Famous Quotes & Sayings

C. S. Lewis

The humblest praise most, while cranks & malcontents praise least. Praise almost seems to be inner health made audible

Charles Fillmore

We increase whatever we praise. The whole creation responds to praise, and is glad.

Norm MacDonald

He that searches for praise will often find contempt.

Jeremy Renner

When you get praise from someone that you really admire it's really surreal.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

We seldom praise anyone in good earnest, except such as admire us.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Usually we praise only to be praised.

George Herbert

True praise rootes and spreedes.

George Herbert

Old praise dies, unlesse you feede it. [Old praise dies unless you feed it.]

William Wycherley

With faint praises one another damn.

Jhumpa Lahiri

The narrator is not anybody in particular. It's a group of women, so there's no particular identity to the narrative voice. A Faulkner story, 'A Rose For Emily.' I admired used that voice and I wanted to try it out.. It was an experiment for myself.

Johann Koss

I've always admired Joey as a skater. But I admire him even more as a person.

Bruce Bochy

I've always admired how Mike has played the game. He's always played it hard. He's always been a leader out there. He plays the game right.

Dan Marino

I've always admired Coach Shula. I thought I'd be drafted a little sooner, but now I'm happy I wasn't and Miami was around to pick me.

Martin Scorsese

I've admired and enjoyed his many musical transformations. For me, there is no other musical artist who weaves his influences so densely to create something so personal and unique.

Rick George

The one thing I really admire about Gwyn is that he is a passionate Canadian. His work in terms of trying to make a difference in this country speaks for itself.

Susan Sontag

the most influential and admired novelist of his generation in the Spanish-speaking world.

Dave Morris

Now, I admire The Sims as a game, but from a story viewpoint, there are two glaring problems. First, your relationship with those characters is like they're bugs in a jar. There's no empathy. And secondly, you've got this clunky, chemistry-set interface between you and them, with bars to show how tired or angry they are. It's all tell not show.

Brian Waters

Teams like New England and Philadelphia win the old-fashioned way. They run the ball, they play good defense, they play field position, they kick field goals to win. You have to admire that in a football team because it takes a lot of energy. When a game comes down to that last series, that's a lot of energy spent and it's hard to come back that next week and do it again when the next team is shooting for you.

David Albright

And that's one of the things that has to give you pause, is that they have been thinking about this a long time, ... And so the question is, when did they start in earnest to learn how to make a nuclear explosive?