Admiration Quote by Maureen Howard

“I have often caught sight of myself, my spine humped over, defining my hollowness, my head too heavy for my body, swinging like the oversized blossom of some cruelly bred plant; admiration for the world spread for the world to see on my gullible face-unlike my other face with the sour look of a…” quote by Maureen Howard — Download Open image

“I have often caught sight of myself, my spine humped over, defining my hollowness, my head too heavy for my body, swinging like the oversized blossom of some cruelly bred plant; admiration for the world spread for the world to see on my gullible face-unlike my other face with the sour look of a starved peasant.”

Maureen Howard

★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.9 out of 5 (3 ratings)

Admiration Appearance Body Caught Defining Faces Gullible Heavy Hollowness Looks Peasants Plant Sight Sour Spine Spread World

More by Maureen Howard

When I go home my mother and I play a cannibal game; we eat each other over the years, tender morsel by morsel until…

Maureen Howard

Image

The Golden Arches of McDonald's rise, glorious across the landscape, contempo-monolithic, simple in concept as Stonehenge if we could but see it.

Maureen Howard

Image

Even when I was a grown woman, he [Father] would leave me on the edge of hysteria in all our arguments: though I married…

Maureen Howard

Image

I've finally learned not to want things I cannot have.

Maureen Howard

Image

Notable American Women is an enchanting and moving novel. Like Italo Calvino and Lewis Carrol, Ben Marcus reconfigures the world that we might see…

Maureen Howard

Image

The Catholic Church with its foreshortened American history and tangled puritanical roots was as inviolate to my mother and father as it was to…

Maureen Howard

Image

Wouldn't a laugh serve us better than to battle it out with our mortal souls?

Maureen Howard

Image

There's a bad odor about a man who's been betrayed.

Maureen Howard

Image

Hindsight is common and bland as boiled potatoes.

Maureen Howard

Image

“From above, start with the privileged view. ”

Maureen Howard

Image

Acceptance is the word we must substitute for dependence in dealing with the aged. Their acceptance of help, ours of their need.

Maureen Howard

Image

The part we play is not as we want it, but as we are made-with the genitals God gave us.

Maureen Howard

Image

Explore all 19 Maureen Howard quotes

More Admiration quotes

I have tremendous admiration for companies with the kind of pioneering spirit and innovation eBay has demonstrated from day one.

Bonnie Hammer

Image

The older you've gotten, the more respect and admiration you've received.

Jupp Heynckes

Image

I still don't feel I know Hitchcock at all. I find that the more one looks, the more elusive he becomes. But my admiration…

Toby Jones

Image

“There have been those among us who have been so dazzled by the might and technological wizardy of Europe that they have been rather…

Ahdaf Soueif

Image

I want to thank the Greek people publicly for their humanitarian response to the crisis of so many migrants and refugees seeking safety in…

Barack Obama

Image

Humor is the opposite of all self-admiration and self-praise.

Karl Barth

Image

“A warm, trustworthy person who is also strong elicits admiration, but only after you’ve established trust does your strength become a gift rather than…

Amy Cuddy