All Quotes

I admire the abstract expressionists and pop artists so right now I'm referencing American '60s art and at the same time referencing Japanese manga culture.
‐‐ Christian Marclay

I admire the courage and self-reliance it takes to start your own business and make it succeed.
‐‐ Martha Stewart

I admire the Elsie Tanners and Barbara Windsors of the world: people who have crawled back from the abyss. I'm quite camp in that respect.
‐‐ Jenny Eclair

I admire the fact that the central core of Buddhist teaching involves mindfulness and loving kindness and compassion.
‐‐ Ron Reagan

I admire the linear and decisive way a certain kind of man thinks, to my curlicue boundless overthinking.
‐‐ J. Courtney Sullivan

I admire the military. I guess in a world of villains and heroes, they're my heroes. Their dedication, their commitment, their discipline, their code of ethics.
‐‐ John Cena

I admire the Shabbat tradition, and no matter which faith you are of, there is nothing more wonderful than dedicating a certain day to spend time with your family and loved ones, absent of TV, phone, and other interruptions.
‐‐ Joyce Giraud

I admire the work of brilliant actresses such as Judi Dench, Maggie Smith and Helen Mirren, who have had such varied careers. They have never stopped working, and they are as great today as they ever were.
‐‐ Cate Blanchett

I admire the world of the books and the characters that she's created, but I'm not an addict of Harry Potter. I don't feel possessive about it.
‐‐ Ralph Fiennes

I admire them for making their way up and opening new opportunities for other Latin newcomers. Latinos have come a long way and the roles and opportunities just seem to be improving.
‐‐ Roselyn Sanchez

I admire those old road dogs, Willie Nelson, Bob Dylan. That's their life.
‐‐ Robbie Robertson

I admire those people who hold on to their elegance in old age but I'd rather have fun.
‐‐ Heather Graham

I admire Tom Ades: he's a brilliant conductor, and he gets just the right hard, brilliant sound from the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra for Russian music.
‐‐ Charles Hazlewood

I admire traveling; I appreciate it a lot.
‐‐ Theophilus London

I admire tremendously those people who work consistently at the same jobs.
‐‐ Hayley Mills

I admire Virginia Woolf so much that I wonder why I don't like her more. She makes the inner things real, she does illumine, and she makes relationships realities as well as people. But I remember the intensity, the thrill, with which I read 'Passage to India.' How I would have hated anyone who took the book away from me.
‐‐ Susan Glaspell

I admire when people take the harder path, not because they are masochistic and want to beat themselves up, but because you actually kind of learn more and I think you grow more.
‐‐ Josh Hartnett

I admire writers such as Elmore Leonard who can nail a character in three or four lines of dialogue, so he doesn't need pages of back story or clumsy exposition.
‐‐ Mark Billingham

I admire writers who succeed at what I consider the first demand of art: that the artist vivisect himself without pity, without hesitation, determined to reveal whatever he might find.
‐‐ Kathryn Harrison

I admired anyone who could unsettle people.
‐‐ J. G. Ballard

I admired Eugene McCarthy's courage and although I left his Senate staff after four years to accept a job as the researcher on the editorial page of the 'Washington Post,' I remained an admirer.
‐‐ Kitty Kelley

I admired in others the strength that I lacked myself.
‐‐ Georg Brandes

I admired Margaret Thatcher - while abhorring much of what she offered - because she was so clearly a leader of huge substance. Blair was the dismal opposite.
‐‐ Martin Jacques

I admired Marlon Brando as I grew up. I though he was one of the finest screen actors around.
‐‐ Michael Caine

I admired my father very much... at the age of sixteen. But now I see that he was a brutal and cruel man, - but not without remorse, and that was what tortured us, his alternations.
‐‐ Delmore Schwartz

I admired shows like 'Six Feet Under.' That was an amazing show. Never boring, always inventive, smart. Loved the characters. Completely original. Those are shows that I admire.
‐‐ Chris Carter

I admired Stephen Daldry very much; I think he's a brilliant director, and also, I feel close to him because he has a lot of theater behind him. He's also a man of great imagination and a lovely sense of humor.
‐‐ Max von Sydow

I admired the way McCain worked on campaign finance reform. I admired the way Nancy Pelosi stiffened the Democrats' spine during the health care debate. I admire the way Barack Obama has raised a dog in the White House without ever putting it on the roof of the car for a vacation drive.
‐‐ Gail Collins

I admired the work of photographers like Beaton, Penn, and Avedon as much as I respected the grittier photographers such as Robert Frank. But in the same way that I had to find my own way of reportage, I had to find my own form of glamour.
‐‐ Annie Leibovitz

I admired Truman, among many other things, because he integrated the Army. I admired JFK because the very first civil rights legislation was passed at his insistence. JFK showed what you could do, though he was a deeply flawed person, as we all now know.
‐‐ Jed S. Rakoff

I admired what my students were writing, but I think their improvement doesn't directly result from me but from being in a class, being with each other.
‐‐ Thom Gunn

I admit I can't shake the idea that there is virtue in suffering, that there is a sort of psychic economy, whereby if you embrace success, happiness and comfort, these things have to be paid for.
‐‐ Hugh Laurie

I admit, I do a lot of projects, but it's because I'm in a position now where I'm reading a lot more scripts and plays and things, and I'm really listening to offers and trying to think what I want to do at any given time.
‐‐ Bryan Cranston

I admit I do have some drawbacks and limitations as a candidate. Although I am a professional comedian, some of my critics maintain that this is not enough. I cannot deny that I stand before you untested and inexperienced - I only spent two years in television, never as a romantic lead or a song and dance man.
‐‐ Pat Paulsen

I admit, I have a tremendous sex drive. My boyfriend lives forty miles away.
‐‐ Phyllis Diller

I admit I'm being paid well, but it's no more than I deserve. After all, I've been screwed more times than a hooker.
‐‐ Sean Connery

I admit, I'm suspicious of any career planning that involves chasing the next 'big thing,' just because it's so hard to predict what the next big thing is going to be a couple of years - or even six months - out.
‐‐ Carrie Vaughn

I admit I was drinking a Guinness... but I did not swallow.
‐‐ Kinky Friedman

I admit I was somewhat concerned when we started to sign so many players - naturally you are going to worry about whether you can retain your place in the side.
‐‐ Frank Lampard

I admit it: I had fun watching right-wingers go wild as health reform finally became law.
‐‐ Paul Krugman

I admit it: I'm a freak who sits obsessively in front of my computer typing my name into Yahoo Search over and over again. I'm a closet Amberholic. Please help me!
‐‐ Amber Benson

I admit that death is not just about you, it's also about the people who love you.
‐‐ Peter Greenaway

I admit that I am hopelessly hooked on the printed newspaper. I love turning the pages and the serendipity of stumbling across a piece of irresistible information or a photograph that I wasn't necessarily intending to read.
‐‐ Jill Abramson

I admit that I look at my social media when I'm killing time, like on a plane and such. It's just less embarrassing getting caught on Twitter than getting caught playing Candy Crush.
‐‐ Anna Kendrick

I admit that I've been beaten up so many times in films, but we do not fake it - we actually have to fight when we shoot to make it real and to save film and time. Even the props that are not real, like the bats are plastic, but they're still very hard, so it still hurts.
‐‐ Min-sik Choi

I admit that invective is one of my pleasures. This only brings me problems in life, but that's it. I attack, I insult. I have a gift for that, for insults, for provocation. So I am tempted to use it.
‐‐ Michel Houellebecq

I admit that: my wife is outspoken, but by whom?
‐‐ Sam Levenson

I admit that Post-it note sheets that adhere to virtually any surface are now my substitute of choice for retention.
‐‐ Candice Bergen

I admit that the direct model has done a lot for Dell. That's the only thing the company has ever really accomplished.
‐‐ Eckhard Pfeiffer