Quotes About Admiration

My biggest hero, Gregory Peck, was my birthday present on April 14, 1973. I just sat and stared at him.

The loveliest girl in Berlin, all the young men agreed.

Half the people in Lucky Harbor were in love with him. The other half were men and didn't count. -Tara on Ford

He stared at her. "How is it that you're cute, sexy as hell, and smarter than anyone I know?" She gave him a small smile. "It's a gift.

He slid his fingers over her jaw and tilted her face up to his. You're smarter than hell, sexier than hell, and I like you way more than I should, he said.

Seriously," he murmured, still taking her in. "Wow." One more "wow" and she was going to start her own drinking game.

I've always admired your ability to be unilaterally irritating.

You're one hell of a woman, Molly," I said. "Thank you.

Damn. Bob was kind of awesome.

I've had sex that didn't feel as good as Maeve's smile.

Hero, noun 1. a person who is admired or idealized for courage, outstanding achievements, or noble qualities 2. a sandwich

Oh my," Kitai said in Canish, her eyes sparkling. "I may be in love." Tavi replied in the same tongue. "I saw him first." Varg's ears quivered again.

Given intelligence, success in any area has always struck me as a matter of the level of attention, excluding the arts, of course, which seem to be involved in a mystery known only to their practitioners, if, indeed, they know themselves. You can read a Chekhov story, a Shakespeare sonnet, or listen to a Mozart sonata a dozen times and you'll still be left twiddling your thumbs in mute admiration.

We could have touched the stars. Instead, you brought them to us. We didn't have to seek the heavens when we had you here with us now.

I never considered disobeying an order or even a request from Daddy. I loved and admired him, and one of my preeminent goals in life was to earn his approbation. I learned to expect his criticisms, always constructive, but his accolades were rare. My

the contemporary trend was "to treat mourning as morbid self-indulgence, and to give social admiration to the bereaved who hide their grief so fully that no one would guess anything had happened.

In both England and the United States, he observed, the contemporary trend was "to treat mourning as morbid self-indulgence, and to give social admiration to the bereaved who hide their grief so fully that no one would guess anything had happened.

he observed, the contemporary trend was "to treat mourning as morbid self-indulgence, and to give social admiration to the bereaved who hide their grief so fully that no one would guess anything had happened.

It is impossible to think of Howard Hughes without seeing the apparently bottomless gulf between what we say we want and what we do want, between what we officially admire and secretly desire, between, in the largest sense, the people we marry and the people we love.

The apparently bottomless gulf between what we say we want and why we do want, between what we officially admire and secretly desire, between, in the largest sense, the people we marry and the people we love.

there is some sweet seduction in feeling another admires us—a notion so flattering that some return of esteem takes place without our quite being aware

When Arthur was present, you did not look at anyone else.

Oddly my name has been no professional help at all! It seems to have made no difference... I admire him hugely, both for his benevolence and his enormous psychological perception.

Nat Parson says it's the devil's mark. Nat Parson's a gobshite. Maddy was torn between a natural feeling of sacrilege and a deep admiration of anyone who dared call a parson 'gobshite.