Quotes About Lifetime Achievement Awards

#1. 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

#2. 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

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

Robert Plant

#4. 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

#5. If I survive this, I can't go back. I'll have to move forward and I don't know what that means.

C.J. Roberts

#6. 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

#7. When we sat down on the couch again, you curled up against my side, like you used to when you were a toddler.
What I wanted to say to you, but didn't, was this: Don't use me as your model. I'm the last person you should look up to.

Jodi Picoult

#8. The final product in a play is not just the written word. It's the production, the performance. The script is, of course, a very important piece; but it's only one element. Ultimately, yours is one of several voices. People can change your work in a play for better or worse.

Jesse Kellerman

#9. I think that most people believe that Russia, because of its - it has regained some of its military strength. And they do rattle the saber a bit. It wants to be a player.

Charlie Rose

#10. Just study Buddhism. Don't follow the sentiments of the world.

Dogen

#11. 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

#12. Seeing the world that, as a child, he had once thought so unimaginably vast, nearly limitless in size, reduced to a tiny ball, floating there, swallowed by the immensity of the universe, reminded Milo of how small he was, how minute a single life was - just

A.G. Riddle

#13. 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

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

Steven Spielberg

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

Donald O'Connor

#16. 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