If you're at an award ceremony, you're against your mates.

Imelda Staunton

#3. THE AWARD CEREMONY is held at a high school in Hyannis. Though it's just a gymnasium (the scent of balls of both varieties is still palpable) and the ceremony hasn't started yet, everyone speaks in hushed tones, like it's church. Something important and literary is about to happen here.

Gabrielle Zevin

#4. I had a novel in the back of my mind when I won an Ian St James story competition in 1993. At the award ceremony an agent asked me if I was writing a novel. I showed her four or five chapters of what would become 'Behind the Scenes at the Museum' and to my surprise she auctioned them off.

Kate Atkinson

#5. There was an austerely dignified award ceremony. By that I mean we had to buy our own drinks - in clear violation of the international journalists'code of truth, fairness and an open bar.

P. J. O'Rourke

#6. Apart from the National Film Awards, I don't see any other award ceremony that I should give value
to. My personal experience about these award ceremonies is that I don't trust them. I have no faith
in them so I would prefer to stay away.

Aamir Khan

#7. Does getting an award make you happy? When you imagine yourself at the ceremony, you're always so eloquent and gracious. In reality, it's kind of awkward.

Ann Leckie

#8. You hear me, don't ever let anyone kill the spark inside you. No matter what.

Nicky Drayden

#9. Actresses are kind of a little crazy.

Russell Simmons

#10. One hundred eighty days, Aislinn. Seth's been gone for one hundred eighty days, and I've watched you try to pretend it doesn't hurt for every one of them. Can't I try to make you happy?

Melissa Marr

#11. In the century of jazz we are likely to overlook the emergence of the waltz as a hot and explosive human expression that broke through the formal feudal barriers of courtly and choral dance styles.

Marshall McLuhan

#12. One can acquire certainty only by amputating inquiry.

Marvin Minsky

#13. I don't like principles. I prefer prejudices.

Oscar Wilde

#14. From here on in, Harry, I may be as woefully wrong as Humphrey Belcher who believed the time was ripe for a cheese cauldron.

J.K. Rowling

#15. You do things and do things and nobody really has a clue.

John Updike

#16. I always have difficulty with people who are not openly warm, expressive. I need a certain sign, a certain invitation.

Anais Nin

#17. Winning the Outstanding Contribution award is great, because you know you have won in advance. Previously, I have been really nervous during the ceremony because you have no idea if you are going to get called up on stage. This time I could relax and enjoy myself.

Tom Jones

#18. Please, I don't want to fall in love with you. Aye, he could honor that. But she'd not said anything about him falling in love with her.

Laura Frantz

#19. I'm a bit suspicious of people who are narrow in their musical tastes.

Steven Hall

#20. When we come to a place where we trust that God's timing is perfect, we can be content no matter where we are because we know that God will not leave us there forever. Maintaining a passion for the present means embracing the light we have where we are at this time and trusting that it is enough.

Stormie O'martian

#21. Absolute hospitality would in no way amount to the absence of violence. To the contrary, it would enthrone violence precisely under the guise of nonviolence because it would leave the violators unchanged and the consequences of violence unremedied.

Miroslav Volf

#22. Why did the flower fade? I pressed it to my heart with anxious love, that is why the flower faded.

Rabindranath Tagore

#23. What's the good of being true to your religion on the outside, if you don't change what's on the inside,were it really counts ?

Randa Abdel-Fattah

#24. Because Ernest Lawrence's award came in the war years, I had the unusual opportunity of attending his Nobel Prize presentation ceremony.

Luis Walter Alvarez