Admiration Quotes

We must understand how to hide in darkness in order to escape the gnat-swarms of utterly annoying admirers.

I say, 'Yeah, Taylor Swift.' I think she is a smart, beautiful girl. I think she's making all the right moves. She's got a good head on her shoulders. She's surrounded with wonderful people. Her songs are great. She keeps herself anchored. She knows who she is, and she's living and standing by that.

Reverend Galamison is fighting a hard battle against great opposition, and I admire a man who fights a hard battle against great opposition.

He was my equal in beauty, a paragon of grace and charm, sparkling with wit, and burning with love. I adored him to distraction, to the point of idolatry: I loved him as one can never love twice.

No animal admires another animal.

The most peerless piece of earth, I think, that e' er the sun shone bright on.

Nothing in the world is quite as adorably lovely as a robin when he shows off and they are nearly always doing it.

Simplicity, a delicate silence about oneself, increases their worth and makes one love those whom one admires.

She hardly knew how to suppose that she could be an object of admiration to so great a man.

From reading of the people I admired - ranging from the soldiers of Valley Forge and Morgan's riflemen to my Southern forefathers and kinfolk - I felt a great admiration for men who were fearless and who could hold their own in the world. And I had a great desire to be like them.

I really like Lady GaGa and everything she is for her fans.

I don't pity any man who does hard work worth doing. I admire him. I pity the creature who does not work, at whichever end of the social scale he may regard himself as being.

There is more to be said for stupidity than people imagine. Personally I have a great admiration for stupidity. It is a sort of fellow-feeling, I suppose.

Barney Kessel is incredible. He's just amazing . . . . Nobody can play guitar like that

ever since I met you I have admired you more than any girl...I have ever met since...I met you.

I wear the number 10 Jersey for the US National Team in honour of the Greatest athlete I have ever seen: Messi.

The post-office is a wonderful establishment! The regularity and dispatch of it! If one thinks of all that it has to do, and all that it does so well, it is really astonishing!

There is an innocence in admiration; it is found in those to whom it has never yet occurred that they, too, might be admired some day.

Wayne's cool. I ran into him at my hangout back home, and he's just cool. I actually have this beat that I want him on, but I was too scared to get it to Clancy to get to them, but Wayne's cool.

To describe my mother would be to write about a hurricane in its perfect power. Or the climbing, falling colors of a rainbow.

Nietzsche's my favorite. He's just insane.

There was her face, like a summer peach, beautiful and warm, and the light of the candles reflected in her dark eyes. [He] held his breath. The entire world waited and held its breath.

Etiquette requires us to admire the human race.

O! she doth teach the torches to burn bright It seems she hangs upon the cheek of night Like a rich jewel in an Ethiop's ear; Beauty too rich for use, for earth too dear. - Romeo -

I think you're intelligent and charming, and that you're a person with a kind heart. I know that when you want to, you can look more beautiful than anyone I've ever met. You're independent, you've got a good sense of humor, and you show surprising patience with children." -Alex

Ah, a German and a genius ! A prodigy, admit him !

But to admire a strong person and to live under that strong person’s thumb are two different things.

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

There's been a lot of talk about Jack White wanting to work with me, and I've always admired him, and of course, he lives in Nashville, too.

Your recipe, darling, is so tasty, and you sure can stir your pot.

But so fair, She takes the breath of men away Who gaze upon her unaware.

I am pleased to be praised by a man so praised as you, father. [Words used by Hector.][Lat., Laetus sumLaudari me abs te, pater, laudato viro.]

Admiration spoils all from infancy.

By honoring the lives of those we admire, we make our own values known.

But, I've always loved John Mayer and I think T-Pain is brilliant.

There are some few people I respect and admire, but I don't think much of the species.

The ignorant are afraid to betray surprise or admiration...they think it ill manners.

She is loveliness itself.

You always admire what you really don't understand. - Eleanor Roosevelt

Oh, she doth teach the torches to burn bright! It seems she hangs upon the cheek of night Like a rich jewel in an Ethiope’s ear, Beauty too rich for use, for earth too dear. So shows a snowy dove trooping with crows As yonder lady o'er her fellows shows. The measure done, I’ll watch her place of stand, And, touching hers, make blessèd my rude hand. Did my heart love till now? Forswear it, sight! For I ne'er saw true beauty till this night.

I have always been an admirer. I regard the gift of admiration as indispensable if one is to amount to something; I don't know where I would be without it.

One of the brightest lights of our time-a brilliant writer, a fierce friend, and a truly phenomenal woman.

I think it is perfectly natural for any artist to admire intensely and love a young man. It is an incident in the life of almost every artist.

We seldom praise anyone in good earnest, except such as admire us.

“A living poem” had always been the words that came to mind when he tried to describe her to others.

There's always that seventh-grade girl who looks like she's 25. And you're like, How do you do it? How do you do it, Sarah Jaxheimer?Why is your hair always so shiny?!

Look somewhere else for someone who can follow you in your researches about numbers. For my part, I confess that they are far beyond me, and I am competent only to admire them.

Ronaldo can do whatever he wants as a footballer. There are some things he does with the ball that make me touch my head and wonder how he did it.

You look at a star for two reasons, because it is luminous, and because it is impenetrable. You have beside you a sweeter radiance and a greater mystery, woman.

Give me that man that is not passion's slave, and I will wear him in my heart's core, in my heart of heart, as I do thee.

I think Kenny Chesney or Garth Brooks would be the coolest duet partners. I look up to them so much for their work ethics.

The only things one can admire at length are those one admires without knowing why.

[ Drizzy] is a good dude , he's been looked out and reached out, and I admire the talent.

it is my lady! *sighs* o, it is my love! o, that she knew she were! she speaks, yet she sais nothing. what of that? her eye discourses; i will answer it. i am too bold, 'tis not to me she speaks; two of the fairest stars in all the heaven, having some business, do entreat her eyes to twinkle in their spheres till they return.

I am glad we do not have to try to kill the stars.

You know, Katie Couric is one of my favorite people.

I still can’t believe [ Muhammad Ali ] knows my name. It astounds me he knows who I am. I first met Ali in 1976. I was locked up in a juvenile home and he came to visit. I’ve never forgotten it.

I am overwhelmed by the grace and persistence of my people.

People don't realize what they had till it's gone. Like President Kennedy, there was no one like him, the Beatles, and my man Elvis Presley. I was the Elvis of boxing.

You always admire what you really don't understand.