Admiring Quotes

The wicked envy and hate; it is their way of admiring.
Victor Hugo

Hate, Envy, Wicked

Celibacy is not just a matter of not having sex. It is a way of admiring a person for their humanity, maybe even for their beauty.
Timothy Radcliffe

Beauty, Sex, Humanity

Marrying a man is like buying something you've been admiring for a long time in a shop window. You may love it when you get it home, but it doesn't always go with everything else in the house.
Jean Kerr

Love, Time, Home

The Democrats and Republicans are the same guy admiring themself in the mirror.
Kinky Friedman

Same, Guy, Mirror

For generations, Americans who aren't rich have been generous and admiring of their wealthy compatriots - want a country where people who work hard can succeed, where the same rules apply to everyone. They expect to have their own shot at getting rich. But increasingly, they are seeing that the game is rigged.
Dee Dee Myers

Work, Game, Hard

I want to write such things as compel the admiring acclamation of the world at large, such things as are written but once in years, things subtle but distinctly different from the books written every day.
Mary MacLane

Different, Write, Once

I knew the exuberance of playing before an admiring audience and hearing my secret voice.
Elia Kazan

Before, Secret, Playing

I can take a lot of pats on the back. I love it when I get admiring letters from people. And, of course, I'd love it if the critics would notice me, too.
Norman Rockwell

Love, Critics, Notice

The cure for admiring the House of Lords is to go and look at it.
Walter Bagehot

House, Cure, Lords

A severe though not unfriendly critic of our institutions said that the cure for admiring the House of Lords was to go and look at it.
Walter Bagehot

Said, Though, House

I really think that aside from admiring my talent you really admire me as a person and as a woman.
Katherine Dunham

Woman, Person, Talent

A savage review is much more entertaining for the reader than an admiring one; the little misanthrope in each of us relishes the rubbishing of someone else.
Arthur Smith

Someone, Else, Reader

If there's anything that I've always said about myself is that to me, it's much more important for me to get to work with filmmakers that I've grown up loving and admiring.
Zoe Saldana

Work, Important, Said

No, I grew up admiring people who played ice hockey.
Liev Schreiber

Hockey, Played, Ice

My teacher, my great cello teacher Leonard Rose, was such a great cellist, and nurturing man, very patient. But I grew up not only admiring him, but obviously Casals, Rostrotovich, Jacqueline du Pre, and many others, including many of my peers and contemporaries.
Yo-Yo Ma

Great, Teacher, Him

I was a product of the times, the war, the occupation, the reoccupation, my 4 years in Britain, admiring but at the same time questioning whether they are able to do a better job than we can.
Lee Kuan Yew

I am admiring of my fellow peers, black filmmakers and black actors and actresses.
Cuba Gooding, Jr.

Black, Fellow, Filmmakers

To be compared to Will Smith is probably one of the coolest things because that's who I came up admiring.
Nick Cannon

Compared, Coolest, Smith

You will also allow me to thank the Academy for inviting me to lecture in Stockholm, for its hospitality, and for the opportunity afforded me for admiring the charm of your people and the beauty of your country.
Guglielmo Marconi

Beauty, Country, Thank

The hidden child wants to be able to participate and to co-create in art, rather than being simply an admiring viewer.
Christian Morgenstern

Art, Able, Rather

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