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Quotes About Admiration

It is a humbling experience to work with Duttsaab and Amitji, who was my dad's costar in so many films.
~ Akshaye Khanna
It's humbling to see kids look up to me or be in awe or see me as a hero or some type of star and actually listen to what I have to say or take my advice.
~ Danny Green
I was very excited to meet Amanda Seyfried. She is one of the most humbling human beings you will ever meet. She deserves success.
~ Cory Hardrict
To have a role written for you by somebody who is a the top of his game is something that is very humbling.
~ Luke Goss
It's exciting to know that you are loved so much. It is humbling.
~ Mithila Palkar
My father is someone I've always looked up to as the ultimate example of chivalry and humility, and someone who's just deeply kind and empathetic and selfless.
~ Alexander Gilkes
The people that I admire have a wonderful balance of self-belief and humility.
~ Mahershala Ali
Rajinikanth is humility personified. He's a huge star in India, and people are dying to just see him on the screen.
~ S. S. Rajamouli
Sergio Aguero is a high-quality player. I'm a big fan of his, both of his football and his humility.
~ Gabriel Jesus
I really admire medical people. They have a great sense of humour, and they just have to get on with it.
~ Neve McIntosh
A hundred eyes were fixed on her, and half as many hearts lost to her.
~ Max Beerbohm
I could listen to Lorne Michaels tell stories for a hundred years.
~ Jon Hamm
It's like, we all grow up thinking it would be so nice to have hundreds of people falling over themselves trying to grab us, telling us we're great, that they love us.
~ Mike Posner
I wouldn't want to think people doted on us, hung on every word, or wanted to look like us.
~ Robert Smith
I knew I liked her then, really liked her, this girl with an explanation for everything.
~ Gillian Flynn
Thirteen years old, I thought to myself, but I felt a spear of admiration for the girl. When I'd been sad, I hurt myself. Amma hurt other people. When I'd wanted attention, I'd submitted myself to boys: Do what you want; just like me. Amma's sexual offerings seemed a form of aggression. Long skinny legs and slim wrists and high, babied voice, all aimed like a gun. Do what I want; I might like you.
~ Gillian Flynn
I've always found my wife a bit dazzling, in the purest sense of the word: to lose clear vision, especially from looking at bright light. It was enough to be near her and hear her talk, it didn't always matter what she was saying. It should have, but it didn't.
~ Gillian Flynn
But I appreciate a straightforward apology the way a tone-deaf person enjoys a fine piece of music. I can't do it, but I can applaud it in others.
~ Gillian Flynn
Good Lord, I hated her, but you had to admire the bitch.
~ Gillian Flynn
What an idiot. I love it.
~ Gillian Flynn
They agreed it was wrong to throw the stick, but insisted that Chase couldn't have predicted it would result in serious injury. Ha! The real reason was that Chase was the town sports hero—and the son of the last town sports hero. Chase's dad had a lot of admirers on that board. And my family didn't.
~ Gordon Korman
Was hätt' ein Weiberkopf erdacht, das er nicht zu beschönen wüßte!
~ Gotthold Ephraim Lessing
I want men to admire me, but that's a trick you learn at school--a movement of the eyes, a tone of voice, a touch of the hand on the shoulder or the head. If they think you admire them, they will admire you because of your good taste, and when they admire you, you have an illusion for a moment that there's something to admire.
~ Graham Greene
The next best thing to talking to her is talking about her.
~ Graham Greene