Best 280 quotes in «admire quotes» category

I'd rather be at the end of a dying tradition, which I admire, than at the beginning of a tradition which I deplore.

If one is to love oneself one must behave in ways that one can admire.

If you admire greatness in another human being, it is your own greatness you are seeing.

If you ask footballers to pick out the player they most admire, so many of them will pick Paul Scholes.

I grew up with just my mom. She and I were like best friends. She's a very independent woman and I admire that about her. In my life, I've tried to be like that. To be okay with being on my own and being independent.

I just admire everybody and sit in awe and watch them.

I just finished writing an essay about William Maxwell, an American writer whose work I admire very much.

I know what it's like to meet someone you admire and have them be a complete jerk.

I like a lot of Margaret Atwood, I like much of Alice Munro. Again, if you were to ask me about male writers, there's often a novel I admire, but not all of their works.

I like PETA as a group for many reasons, but one of the reasons that I admire them is that they say and do the things that other groups won't do.

I like to be fascinated by the people I photograph. Sometimes I don't admire them but I'm interested in them.

I look at Jagger and the like and if I see a good attitude I'll admire it but I wouldn't copy their style.

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 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 feed on art more than I ever do on photographs. I can admire photography, but I wouldn't go to it out of hunger.

I just admire a funny, confident, sassy woman and hopefully I'm that person.

I just can't feel lukewarm about a character. I either despise her, admire her, or don't understand her and want to understand her.

I love academics, theory and all that. I love and admire that and try to do as much reading as I can.

I love what I do. If I have the opportunity to do what I do with people I admire, it's 10 times better.

I love wisdom. And you can never be great at anything unless you love it. Not be in love with it, but love the thing, admire the thing. And it seems that if you love the thing, and you don't just want to possess it, it will find you.

I'm ambivalent about the Orange Prize. I was really proud to be shortlisted alongside the other writers, whom I admire. That said, I don't know if it's best way of addressing gender inequality problems.

I'm supposed to have a Ph.D. on the subject of women. But the truth is I've flunked more often than not. I'm very fond of women; I admire them. But, like all men, I don't understand them.

I'm usually nervous to meet people that I admire because what if they're not cool or something?

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.

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

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

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 shall never again admire a merely brave man.

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

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

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

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 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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

Most men admire Virtue who follow not her lore.

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