Famous Quotes & Sayings

Daniel Woodrell

When poetry is on the money, 12 words can slay you. I admire that greatly.

Stephen Kinzer

Turks have long admired the sultan, Mehmet II, for his military triumphs, especially his capture of Constantinople, now known as Istanbul, in 1453.

Dick Cheney

We have greatly admired and hereby heartily salute the leadership and fortitude of our esteemed former colleague, who is in the arena to America's great good fortune.

Lorne Michaels

You can tell that he paid attention in that kind of detail to Prince because he admired him that much. He comes from the place of a fan.

Tony Dungy

You can look at the list of people who are on there, and there is nobody who you don't really admire or realize that,

Richard Blumenthal

The reason I love and admire the Bridgewater Land Trust so much is that they're providing a model for the whole state.

To receive this award from an organization I admire so much makes me totally happy and grateful.

Bryce Dallas Howard

I've admired Anthony Hopkins for so long, and when I finally got to meet him in person, I became totally immobile and speechless! I stood there looking at him and couldn't say a word.

Irwin Winkler

The day I make movies that Rupert Murdoch likes and admires is the day I'll throw in the towel, because he's got no taste.

Isabella Rossellini

I live in New York, and the only live animals you see are cockroaches, rats and pigeons, which I admire immensely. When I see an animal that thrives in the garbage, I feel relief; in our urban environment, other animals are dying out.

When I was growing up and going to races, I always admired and looked up to Bob. I wanted to drive a sprint car and be like him. To tell you the truth, if he was not racing, I probably wouldn't be involved in the sport.

John Butler

When Doug respects somebody, it's a whole different ballgame. These guys are admirers of one another, and that's good. That's really going to help the football team.

John Butler

When Doug respects somebody, it's a whole different ballgame, ... These guys are admirers of one another, and that's good. That's really going to help the football team.

James Galway

Until this time in my life Julius Baker was one of the most admired names in the flute world.

Andre Leon Talley

I have always admired stylishly confident women who dress with great authority. This lifelong love of elegance began with the humble wardrobe of my late grandmother Mrs. Bennie Frances Davis.

Don't get me wrong, I admire elegance and have an appreciation of the finer things in life. But to me, beauty lies in simplicity.

Lars Ulrich

Over the course of our career we've been fortunate enough to share the stage with a select few of the bands we grew up on, admired and respected including AC/DC, Deep Purple, Guns N' Roses and Iron Maiden. The only band that we have never played with but have always wanted to is the Rolling Stones.

Marguerite Young

Just as I do not want my students to imitate my style, I admire authors who write differently from me. Lewis and Dreiser didn't try to write in a poetic style.

Janice Brown ... is admired like no other among conservatives, and that counts, I'd love to have that fight.

John Ortberg

Jesus' life as a foot-washing servant would eventually lead to the adoption of humility as a widely admired virtue.

I see it as something that really hurts me. It bothers me because we admire the way they play. We would have even liked to face the United States in this tournament.

Mary Bono

People hope to point to the White House with pride. We believe that presidents told the truth and set an example through their actions. We parents want our children to respect and admire our president and our leaders. It is as simple as the old story of George Washington chopping down the cherry tree.

My mother was a Bloomsbury figure: a great friend of TS Eliot, Duncan Grant, Vanessa Bell. My grandmother, Mary Hutchinson, gave her life to works of art, being an admirer of Matisse and Giaometti, whom I collected as a young man because of her.

Jose Maria

My relationship with (Athletic coach) Jose Luis Mendilibar is over. I admire him as a coach, but it's best not to comment about what he says,

London's project is ambitious and visionary, but as sporting people we admire this ambition and look forward to playing our part in London's Olympic journey.

Martin is unbelievably driven, ... Murray always openly admired him, but Martin himself would sometimes put in hours that other people would find frightening. When you consider these two facts, it's no surprise that he has got to where he is at the club.

Sania Mirza

Martina is one player I admired and was really disappointed that she wasn't around when I started playing the tour. I am just excited to play with her and I think I played a great match and made her work hard for her points.

Pankaj Mishra

Living in a cultural milieu where the foreign writers most widely available and admired were Russian, I came very late to postwar American writers, and I had great trouble with the canonically exalted white male writers I tried first.

Samuel Barnett

Like the Elizabeth I play, Queen Elizabeth is a monarch who actually moves with the times. She gets new information, assimilates it, and changes in order the fit in with the way the world is moving. I admire that.

Paul Sarbanes

I think she's providing extraordinary leadership, ... She's brought in some very distinguished faces, a lot of energy and life into the school. I really admire her.

Geno Auriemma

I think players sometimes don?t understand fully the amount of responsibility on their shoulders. As a senior, you have to take on that responsibility every day -- practice, games, travel, locker room, you name it. I think in the Big East tournament, they really, really, really did that. They took it to heart and made sure all the little things that lead to winning were taken care of. I really admire them for that.

Jimmy Carl Black

I think he had one of the best voices I have ever heard. People say that I come close to his sound - and maybe it's true since I admired it so much.

Jessica Pare

I think I've always been ambitious. It just looks different on me. You know, I have friends who are actresses who go to every party they possibly can to be photographed and really try to make every connection they can, and I admire that and sometimes I wish I had a little bit more of that. Sometimes I feel like I don't have enough ambition.