Quotes About Admiration

The Other should be a glorious, not a pitiful Other, an object of admiration not of commiseration, the object of a challenge, not that interactive, democratic Other which is not even really your equal. The Other exists more intensely in the dual relation, in rivalry and challenge, than in interaction, conviviality and cosy multiculturalism.

The poet never asks for admiration; he wants to be believed.

The worst tragedy for a poet is to be admired through being misunderstood. –

Every artists wants to be applauded

On Central Park West, a woman searching for just the right superlative for the man who is guiding New York through the greatest disaster ever to hit an American city finally said, "He's not like a god; he is God." . . . He has achieved what political observers would have told you two weeks ago is impossible. He is not only respected, but revered. And not only revered

Je le vis, je rougis, je pâlis à sa vue.

Only seven or eight, and yet she knew so exactly how to be cruel and who it was safe to be cruel to. One must admire Nature..

I need to feel strongly, to love and admire, just as desperately as I need to breathe.

I need to feel strongly, to love and to admire, just as desperately as I need to breathe. A letter from a friend, a Balthus painting on a postcard, a page of Saint-Simon, give meaning to the passing hours. But to keep my mind sharp, to avoid descending into resigned indifference, I maintain a level of resentment and anger, neither too much nor too little, just as a pressure cooker has a safety valve to keep it from exploding.

I don't want to conquer you; I just want to climb you.

Her hair cinnabar red, her body all the treasures of Egypt. There won't be another find like you Louise. I won't see anybody else.

Non, il n'y a point de jouissances pareilles à celles que peut donner une honnête femme qu'on aime ; tout est faveur auprès d'elle.

She never felt sorry for herself, and that was something I decided I admired most in people.

Those braces are a goddamn feat of engineering genius," he said. "You take after your old man.

I'd never met a man I would rather spend time with. I loved him for all sorts of reasons: He cooked without recipes;

People. You must love people. Men are admirable. I want to vomit—and suddenly, there it is: the Nausea

I was moved no end by the work of LaVern Baker.

Having other comedians complimenting my work is the biggest accolade that I can get.

I did get to work with Anthony Hopkins on 'The Human Stain.' If I ever manage to accomplish a quarter of what he's achieved, I'll have had one hell of a career.

The worst case scenario is you really like someone's work, then you meet them and they're a self-involved, entitled douchebag.

I looked at people like Lil Wayne. I would go to the studio and I would observe Wayne, and I would literally pray. I would say 'God, give me his work ethic'.

Having lots of people talking highly of you and respecting your art and your work, this is one of the best feelings that you can have.

Good work is the only thing that would make me feel jealous or envious.

I have always admired the work of Phil Farmer and was glad for the chance to work with him. Readers today may be too young to remember his classics like The Lovers.