Admirations Quotes & Sayings

I think what I regret is that I would rather do something like that when I was a more established actress and I really had proven myself first. Now, people are still unsure whether I can act or not. I just don't want to be one of those girls who are playing off the show's popularity. — Megan Fox

We fought so long against small things that we became small ourselves. — Eugene O'Neill

When it's a moral grey zone, the audience has to think about what they feel and what they think is right or wrong. You want to affect your audience and make them think. — Joel Kinnaman

I always felt that my work hadn't much to do with art; my admirations for other art had very little room to show themselves in my work because I hoped that if I concentrated enough the intensity of scrutiny alone would force life into the pictures. I ignored the fact that art, after all, derives from art. Now I realize that this is the case. — Lucian Freud

Downtown is divided again, between the blocks of brick emporiums of the 1880s and a straggle of modern stores which look as if they have been squeezed from a tube labeled Instant Shopping Center. — Ivan Doig

Akhmatova, like Gogol, wanted to possess nothing. She gave away the presents given to her, and a few days later they would be found in other people's houses. This characteristic recalls the behavior of nomads, compelled to the provisional by necessity and by choice...When eastern Europe furnishes such models of detachment, why seek them out in India or elsewhere? (from Anathemas and Admirations) — Emil M. Cioran

This is the prime way of honoring God. We do not so glorify God by elevated admirations, or eloquent expressions, or pompous services for Him as when we aspire to a conversing with Him with unstained spirits, and live to Him in living like Him (S. Charnock). — Arthur W. Pink

We live by our imagination, our admirations, and our sentiments. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

I still can't believe I won the Olympics. That's what I feel right now - completely alive as a human being. It's a really beautiful moment. — Clara Hughes

A writer who obtains his full purpose loses himself in his own lustre. — Samuel Johnson

I liked my father a lot, but I didn't see him very often because my mother was bitter about him. He remarried, and I used to have to sneak off to see him. — Stephen Sondheim

Admirations are never paid in any way, try to make yourself of what you admire, and it will pay you with originality. — Auliq Ice

Mr. Durukan, if God is dead then everything is conspiracy. — Ian McDonald

It is People that make Buildings not Buildings that make people — Gordon Owen IGO EBooks

Out on bail, fresh outta jail, California dreamin — Tupac Shakur

Freedom must mean that institutions have the autonomy to determine their own practices and admirations within the law. Otherwise, we confront the totalitarian demand that everyone should think the same thing and participate in the same admirations. — Kenneth Minogue

Real culture lives by sympathies and admirations, not by dislikes and disdains; under all misleading wrappings it pounces unerringly upon the human core. — William James

We must achieve neither mere history, nor mere fiction, but myth. A true myth is one which, within the universe of a certain culture (living or dead), expresses richly, and often perhaps tragically, the highest admirations possible within that culture. — Olaf Stapledon