Best 280 quotes in «admire quotes» category

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

Life is beauty, admire it.

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

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.

No animal admires another animal.

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

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

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 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.

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.

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

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

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

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

Readers forget that one can critique yet still admire.

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

Shaw's works make me admire the magnificent tolerance and broadmindedness of the english.

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

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.

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

That love motivates you to cooperate, respect, appreciate, cherish, and admire that person.

That's actually a rare thing to be on a set full of people that you admire and make you laugh all the time.

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.

Tell Papa I admire him but from now on I plan to admire him from as far away as I can get.

The capacity to admire others is not my most fully developed trait.

The actors I admire are character actors.

The contemporary authors I most admire are Nick Hornby and Jonathan Tropper.

The actors I admire, like Ben Kingsley or Daniel Day-Lewis, they totally reinvent themselves in every part. I hope I get a chance to do that.

The effect of studying masterpieces is to make me admire and do otherwise.

The desire to please those we admire and respect often cripples conscience.

The English are always ready to admire anything so long as they can queue up.

The more I see of men, the more I admire dogs. - Jeanne

The celebrity body I most admire is Madonna's. She has the most incredible physique - and the woman's in her 50s!

The more I learn about Mr. Romney, the less there is to admire.

The only tactics I admire are do-or-die

The only excuse for making a useless thing is that one admires it intensely. All art is quite useless.