Quotes of: Admiral Keyword

I admire the Elsie Tanners and Barbara Windsors of the world: people who have crawled back from the abyss. I'm quite camp in that respect.

Jenny Eclair

What I have known with respect to myself, has tended much to lessen both my admiration, and my contempt, of others.

Joseph Priestley

For David Parker and Daniel Parker, with the respect and admiration of their father, who grew up with them.

Robert B. Parker

A student never forgets an encouraging private word, when it is given with sincere respect and admiration.

William Lyon Phelps

I love Bob Altman. I always admired him so much because I always thought he was a genuine voice.

Malcolm McDowell

I've admired Alicia Keys since before I got into the music industry, just everything she represents as a female artist.

Melanie Fiona

My horror at his crimes was lost in my admiration at his skill.

Arthur Conan Doyle

I may not understand, but I am willing to admire.

Anthony Hope

The more I see of the representatives of the people, the more I admire my dogs.

Alphonse de Lamartine

I grew up as a kid looking at artists like David Bowie and Prince; I really admired them.

Tessa Thompson

I've learned to treat celebrities as equals and just kind of meet them and admire their work, but I definitely could not breathe when I met Johnny Depp and James Franco.

Ireland Baldwin

To be able to work with people who I have respected and admired, to be a part of something like the Cannes Film Festival, is surreal and brilliant.

Luke Evans

There is a connection between me and the collectors, and as admirers of the work they tell me about the differences the pieces are able to make in their lives on a daily basis.

Richard MacDonald

Think of and look at your work as though it were done by your enemy. I you look at it to admire it, you are lost.

Samuel Butler

Mixing one's wines may be a mistake, but old and new wisdom mix admirably.

Bertolt Brecht

Whenever you argue with another wiser than yourself in order that others may admire your wisdom, they will discover your ignorance.

Saadi

There is a sacred horror about everything grand. It is easy to admire mediocrity and hills; but whatever is too lofty, a genius as well as a mountain, an assembly as well as a masterpiece, seen too near, is appalling. Every summit seems an exaggerati...

Ninety-Three

Above all human existence requires stability, the permanence of things. The result is an ambivalence with respect to all great and violent expenditure of strength; such an expenditure, whether in nature or in man, represents the strongest possible th...

Van Gogh As Prometheus

Henry,' at last said one, again dipping the spoon into the flaming spirit, 'hast thou read Hoffman?' 'I should think so,' said Henry. 'What think you of him?' 'Why, that he writes admirably; and, moreover, what is more admirable - in such a manner th...

James Hain Friswell

Age should not have its face lifted, but it should rather teach the world to admire wrinkles as the etchings of experience and the firm line of character.

Clarence Day

I really admire Werner Herzog and Spike Lee. They're amazing documentarians. If you took away all the narratives, they'd just be amazing documentarians.

Ava DuVernay