Quotes About Admiration

Take [Stéphane] Mallarme. I hold him to be the greatest of French poets, and I have taken some time to understand him !

There is nothing that exists so great or marvelous that over time mankind does not admire it less and less.

I'm a big-time Fabolous fan. He's my favorite rapper ever. I hope to meet him one day.

Meadowlark inspired me to play for a long time. I thought, 'If he could do it, I can do it.' The legacy that Meadowlark leaves is something that every child and adult can benefit from.

I was a Packers fan growing up, and just to see the way he played the game and how excited he was about it all the time, he's my favorite.

It's definitely true that Stevie Ray Vaughan is one of my all-time favorite guitarists.

I played Luke Skywalker. Every time we played, I was Luke Skywalker. Nobody else could be Luke Skywalker.

Great men hallow a whole people, and lift up all who live in their time.

The old dwarf drew himself up. His height was no longer impressive: the bowed back would not straighten, the legs could no longer support the body without assistance. But Drugar, towering over his father, saw the dignity in the trembling stance, the wisdom in the dimming eyes, and felt himself a child again.

she can remember everyone admiring a rare kind of evening they spoke of as something they ought to save from oblivion to describe to their children later. And that for her part she would have had it hidden, had that late summer evening buried and burned to ashes.

Yes, she can remember everyone admiring a rare kind of evening they spoke of as something the ought to save from oblivion to describe to their children later. And that for her part she would have had it hidden, had that late summer evening buried and burned to ashes.

Anything morally worthy in ourselves is corrupted if we wish to admire ourselves. And someone else remarked that there are no mirrors in heaven. There couldn't be, for the mirror is the symbolic antithesis of a glad, free offering of our full attention to

Il n'est pas difficile de nourrir des pensées admirables lorsque les étoiles sont présentes. Il est plus difficile de les garder intactes dans la petitesse des journées ; il est plus difficile d'être devant les autres ce que nous sommes devant Dieu. (p. 65)

You're the only one here with your own fan club

You have a magnificent moustache. You must be very proud of it.

Now she smiles as if I'm her favorite chocolate bar. And I love you, Jordan.

we do not admire what we cannot understand.

Success makes so many people hate you. I wish it wasn't that way. It would be wonderful to enjoy success without seeing envy in the eyes of those around you.

Faith for her was habit and family loyalty, a reverence for the Bible which was also literary, admiration for her mother and father. And then that thrilling quiet of which she had never felt any need to speak.

At the root of real honor is always the sense of the sacredness of the person who is its object.

They're married people." Lila had no particular notion of what the word "married" meant, except that there was an endless, pleasant joke between them that excluded everybody else and that all the rest of them were welcome to admire.

All that purpose. Always on their way somewhere. You had to admire. Maybe a chirp meant "I exist!" and then "I exist!," as if it could matter.

I admire Calvin more than I do any of the Calvinists, Edwards included.

This was an important trip for me. Twelve artists in all were there, including several I admired—Laurie Anderson, John Cage, Chris Burden, Brice Marden, Joan Jonas, and Pat Steir—and