Famous Quotes & Sayings

Najib Razak

I speak for all Malaysians in expressing my admiration for the Queen and the grace, poise and selflessness with which she has carried out her duties during her long reign. She represents the very best of British traits: dignity, resilience and hard work.

Mark Sweeney

I thought about Grissom and the admiration I had for him as a teammate in Milwaukee. I loved the way he played.

Marie Louise

I am convinced that our movement will be more demoralized and weakened by blind and uncritical admiration than by frank admission of past mistakes.

Samuel Johnson

Admiration begins where acquaintance ceases

Walter Savage Landor

Why cannot we be delighted with an author, and even feel a predilection for him, without a dislike of others? An admiration of Catullus or Virgil, of Tibullus or Ovid, is never to be heightened by a discharge of bile on Horace.

Samuel Johnson

There are charms made only for distant admiration.

Paul Tagliabue

People who over-promise and under-deliver, I don't have great admiration for, ... People who under-promise and over-deliver, I admire.

Gavin Bryars

The ideal, of course, is to have the respect of professionals and the admiration of amateurs. I suppose this was the case in the past.

Charlie Rose

The highest admiration I have for my colleagues is not for someone in a studio in New York but for somebody on the ground in places that they've gone to fight to tell the story.

Robin Wright

I would have made a lousy stripper. I'm just not very comfortable exposing myself.

Robert Rodriguez

Everything I've done has always been my own made up world with its own rules and its own made up stories.

Roger Goodell

I don't get myself caught up in the rhetoric of any personal comments that are made.

Samuel Johnson

New things are made familiar, and familiar things are made new.

Zack Snyder

There's very few dork movies made by dorks.

Ryan Adams

Some things were made to be felt

Jorge Luis Borges

He constructed a vast labyrinthine of periods, made impassable by the piling-up of clauses upon clauses-clauses in which oversight and bad grammar seemed manifestations of disdain.

Heather Mills

I made my million before I was 19!

Ned Vizzini

Time is a person-made concept.

Peter Carlisle

He could be very cordial and charming when he was cooperating with you, and there were other times he could be reptilian as to how cold he was.

Peter Sarnak

He is very charming and not arrogant. I think he will find himself having a tremendous number of graduate students because he has kind of a magnetic personality.

James Woods

Hold on a second, I got a hand here... you don't mind if I play while we talk? It's part of the charm of this entire event.

Allen Wallace

I think that's part of the charm of recruiting. You can never get enough great players. It's just another way to inflict injury on your rivals. That's why recruiting is so important to some people. You're winning two times. You're getting a player and you're taking him away from somebody else.

Rob Moore

He is a very likeable, charming billionaire. He's just your average, very successful, humble businessman.

Sarah Dessen

Impulsiveness can be charming but deliberation can have an appeal, as well.

William Makepeace Thackeray

What a charming reconciler and peacemaker money is!

Brian Harrigan

Our lucky day didn't work out so well last time. They had their own lucky charm.

James Howard Kunstler

In short, chronological connectivity puts us in touch with the holy. It is at once humbling and exhilarating. I say this as someone who has never followed any formal religious practice. Connection with the past and the future is a pathway that charms us in the direction of sanity and grace.