Famous Quotes & Sayings

Natasha Trethewey

Often it seems that there are writers who are their best selves on the page. That Seamus Heaney was as genuine and deeply admirable in person as in his poems was to me a gift, then as now.

For adults and older adolescents, this is a lovely, extraordinarily touching film that conveys an admirable picture of filial devotion, self-sacrifice, faith, good sportsmanship and universal fellowship.

There's an admirable belief about the virtues of meritocracy - that the best ideas prove the best results. It's a wrong and misguided belief by well-intentioned people.

Kerry Greenwood

A publisher saw one of my historical novels and thought I would write an admirable detective story, so she offered me a two-book contract, and I grabbed it.

Even though it's admirable that there is a reduction (in homicides), when it comes to loss of life, 51 is still too high.

You have to be able to make good plays on just about every possession. They don't get rattled. So many times this season they've knocked teams out in the first quarter. Teams have to work so hard to recover from that. By the time they do that, the game's over. Those are things we have to guard against. We've done an admirable job of that the first two times, but it wasn't enough, plain and simple.

Homer

There is nothing more admirable than two people who see eye-to-eye keeping house as man and wife, confounding their enemies, and delighting thier friends.

Andre Gide

There are admirable potentialities in every human being.

Oscar Wilde

Education is an admirable thing.

Steve Smith

Seattle is a very admirable team. They're very experienced. Everything that team did today was superb.

Nick England did an admirable job. The kid that he wrestled had pinned by him before at the Thomas Worthington tournament (Feb. 4) and Nick lost by decision in the sectional.

I believe the State Police did an admirable job making contact with judicial officials, with my office and the people on the front lines being exposed. I think they also did a great job investigating immediately. Every time you have an incident you can learn from it, but I'd leave it to them.

I give myself sometimes admirable advice, but I am incapable of taking it

I got into the guys a little bit at halftime. We came back nicely in the second half. The defense was great and I thought we did an admirable job all the way around.

McDonald's crossed the $20 billion mark for the first time in global sales and also did it while translating 12.7 percent of that into net income, which is very admirable for a restaurant company.

Justin is also a good player. He saw a lot of ice-time last season as a freshman. We were kind of undermanned. He did an admirable job, and this year he's picked up where he left off. He's doing a nice job.

Julian Barnes

He came attached to the case. ... I didn't know much about his biography before I started, and I hadn't read him since I was 20, I suppose. But in the process of research and writing, I found him to be a very admirable and a moral and warmhearted person.

Tom Renney

If he can elevate to the point where we have no choice, then it's possible. If he comes in and does an admirable job, then probably not.

I think it's admirable what he did, because there have been some guys in recent history that have gotten their contract and gotten hurt and went home, never to be seen again. Knowing Troy, he was going to have to (try) because he was professional in every aspect of the game, so you didn't expect him to just not show up and collect his checks. He was going to try and pitch because he's a competitor first and foremost.

I think it is admirable that he has dedicated his skills to build this clock to benefit our high school. I know it's a time-consuming effort. It's very generous of him.

He's a different dimension, we thought (McClanahan) did an admirable job being put in the situation he was placed in the last time, but J.T. wants to run the ball. It's nice to have a quarterback that wants to run the ball.

Helmut Kohl

What especially touched me was the fact that despite his personal experience, he never became bitter, and carried on in an admirable and just manner,

I think that's an admirable philosophy. But one, you have to win some of those games, and playing teams and not being able to win a certain number of those games in the end can hurt - and can hurt the league, potentially.

He was one of our best defenders. He was our point guard, and he was forced to play that spot even though he's more suited for the two guard spot. But he did an admirable job with it.

He had three or four years of experience in his one year. If you go and look at the things he had to do ... he had to dismiss players, had to dismiss a coach. So many of the things he had to do, a lot of coaches go two or three years without having to do. I think he has done an admirable job in growing at such a fast rate.

Rick Santorum

He has quite an admirable record of race relations in Mississippi and got the unanimous support of the African-American community in Mississippi, including the NAACP.

Sarah MacLean

At the heart of every successful romance novel lies the evolution of its characters. Through love, heroes and heroines grow not only into a perfect match, but into stronger, better, more admirable people.

Our biggest struggle as human beings is to project ourselves as something that society has deemed admirable or likable instead of being honest.

I personally believe that the police routinely violate an individual's rights and as defense attorneys we're always fighting an uphill battle. In my opinion, it is extremely admirable for a judge to have the courage to suppress evidence in a serious case like this.

I once asked my history teacher how we were expected to learn anything useful from his subject, when it seemed to me to be nothing but a monotonous and sordid succession of robber baron scumbags devoid of any admirable human qualities.I failed history.

I hope that I have gained the reputation of being someone that would do anything. I think that that's an admirable reputation to have if you're an actor.

In general I think she's an admirable person, but I don't think she's shown that she's one of the better legal minds in the country,

will.i.am

I like all the families in the U.K. But what I like about the idea of the royal family is... they seem like they're well educated and there's something admirable about them. And the Queen... she reminds me of my grandma.