Admiring Quotes
103 quotes by 91 authors
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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,…
— Mary MacLane
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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…
— Yo-Yo Ma
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I am admiring of my fellow peers, black filmmakers and black actors and actresses.
— Cuba Gooding, Jr.
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What I got, unconsciously, from admiring Fred Astaire was that he didn't want what he was doing to look difficult. What was difficult, in my…
— Stanley Donen
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A boy admiring a pretty girl. A rare thing to be certain. But love-true love-is something else.
— Alex Flinn
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Respect, of course is a tricky term. I may respect your gardening by just letting you get on with it. Or, I may respect it…
— Simon Blackburn
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What's so wrong with vanity? It's different from narcissism, you know? It's not about admiring yourself-it's about taking pride in your appearance.
— Tom Ford
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Although the Senate is much given to admiring in its members a superiority less obvious or quite invisible to outsiders, one Senator seldom proclaims his…
— Henry Adams
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The Democrats and Republicans are the same guy admiring themself in the mirror.
— Kinky Friedman
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The wicked envy and hate; it is their way of admiring.
— Victor Hugo
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I knew the exuberance of playing before an admiring audience and hearing my secret voice.
— Elia Kazan
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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…
— Jean Kerr
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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…
— Timothy Radcliffe
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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…
— Zoe Saldana
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No, I grew up admiring people who played ice hockey.
— Liev Schreiber
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I'm Nobody! Who are you? Are you – Nobody – too? Then there's a pair of us? Don't tell! they'd advertise – you know! How…
— Emily Dickinson
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Hello, Halberstam," Owen says, walking by. Hello, Owen," I say, admiring the way he's styled and slicked back his hair, with a part so even…
— Bret Easton Ellis
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Catching sight of himself in the long mirrors that ran along the walls, he stiffened in shock...His eyes were surrounded by black shadows, his shirt…
— Cassandra Clare
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She saw herself riding in the passenger seat, Sam behind the wheel. Like two of those little peg people in a toy car. Husband peg,…
— Anne Tyler
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Exercise II. Write a diary, imagining that you are trying to make an old person jealous. I have written an example to get you started:…
— Joe Dunthorne
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