Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jane Elliot

Submitting myself for awards feels like a weird kind of horn-blowing that's not comfortable for me. I'm really happy when someone likes my work, but I don't like marketing myself, putting myself on display.

Chantal Kreviazuk

Actually, no, because awards don't spark sales as much as you'd think.

Jason Aldean

It's the only time that I'm ever nervous on stage, is when we're doing live TV. Especially an awards show, because I know you can't fix it.

Ben Gazzara

I love awards, especially if I get them.

Burt Reynolds

There are no awards in Hollywood for being an idiot.

Guy Pearce

The reality is that we have all these awards and all these festivals that give out awards, so you sort of go, 'okay, well, people liked the film, and I think it's a good film, and it's up for an award - well, I guess it should win the award then.'

Bobby Knight

For me to get an award from the press, I know there's been no favoritism.

Mark Kantrowitz

There are very few scholarships that give money simply for breathing. Probably most of the scholarships are merit-based. Awards that are need-based tend to be loans.

Pam Wilkins

She's a big team player. She knows she's not anything without the rest of them. She always thinks somebody else deserves the awards and all that.

David Dunn

Take up giving-away as a hobby while you are young, and you will have a happy life. What is more, because you do so many thoughtful things on impulse, you will develop a lively and interesting personality- gracious, friendly, and likeable.

David Brainerd

If you hope for happiness in the world, hope for it from God, and not from the world.

Audrey Hepburn

You can only hope to get a combination of happy work and a happy life.

Denis Thatcher

What it meant to me: a happy life, of course, companionship, of course. A common objective, I think.

Denis Waitley

Happiness cannot be traveled to, owned, earned or worn.

Diego Della Valle

When you work too much, you are boring - that is possible. But to have a happy life, if you can do several things in the correct way, that is perfect.

Dieter F. Uchtdorf

May I invite you to rise to the great potential within you. But don't reach beyond your capacity. Don't set goals beyond your capacity to achieve. Don't feel guilty or dwell on thoughts of failure. Don't compare yourself with others. Do the best you can, and the Lord will provide the rest. Have faith and confidence in Him, and you will see miracles happen in your life and the lives of your loved ones.

Kevin Williamson

Hey, I'm happy someone is hiring me. It could be all over. I'm so lucky to have a job.

Ernie Els

When I got to my ball, I was like, what's going on? I've never seen that happen. I was very happy to make a 4.

David Riesman

There is evidence that young men in the big law firms, although they still work harder than most of their clients, do not glory in putting in night work and weekend hours as they once did.

David Hockney

Every good artist I know, I always think works hard, we're working all the time.

Benedict Cumberbatch

I try to work hard. I'm really proud of what I get to do as a living. I still pinch myself. But I also know it's a craft, and I can get better at it and learn every time I do it. So I try to work hard no matter what the task is.

Derek Fisher

You have to work hard at things.

Derek Jeter

It doesn't take talent to work hard.

Derek Jeter

I think it comes easy to work hard. I was always taught, don't short-change yourself. Keep working to get better.

Derek Jeter

I love it when people doubt me. It makes me work harder to prove them wrong.

Dee Dee Ramone

It's very hard to tour.

Deepika Padukone

I don't think you need any kind of backing here in the industry. I think what you achieve in your life is the result of your own talent and hard work.

David Vitter

D energy - Domestic jobs; Domestic energy; Deficit reduction.

David Rockwell

But what makes my job so great is there's no one answer that's right for every restaurant.

David Remnick

I'm a journalist - I'm not Robert Caro. I have a day job, and a pretty consuming one - a joyfully consuming one.

David Horowitz

My parents called themselves progressives. The agenda was a Soviet America...the slogan of the communist party in those days was peace, jobs, democracy. Sound familar? The communist party is the democratic Party.

David Dinkins

I went downtown as a lawyer and then I worked in a liquor store at night, as I had done all through law school. And so when I got to the point where I could give up the night job, I joined the political club.

David Dinkins

I finished law school in '56, but I was working two jobs.

David Duke

And affirmative action is a very nice term for racial discrimination against better-qualified white people in jobs, employment, promotions and scholarships, and college admittance.

David Duke

A black...gets a job with a white-owned company. He is the only black at the firm. He works hard, but he's fighting a losing battle against his genes.

David Duchovny

My whole life, Ive wanted things before I was ready. I was always pushing for the next job, the next success. I was so focused on achieving and the path that I was missing some great point about life.

David Ricardo

For price is everywhere regulated by the return obtained by this last portion of capital, for which no rent whatever is paid.

Barry Commoner

If environmentalism is a fad, it will be the last one.

Antony Garrett Lisi

Science is our last and greatest frontier.

Alan Dershowitz

The court of last resort is no longer the Supreme Court. It's 'Nightline.'

Charles Darwin

Thus disbelief crept over me at a very slow rate, but at last was complete. The rate was so slow that I felt no distress, and have never since doubted even for a single second that my conclusion was correct.

Channing Tatum

Actually I have a tradition that I always steal my last costume on the last day of filming.

Blaise Pascal

The last proceeding of reason is to recognize that there is an infinity of things which are beyond it. There is nothing so conformable to reason as this disavowal of reason.

Blaise Pascal

Reason's last step is to acknowledge that there are infinitely many things beyond it.

Blaise Pascal

The last advance of reason is to recognize that it is surpassed by innumerable things; it is feeble if it cannot realize that.

Jim Leyland

Makes a big difference. Players always make the difference.

Zeke Moreno

L.T. is fast. It takes 11 players to stop him. If 11 players are on the same page, then it's cool. But it's going to be very hard.

Ben Braaten

We usually have 10 different players in every quarter.

Joe Browne

We're going with young players who want to play in Pittsburgh.

Nell Fortner

She is one of those players that is worth the price of admission.

Maria Sharapova

Most of the top players are playing, aren't they?

Lori Ulferts

She's one of the most underrated players in the league. Even when she wasn't scoring in the first half, she was the source of most their points.

Dave Rubio

She's not there yet, but the top international players are making over $200,000 a year now. It speaks well of the sport.

Lee Pipkin

She's not just going to score points. She's going to do everything. Considering all the stuff she does for us, I think she's one of the better players in the state.

David Viscott

You don't have to try, you just have to be.

David Viscott

Lists today are a way of trying to get through the day, because we are losing a sense of time.

David Heyman

Making the films is never easy, but actually that aspect of trying to make a better film or to keep the standard high is something that comes organically.

David Heyman

All we try and do is make the best films we can. If you do that then hopefully the audiences will come, and they have. Everything else is gravy.

David Hyde Pierce

On some level in acting, what you're trying to find is truth, because when it's true is when it's also funny.

David Douglas

It's so off the charts and off anybody's radar screen, that place. It might as well be another planet. Just try to find somebody who's been to Madagascar. Nobody has been to Madagascar.

David Duchovny

I enjoy trying to figure out the best way to compliment the picture and not overpower it.

David Duchovny

Usually, when I act, I try to forget the words and let them come, and just find my way through them.

David Brooks

I learned I'm not a science writer. I'm not very good at describing how something is happening. I try to describe "So What?"

David Walker

Karate is not about winning over others. It is about winning over one's self. Ultimately, the most challenging opponents we face reside from within - our hang-ups, our insecurities, our prejudices. Overcome these and you will have truly won.

David Robertson

Consumers could be in for an even sweeter deal, either getting discounts from retailers for using the PIN debit cards or being rewarded by card network by winning money back for using the signature debit cards.

David Hyde Pierce

Maybe it's because I'm getting older, I'm finding enjoyment in things that stop time. Just the simple act of tasting a glass of wine is its own event. You're not downing a glass of wine in the midst of doing something else.

David Horowitz

Politics is about winning. If you don?t win, you don?t get to put your principles into practice. Therefore, find a way to win, or sit the battle out.

David Hobson

I enjoy the cleaning up - something about the getting of things in order for winter - making the garden secure - a battening down of hatches perhaps... It just feels right.

David Brinkley

She took a leap of faith and grew her wings on the way down.

Arnold Schwarzenegger

You have to do everything possible to win no matter what.

Arnold Schwarzenegger

Not every legend is a myth, some are flesh and blood. Some legends walk among us, but they aren’t born, they’re built. Legends are made from iron & sweat, mind and muscle, blood and vision and victory. Legends are champions, they grow, they win, they conquer. There’s a legend behind every legacy, there’s a blueprint behind every legend.

Arnold Schwarzenegger

Don't be afraid to fail. Anything that I've ever attempted I was always willing to fail. You can't always win, but don't be afraid of making decisions.

Richard Holbrooke

I have worked in every - every Democratic administration since the Kennedy administration, and I know dysfunctionality when I see it.

Obie Trice

Let's say I was a plumber, or I worked at a factory, I would download music, you feel what I'm saying?

Earl Butz

The difference was you worked for Nixon, and with Ford.

Scott Aukerman

I look back on our productivity in the 'Mr. Show' days, and think, 'We probably could have worked harder.'

Topher Grace

I worked at Suncoast Video for two years during the summer in high school.

Josh McDermitt

One person I haven't worked with yet, who I find hilarious, is Chad Coleman.

Claudia Stuart

She had worked the streets, but she was well respected, and she has impacted a lot of lives.

Andrew Hooper

McKay really sparked us. He was very big tonight. He really worked his butt off.

Sallie Krawcheck

Some of it is because things haven't worked out as well as we hoped.

David Walker

Just five years ago, it was almost impossible to waste a million dollars building a Web site.

David Walton

That's what I like about acting. You don't know where you'll be in year.

David Remnick

I'm interested in Russian language, culture, history... and I lived there, for four years, as a reporter for the Washington Post and have visited many times since.

David Horowitz

For thirty years, beginning with the invention of a privacy right in the Supreme Court decision Roe v. Wade, the Left has been waging a systematic assault on the constitutional foundation of the nation.

David Hilbert

If I were to awaken after having slept for a thousand years, my first question would be: Has the Riemann hypothesis been proven?

David Icke

The years after the millennium will see gathering conflict all over the world to the point where the United Nations will be overwhelmed.

David Icke

So, in effect, what I'm saying is that my research is very strongly pointing to the fact that the extraterrestrials are not coming, they're not going to invade, they've actually been controlling this planet, increasingly, for thousands of years.

David Hockney

I worked in the NHS as a hospital orderly during my national service, and people thought it was a noble service. But over the years it's lost its humanity.

David Hockney

Movie actors disappear - any young person wouldn't know Cary Grant. They're going to disappear. Fifty years ago, you thought film was here to stay. But nothing is here to stay, actually - except perhaps paintings and drawings.