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Quotes About Admiration

I have been in love with no one, and never shall," she whispered, "unless it should be with you." How
~ Unknown
You know, it's quite exciting to watch a professional at work if you bother to look. I mean going at a job he does really well. You look at him with new eyes from then on. In this odd sort of way I was seeing Moon for the first time.
~ Unknown
To your dog, you are the greatest, the smartest, the nicest human being who was ever born.
~ Jack Canfield
Each time I read a book, I cataloged the parts that struck me dumb with envy and admiration for their beauty and power and truth.
~ Jack Gantos
If men are honest, everything they do and everywhere they go is for a chance to see women.
~ Jack Nicholson
Deacon Jones has been the most inspirational person in my football career.
~ Jack Youngblood
When I got depressed, I watched Bruce Lee movies. I learned everything from Bruce Lee.
~ Jackie Chan
Somebody asked me once how I felt about all that," Bird said. "I told them, 'Hell, I'm jealous of them too. I'm jealous because I never got to play with a Larry Bird.
~ Unknown
I love her bare legs from a distance. When she's standing by a pool. When she's facing the water, thinking. Her legs are white as watermelon rind, veined blue from cold. There's that 'H' shape behind her knees. The H trembles softly with the swimming-water cold.
~ Jaclyn Moriarty
Lastly, say to me, if you can, with feelings as tender as mine for you: my dear Beelzebub, I adore you...
~ Jacques Cazotte
The great and admirable strength of America consists in this, that America is truly the American people.
~ Jacques Maritain
You're the only treasure I'll ever need.
~ Unknown
Por qué eres tan hermosa? ¿Te acunaron en versos? ¿Leche de flor bebiste? ¿Quién te modeló sobre mi corazón, quién te tatuó sobre mis ojos?
~ Unknown
Torque was the greatest thing in the world, as far as Lina was concerned.
~ Unknown
She smelled sometimes of lemons, sometimes of sage, sometimes of roses, sometimes of bay leaf. At times I would no longer hear what it was she was saying; I just liked to look at her mouth as it opened and closed over words, or as she laughed. How terrible it must be for all the people who had no one to love them so and no one whom they loved so, I thought.
~ Jamaica Kincaid
Sympathy combines with our interest in property to generate a form of love or esteem which Hume took to be particularly prevalent in human nature. This is the admiration we feel for the rich and powerful.
~ Unknown
The English instinctively admire any man who has no talent and is modest about it.
~ James Agate
Tengo que confesar aquí que la admiración que me merece el teatro de Lorca es más bien escasa. Su vida y su personalidad superaban con mucho a su obra, que me parece a menudo retórica y amanerada.
~ Luis Bunuel
Y de mis autores más queridos, a los que vengo leyendo y releyendo desde hace tantos años? ¿Qué podría decir yo de Cervantes, de Kafka, de Shakespeare, de Dickens, de Faulkner, de Conrad, de Chéjov, de Borges, de Quevedo...? Apenas nada. Ni siquiera me he parado a pensar en ello.
~ Unknown
I do not think there is a person in this world who has been a more ardent admirer of him than I have been. His life and work have been an inspiration to the whole earth, shedding light in the dark places which so sadly needed light . His memory calls forth my most sincere homage, love, and esteem. {Burbank on the great Robert Ingersoll , whom he admired so much that he requested Ingersoll 's eulogy for his brother, Ebon Ingersoll, to be read at his own funeral}
~ Luther Burbank
Então é isso: cada dia eu gosto de você de um jeito. E se a gente junta tudo que é jeito vê que gosta bem grande, vê que é amor.
~ Unknown
True love survives all shocks: an affection originally produced by admiration for unusual beauty may not only survive the loss of that beauty, but may become more intense if the beauty has changed into ugliness through causes that bind the lovers together in tender associations.
~ Unknown
She turns around. Nice ass. Bad, too. Please let me some day kick as much of it as she does.
~ Unknown
God appreciated beauty in all its forms. Flora conceded the point in theory but remained firm in the belief that her idol deserved an admirer with more rigorous standards.
~ Unknown