#award

I never thought of having platinum albums and winning awards. I just wanted to write songs and sing when I started out in the music business. ↗

— Randy Travis

#awards #business #having #i #just

I would not employ an author to referee a Ping-Pong match. By their very nature they are biased and bloody-minded. Better put a fox in a henhouse than to ask an author to judge his peers. (in a letter to the Governor General about the GA's Literary Awards & his issue--among others--with the judging system, 1981) ↗

— Jack McClelland

#awards #humor #judging #publishers #publishing

It is something to have gazed on the constellated white, felt it running from the eyes and the pores: the salt of love. It is something to have whispered wild thank-yous in the only ways we know how. ↗

— Bryana Johnson

#free-verse #hamlet #poetry-life #shakespeare #the-quintessence-of-dust

The Heisman is the biggest award I've ever won. ↗

— Barry Sanders

#biggest #ever #i #won

I always had a larger view. I'm interested in real life - my family, my friends. I have tried never to define myself by my success, whatever that is. My happiness is way beyond roles and awards. ↗

— Amy Adams

#awards #beyond #define #family #friends

I worked three and then six hours a day in my studio with strict discipline and emotion. I obtained awards usually granted to other foreigners during the end-of-year admission tests. ↗

— Ralph Allen

#awards #day #discipline #during #emotion

The hoopla with all the award season is kind of mind-boggling. It kind of puts you on your heels. ↗

— Jeff Bridges

#heels #kind #mind-boggling #puts #season

I have done so much for hip-hop and 'til this day, I haven't received any awards or any recognition for it. ↗

— Luther Campbell

#awards #day #done #haven #hip-hop

It's not just the 'Grammys' that I've pulled out of. I also pulled out of the English awards as well. The reason that I wanted to pull out was because I believe very much that the music industry as a whole is mainly concerned with material success. ↗

— Alanis Morissette

#awards #because #believe #concerned #english

I abandoned chemistry to concentrate on mathematics and physics. In 1942, I travelled to Cambridge to take the scholarship examination at Trinity College, received an award and entered the university in October 1943. ↗

— John Pople

#award #cambridge #chemistry #college #concentrate