Famous Quotes & Sayings

Brian d'Arcy James

My younger sister's a comedian. She has a sketch comedy group in Chicago called Schadenfreude and I look at her with such admiration and envy because it's such an amazing thing to make someone laugh.

William Shakespeare

Season your admiration for a while.

John W. Snow

Well, I'm not going to review here all the candidates that are on the list, but I will attest to my admiration for Bono, ... He's somebody I admire. He does a lot of good in this world of economic development...he understands the give and take of development. He's very pragmatic, effective and idealistic.

Chloe Sevigny

I have so much admiration for people who devote their life to the church, ... I was quite inspired by Clara. I was inspired by her drive to do good, by her willingness to sacrifice herself and her body. How inspired she was inspired me.

I have a great deal of respect and admiration for what he's done for our game. No one was more successful than Dean Smith.

Emerson Fittipaldi

I have a lot of admiration for Fernando Alonso, our careers are fairly similar because he also came very quickly into Formula One,

John Schuerholz

He's hardheaded, competitive. I've always had great admiration for him.

Arthur Brisbane

Whatever good there is in small boys is usually based upon their admiration for girls of their own age

Mahatma Gandhi

When I admire the wonder of a sunset or the beauty of the moon, my soul expands in worship of the Creator

Brian White

He has a very live personality that very positively impacts a football team. This is a physical game. If you can't watch the way he plays and have admiration for the pounding he absorbs in a football game and appreciate the way he approaches his performance, then you should be playing something else.

Polly Walker

I have huge admiration for this character. A lot of people might consider her to be sort of evil or bad, but I think she's wonderful. She's very complex and she's just a survivor, doing what she's got to do.

Richard Gephardt

I have enormous friendship and respect with Tom Daschle. Always have had and always will have. And I have nothing but admiration and respect for what he is trying to do with this in the Senate. As he said yesterday, it doesn't matter where you start, what matters is where you wind up. We have different bodies and we have different ways of dealing with it,

I have great admiration for the way the Americans do business. They drive a hard bargain, but once they do it, they stick to their contracts.

I have great admiration for my father. We are proud of the courage he has exhibited this evening, and our family stands behind him and will support him through these tough days.

I have great admiration for IIT and their coaches. They don't get the type of players that the rest of the conference gets, but they came back to take the lead against us in the second half. There is no quit in those kids, and I admire them for that.

We've always hoped that Page 2 would be a destination for people who wanted a good laugh and didn't take sports too seriously. Much of that was accomplished through parody, so it seemed natural that we'd be drawn to a product like the Onion. I think we've always had an admiration for what they do, and when we talked to the folks at the Onion, we found out that admiration was mutual.

Birdman

It's what you always do. You confuse love for admiration.

Jane Austen

There was no being displeased with such an encourager, for his admiration made him discern a likeness before it was possible.

Blaise Pascal

Admiration spoils all from infancy.

Samuel Smiles

Admiration of great men, living or dead, naturally evokes imitation of them in a greater or less degree.

Auguste Rodin

I have unbounded admiration for the nude. I worship it like a god.

Dilma Rousseff

I had great admiration for the election of President Obama. I believe that the U.S. at that moment showed tremendous capacity to show that it is a great nation, and it surprised the world. It may be very difficult to be able to elect a black president in the U.S. - as it was very difficult to elect a woman president in Brazil.

Military officers from different countries, when they meet each other, tend to sort of fall in love, become mutual admiration societies, at the expense of realities.

Susan Cain

To some extent, we've always had an admiration for extroversion in our culture. But the extrovert ideal really came to play at the turn of the 20th century when we had the rise of big business.

Elaine Paige

We became our own mutual admiration society I think,

Stephane Hessel

I was a young boy when I met the Surrealists and the Dadaists. I admired them, and that is what they taught me: to admire. Admiration is very important. People who are unable to admire others lose an important part of their soul. My soul developed from a very early age through encounters with admired people.

Rupert Brooke

We always love those who admire us; we do not always love those whom we admire.

Lauren Willig

Ever since reading Jean Plaidy's 'Queen in Waiting,' I've felt deep admiration for Caroline of Ansbach.

Jencarlos Canela

'Suena' is what the essence of the Olympics are about. There are the best athletes in the world up on one stage. The love and admiration and respect for each other is amazing to see.

Bill Keller

steadfastness in defense of principle has won her admiration from around the world, wherever people value a free, aggressive press.

Romola Garai

Someone like David Tennant is able to embrace people's love for 'Doctor Who' in a totally positive way. I have huge admiration for people who are able to do that.

Paul Grayson

It has been a fantastic year for Ben. I am full of admiration for him. He has been very honest and open about how he has returned to the game and he is getting his reward.

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.