Quotes and Sayings About Nominations
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Getting the nomination is like gravy. Winning would be like whatever is better than gravy.
-- Billy Bob Thornton -
Generally with the Oscars or the Emmys there isn't much you can do until the nominations are announced. Then you know what kind of year you're dealing with - what's been overlooked, what the issues are.
-- Bruce Vilanch -
If Harriet Miers were not a crony of the president of the United States, her nomination to the Supreme Court would be a joke, as it would have occurred to no one else to nominate her.
-- Charles Krauthammer -
If there ever was a poet for the working class Billy Joe Shaver and Merle Haggard would be my nomination
-- David Allan Coe -
I am keeping with tradition today. After I learned of my Golden Globe nomination, I went to the dentist, so today, let's make it the orthodontist.
-- Frankie Muniz -
The [President's] Nomination, of Course, brings the Subject fully under the Consideration of the Senate; who have then a Right to decide upon its Propriety or Impropriety.
-- George Mason -
I hadn't given much thought to the prospect of a Hugo nomination at the time it happened, but obviously once you're nominated, winning one seems a bit less far-fetched than before.
-- Greg Egan -
It really kind of looks like now that John Kerry is on his way to the presidential nomination. The only thing that can sink John Kerry now is an Al Gore endorsement.
-- Jay Leno -
The Oscar nomination is great. It's a great pat on the back. And I like that.
-- Jeff Bridges -
If I were a white candidate, I'd have won the Democratic nomination.
-- Jesse Jackson -
New York Mayor Bill de Blasio has been positioning himself to challenge Hillary Clinton for the Democratic nomination. Hillary once developed a program to deliver rural healthcare, while de Blasio once dropped a groundhog on its head.
-- Jimmy Fallon -
Winning the ACM, winning the CMA, my first time on the Opry and having Grammy nominations were all a big deal to me.
-- Joe Nichols -
I went from everyone saying, "She-can't-act-she-can't-act-she-can't-act," to an Oscar nomination. So there was something quite sublime about that!
-- Keira Knightley -
I was never upset that I did not get an Emmy. That I did get an Emmy nomination, I couldn't be happier and prouder.
-- Kyle Chandler -
Also everyone's hearts are in the right place when you do a small movie. You're not doing it for the money; you're not doing it for the possibility of an Oscar nomination. You are doing it because you love the material.
-- Kyra Sedgwick -
My nomination to be Governor was not to gratify ambition.
-- Lajos Kossuth -
The Oscar nominations are out, and they’re so white a grand jury has decided not to indict them,
-- Larry Wilmore -
Nominations come and go. It is not going to happen to you every year, and I am very well aware of that
-- Lee Ann Womack -
We got it on lock like Barack got the nomination
-- Masta Ace -
So if 1960 had occurred under the old convention system, Kennedy would have had a very hard time getting the Democratic nomination because he would have been rejected by all those people who had worked with him in Washington.
-- Michael Beschloss -
We need to consider nominations as thoroughly and carefully as the American people deserve. No one is entitled to a free pass to a lifetime appointment to the Supreme Court.
-- Patrick Leahy -
The Oscar nomination is the best marketing you can get.
-- Paul Young -
An Academy Award nomination is stuff dreams are made of,
-- Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy -
If this isn't the Fat Lady singing, it's awful close to that. If Ari seriously thought she was a contender for the presidential nomination, he would not walk away right now.
-- Stuart Rothenberg -
Between Clive Owen winning at the Golden Globes and the British Academy announcing its nominations, of which Sideways received only one, I'm feeling pretty humbled these days.
-- Thomas Haden Church -
Well, no, I didn't because I didn't even know the nominations were coming out. I gotta say, it wasn't even on my radar. I hadn't... I hadn't even thought about it.
-- Will Arnett -
Shortly after her nomination was announced,[Betsy] DeVos tweeted, almost as if she had forgotten something important to say. And she said, I am not a supporter of the Common Core. Sandy Kress predicts that debate will die down soon enough.
-- Claudio Sanchez -
The Northeast is being hit with a major snowstorm. Forecasters said they've haven't seen a whiteout like this since last week's Oscar nominations.
-- Conan O'Brien -
The man [Donald Trump] seems to out-trump himself - no pun intended - every time he speaks in his bid to win the Republican nomination.
-- Corri Wilson -
After having edited numerous shorts, earning award nominations for it, and then 4 features edits, the director inside me is now burning to share its voice. Thriller, Horror, zany Comedy.
-- Kyle Cassie
