Famous Quotes & Sayings

Brian Eno

Admirers can be a tremendous force for conservatism.

E. L. Konigsburg

When I began writing in the mid-1960s, I thought it was not important for readers to know whether I was male or female. Also, I was a great admirer of E.B. White, so I may have thought that it would bring me luck to submit my first manuscript as 'E.L.' But if I were starting out today, I would use my first name.

Don Yaeger

Chris Paul is one of the brightest stars in the National Basketball Association, a must-see player with the New Orleans Hornets whose deft ball skills and eye-popping speed have attracted admirers all over the world.

Clint Eastwood

My dad was a big admirer of Sergeant York stories from the First World War.

Camille Paglia

I've been a longtime admirer of Condoleezza Rice, because I like her articulateness and style - her toughness and rigor.

We are conveying the idea that Peking Opera is also part of fashion. Of all our customers so far, some were Peking Opera admirers like Lu, and the rest came simply because of our art photos.

Allan Gurganus

Sometimes the books most restrained about sex, even deeply scandalized by it, can whisper to us with the greatest hidden force. I am a huge admirer of the recently deceased, always underranked Evan S. Connell.

Allan Gurganus

I'm a great admirer of Primo Levi's work. It's always mind-boggling, the idea of how much pain people can endure and still come back from the edge with a sense of humor, with this tremendous animal desire we have to get on with life.

Tom Brokaw

In one way or another, President Obama's critics will dog him all the way to Oslo for the Nobel Peace Prize ceremony, and even his admirers will continue to have doubts about his accomplishments if not his promise.

One of his consistent traits, both critics and admirers would say, is that his honesty and integrity were second to none.

Jim Calhoun

I have been a big admirer of Don Haskins for a long time. He is one of the top defensive minds in the game and he is good man, a real coach.

John Jay Hooker

I am a great admirer of Sen. Frist, who is a nationally known heart surgeon and well known in Nashville as a great family man who has dedicated his life to helping others and, in that regard, he has followed in his father's footsteps.

Frank Morgan

I was an admirer of Art Pepper even before I went to California, when he was still in Kenton's band. His playing is joyous, great.

Peter Higgs

I'm a great admirer of 'The Simpsons.' It's very surprising because it's backed by a right-wing television company in the U.S., and quite often it's poking fun at the people who would be its audience.

Harry Houdini

I am a great admirer of mystery and magic. Look at this life - all mystery and magic.

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.

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.

Phil Klay

I have, for a very long time, been a huge admirer of Marilynne Robinson, whose work I just love.

Marilynne Robinson

I'm a great admirer of secularism. At its best, I think it's one of the best things that we have. I don't believe in insinuating religion into conversation. I don't believe in excluding it from conversation. I enjoy the fact that people's innermost thoughts are their own.

Janet Yellen

While admirers of capitalism, we also to a certain extent believe it has limitations that require government intervention in markets to make them work.

Marcus Aurelius

When the crowd of your admirers is shouting, "Bravo! Hear, hear!" it is not you, Pomponius, but your dinner that is eloquent

Stephen Hill

This is a return to vintage Prince. BET viewers, both longtime fans of Prince and new admirers are primed for this video, the perfect showcase for a true national treasure once again delivering like no other artist can.

Harriet Harman

I am a very big admirer of Hillary 's and I am an admirer of Obama as well.

Sue Townsend

I've always been fascinated by totalitarian regimes. I'm not an admirer of them.

Lalah Hathaway

It would be hard to be a singer, musician or have ears and not be an admirer of my dad, ... I can only say that now that I'm older, because growing up, I thought I was biased. I thought it was just me. Now I see that he left his mark on the world.

Richard Flanagan

I am an admirer of haiku, and I'm a great admirer of Japanese literature in general.

David Thewlis

It was actually the thing that I've put my heart into the most, in terms of research and everything, because I was a great admirer of Rimbaud's work.

It's the admirer and the watcher who provoke us to all the inanities we commit.

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.

Ludwig van Beethoven

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

Richard Marquand

I was a great admirer of George Lucas' work.