I'm always shy in front of an audience, so I'm always at the back, in the shadows, just doing it. I don't… — Bill Wyman Copy Share Image
I don't live for all the pats on the back and the adulation. I let my boxing do the talking. — Josh Taylor Copy Share Image
I believe that it is possible for one to praise, without concern, any man after he is dead since every reason and… — Niccolo Machiavelli Copy Share Image
The ocean has the conscienceless temper of a savage autocrat spoiled by much adulation — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
The adulation or the superstardom is something I could leave out quite happily. — George Harrison Copy Share Image
I have received more fulfillment and adulation than I would ever know what to do with in terms of show business. — Maria Bamford Copy Share Image
Mass adulation from the multitudes does not penetrate your soul or your core. — Rosie O'Donnell Copy Share Image
“Your High opinion of me is your opinion only. Any moment you may change it. Why attach importance to opinions, even your… — Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj Copy Share Image
“While adulation has its moments and can be like a bath in warm water after coming in from a snowstorm, the psychic… — Andrew Breitbart Copy Share Image
I have this mistress: show business. I get a lot of love and adulation from outside, and [my wife] lets me have… — Ray Romano Copy Share Image
“Era solamente un animo adulatore, di quelli che non sopportano di essere antipatici a qualcuno, neppure a quelli che detestano, aspirano a… — Javier Marías Copy Share Image
The reason that adulation is not displeasing is that, though untrue, it shows one to be of consequence enough, in one way… — Lord Byron Copy Share Image
“The thespian is an impostor, but the paying crowd colludes fully in the fraud as they seek to leave real problems behind… — Stewart Stafford Copy Share Image
To be a skilled politician, you have to be genuine. To really make it work, you have to love people. You have… — Robert Reich Copy Share Image
Weirdly, there have been a lot of critics of conservatism, but very few critics of innovation. As a culture, we are deeply… — Jill Lepore Copy Share Image
The tadpole poet will never grow into anything bigger than a frog; not though in that stage of development he should puff… — Algernon Charles Swinburne Copy Share Image
Somehow, in many of those near-miss instances, I've managed to fight through and continue. But in all these situations, even when they're… — Scott Stossel Copy Share Image
Looking back, yes, I made too many comebacks. But each comeback I was 100 percent sure that I would win. I never… — Sugar Ray Leonard Copy Share Image
Would you be willing to give your life to save the world if no one ever knew your name? If anonymity was… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Our weapons are the ironic mind against the literal: the open mind against the credulous; the courageous pursuit of truth against the… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
That is what marks out the warrior: the knowledge that willpower and courage are not the same thing. Courage can attract fear… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
Failing to induce adulation and submissiveness, the Angkar could only generate hatred. If concealment was the ultimate ploy for the leadership, it… — Pol Pot Copy Share Image
Motherhood, to be sure, receives a great deal of sentimental adulation, but only if it is committed in accordance with rules which… — Suzanne La Follette Copy Share Image
Goose pimples rose all over me, my hair stood on end, my eyes filled with tears of love and gratitude for this… — George Lincoln Rockwell Copy Share Image
“What infinite heart's-ease Must kings neglect, that private men enjoy! And what have kings, that privates have not too, Save ceremony, save… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
“To say she is only a woman is to say a violin is a piece of wood with strings, and Dante is… — Bruce Crown Copy Share Image
Most good programmers do programming not because they expect to get paid or get adulation by the public, but because it is… — Linus Torvalds Copy Share Image
I spent so long studying really hard to become a fine actor, but threw it all away because I got the adulation… — Mickey Rourke Copy Share Image
The adulation from viewers is a huge stimulant for me, and it keeps me going. — Akkineni Nagarjuna Copy Share Image
Where the work goes, I go. Wherever adulation occurs, that's where you'll find me. — Ed Asner Copy Share Image
Flattery corrupts both the receiver and the giver; and adulation is not of more service to the people than to kings. — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
In the game of cricket it has always been customary to accord more adulation to batsman than to bowlers. — Ian Peebles Copy Share Image
Robert Downey Jr. doesn't work out like us regular folks. Adulation bathes him from the moment he arrives at his Los Angeles… — Stephen Rodrick Copy Share Image
A passion for politics stems usually from an insatiable need, either for power, or for friendship and adulation, or a combination of… — Fawn M. Brodie Copy Share Image
I wanted to play drums because I fell in love with the glitter and the lights, but it wasn't about adulation. It… — Charlie Watts Copy Share Image
If you are lucky enough to be a success, by all means enjoy the applause and the adulation of the public. But… — Robert Montgomery Copy Share Image
All that is good is ours not by right but by the sheer bounty of a gracious God — Brennan Manning Copy Share Image