Admirable Quotes

On Being John Malkovich and the cinema of the absurd, I do enjoy it. I wish there were more like it. The very fact that there can't be more like it is one of the reasons it's admirable.

I just loved playing a man who was unafraid of making an idiot of himself in the process of falling in love. I found that admirable.

The great and admirable strength of America consists in this, that America is truly the American people.

Nothing is more admirable than the fortitude with which millionaires tolerate the disadvantages of their wealth.

Praying can make a difference, and it is up to all of us to try that, with faith, and see if it will not support these admirable troops, their spouses, and their families.

This is the mark of a really admirable man: steadfastness in the face of trouble.

A complete woman is probably not a very admirable creature. She is manipulative, uses other people to get her own way, and works within whatever system she is in.

An activist is one who is actively involved in creating community, whether that is locally in their neighborhood or internationally. It is an admirable quality.

The good, the admirable reader identifies himself not with the boy or the girl in the book, but with the mind that conceived and composed that book.

There's very little admirable about being a pirate. There's very little functional about a pirate. There's very little real about a pirate.

Childbirth is more admirable than conquest, more amazing than self-defense, and as courageous as either one.

What is the thing that Hollywood demands most? Sincerity. No place in the world will pay such a high price for this admirable trait.

There is nothing nobler or more admirable than when two people who see eye to eye keep house as man and wife, confounding their enemies and delighting their friends.

A stricken tree, a living thing, so beautiful, so dignified, so admirable in its potential longevity, is, next to man, perhaps the most touching of wounded objects.

I sometimes give myself admirable advice, but I am incapable of taking it.

Having contemplated this admirable grove, I proceeded towards the shrubberies on the banks of the river, and though it was now late in December, the aromatic groves appeared in full bloom.

If one cannot command attention by one's admirable qualities one can at least be a nuisance.

No two people take on the information of being admirable and being admired in the same way.

Men value things in three ways: as useful, as pleasant or sources of pleasure, and as excellent, or as intrinsically admirable or honorable.

The child who has been taught to make an accurate elevation, plan, and section of a pint pot has had an admirable training in accuracy of eye and hand.

Great authors are admirable in this respect: in every generation they make for disagreement. Through them we become aware of our differences.

One of the admirable features of British novelists is that they have no scruple about setting their stories in foreign settings with wholly foreign personnel.

To be one's self, and unafraid whether right or wrong, is more admirable than the easy cowardice of surrender to conformity.

People who refuse to rest honorably on their laurels when they reach retirement age seem very admirable to me.

Americans are overreaching; overreaching is the most admirable and most American of the many American excesses.

What a piece of work is a man, how noble in reason, how infinite in faculties, in form and moving how express and admirable, in action how like an angel, in apprehension how like a god.

Music exists for the purpose of growing an admirable heart.

Alfred Nobel's discoveries are characteristic; powerful explosives can help men perform admirable tasks. They are also a means to terrible destruction in the hands of the great criminals who lead peoples to war.

Many people when they fall in love look for a little haven of refuge from the world, where they can be sure of being admired when they are not admirable, and praised when they are not praiseworthy.

There is only one admirable form of the imagination: the imagination that is so intense that it creates a new reality, that it makes things happen.