Famous Quotes & Sayings

Phil Jackson

Red and I, I think, have a mutual admiration. That's all I can say.

Dawn Ostroff

Paul is a skilled and talented public relations executive whose respect from the press is matched only by the admiration of his peers. He is a brilliant strategist and manager whose intuitive understanding of the media landscape will be of enormous benefit in communicating The CW message to the press and all of our key constituents. In addition, Paul comes to The CW having worked at both UPN and The WB, providing a unique background and vantage point of what it takes to compete as the fifth broadcast network.

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

Magdi Yacoub

I always wanted to be a surgeon, because I had a lot of admiration for my father, who is also a surgeon. I also wanted to be a heart surgeon. That was motivated by the fact that my young aunt, a sister of my dad, died in her early 20s of a correctable heart disease.

He's been involved in this (war protest). He's very knowledgeable about what is going on. We don't always agree with him, but we have great admiration for his advocacy and willingness to take a stand.

It hurt personally because I had such admiration for Ken and Enron. But that was the right thing to do at the time.

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

Howard Baker

I think the friendship and mutual admiration between the prime minister and the president will facilitate that.

Francis Bacon

It is good discretion not to make too much of any man at the first; because one cannot hold out that proportion

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.

Anthony Bourdain

I don't have to agree with you to like you or respect you.

Benjamin Franklin

If what most men admire, they would despise, 'Twould look as if mankind were growing wise

Jennifer Aniston

We happily remain committed and caring friends with great love and admiration for one another. We ask in advance for your kindness and sensitivity in the coming months.

We had great attendance from other music communities in Nashville. Respect and admiration for bluegrass has grown in recent years, and we feel that we have much to learn from the other genres centered here.

Kevin Spacey

My admiration for 'Mary Tyler Moore' is very, very big because they went out on top.

Jill Abramson

My advice on getting a raise is what everybody's advice is: to become a confident negotiator; but that is so hard. My admiration for women who are good at that is unbridled. Women in general have a harder time talking about money with their bosses.

Stephanie McMahon

My father knew my husband long before I ever did. He actually always says that he loved him first... there really was this wonderful respect and admiration between the two of them before I even came into the picture.

Eleanor Roosevelt

You always admire what you really don't understand. - Eleanor Roosevelt

Edmund Burke

She is not made to be the admiration of all, but the happiness of one

Most people in Seattle do not know him. But we have, in many ways, this love, admiration, envy and curiosity for him. He's doing a bunch of good stuff with his money.

Now, there's been a persistent legend and a lot of slogans, and the formation of societies for the fostering of Franco-American friendship, which have had some effect, but there is a strong admiration in this country for the culture of France, and generally speaking I think the French find the Americans have been stout supporters of them in many of their periods of distress.

She was an incredible human being, a strong, independent woman, and she did a lot of charity work. It's easy to become enamored with who she was and what she did.

Doug Liman

What I really found was that the one similarity between 'Covert Affairs' and 'Fair Game' is a deep love and admiration and fascination with the home life of a spy.

When a benevolent mind contemplates the republic of Lycurgus, its admiration is mixed with a degree of horror.

One of the things that young players have to not only learn but gain an admiration for is the respect factor of the game and the people who have participated in previous years, and an understanding of the history of the organization they are playing in. It's an organization very rich in tradition.

Then by good luck W. B. Yeats, liking my first book of verse, asked me to come and see him. I owe more to him than to any man living, and my intense admiration for his work was reinforced by my intense admiration for himself.

Isabella Bird

The ladies in the United States appeared to me to be extremely domestic. However fond they may be of admiration as girls, after their early marriages they become dutiful wives and affectionate, devoted mothers. And in a country where there are few faithful attached servants, far more devolves upon the mother than English ladies have any idea of.

Sathya Baba

No attention is paid to the blame or praise that others may give. It does not seek the admiration or the appreciation of the listeners. 

It's special from the fact Sarah stuck with basketball, knowing she is not going to play a lot. I have a lot of admiration for her.

Everyone looked at him like he was their ... savior, ... everywhere he went he was an object of admiration and adoration -- and yet he couldn't muffle the growing discontent, the helplessness he felt at his inability to control not so much the world around him as his private world, the inner world that was revealed to no one but him.

Cynthia Ozick

Awe consumes any brand that ignites it ...

Wal-Mart deserves their high admiration level because they do what they say. They give America a place to buy at low prices in stores where employees seem happy to be there and willing to assist customers when questions are asked.

Arne Glimcher

When Nixon opened the door to China in the early 1970s, Chinese artists got their first view of the West. Suddenly five centuries of Western art lay before them as a stylistic smorgasbord. Chinese artists could reinterpret it out of admiration or try to replace it. They choose the former.