Admire Quotes

Anytime you get to join a group of people you admire and respect, you want to keep those doors open.

The same principle leads us to neglect a man of merit that induces us to admire a fool. [Fr., Du meme fonds dont on neglige un homme de merite l'on sait encore admirer un sot.]

The best way to learn about writing is to study the work of other writers you admire.

I think translation is an impossible job, and I admire the people who do it in a way that brings poetry to us that we wouldn't have access to.

I admire Serena Williams, because, I mean, who doesn't admire Serena Williams?

I admire writers who can make complicated things simple, but my own talent has been to make simple things complicated.

He is the very Janus of poets; he wears almost everywhere two faces; and you have scarce begun to admire the one, ere you despise the other.

I admire Ginsberg as a poet, despite the fact that he seems not to know when he is being good and when he is bad. But he will last, or at least those poems will last.

There is nothing that exists so great or marvelous that over time mankind does not admire it less and less.

I realized that a lot of the great directors that I admire from [Ingmar] Bergman to [Fredrico] Fellini re always shooting, then going into the editing room, and shooting again.

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

Getting to meet other artists that I admire is one of the best parts of my job. I don't know if I'd say "star struck" as much as excited to hear other peoples' ideas.

We find not much in ourselves to admire, we are always privately wanting to be like somebody else. If everybody was satisfied with himself, there would be no heroes

You admire, Vacerra, only the poets of old and praise only those who are dead. Pardon me, I beseech you, Vacerra, if I think death too high a price to pay for your praise.

We may admire people for being wise, but we like them best when they are foolish.

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

Honesty is the biggest thing I admire, respect, and look for. And it's something that's kind of disappearing in some people nowadays.

I admire many entrepreneurs. They bring energy, excitement, youthful enthusiasm. What they lack in process, they make up for in gumption.

We're seldom drawn to a character we admire; only to a personality we like.

Woman was formed to admire; man to be admirable. His are the glories of the sun at noonday; hers the softened splendors of the midnight moon.

I can't think of anyone I admire who isn't fuelled by self-doubt. It's an essential ingredient. It's the grit in the oyster.

What I admire most in men - To sit opposite a mirror at dinner and not look in it

I don't think that I've had a career like anyone else's, but there are hosts and hosts of actors whose careers I admire.

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.

Admire? No, I have never said that. I still appreciate Angela Merkel as a very professional and open person.

Enjoy your work and work for whom you admire.

If I admire my arms, my face, my shoulders, flanks, buttocks against the yellow drawn shades,-- Who shall say I am not the happy genius of my household?

He who meanly admires mean things is a Snob.

I wouldn't not listen to something because it was country. I usually listen to stuff that friends give me, if I admire their taste.

And you, my Critics! in the chequer'd shade, Admire new light thro' holes yourselves have made.

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

Readers forget that one can critique yet still admire.

The strips I admire go farther than a gag a day, and take us into a special world.

I feel like there are so many people I admire for so many reasons that I can't look at one person's life and say, "I want that life." I want to make my own history.

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

To admire Satan [in Paradise Lost] is to give one's vote not only for a world of misery, but also for a world of lies and propaganda, of wishful thinking, of incessant autobiography.

The more I study it [the Constitution], the more I have come to admire it, realizing that no other document devised by the hand of man ever brought so much progress and happiness to humanity.

I would not admire hitting against Ryne Duren, because if he ever hit you in the head you might be in the past tense.

I admire Cate Blanchett and Kate Winslet. I like a lot of comedians. I like Cameron Diaz - she's funny and has a very light spirit. That's quite rare nowadays. There are many actresses I admire.

I admire people with gentle manners who treat other people as human beings.

They would wake me up when I was sleeping, and say sing a song for our friends. I had a sweet voice, I had a nice little tenor voice. God knows what I sang, but my whole family would admire me.

Another thing rappers, I admire your rebellious spirit, but materialism is a form of mental slavery. Slow down on the jewelry, pick up a book.

I admire people that help other people without asking anything in return, which is something that's really rare these days and hard to find.

Happy is she that from the world retires, and carries with her what the world admires.

Every man loves and admires his own country because it produced him.

I always wish to find great virtues where there are great talents, and to love what I admire.

I just admire people like Woody Allen, who every year writes an original screenplay. It's astonishing. I always wished that I could do that.

It is easy to be beautiful; it is difficult to appear so. I admire you, beloved, for the trap you've set. It's like a final chapter no one reads because the plot is over.

Most of us, I believe, admire strength... Sometimes, though, I wonder if we confuse strength with other words like aggression or even violence.

A man admires a woman not for what she says, but what she listens to.