Quotes About Admiration

Nice lines," commented Joe. "Pass close to her, will you, Frank?" Quietly, with her engine throttled down, the motorboat drew abreast of the larger vessel. It was now dusk and a light shone in her cabin from which came the sound of activity. Frank gazed in admiration at the tall masts and shipshape rigging.

I can love only what I can place so high above me that I cannot reach it.

I mustn't look at you too much, or I won't be able to take my eyes off you at all.

They no longer wanted to entice anyone; all they wanted was to catch a glimpse for as long as possible of the reflected glory in the great eyes of Odysseus

I weigh my past against my future, but find them both admirable, cannot give either the preference, and find nothing to grumble at save the injustice of Providence that has so clearly favored me.

You won't escape me. I like you more and more. You're a lucky catch. I congratulate myself.

Sin duda la ciencia avanza, es imparable, incluso avanza con buena velocidad, cada vez más rápido, pero, ¿qué hay de admirable en eso? Es como si se quisiera admirar a alguien porque a medida que pasan los años se hace más viejo y, a consecuencia de ello, la muerte se fuera aproximando cada vez más rápido.

I knew Billy Wilder socially and would have loved to work with him.

My mother loved Gene Wilder when I was growing up, so I used to watch all his movies with her. I just adore him.

I remember so vividly playing a scene with Jimmy Stewart. I was in the back of a covered wagon, and we were doing this little talk in the wilderness. They did his close-up first. I was looking at him and thinking, 'How does he do that?' He is not 'doing' anything, and yet everything is there.

With Dad, he was the ultimate wildlife warrior, and we admired him more than anything.

I don't really get star-struck, but I do get talent struck. If I meet somebody that I think is just wildly talented and brilliant, that's when I start getting nervous.

I really look up to Will Smith. He's internationally known, and people know him from everything. I don't know any kid who hasn't seen and liked Fresh Prince, or you'll like one of his movies or his music. He's perfect, and he's done everything. That's my dream: to be internationally known.

I got my ears pierced when I was 12. I looked up to my older cousin, and he had earrings. Will Smith on 'The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air' had the left earring. So I started with the left earring, and then two years later, I got the other one pierced.

To be compared to Will Smith is probably one of the coolest things because that's who I came up admiring.

There's nobody taller and cooler than Will Smith. He's the coolest tall person, so I'm trying to be like that.

I came into the business where Will Smith was pretty much taking over the world - or defending it, if you will. He was showing success on so many different fronts - television, recording, movies. So that was really my prototype in terms of looking at the business and seeing where you fit in.

I don't think I have one particular favourite writer. I have many whose works I will always buy or reread - Muriel Spark, Anthony Powell, Robert Louis Stevenson, Ruth Rendell, James Ellroy, William McIlvanney, Kate Atkinson, John Burnside, Louise Welsh, Iain Banks.

I'm obsessed with Kate Middleton. Obsessed. I loved the Royal Wedding. I was so cynical going into it, and pseudo-political about the whole thing, but as soon as I saw her, I was utterly charmed. I'm just completely enchanted by Kate and William.

William Kittredge's 'Hole in the Sky' is one of my favorite books. Ian Frazier's 'Family' I adore.

William Trevor is an author I admire; his stories are subtle and powerful, and beautifully written.

Many of the writers who have inspired me most are outside the genre: Humorists like Robert Benchley and James Thurber, screenwriters like Ben Hecht and William Goldman, and journalists/columnists like H.L. Mencken, Mike Royko and Molly Ivins.

I knew William Burroughs really well, and I was always star struck being around him. I adored him.

I will read anything at all by Kate Atkinson, Daniel Woodrell, and William Kennedy, who are all fearless.