Quotes & Sayings About Receiving Awards

I didn't know whether to laugh, s*it, or go blind! — Harvey Kuenn

Bluster, sputter, question, cavil; but be sure your argument be intricate enough to confound the court. — William Wycherley

This is what we do, my mother's life said. We find ourselves in the sacrifices we make. — Cammie McGovern

You don't measure life by receiving awards. — Mikhail Baryshnikov

I've learned that you have to stay true to yourself from all the amazing people I've had the opportunity to work with thus far. You have to stay true to yourself and don't be afraid even though people may say what you're doing isn't cool or isn't right. I promise you, you will not regret it if you stay true to who you are and what you love to do because there is no other reason that I am up here today receiving this award. — Emma Stone

We [women] have borne and bred and washed and taught, perhaps to the age of six or seven years, the one thousand six hundred and twenty-three million human beings who are, according to statistics, at present in existence, and that ... takes time. — Virginia Woolf

The Skilled Craftsmen 1 Now the LORD spoke to Moses, saying, 2"See, I have called by name Bezalel, the son of Uri, the son of Hur, of the tribe of Judah. 3I have filled him with the Spirit of God in wisdom, in understanding, in knowledge, and in all kinds of craftsmanship, 4to make artistic designs for work in gold, in silver, and in bronze, 5and in the cutting of stones for settings, and in the carving of wood, that he may work in all kinds of craftsmanship. — Anonymous

If you stick around long enough, people start referring to you as a survivor. Suddenly I found myself on the receiving end of several prestigious awards. — Martha Reeves

philosophy of art usually lacks one of two things: either the philosophy or the art — Friedrich Schlegel