Best 280 quotes in «admire quotes» category

I never had posters on my wall and when I meet actors that I really admire, it's exciting because I get to work with them.

I read all the time. I was reading a book I admire very much by Alice McDermot called Charming Billy.

In the theatrical works we love and admire the most, the ending of the drama generally takes place offstage.

I paint with a language I can call my own... it takes a ruthless honesty with oneself. If one admires or is influenced by anyone else, one is not being true to oneself.

I really admire artists that are willing to take a different approach and a different angle to their shows.

I really admire police officers, surgeons, or anyone who works in high stressed situations.

I really admire visual storytelling that shows you what's happening, instead of tells you what's happening. I think it really forces the filmmaking to be very clear.

I really admire really good reporters. Obviously not the gossip ones, but it could be quite an interesting profession, depending on what you're investigating.

I really admire a woman for her intelligence, her personality. Beauty is not enough.

I really admire Werner Herzog and Spike Lee. They're amazing documentarians. If you took away all the narratives, they'd just be amazing documentarians.

I shall never again admire a merely brave man.

I really think that aside from admiring my talent you really admire me as a person and as a woman.

I tend to really enjoy being swept up in fiction. I love a good story and I admire fiction authors.

It is a bad thing for a nation to raise and to admire a false standard of success; and there can be no falser standard than that set by the deification of material well-being in and for itself.

I thought to discourage aesthetics... I threw the bottlerack and the urinal in their faces and now they admire them for their aesthetic beauty.

I think Sarah Palin is amazing. I totally admire her.

It's disappointing when you finally get to meet someone you admire and he conducts himself as a jerk.

I try to improvise like Les Young, Louis Armstrong or someone else I admire. What comes out is what I feel.

It's a scary thing, when a person you admire is suddenly revealed to be absolutely, truly human.

I try to not listen to all the girls I admire musically - like Nina Simone - just so I don't find myself imitating them, even if it's subconsciously.

It's always fun when somebody who you admire and respect is the voice - is your voice, as a viewer.

It's easier to be terrified by an enemy you admire.

I want to act and direct like Jodie Foster. I admire her because she went to college and she is still doing the same thing.

It was a sort of ferocious, quiet beauty, the sort that wouldn't let you admire it. The sort of beauty that always hurt.

Let's stop for a moment to admire the rotating pies.

I would study, I would know, I would admire forever.

Life is beauty, admire it.

Margaret Thatcher - a woman I greatly admire - once said that she was not content to manage the decline of a great nation. Neither am I. I am prepared to lead the resurgence of a great nation.

Mirrors are ice which do not melt: what melts are those who admire themselves in them.

My mother had an amazing life, and she's someone to admire.

Most men admire Virtue who follow not her lore.

Not that there is anything wrong with confessional songwriting, there are plenty of people that do that I admire. I think it is great; it just isn't how I do things.

Nick Flynn is another writer I admire - his fragmented sections, his playfulness with genre, his urgency. The palette in his work is his style, a voice that is singular, and that's what I think writers should strive for, to have a style and a voice that is only theirs.

No animal admires another animal.

Nobody admires anyone else without qualification. If they do they're after an image, not a person.

Now be sincere; did you admire me for my impertinence?" "For the liveliness of your mind, I did.

On the Earth, you admire the Moon; on the Moon, you admire the Earth!

One of our favorite Joe Strummer quotes was, "No input, no output." Meaning, we're going to hear a band, we're going to go to a museum, or we're going to go hang out with some writer that we admire. We're going to get some input, because if we don't, then we have nothing. It's a circle. It's a respiratory thing.

Our purity of taste is best tested by its universality, for if we can only admire this thing or that, we maybe use that our cause for liking is of a finite and false nature.

Our culture rightly admires risk-takers, but we need our 'heed-takers' more than ever.

People always ask me where they should go to work, and I always tell them to go to work for whom they admire the most.

Satan has his companions, fellow-devils, to admire and encourage him; but I am solitary and detested.

People don't admire you for what you hate, they admire you for what you do about it, and your slacks.

Qualities of Good Citizens... is to admire what others have created in love and faith

Readers forget that one can critique yet still admire.

Riches do not constitute any claim to distinction. It is only the vulgar who admire riches as riches.

Saints are what they are not because their sanctity makes them admirable to others, but because the gift of sainthood makes it possible for them to admire everyone else.

Tennyson seems to be the patron saint of the wishy washies, which is perhaps why I admire him so much, not only as a poet, but as a man.

Seek out a person whom you admire and respect for the support you need - that we all need from time to time.

Show me what a people admire, and I will tell you everything about them that matters.