Quotes of: Admiral Keyword

Childbirth is more admirable than conquest, more amazing than self-defense, and as courageous as either one.

Gloria Steinem

It can become an exercise in trying to get the reader to like and admire you instead of an exercise in creative art.

David Foster Wallace

People. You must love people. Men are admirable. I want to vomit—and suddenly, there it is: the Nausea

Nausea

He has all the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire."

Wealth, War, and Wisdom

Often it seems that there are writers who are their best selves on the page. That Seamus Heaney was as genuine and deeply admirable in person as in his poems was to me a gift, then as now.

Natasha Trethewey

You have to really want to be a Navy SEAL. The passion you need to endure the rigors of training, to become the best of the best... It's admirable.

Suzanne Brockmann

I was reading a lot of books I admired, and thought that I would like to write something like that someday.

Naguib Mahfouz

A real and admirable writer is the one who can write good books but can take criticisms better.

Nicholaa Spencer

I wonder sometimes if the motivation for writers ought to be contempt, not admiration.

Orson Scott Card

I am sure I am one of 2,000 film directors in the world that Tarantino admires.

Park Chan-wook

Few things inspire me more than a timely smile from someone I truly admire.

Robert J. Braathe

My greatest desire was to be in a sandbox with Kevin Kline or Kenneth Branagh - to be with the people I admired - and I have.

Robert Sean Leonard

I've admired a lot of people in my life time and some of them were actually alive.

Stanley Victor Paskavich

I take all day to climb mountains and then spend about 10 minutes at the top admiring the view.

Sebastian Thrun

I really admire artists that are willing to take a different approach and a different angle to their shows.

Shania Twain

I always admire people who do commercials because they have to put together a beginning, a middle, and an end in 30 seconds.

Tony Hale

You can't ever be really free if you admire somebody too much.

Tove Jansson

I admire an actor that can do a lot with doing nothing really, for the most part. I like doing a lot by doing so little.

Taylor Kitsch

If there's one thing for which I admire you, it's your original discovery of the Ten Commandments.

Thomas Reed

I don't admire one particular style, but for evening events, I always look to Grace Kelly for inspiration.

Kylie Bax

William Trevor is an author I admire; his stories are subtle and powerful, and beautifully written.

Kim Edwards