I was very young at the time, and I mainly appreciated their vocal qualities, even though I was already living as they did - as black performers in a white world.
Bobby Short

I would have told him that I appreciated his friendship through the years and that I had learned a lot from him. I really loved Frank like you do a brother.
Jimmy Carl Black

I'm quite proud of my piano playing. Robin's never played a note on the piano at our recording sessions. I just wish I could be appreciated musically now.
Maurice Gibb

If you can believe this, I didn't fight for my first world title fight till I had 58 fights, so I really appreciated what I was fighting for and for whom as well.
Alexis Arguello

In some cases I feel like they haven't appreciated enough that growing up doesn't mean boring and old and not full of life. I like to talk about that also.
Jody Watley

It's all about creation and surprise. It just needs to be appreciated and watered like flowers. You have to water flowers. These peaks will come again.
Sonny Rollins

Noble character is best appreciated in those ages in which it can most readily develop.
Tacitus

Opera is one of the most important art forms. It should be listened to and appreciated by everyone.
Luciano Pavarotti

Raymond Carver is good. I think he'll be appreciated more and more. He's an easy writer to imitate.
Leslie Fiedler

So I, I knew something in a business sense about semiconductors and I appreciated their possibilities.
Arthur Rock

So, thanks God, our films, our first films were suddenly being appreciated by the Western media; especially France was very good, and Switzerland was very good.
Milos Forman

Systems are to be appreciated by their general effects, and not by particular exceptions.
James F. Cooper

That is the way a great master carpenter feels, or an architect or composer or anyone who creates anything - people want to be appreciated for what they have done.
David Amram

The benefits of biomedical progress are obvious, clear, and powerful. The hazards are much less well appreciated.
Leon Kass

The chance to be both artistically appreciated and commercially appreciated... That's what you hope for.
Gerard Butler

The deepest principle in human nature is the craving to be appreciated.
William James

The inevitability of gradualness cannot fail to be appreciated.
Sidney Webb

The issues are by some geometric number - 100 or 200 or 500 - times more complicated today than we appreciated them to be when Franklin Roosevelt was around.
Gaylord Nelson

The Nobel Prize has given me, for the first time in my life, the feeling that my literature could be appreciated on an international level.
Naguib Mahfouz

The rapprochement of peoples is only possible when differences of culture and outlook are respected and appreciated rather than feared and condemned, when the common bond of human dignity is recognized as the essential bond for a peaceful world.
J. William Fulbright