Admirer Quotes - Page 4

• My father decided that he was such a admirer of Ibn Rushd's philosophy, thinking that he changed the family name to Rushdie. I realized why my father was so interested in him, because he was really an incredibly modernizing voice inside our Islamic culture.

  Salman Rushdie

  Father, Philosophy, Islamic

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• Ben Miller's writing has left a trail of clear and perfect images lasered permanently in my mind. His imagination is astounding in its breadth and detail, but it is the heart behind the words, the emotion he brings to the smallest moments, that makes me such an admirer of this writer and his work, and has me anxiously awaiting, and cheering for, the publication of River Bend Chronicle.

  Hannah Tinti

  Cheer, Writing, Heart

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• A lot of fans are complaining nowadays of too much shaky cam in action scenes and not being able to see what is going on, but I don't want to disappoint people. I'm a huge admirer of action and I'm very passionate about it. I do believe that a lot of action could be done so much better in general, so I'm a real advocator for pushing things forward in that sense and giving the fans what they want.

  Joey Ansah

  Real, Believe, People

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• Among other pleasing errors of young minds is the opinion of their own importance. He that has not yet remarked, how little attention his contemporaries can spare from themselves, conceives all eyes turned upon himself, and imagines everyone that approaches him to be an enemy or a follower, an admirer or a spy.

  Samuel Johnson

  Eye, Errors, Mind

  Samuel Johnson (1968). “Essays from the Rambler, Adventurer, and Idler”, p.20, Yale University Press

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• Will you just stand on the foot of a high mountain and look at it with admiration or climb the top and be the admired itself? Remember that anybody can be an admirer; but the difficult thing is to be the admired one!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Feet, Mountain, Looks

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• Which natural gift would you most like to possess? The ability to master other languages (which would have hugely enhanced the scope of these answers). How would you like to die? Fully conscious, and either fighting or reciting (or fooling around). What do you most dislike about your appearance? The way in which it makes former admirers search for neutral words.

  Christopher Hitchens

  Fighting, Answers, Way

  Christopher Hitchens (2010). “Hitch-22: A Memoir”, p.253, Hachette UK

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• I am a big admirer of Paul Scholes, he is one of the best players of his generation.

  Arjen Robben

  Player, Generations, Bigs

  "Manchester United Deny Making a Bid for Holland's Wesley Sneijder". www.telegraph.co.uk. July 11, 2010.

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• I am an undiluted admirer of American values and the American dream and I believe they will continue to inspire not just the people of the United States but millions across the face of the globe.

  Margaret Thatcher

  Dream, Believe, People

  Margaret Thatcher (1997). “The collected speeches of Margaret Thatcher”, HarperCollins

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• Eleanor Roosevelt had both her admirers and her detractors. And they admired her and detracted from her for many of the same reasons. People who liked her social activism, who thought that she was calling attention to problems that needed solving, were all for her.

  William A. Rusher

  People, Attention, Social Activism

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• It's not that I don't like American pop; I'm a huge admirer of it, but I think my roots came from a very English and Irish base. Is it all sort of totally non-American sounding.

  Kate Bush

  Thinking, Roots, Pops

  Interview with Dimitri Ehrlich, www.interviewmagazine.com. May 23, 2011.

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• I've been an admirer of Helen Mirren for a long time. As I get older, I find myself admiring older women who have poise and elegance.

  Thomas Haden Church

  Long, Elegance, Helen

  "Church's Doctrine". Interview with Andrew Goldman, www.elle.com. May 23, 2007.

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• The same principle leads us to neglect a man of merit that induces us to admire a fool.
  [Fr., Du meme fonds dont on neglige un homme de merite l'on sait encore admirer un sot.]

  Jean de la Bruyere

  Men, Principles, Fool

  "Les Caractères", XII, as quoted in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 510-11,

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• Your modest savant smiles as he says to his admirers: What have I done? Nothing. Man does not invent a force, he directs it.

  Honore de Balzac

  Men, Doe, Done

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• I think it takes a very generous and tolerant non-famous partner to stick with the famous person, especially if s/he wasn't famous when they first got together. And add to it the fact that the Web makes it extremely easy to meet admirers... well, there are a lot of temptations to be ignored, or else embraced.

  Christine Sneed

  Thinking, Temptation, Together

  Source: therumpus.net

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• Now I am as big of an [ Georgia] O'Keeffe admirer as Ivy [Wilkes] is, but that came through writing the book.

  Liza Campbell

  Book, Writing, Ivy

  Source: newwest.net

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• I am a great admirer of women.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• The flat tax I got on my first meeting with Margaret Thatcher, who I admired very much and who was a great admirer of Milton Friedman. I met her first when I had been prime minister I think for some months and so on, and when I told her what I am planning to do, she looked at me with these big eyes and said: "You are one brave young man." And then a little bit introduced me on the realities of the Western world on which I was not very well informed. But I didn't stop.

  Mart Laar

  Eye, Reality, Men

  Interview with Stephen J. Dubner at "'Freakonomics Radio" podcast, March 24, 2010.

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• A good part of the fame of most celebrated men is due to the shortsightedness of their admirers

  Georg C. Lichtenberg

  Men, Fame, Dues

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• Looking up at the stars, I know quite well That, for all they care, I can go to hell, But on earth indifference is the least We have to dread from man or beast. How should we like it were stars to burn With a passion for us we could not return? If equal affection cannot be, Let the more loving one be me. Admirer as I think I am Of stars that do not give a damn, I cannot, now I see them, say I missed one terribly all day. Were all stars to disappear or die, I should learn to look at an empty sky And feel its total dark sublime, Though this might take me a little time.

  W. H. Auden

  Stars, Passion, Dark

  W. H. Auden, “The More Loving One”

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• I am a great admirer of Robert Vavra and love his beautiful photographs and books. He is a wonderful artist, a poet.

  Leni Riefenstahl

  Beautiful, Book, Artist

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• (about her teen years) My admirers all said the same thing in different ways. It was my fault, their wanting to kiss and hug me.

  Marilyn Monroe

  Kissing, Years, Hug

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• We must understand how to hide in darkness in order to escape the gnat-swarms of utterly annoying admirers.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Order, Gnats, Darkness

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• More women grow old nowadays through the faithfulness of their admirers than through anything else.

  Oscar Wilde

  Aging, Faithfulness, Grows

  Oscar Wilde (2013). “The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde (more than 150 Works)”, p.476, e-artnow

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• Vanity is so anchored in the heart of man that a soldier, a soldier's servant, a cook, a porter brags and wishes to have his admirers. Even philosophers wish for them. Those who write against vanity want to have the glory of having written well; and those who read it desire the glory of having read it. I who write this have perhaps this desire, and perhaps those who will read it.

  Blaise Pascal

  Philosophical, Writing, Heart

  Blaise Pascal (2013). “Pensées”, p.46, Courier Corporation

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• I was a great admirer of George Lucas' work.

  Richard Marquand

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