When I admire the wonders of a sunset or the beauty of the moon, my soul expands in the worship of the creator.
Mahatma GandhiI admire people who destroy themselves.
Karl LagerfeldWell, I have great respect for Senator Hirono.
John KennedyDuring my first years in the Sierra, I was ever calling on everybody within reach to admire them, but I found no one half warm enough until Emerson came. I had read his essays, and felt sure that of all men he would best interpret the sayings of these noble mountains and trees. Nor was my faith weakened when I met him in Yosemite.
John MuirNo one could have been nicer, classier nor better looking than Dick Clark. I’ve had a crush on him since I was a teenager.
Dolly PartonI have been very interested and intrigued and congratulatory toward President Bush and his paintings.
Jimmy CarterI love soccer, love tennis… Roger Federer has been a favourite for a long, long time. The kind of consistency he has shown, 16 Grand Slam titles… The way he handles himself in pressure situations is admirable… He is so calm… In soccer, I’m a huge fan of Barcelona… I like watching Cristiano Ronaldo, Lionel Messi and David Villa.
Virat KohliAdmiration of the proletariat, like that of dams, power stations, and aeroplanes, is part of the ideology of the machine age.
Bertrand RussellAdmiration is a very short-lived passion, that immediately decays upon growing familiar with its object.
Joseph AddisonThe life of an action star is very short. I want to be an actor like Robert De Niro, like Dustin Hoffman or Clint Eastwood who in their 70s or 80s can still act.
Jackie Chan100 percent a huge fan of Beyonce. If I see her, I will faint. I’ve met her before. I just get really nervous and quiet – I just shut up and bow down.
Karl LagerfeldNicki Minaj, I’m at MTV. I’m going to be honest with you: I love you. I like you. I want you; I want you to be mine. Only reason I’m not telling you this face to face is because I understand that you’re busy.
DJ KhaledI don’t care if people I admire criticize me because their opinion is valuable to me.
Karl LagerfeldMy dad was very intelligent, had a very strong personality. I was amazed with my father.
Dolores HuertaWhat a piece of work is a man, how noble in reason, how infinite in faculties, in form and moving how express and admirable, in action how like an angel, in apprehension how like a god.
William ShakespeareWhen I went back to my old high school, all these kids looking at me like I’m the real big homie, the same way I look at Jay Z, Nas, or Dr. Dre. You would’ve thought Michael Jackson walked through that joint off the excitement that they had.
Kendrick LamarI did my utmost to ensure that everyone below me in the chain of command felt comfortable approaching me with concerns, ideas, thoughts, and even disagreements.
Jocko WillinkI just love working with Eminem. He’s just one of my favorite rappers, and his lyrics – he’s a true poet, and I enjoy that about him.
RihannaI’ve come to admire our military kids more than you all will know, because you guys are heroes. And the only way your parents are able to serve is because you guys hold it down, and you do it with maturity beyond your years.
Michelle ObamaThere’s been a lot of talk about Jack White wanting to work with me, and I’ve always admired him, and of course, he lives in Nashville, too.
Dolly PartonPeople in Latin America… love America from afar and emulate America in some ways but also hate a lot of things that America does to them.
David ByrneI think it is perfectly natural for any artist to admire intensely and love a young man. It is an incident in the life of almost every artist.
Oscar WildeI decided, very early on, just to accept life unconditionally; I never expected it to do anything special for me, yet I seemed to accomplish far more than I had ever hoped. Most of the time it just happened to me without my ever seeking it.
Audrey HepburnGeorge Washington, as a boy, was ignorant of the commonest accomplishments of youth. He could not even lie.
Mark TwainI like the fact that Melbourne always seems to support their chefs and promote them in ways I find really admirable.
Anthony BourdainAdmiration is the daughter of ignorance.
Benjamin FranklinWhen I look at acting careers that I really admire, I see that it’s been a precise decision-making process for these people. They make decisions based on what they love, and they do only the things that they are passionate about. They play only characters that they can’t stop thinking about.
Taylor SwiftAdmiration for a quality or an art can be so strong that it deters us from striving to possess it.
Friedrich NietzscheIf thou art a man, admire those who attempt great things, even though they fail.
Lucius Annaeus SenecaBob Dylan is like an alien on this earth, and I love him! I cried when I saw him play live because I was so close to him.
AuroraThe true artist is not proud: he unfortunately sees that art has no limits; he feels darkly how far he is from the goal, and though he may be admired by others, he is sad not to have reached that point to which his better genius only appears as a distant, guiding sun.
Ludwig van BeethovenThe only things one can admire at length are those one admires without knowing why.
Eleanor RooseveltWhen you are organizing a group of people, the first thing that we do is we talk about the history of what other people have been able to accomplish – people that look like them, workers like them, ordinary people, working people – and we give them the list: these are people like yourself; this is what they were able to do in their community.
Dolores HuertaIn any court-like environment of power, you will inevitably find people who are drawn to those who are successful or powerful, not out of admiration, but out of secret envy.
Robert GreeneI went through all the musicians in my life who I admire as bright, intelligent, virtuosic players.
David BowieI don’t consider myself an intellectual. And this is not one of my aims. But I admire intellectual people.
Marilyn MonroeMany people when they fall in love look for a little haven of refuge from the world, where they can be sure of being admired when they are not admirable, and praised when they are not praiseworthy.
Bertrand RussellActors I admire? Ed Harris, or course, I think he’s terrific; because I know he always had to fight being what he looked like a lot, but I think he’s a terrific actor.
Anthony HopkinsArchimedes was my ideal. I admired the works of artists, but to my mind, they were only shadows and semblances. The inventor, I thought, gives to the world creations which are palpable, which live and work.
Nikola TeslaI have all the admiration in the world for somebody like Bono, who really puts himself on the line and tries actively to do something about our world situation.
David BowieIf you saw Queen Elizabeth it would be amazing, she came from another planet. She was so attractive in what she was wearing.
Vivienne WestwoodMen admire the man who can organize their wishes and thoughts in stone and wood and steel and brass.
Ralph Waldo EmersonTina Turner is someone that I admire, because she made her strength feminine and sexy. Marilyn Monroe, because she was a curvy woman. I’m drawn to things that have the same kind of silhouettes as what she wore because our bodies are similar.
Beyonce KnowlesMy mother was always fascinated with the fact that I could rhyme so much stuff.
Dolly PartonChildren have always responded to me because I have that cartoon-character look.
Dolly PartonI admire people who dare to take the language, English, and understand it and understand the melody.
Maya AngelouA lot was accomplished in my mixtape career. But I still needed a few things: I needed to be recognized. I need to have radio. I need to have a real retail machine that can get us where we need to get that.
Nipsey HussleAmericans admire a people who can scratch a desert and produce a garden. The Israelis have shown qualities that Americans identify with: guts, patriotism, idealism, a passion for freedom. I have seen it. I know. I believe that.
Richard M. NixonI was totally dominated and revered my father. I admired everything he did. He was a great sports person. He loved me. I was his only boy at that time, before my brother Billy came along.
Jimmy CarterThere is an innocence in admiration; it is found in those to whom it has never yet occurred that they, too, might be admired some day.
Friedrich NietzscheI was always very curious as a young man about why older writers who I met seemed so indifferent to what was going on, whereas I, in my 20s, was reading everything. Everything seemed important. But they were only interested in the writers they admired when they were young, and I didn’t understand it then, but now, now I understand it.
Paul AusterFools admire, but men of sense approve.
Alexander PopeThere are plenty of dead scientists I admire, but I can’t think of any living ones. This is probably because it is only in retrospect that one can see who made the important contributions.
Stephen HawkingI wish I could make music about politics. I feel like it’s such an art and a talent that I admire tremendously, but when I step into the studio, I step out of the real world, and it’s therapeutic.
The WeekndTina Turner is someone that I admire, because she made her strength feminine and sexy.
Beyonce KnowlesThe more I see of deer, the more I admire them as mountaineers. They make their way into the heart of the roughest solitudes with smooth reserve of strength, through dense belts of brush and forest encumbered with fallen trees and boulder piles, across canons, roaring streams, and snow-fields, ever showing forth beauty and courage.
John MuirUntil you have cultivated the habit of saying some kind word of those whom you do not admire, you will be neither successful nor happy.
Napoleon HillI do admire Judi Dench and Sir Ian McKellen, but I’m a philistine. I like the good life too much; I’m not good at going on stage night after night and on wet Wednesday afternoons.
Anthony HopkinsYou always want your people to be proud of what you have accomplished.
Dolly PartonI kind of love Cole Miller.
Conor McGregor