Admire Quotes

I can't bear art that you can walk round and admire. A book should be either a bandit or a rebel or a man in the crowd.

I am not a long-run actor. I admire actors who can do that.

If thou art a man, admire those who attempt great things, even though they fail.

However big the fool, there is always a bigger fool to admire him.

The Southern whites are in many respects a great people. Looked at from a certain point of view, they are picturesque. If one will put oneself in a romantic frame of mind, one can admire their notions of chivalry and bravery and justice.

CNN found that Hillary Clinton is the most admired woman in America. Women admire her because she's strong and successful. Men admire her because she allows her husband to cheat and get away with it.

I admire Madonna because she always did whatever she felt like doing. She went through some controversial periods when people rejected her, but she kept on reinventing herself.

I admire anyone with their own sense of personal style.

He has all of the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire.

I don't like that, because there are a lot of people whose works I admire as actors or actresses, or musicians. And you know, I've been a big fan of different musicians or actors.

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

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

Age should not have its face lifted, but it should rather teach the world to admire wrinkles as the etchings of experience and the firm line of character.

Having leveled my palace, don't erect a hovel and complacently admire your own charity in giving me that for a home.

I know people that I respect and admire and look up to who have had extra-marital affairs.

I think that the U.S. does have this very much more open attitude, and I admire it very much and I think it's very important to the world. But the information and the discussion sometimes come too late, after the effective decision has been made.

I don't call myself a Buddhist. I'm a free spirit. I believe I'm here on earth to admire and enjoy it; that's my religion.

Animals do not admire each other. A horse does not admire its companion.

I don't admire Freud as much as some people do. Imagine Shakespeare being aware of the Oedipal complex when he wrote Hamlet. It would have been a disaster.

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 a sacred horror about everything grand. It is easy to admire mediocrity and hills; but whatever is too lofty, a genius as well as a mountain, an assembly as well as a masterpiece, seen too near, is appalling.

I do not admire politicians; but when they are excellent in their way, one cannot help allowing them their due.

I like photographing the people I love, the people I admire, the famous, and especially the infamous. My last infamous subject was the extreme right wing French politician Jean-Marie Le Pen.

Any dictator would admire the uniformity and obedience of the U.S. media.

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

The generous Critic fann'd the Poet's fire, And taught the world with reason to admire.

I admire our ancestors, whoever they were. I think the first self-conscious person must have shaken in his boots. Because as he becomes self-conscious, he's no longer part of nature. He sees himself against nature. He looks at the vastness of the universe and it looks hostile.

A man likes his wife to be just clever enough to appreciate his cleverness, and just stupid enough to admire it.

To cease to admire is a proof of deterioration.

We all admire the wisdom of people who come to us for advice.