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
In the game of cricket it has always been customary to accord more adulation to batsman than to bowlers. — Ian Peebles 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
The adulation from viewers is a huge stimulant for me, and it keeps me going. — Akkineni Nagarjuna 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
In whatever adulation you get, there's truth and there's not truth. And wherever they dog you, and they say it was horrible… — Matthew McConaughey Copy Share Image
With digital space, the content has become accessible for the audience. So, they feel more connected to you as you are more… — Rasika Dugal Copy Share Image
We do this for the art, not the adulation. I'd rather our music get liked and we get ignored. I don't want… — Andy Partridge Copy Share Image
[John's Adams] description of [Benjamin] Franklin in a letter to [his wife] Abigail in 1775 is laudatory. Only when he experiences all… — Gordon S. Wood Copy Share Image
Ever since Pele's extraordinary talents blessed the world of football, black footballers have been accepted in the pantheon of the greats. But… — Martin Jacques Copy Share Image
On the road, as a 'rock star,' there's superficial attention and adulation is thrown at you for a couple of hours -… — Melissa Etheridge 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
The only players that are having fun are those having a good year, feasting on pitching or blowing down hitters and garnering… — Dave Winfield Copy Share Image
For all her active goodness, Florence Nightingale herself was far from being the angelic figure of popular adulation: according to Lytton Strachey's… — David Cannadine Copy Share Image
What is the average type of a counterfeit church? A hammock, attached on one side to the cross, and, on the other,… — Joseph Cook Copy Share Image
The anniversary of the Montgomery boycott was being celebrated, and the handbill that was out, and all whatever literature that was circulated,… — Ella Baker Copy Share Image
I go for a couple of parties; you won't find me at every film party and never at award ceremonies. I tried… — Emraan Hashmi Copy Share Image
Money, power, love, sex (until they get married), adulation, children, and control. Of these, children cause the most trouble. Women also want… — Larry L. King Copy Share Image
The gospel of grace nullifies our adulation of televangelists, charismatic superstars, and local church heroes. It obliterates the two-class citizenship theory operative… — Brennan Manning Copy Share Image
I believe that Jesus would have given His life for just one person. Jesus emptied Himself, He humbled Himself and He so… — Heidi Baker 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
Men are weak and constantly need reassurance, so now that they fail to find adulation in the opposite sex, they're turning to… — Anita Loos 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
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
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
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
“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
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
“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
The joy he brings to the millions of his countrymen, the grace with which he handles all the adulation and the expectations… — Glenn McGrath Copy Share Image
The more boring a child is, the more the parents, when showing off the child, receive adulation for being good parents —… — Frank Zappa Copy Share Image
Continuously, we have to fight to defeat the primitive tendency towards the glorification of arms, the adulation of force, born of the… — Nelson Mandela Copy Share Image
I have a very great respect for Americans, and having been a correspondent in this country, and I believe that Americans are… — Malcolm Muggeridge Copy Share Image
It's important to know where you've come from so that you can know where you're going. I probably chose my profession because… — Cary Grant Copy Share Image
Smitten as we are with the vision of social righteousness, a God indifferent to everything but adulation, and full of partiality for… — William James Copy Share Image
While the impostor draws his identity from past achievements and the adulation of others, the true self claims identity in its belovedness.… — Brennan Manning Copy Share Image
The thing I fail to do is fully comprehend what's given back to me by the audience. You would think you would… — Michelle Shocked Copy Share Image
The most stable, and therefore, the most healthy self-esteem is based on deserved respect from others rather than on external fame or… — Abraham Maslow Copy Share Image
I think [Charles] Dickens was an extrovert and Nelly [Ternan] an introvert, and I think that Nelly saw beyond the fame and… — Felicity Jones Copy Share Image