Our admiration of the antique is not admiration of the old, but of the natural.

There is nothing that makes its way more directly into the soul than beauty.

I’m big on what’s in good taste.

There have been many great men that have flattered the people who ne’er loved them.

The generous Critic fann’d the Poet’s fire, And taught the world with reason to admire.

I would warn you that I do not attribute to nature either beauty or deformity, order or confusion. Only in relation to our imagination can things be called beautiful or ugly, well-ordered or confused.

Beauty itself is but the sensible image of the Infinite.

Well, I have great respect for Senator Hirono.

I liked watching Rossi, his style, his colours and everything. He was someone I looked up to and until now he is still my only hero. He is the king of motorbikes and most people like Rossi mainly because he comes across as a pretty fun and good character. He is cool and has a good style and look.

I always say I wanna work with Alicia Keys. I’m in awe of her.

I went through all the musicians in my life who I admire as bright, intelligent, virtuosic players.

I was of the generation where most of the Disney princesses and female characters were not girls that I admired. They just weren’t characters I looked up to and identified with.

To ‚choose‘ dogma and faith over doubt and experience is to throw out the ripening vintage and to reach greedily for the Kool-Aid.

Until you have cultivated the habit of saying some kind word of those whom you do not admire, you will be neither successful nor happy.

The finest works of art are precious, among other reasons, because they make it possible for us to know, if only imperfectly and for a little while, what it actually feels like to think subtly and feel nobly.

Beauty is a short-lived tyranny.

If a work of art is rich and vital and complete, those who have artistic instincts will see its beauty, and those to whom ethics appeal more strongly than aesthetics will see its moral lesson. It will fill the cowardly with terror, and the unclean will see in it their own shame.

Tina Turner is someone that I admire, because she made her strength feminine and sexy.

I like the fact that Melbourne always seems to support their chefs and promote them in ways I find really admirable.

No book includes the entire world. It’s limited. And so it doesn’t seem like an aesthetic compromise to have to do that. There’s so much other material to write about.

Shakespeare – I was very influenced – still am – by Shakespeare. I couldn’t believe that a white man in the 16th century could so know my heart.

I admire Ralph Nader and Denis Kucinich very much, and insofar as they bring up issues and carry out an educational and organisational function – that’s important, and fine, and I support it.

I 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.

When I admire the wonders of a sunset or the beauty of the moon, my soul expands in the worship of the creator.

We are born at a given moment, in a given place and, like vintage years of wine, we have the qualities of the year and of the season of which we are born. Astrology does not lay claim to anything more.

When you go to the mountains, you see them and you admire them. In a sense, they give you a challenge, and you try to express that challenge by climbing them.

Blushing is the color of virtue.

My mother was always fascinated with the fact that I could rhyme so much stuff.

Pictures and shapes are but secondary objects and please or displease only in the memory.

I kind of love Cole Miller.

I love wisdom. And you can never be great at anything unless you love it. Not be in love with it, but love the thing, admire the thing. And it seems that if you love the thing, and you don’t just want to possess it, it will find you.

I think Pat Robertson is a terrific fellow.

In hip-hop, there’s not a lot of love. There’s not a lot of love being spread. It’s always like ‚I’m stuntin‘ on you raps, or I’m better than you raps.‘ It’s not a lot of ‚Yo man, I idolize you raps.‘

Admiration is a very short-lived passion, that immediately decays upon growing familiar with its object.

Admiration is the daughter of ignorance.

He does it with better grace, but I do it more natural.

No matter how happily a woman may be married, it always pleases her to discover that there is a nice man who wishes that she were not.

No object is so beautiful that, under certain conditions, it will not look ugly.

The Raiders of old were vicious and crazy and cruel. Hanging around their locker room was like hanging around the weight room at Folsom Prison.

The demand for certainty is one which is natural to man, but is nevertheless an intellectual vice.

I 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.

I have been very interested and intrigued and congratulatory toward President Bush and his paintings.

Archimedes 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.

Beauty of whatever kind, in its supreme development, invariably excites the sensitive soul to tears.

Bob 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.

The good is the beautiful.

To witness two lovers is a spectacle for the gods.

I thought I would dress in baggy pants, big shoes, a cane and a derby hat. everything a contradiction: the pants baggy, the coat tight, the hat small and the shoes large.

I always use the same guitar; I got this guitar years and years ago for nine pounds. It’s still got the same strings on it.

Americans 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.

I don’t consider myself an intellectual. And this is not one of my aims. But I admire intellectual people.

There 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.

I love artists like Prince, who hold on to that element of mystery.

It is as necessary for man to live in beauty rather than ugliness as it is necessary for him to have food for an aching belly or rest for a weary body.

There are definitely designers that I love, people I love to work with. And who they are as people matters. Are they good people? Do they treat their staff well? Do they treat my staff well? Are they young? Can I give them a boost? But when all of that is equal… is it cute?

Frank Lloyd Wright… his things were beautiful but not very functional.

The fact that the colors in the flower have evolved in order to attract insects to pollinate it is interesting; that means insects can see the colors. That adds a question: does this aesthetic sense we have also exist in lower forms of life?

One of the things that I have admired about India is the spiritualism of the people.

Like so many American families, our families weren’t asking for much. They didn’t begrudge anyone else’s success or care that others had much more than they did… in fact, they admired it.

No one could have been nicer, classier nor better looking than Dick Clark. I’ve had a crush on him since I was a teenager.

I 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.