Plaque Award Quotes

On the other hand, winning awards is cool. Aside from the warm fuzzy, it creates publicity, and that helps spread the word about the book. Plus, this award was a plaque of some sort. I could have used that for all sorts of things. Obviously it would be useful for decorating the barren walls of my house and intimidating my enemies, but that's just for starters.

I don't define success by how much money someone makes. I don't define success by how many trophies or plaques or awards someone has. I don't define it by membership in exclusive clubs or the ability to name-drop about someone's famous friends. I don't define it by how many luxury cars or opulent homes someone might own or how many sumptuous vacations they might taken in exotic locales all over the globe. I don't define success...oh, hell, I'm just kidding. Actually, all that stuff is fantastic!

Mounting anything on a plaque instantly transforms it from trash into an award. For example, a dry disposable pen goes from junk clutter to the first annual writer’s award for dry humor.

female members of the student body are still called Willing Girls. You’d think someone in the seventies would have objected to that and changed it. But Willing has survived the seventies of two different centuries. They’ll probably still be calling us Willing Girls in 2075. It’s a school that believes in Tradition, sometimes regardless of how stupid that Tradition is. I eat lunch under the plaque that tells me for three years running, 1948–1950, Gertrude Wharton was Willing Oral Girl of the Year. And the one memorializing 1919, when eight girls were given the award for Willing Service to Soldiers of the Great War.

As I looked, other names started to leap out. People I knew from school, but also from the Mid-Night. Courtney Howard had received some kind of student journalism award. Yvonne’s named showed up on a plaque for something called the Student Business Alliance. All these awards, squeezed together on a shelf, literally under glass like pinned butterflies. Youth caught in mid-wing beat.

kind of award did the dentist receive? A little plaque. What do you call a funny mountain?