Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jhumpa Lahiri

I can't tell you exactly how I found it. It was just a process of writing a lot of stories and reading a lot of stories that I admired and just working and working until the sentences sounded right and I was satisfied with them.

I can only think about a regular family, and a husband whose life was in danger all the time, and there was still a sense of grace about her through all that. You couldn't help but admire her.

He's not a cookie-cutter receiver. He's a little different, and that's one thing I admire about what Pittsburgh has done. They've taken a Randle El and a Hines Ward and have known what to do with those guys. They've been creative.

I compose and he doesn't compose. I cannot admire the composition of his music, only a few songs are good.

Come Early Morning. I really admire someone who's willing to take on the kind of role she's willing to take on.

Carving is a fun thing. People who might admire carving but who have never tried it should really give it a try.

He took risks, a lot of challenges and slowly you'd hear 'Vince Vaughn's in this TV commercial', and 'Vince has got a role in a movie'. It was all from his own luck and pluck and I admire the guy for that.

Kevin McCloud

I admire anyone that follows the road less travelled.

Ezra Pound

The jargon of these sculptors is beyond me. I do not know precisely why I admire a green granite female, apparently pregnant monster with one eye going around a square corner.

Dennis C. Blair

The leaders who we admire who have been able to bring great change in the past - Gandhi, Martin Luther King, Nelson Mandela - they're all inspirational religious leaders and smart tacticians. It would be nice to find the Muslim Gandhi, wouldn't it?

The main source of our wealth is goodness. The affections and the generous qualities that God admires in a world full of greed.

Among the great names that adorn the roll of Nobel prize-winners in Medicine is that of Otto Meyerhof, my admired teacher and friend, to whose inspiration, guidance and encouragement I owe so very much.

Daisy Fuentes

And being able to do it with people that you really admire and like, that helped me learn and understand what I have to do for a television show.

James Agate

The English instinctively admire any man who has no talent, and is modest about it.

The conception of two people living together for twenty-five years without having a cross word suggests a lack of spirit only to be admired in sheep

Henry Rollins

The more I learn about Mr. Romney, the less there is to admire.

Ludwig van Beethoven

I have always reckoned myself among the greatest admirers of Mozart, and shall do so till the day of my death.

Sherrilyn Kenyon

I admire anyone who can walk across a stage to the mic and not trip.

You've got to admire the guy, coming into this very tough system and figuring out how to beat it.

Dusty Baker

You've got to admire him for not quitting. When you're hungry, you can find a way to do things. He was going to have to go to work or play ball.

Frank Warren

You've got to admire anyone who has done what McBride did. He got off his backside, went to the United States, and made something of himself. I didn't think he could beat Tyson, but he took what Tyson threw at him and did it.

James Carville

You've asked for forgiveness. This letter is to inform you that, on the heels of a statement by my dear friend, Congressman John Lewis, a man I admire and respect as much as any living American, I do forgive you.

And, I really admire them. I guess we try to show them as much appreciation as possible.

Francis Bacon

All things are admired either because they are new or because they are great

Dieter F. Uchtdorf

The Church is not an automobile showroom - a place to put ourselves on display so that others can admire our spirituality, capacity, or prosperity. It is more like a service center, where vehicles in need of repair come for maintenance and rehabilitation.

The child learns to worship money and the things which money can buy; he admires cruelty and cunning, rather than Sympathy and Love. So, the Home, the School and the Society have to rise and take up this challenge posed to the future of this great land.

Carl Everett

A.J. is A.J.. People love to hate him. They don't realize he plays hard. That's what I admire about any teammate.

Terry Teachout

Ai Weiwei, who is both a widely admired conceptual artist and a fearless human-rights activist, has been on the bad side of the Chinese government for years.

Marianne Moore

... we do not admire what we cannot understand.

Edward Albee

There are a number of contemporary playwrights whom I admire enormously, but that's not at all the same thing as being influenced.

The mayor opened the door for people to speak out. The mayor did the right thing. He brought a higher profile to this matter. I really admire what he did.

Mel Brooks

I have always been a huge admirer of my own work. I'm one of the funniest and most entertaining writers I know.

Mike Greenberg

The contemporary authors I most admire are Nick Hornby and Jonathan Tropper.