Compliment Quotes - Page 28

• You know, that was the first time [with Any Winehouse] that I probably ever used a baritone sax. And it's certainly the texture that, you know - it's all over the record 'cause it's a nice compliment to her tone.

  Mark Ronson

  Nice, Texture, Records

  Source: www.npr.org

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• I’m a nudist by trade and hobby. I grew up in LA and I’ve been fortunate enough to be doing this for a great deal of years; if someone is thinking of me as they’re writing something I take it as a huge compliment and hope that it’s an interesting character at least.

  Martin Starr

  Character, Writing, Thinking

  "Martin Starr’s Star Turn". Interview with Emma Brown, www.interviewmagazine.com. May 21, 2012.

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• Maybe if my songs feel personal, that's very nice. I like that. I take that as a great compliment.

  Kate Bush

  Song, Nice, Feels

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

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• "Percy, you're a brave guy," She said. "Just take the compliment. I swear, is it so hard?"

  Rick Riordan

  Guy, Brave, Annabeth

  "Percy Jackson: The Demigod Files". Book by Rick Riordan, February 10, 2009.

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• A compliment would be the last thing out of my mouth to a man who was so pigheaded that he could be served at a luau.

  Katie MacAlister

  Men, Mouths, Lasts

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• You know how I love talking about books, and you know how I adore receiving compliments.

  Annie Barrows

  Book, Talking, Receiving

  Annie Barrows, Mary Ann Shaffer (2011). “The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society (Random House Reader's Circle Deluxe Reading Group Edition): A Novel”, p.7, Dial Press

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• Did not you? I did for you. But that is one great difference between us. Compliments always take you by surprise, and me never.

  Jane Austen

  Differences, Surprise

  Jane Austen (2016). “Pride and Prejudice (Fourth Edition) (Norton Critical Editions)”, p.13, W. W. Norton & Company

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• We must beware of yielding to the pressure of a spirit of cowardly conformity which proclaims itself everybody's friend in the hope that everybody will obligingly return the compliment.

  Antonin Sertillanges

  Pressure, Return, Spirit

  A. G. Sertillanges (1987). “The Intellectual Life: Its Spirit, Conditions, Methods”, p.213, CUA Press

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• My plea is that we stop seeking out the storms and enjoy more fully the sunlight...I am asking that we look a little deeper for the good, that we still our voices of insult and sarcasm, that we more generously compliment and endorse virtue and effort.

  Gordon B. Hinckley

  Sarcasm, Voice, Effort

  Gordon B. Hinckley (2009). “Standing for Something: 10 Neglected Virtues That Will Heal Our Hearts and Homes”, p.117, Harmony

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• And there is my payment the rubies in your cheeks. Are you properly scandalized by your wicked behavior? If you were Catholic, you'd singe the ears of the priest you confessed to. Do you remember making me swear to repeat all those naughty actions agian, no matter what you said this morning?" Now that he brought it up, I did recall saying that. Great Betrayed by my own immorality. "God, Bones...some of that was depraved." "I'll take that as a compliment." He closed the distance between us."I love you. Don't be ashamed of anything we did, even if your prudery is on life support.

  Jeaniene Frost

  Morning, Distance, Love You

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• There are three things that none of the young men of the present generation can do.They can't sit over their wine;they can't play at wist;and they can't pay a lady a compliment.

  Wilkie Collins

  Wine, Men, Play

  Wilkie Collins (1873). “The Woman in White: A Novel”, p.114

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• It was near curfew time, and I was dropping him off for the night. He shook his head. "Rose, I don't know if you're crazy or not, but I'm actually starting to think you might be the best guardian- or soon-to-be guardian- out there." "Did you just give me a serious compliment?" I asked. He turned his back on me and headed inside his dorm. "Good night.

  Richelle Mead

  Good Night, Crazy, Thinking

  Richelle Mead (2013). “Vampire Academy: The Complete Collection”, p.515, Penguin

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• I think when he [Vladimir Putin] calls me brilliant I will take the compliment, okay? I mean, the man has very strong control over a country. Now, it's a very different system and I don't happen to like the system. But certainly in that system, he has been a leader far more than our president has been a leader.

  Donald Trump

  Country, Strong, Mean

  Source: www.washingtonpost.com

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• I do love compliments, yet I'm often embarrassed to say what I think to the person when I get a compliment. I so often feel that they have not gone far enough.

  Mark Twain

  Thinking, Gone, Enough

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• I will tell you that when I was heavy, people would say to me - and it was such a backhanded compliment - they would say, 'You've got such a beautiful face,' in the way of, like, 'Oh, isn't it a shame that from the neck down you're questionable.'

  Kate Winslet

  Beautiful, People, Way

  "Kate Winslet: Your #1 Most Glam". Interview with Skip Hollandsworth, www.glamour.com. February 28, 2011.

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• There are records that you just sink into. They coincide with what you’re going through and become an ally. If our records do that for people, that’s the greatest compliment I could ever receive. That’s one of the reasons making music is so important to me, because there’s a very strange emotional reach. For me—more than books or movies or other things—music is like a mainline to your heart.

  Matt Berninger

  Book, Heart, Emotional

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• [Vladimir Putin] complimented him. That led Donald Trump to then compliment Vladimir Putin and to defend Vladimir Putin's actions in a number of places around the world.

  Michael Morell

  Numbers, World, Action

  Source: abcnews.go.com

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• From Mr. [Donald] Trump's perspective, right, he simply heard [Vladimir] Putin compliment him. He then responded by complimenting him. He never thought that he might be being played.

  Michael Morell

  Perspective, Might, Being Played

  Source: abcnews.go.com

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• When reviewing my novel Dreams of the Compass Rose for the Magazine of F&SF, master fantasist Charles de Lint called it "engaging and resonant, creating a new mythology that feels so right one might be forgiven for thinking that it's the cultural heritage of some forgotten country or people that have been lost to history." This of course I take as the highest compliment, since it was indeed my sincere intent.

  Vera Nazarian

  Dream, Country, Thinking

  Source: fantasyworlds.wordpress.com

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• A day doesn't go by when I don't get a compliment on L.A. Confidential, for example.

  Curtis Hanson

  Example, Confidential

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• I'd like to think that what I've written over the years and what I'm doing now means something to people. People in the street all the time are saying "love the new record" or "I love that record," this tune or that tune. It means an awful lot, or it's been a big part of their lives. As a songwriter, what else would you really want? You're trying to connect with people, people's emotions, and maybe say something about their lives or feelings. That's probably a good enough compliment to receive, really.

  Paul Weller

  Mean, Thinking, People

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• I'm trying to teach people of all ages to, number one: how to criticize, how to offer creative analysis on top of that, how to try to build things in a new direction and how to compliment people when the thing gets done.

  Ray Bradbury

  Numbers, People, Creative

  Source: www.tangentonline.com

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• I gave him a compliment! All right, I told him he probably would've made, like, a really expensive slave in the, like, in the olden-timey days.

  Sarah Silverman

  Funny, Humor, Slave

  "Sarah Silverman: Jesus Is Magic", www.imdb.com. 2005.

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• It's still a compliment when you're backed by younger and older, but it's actually unexpected. It's surprising, but for me it's in fact the most beautiful compliment.

  Stromae

  Beautiful, Facts, Unexpected

  Source: www.ebony.com

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• If I am good, people compliments me that my voice is like a CD, but whenever my voice condition is not as well and do some mistakes....I tend to sacrifice myself for my next album.

  Park Bom

  Mistake, Sacrifice, Cds

  Source: welovebom.com

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