Quotes About Admiration

As you get older, it's more difficult to have heroes, but it's just as necessary.

Men are weak and silly and they admire strength and goddamn it, I had it.

She wanted to be like you." Be like me? A socially ignorant bystander to the world?

I look up to the sky as if I'm expecting Morgan Freeman to look down at me and wink, giving me his approval.

They say you should never meet your heroes. Killing them only makes things more awkward.

I deeply adored my mum. She was an extraordinary person, even for the prejudice I'm likely to have. She was beautiful, amusing, a tremendous elaborator of things into comic proportions and extravagant in her imagination.

The stranglehold of the departed was much resented by the new generation of aspiring authors. Which is why it is who did make the breakthrough were so admired.

I admire his brains and mental capacity but I decry his judgement

I always admired atheists. I think it takes a lot of faith.

At a certain moment the vampire glanced at the Witcher, smiled, and nodded in acknowledgement and admiration.

All artists, they say, are a little mad. This madness is, to a certain extent, a self-created myth designed to keep the generality away from the phenomenally close-knit creative community. Yet, in the world of the artists, the consciously eccentric are always respectful and admiring if those who have the courage to be genuinely a little mad.

I think Gina Rowlands is an amazing actress.

But miracles are not expected and mostly do not happen. Mr. Adams did not turn into a Belton, nor did his daughter. The aboriginal Hogglestock was deep in them; they conceived a slightly suspicious attitude to unknown people, ready to heave half-bricks; but they had also seen and admired another world, and could feel fairly at ease in it when sure that its intentions were good.

The king is enthralled by your beauty. (Psalm 45:11)

A crab!" yelled Lucy. "He can be a crab!" Jim Knee gave Lucy a withering stare - a crab was little better than a turtle. Septimus looked at Lucy in admiration.

Dorothy looked at me and looked at me and she really said she thought my brains were a miracle. I mean she said my brains reminded her of a radio because you listen to it for days and days and you get discouradged and just when you are getting ready to smash it, something comes out that is a masterpiece.

have you ever noticed how the one who wants to please never does?

If she'd asked me to swim naked three times round the island, I'd have said yes. I loved her.

I can't go to bed with John Wayne, so I do the next best thing: I go to bed with my girlfriend, who once met the great man. That's how much I love westerns.

I just love westerns. One of my favourite actors is John Wayne, probably one of the most underrated actors there's ever been. He's quite an incredible actor.

I do admire Judi Dench and Sir Ian McKellen, but I'm a philistine. I like the good life too much; I'm not good at going on stage night after night and on wet Wednesday afternoons.

Divine was like a 400-pound beached whale. He was one of my favorite leading ladies, I've got to tell you. He was really terrific.

I love 'Whale Rider.' That's one of my favorite films of all time.

Everyone always gets a little irritated by imitators, but mostly I'm flattered. What if you never did anything anyone wanted to copy?