Posthumous Award Quotes

#1. The thing is that my first novel, which was basically a mystery adventure story, won quite an important award in Spain for young adult fiction, and because of this it became a very successful book, and right now it's some sort of a standard title, it's read widely in many high schools in Spain, so I think, in a way, I was a victim of my own success in the field of young adult fiction, because it was never my own natural register. I never intended to write that kind of fiction, but I became very successful at it. #Quote by Carlos Ruiz Zafon

#2. I gave a very dear friend of mine my humanitarian award. Because you don't need an award to be, or not be, a humanitarian. #Quote by Elizabeth Taylor

#3. I have no wish to win an award that would be tainted, #Quote by Melky Cabrera

#4. Dr. Upward was one of those Academy Award-winning Asses of Arrogance you find in educational administration, law or medicine. #Quote by David Mitchell

#5. Along with the punctuality gene, the liar gene had skipped out on me as well. I was officially the world's worst liar. I could've won and award for it. Whenever I tried to mimic a serious expression, I ended up looking like I was half-retarded #Quote by Rachel K. Burke

#6. I have to say that my biggest Award is performing in front of my fans. Their love is my award. #Quote by Shreya Ghoshal

#7. Reputation being essentially contemporaneous, is always at the mercy of the Envious and the Ignorant. But Fame, whose very birth is posthumous, and which is only known to exist by the echo of its footsteps through congenial minds, can neither be increased nor diminished by any degree of wilfulness. #Quote by Anna Brownell Jameson

#8. Michael Jackson has a very good heart. He was crying when he was giving me the award, 'cause his mind went back over the early days. #Quote by James Brown

#9. When the Nobel award came my way, it also gave me an opportunity to do something immediate and practical about my old obsessions, including literacy, basic health care and gender equity, aimed specifically at India and Bangladesh. #Quote by Amartya Sen

#10. We have potential. Who needs medals? I'd rather have potential than medals any day. #Quote by Neil Gaiman

#11. To get the Nickelodeon award? That's like 'it.' It's one of the best. It's definitely where you want to be in your career. #Quote by Nelly

#12. I've received many honors and I'm grateful for them; but I've already received the highest award I'll ever receive, and that has been the privilege and honor of serving very proudly in the United States Navy. #Quote by Grace Hopper

#13. Where will you go if you don't get into NYU?" he asks.
"Where else?" I say. "Ole Miss, with Lucy and Morgan."
"Then Ole Miss is my backup too. Here's the thing, Jem. I'm going wherever you're going--whether it's New York or Oxford. I'm not missing my chance this time."
"Why?" The word just tumbles out of my mouth before I can stop myself. "You're going to be some kind of college superstar, whether it's the SEC or the Ivy league. You'll probably win a freaking Heisman."
"And you just might win an Oscar," he counters.
I roll my eyes. "Yeah, right. Please."
"Why not? God, Jemma, you don't even see it. How strong and smart and tenacious you are. Everything you do, you do well. I've never seen you put your mind to something and not come out on top. You win that trophy at cheer camp every single summer--what's it called, the superstar award? Only three people at the whole camp get it or something like that, right?"
"How'd you know about that?"
"Miss Shelby told my mom. I think they put it in the yearbook, too, don't they?"
"Maybe," I say with a shrug. It's not that big of a deal. It's just a cheerleading trophy.
"And how long did it take you to win your first shooting tournament after your dad bought you that gun? Six months, tops? From what I hear, you're the best shot in all of Magnolia Branch."
"Okay, that's true," I say, a smile tugging at the corners of my mouth.
He reaches for my hand. "And then there's those dresses #Quote by Kristi Cook

#14. It's always fun to think about winning an award. I thought about winning awards when I was a little girl. Everybody wants to win an award for something. #Quote by Leslie Mann

#15. Abby, listen to me. I can hear thoughts–" – Sundown
"Little late now, bucko. I noticed. Thanks for volunteering that. Let me give you a Hero Award for your first confession. Big flippin' hairy doo dah…Woo. Hoo." – Abigail #Quote by Sherrilyn Kenyon

#16. There needs to be structures in place to do something about misrepresentation about hip hop. When awards are given out and the media talk about hip hop, they're confused because they haven't done their homework on it so you have a case where there's an award for the most pop song in the world and it's called 'hip hop'. #Quote by Nas

#17. I get some of the nicest fan mail you could imagine. Also when I'm up for an award, my fans all vote online and then they'll boast to each other about how many thousands of times they've clicked my name. Their thumbs must be bleeding! #Quote by Jason Isaacs

#18. On a Creep Scale from Hello Kitty to Cthulhu, I award it a Freddy
Krueger.
Granuaile MacTiernan #Quote by Kevin Hearne

#19. I slept through the award presentation for Napper of the Year. They had to wake me when I won. Winning was like a dream come true. #Quote by Jarod Kintz

#20. The main criterion for an award (of a research contract from the NCI) is the capacity to demonstrate the relevance of the project to the program's target. But the only sure way to prove this relevance is to have, in fact, already proved it. #Quote by June Goodfield

#21. I never knew I'd be in a musical, let alone win an award for one. #Quote by Nicole Kidman

#22. You should win an award or something for most compassionate student. No, wait. I mean the most self-centered dipshit award." Her #Quote by Samantha Young

#23. An award doesn't necessarily make you a better actor. #Quote by Javier Bardem

#24. 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. #Quote by Kate Atkinson

#25. Shoot a few scenes out of focus. I want to win the foreign film award. #Quote by Billy Wilder

#26. I don't look for boyfriends, I don't really scour the awards shows for who I'm going to date, but I think love happens when you're not looking for it, and when it happens, I'm not going to be the one to overthink it. #Quote by Taylor Swift

#27. Dear Merlin, How empty is empty space? ARTHUR LEVY HOUSTON, TEXAS When a rabbit disappears into "thin air" at a magic show nobody tells you the thin air already contains over 10,000,000,000,000,000,000 (ten quintillion) atoms per cubic centimeter. The very best laboratory vacuum chambers have as few as 10,000 atoms per cubic centimeter. Interplanetary space gets down to about 10 atoms per cubic centimeter while interstellar space is as low as 0.5 atoms per cubic centimeter. The award for nothingness, however, must be given to intergalactic space. There it is difficult to find more than 0.0000001 atoms per cubic centimeter. It has been postulated that outside the universe, where there is no space, there is no nothing. We might call this hypothetical region (where we are certain to find multitudes of rabbits) nothing-nothing #Quote by Neil DeGrasse Tyson

#28. I don't know if this is a stumbling block, but I had a real setback when I won a Nebula Award for the first story I ever had nominated for a Nebula in 1982. And you might think that was a good thing - and it was a wonderful thing, I don't regret it a bit. But I was sort of discombobulated by it. #Quote by John Kessel

#29. I agree to the fight. The award, which is getting for these hardships, it is exorbitantly large. It is the joy of life. #Quote by Jerzy Kukuczka

#30. Receiving both the Coretta Scott King - Virginia Hamilton Award for Lifetime Achievement and the Laura Ingalls Wilder Award suggests I have succeeded, at least in terms of my own goals, in my intent to make art that moves children. #Quote by Jerry Pinkney

#31. And these women were not concerned in the least that Kellan had roommates. In fact, I don't think they were even concerned that he had neighbors. Maybe they were operating under the false assumption that Kellan gave out awards for who could be the loudest ... who was the more enthusiastic ... who could say "Oh, God !" the most. Then again, maybe the jerk actually did give out prizes. #Quote by S.C. Stephens

#32. With an award like the Asian Film Awards, we've sent a message saying that 'Asian Cinema is here, it matters, and more importantly, we are all part of the same fraternity!' The AFA is truly, then, an award for Asia, by Asia. #Quote by Michelle Yeoh

#33. George Clooney married Amal Alamuddin this year. Amal is a human rights lawyer who worked on the Enron case, was an advisor to Kofi Annan regarding Syria, and was selected for a three-person commission investigating rules of war violation in the Gaza Strip. So tonight, her husband is getting a Lifetime Achievement Award. #Quote by Tina Fey

#34. Actually, I always dreamed about getting a gold medal in the 100-meter freestyle in Olympic swimming. I always thought that would be the epic award in sports to get. #Quote by Chris Klein

#35. Holy mother of ripped-gorgeous.
Get over the assets. Get over the assets.
It's an award-winning six pack. SO WHAT? Get over it.
He's just your friend. Your Dustin McHugh. #Quote by Anne Eliot

#36. Without the outside context of a political war between faith and reason, Epicurus does not fear that any single point he might award to the religious will be used against him. Nor is he eager to have his followers shunning prayer or ritual in order to demonstrate publicly their disbelief. Outside the context of a political war between faith and reason, more nuanced arrangements may be safely undertaken. #Quote by Jennifer Michael Hecht

#37. I have a habitual feeling of my real life having past, and that I am now leading a posthumous existence. #Quote by John Keats

#38. But spirituality, it seems to me, when answering the question, "Why should I be good? Why should I care for others?" says, "Because that is the best, most fulfilling way to live" Whether or not you receive an award or a payment is incidental. You are good and kind and loving because it is right, even though it is difficult sometimes. It fulfills the highest law, to treat others as we wish to be treated. #Quote by Philip Gulley

#39. I would like to thank ABC for giving me the Drew Carey award. It only goes to one lucky guy with glasses a year, and gosh darn it, tonight I'm the king of the ... general area. #Quote by Greg Proops

#40. A 'GQ' award is kind of, like, insane. It's a huge thing. #Quote by Mark Ronson

#41. I get nervous before everything - dates, filming, award shows. I just don't want to say something stupid. But as soon as I step out on that stage, or as soon as I show up to a date, it all goes away, and I just have a great time with whoever I'm with. #Quote by Taylor Lautner

#42. Before 1975, if you knew the name Howard Sackler it was because he was the author behind the 1969 Broadway play The Great White Hope, which won Sackler the Tony and New York Drama Critics Circle award as the year's Best Play as well as the Pulitzer Prize for Drama. A friend of film producer David Brown, Sackler accepted the offer to do a re-write on Jaws author Peter Benchley's script for the film version of his novel. Sackler's main contribution to the story was the back story that the shark fisherman, Quint, derived his hatred for sharks from having survived the sinking of the U.S.S. Indianapolis in July of 1945 (in the film, Quint errantly states the date as "June the 29th, 1945"). #Quote by Louis R. Pisano

#43. Woolf turned her back on a number of tokens of her rising eminence in the 1930s, including an offer of the Companion of Honour award, an invitation from Cambridge University to give the Clark lectures, and honorary doctorate degrees from Manchester University and Liverpool University.
'It is an utterly corrupt society,' she wrote in her diary, '. . . & I will take nothing that it can give me #Quote by Jane Goldman

#44. Susan came down the hall in a white dress that fit her well. She looked like she was receiving an Academy Award for stunningness. I #Quote by Robert B. Parker

#45. For me, it's not about winning an award. It's also about not even being nominated. #Quote by Jarod Kintz

#46. If somebody doesn't like you, there's nothing you can do to make that person like you. #Quote by Edmund Carpenter

#47. [General-in-Chief of the army, Lieutenant General Winfield] Scott not only believed that the idea [for a battlefield decoration, to wit, a Medal of Honor, or valor] smacked of Old World vanity, elitism, and snobbery, he also thought that such an award was entirely unnecessary. #Quote by Russell S. Bonds