Category: awards...

• endowing an award
• putting an award in a special frame
• Nirvana, n. In the Buddhist religion, a state of pleasurable annihilation awarded to the wise, particularly to those wise enough to understand it. (A. Bierce)
• A new kind of award has been added -- the deathbed award. It is not an award of any kind. Either the recipient has not acted at all, or was not nominated, or did not win the award the last few times around. It is intended to relieve the guilty conscience of the Academy members and save face in front of the public. The Academy has the horrible taste to have a star, choking with emotion, present this deathbed award so that there can be no doubt in anybody's mind why the award is so hurriedly given. Lucky is the actor who is too sick to watch the proceedings on television. (Marlene Dietrich)
• I feel that this award was not made to me as a man, but to my work -- a life's work in the agony and sweat of the human spirit, not for glory and least of all for profit, but to create out of the materials of the human spirit something which did not exist before. So this award is only mine in trust. (William Faulkner)
• I would like to win the Pulitzer Prize. I would like to win the Nobel Prize. I would like to win the Tony Award for the Broadway musical I'm now working on. Aside from these, my aspirations are modest ones. (E. Hunter)
• Nobel Prizes, Pulitzer Prizes, performance awards like Emmys, Golden Globes, Oscars, Grammys, and Tonys; and others like MacArthur Foundation Awards and TIME Person of the Year
• being awarded an honorary doctorate
• the meaning of award as something conferred as a reward for merit or a prize, dating only to 1854

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