Famous Quotes & Sayings

You guys have an awesome job. I don't envy you but I admire your taking it on. The city is very interested in cooperating. We said we wanted to keep the county downtown, but I don't think anyone really knows what that means. We have a 100-year history with the county downtown. It's not so much of an economic thing. But my mind has no grasp of what we're talking about. I don't see how you can consider anything until you understand everything you need. It's frustrating to talk about this until we know how much we need.

What they did, in terms of offering emotional support, was superb. They were sensitive and supportive, and their lawyering was thoroughly professional. I admire them enormously.

Paul Theroux

The train passed fruit farms and clean villages and Swiss cycling in kerchiefs, calendar scenes that you admire for a moment before feeling an urge to move on to a new month

Michael Ignatieff

I spent five years in the United States. I admire and respect American institutions.

Christopher Fry

I sometimes think/ His critical judgement is so exquisite/ It leaves us nothing to admire except his opinion.

Seth Rogen

I'm not one of those actors where filmmakers that I admire ask me to be in their movies. I meet them at parties and they're nice to me, but they never ask me to work with them.

In his spirit, in his soul, he admires the settlers and no one respects them more than he,

Mark Ruffalo

I mean, I think I admire my wife the most out of anyone. She's really smart, in a practical way that I don't have. We balance each other.

Mack Brown

I knew him when I was a young coach. I admired him for what he stood for. He taught coaches how to win championships with class and dignity.

Bill Walton

It's my right, That's good, Bill. I admire people who have strong beliefs and stick by them. I really do. We're going to miss you.

Caroline Kennedy

Congressman John Murtha and Alberto Mora exemplify the kind of courage my father admired most. When others were unwilling to do so, each man recognized a moral obligation to speak out against policies he believed were misguided and contrary to our national interest.

Ani Difranco

even when i look right at you i always just see through and i always just see new things to admire about you

That's so far from the truth, but man, you've got to admire a freshman who stands up and says that. To be a quarterback, you've got have those qualities. I'm really proud of him.

Les Paul

Steve used to walk through the room I stayed in to get to the bathroom. One day, he must have been 5 years old, Steve said to me, 'Are you Mr. Paul?' I said yes. He was looking at my guitar and I asked him, 'Do you play guitar?' And he said, 'A little bit.' So I handed him my guitar and he played it and I said, 'Gee, you're good. Someday you'll be doing what I'm doing.' I was his mentor . . . but then I watched him take everything he admired and copied and learned and become Steve Miller. He's a very, very good blues guitarist.

Lord Byron

Not to admire is all the art I know.

Matt Hasselbeck

Talking to the friends that I have on the Packer team, they admire the way that he handled this season, with a lot of bad breaks and a lot of tough situations. (Sherman) really kept it together. I think you judge somebody by how they handle adversity rather than how they handle success.

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I totally admire what Greenwald has been able to do in terms of distributing the film. But he and I just see this differently.

Neal Schon

I totally admire the man and love him as a human being.

Bobby Rahal

I told them (the other drivers) I admired them and appreciated them because they're out racing these cars for people to see, ... These (cars) aren't hangar queens. They (the racers) are very selfless about sharing their love for these cars with everybody here. You could tell from the reception, with cars in the paddock area, that a lot of these fans here are excited to see these cars again.

It's tough to leave public service. I've been doing it for so long. I've admired Bank of America for a long time. It's the only chief security position I would take.

I hope we get back into space soon. I hope they admire the current astronauts, and I hope their hearts are with Eileen and her crew, and Steve Lindsey and his.

I'm actually going to try to drum up some support for the guy. I do admire what he did. It was the right thing.

J. R. Moehringer

I'm a big fan of the poet Mary Jo Salter, and although she doesn't need to be discovered at all - she's widely admired and anthologized and extremely accomplished - I wish she were a household name.

I loved the fact that he was a hardworking man, and I saw him all those years to be a great father and a good husband. I had always admired him.

Rosanna Arquette

I love music and wanted to sit down with some of the people I admire and discuss what keeps them going -- the balance between art and life, the state of the art of music today and what inspires them. Most true artists care about music as a pure, passionate art form, but can get caught in the trap of the business which, sadly, has now become more important than the artist or even the music itself.

Lee Haney

I'm very blessed in that I had a lot of people who admired what I was able to achieve, and it was newsworthy, and that opens doors.

Chris Leak

That's something I admire about them. They get players you don't hear much about in high school but a bunch of them end up being drafted.

Don Cheadle

It's shocking to see the kind of devastation that occurred there and to know it's still going on. I am working with Timberland -- a company I respect and whose pursuit of social justice I admire -- to inspire others to help bring a halt to these atrocities.

I've got one more week to coach Ian Hindmarsh, a guy I have the utmost respect for, and Ben Cross who I admire as well, so I want those two to go out on a high.

They really have been the core group. These fellows in their late 70s and early 80s - I just admire these volunteers so much. They put so much time and energy into helping people. Churches were instrumental in starting Food Share nearly a quarter of a century ago, and the partnership with the faith community remains a vital one.

If you look at the film like we did this morning, he's making more plays after the first and second hit. He just seems to squirm out of there and when guys kind of relax, he pops out of there for 30, 40 more yards. He just never stops. You admire that in a back. When we get people to him, we're going to make sure we get him on the ground and nobody relaxes until he is.

Michael Beschloss

In retrospect, I emotionally understand where Morgenthau is coming from, and I admire him for it. At the same time, Morgenthau's plan was too vindictive. In retrospect, if it had been instituted ... it would have left a vacuum for the Soviets.