Famous Quotes & Sayings

Michel Therrien

He's a player that in Canada, they love the way he plays and he got a lot of admiration last year when he went to the World Junior and won a gold medal for Team Canada. He's a great kid and a good person, and that's what people like about him. They can tell he's a good person.

Anthony Bourdain

He's an amazingly knowledgeable guy. I don't think we're going to be sharing fashion tips anytime soon, but as a television professional and a guy who knows a lot about food, I have a lot of admiration for the guy.

Jason Chaffetz

I have the greatest respect and admiration for Congressman Issa, but I don't intend to be Darrell Issa-like.

I have the greatest respect and admiration for both UA and Purdue. I really like the schools, the teams and the coaches. I really believe it's going to be a terrific game.

Bobby Ross

I really had a lot of admiration and respect for Glenn Davis,

I don't know if they can get enough done here

He (Zedillo) leaves office with the admiration of the people of Mexico. The president told him that he should be proud of what he has accomplished there.

Stephen Merchant

I guess as you get older you sort of see the mechanics, even with the best comedians. There's admiration for people I admire, but it's not guttural laughter. It's a wry 'Oh, well done, sir.' But I sort of miss that slightly; I miss the raw joy of comedy I used to get.

William Wordsworth

We live by admiration, hope and love; and even as these are well and wisely fixed, in dignity of being we ascend

Mark Cuban

This is a chance for these servicemen and women to feel the admiration and respect of 20,000 people, reinforcing for them that we as a nation feel grateful for what they have done for us.

The Rolex 24 At Daytona is a great race with a lot of history and to compete in it with GAINSCO/Blackhawk Racing is a great opportunity for me. I am proud to be a part of the All-American lineup with talented young drivers like Alex and Rocky. I grew up in admiration of the success of both of their fathers. It will be exciting to race with them, and Bob as well, who proved in his rookie year last season that he's got what it takes.

Hugh Jackman

great ... I never wanted to go longer than five years off the stage. Not necessarily musicals, but just doing a play or something. I don't know if my agent was particularly thrilled about the 12-month contract I've signed, but still. It's thrilling. It's such a dream to go to Broadway and do the first Australian musical ever to go there, and playing a character who I have huge, huge admiration for. So, I'm really looking forward to it. I'm probably more excited about that than I've been in a while.

Jacques Chirac

great admiration for the extraordinary work that has been carried out by Germany's chancellor

Mary Cassatt

It is as well not to have too great an admiration for your master's work. You will be in less danger of imitating him.

Pharrell Williams

I just happen to admire everyone that we work with.

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.

These are murmurers, complainers, walking after their own lusts; and their mouth speaketh great swelling words, having men's persons in admiration because of advantage.

David Stern

Allen proves as well as anyone else has ever proven that if you've got game and you leave it all out there, you pick up the admiration of people around the world. And we love to see that happening. Because that's what shows our game at its best, sort of the teamwork, what it takes to play at the level and what he's willing to put up with in terms of injuries to continue to excel at this level.

The effort the players have put in has been tremendous. I have great admiration for them for what they do week-in, week-out and year-in, year-out.

Terry Goodkind

Life for the strongest. There is no sympathy for the slain, only admiration for the winner's strength.

Henry A. Kissinger

The capacity to admire others is not my most fully developed trait.

You know my powers, my dear Watson, and yet at the end of three months I was forced to confess that I had at last met an antagonist who was my intellectual equal. My horror at his crimes was lost in my admiration at his skill.

Joseph Priestley

What I have known with respect to myself, has tended much to lessen both my admiration, and my contempt, of others.

Samuel Johnson

There are charms made only for distant admiration.

Rex Stout

Nothing is more admirable than the fortitude with which millionaires tolerate the disadvantages of their wealth.

Samuel Johnson

Admiration begins where acquaintance ceases

William Ralph Inge

Admiration for ourselves and our institutions is too often measured by our contempt and dislike for foreigners.

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.