I've always been intrigued by the Senate, and admired many of the people who have served there.

- Hillary Clinton

No two people take on the information of being admirable and being admired in the same way.

- Jock Sturges

I always admired Stanley Kubrick for the fact that he managed to beat the system somehow. I think he kind of had it all figured out.

- Joel Coen

I have so many favorite writers, it's very hard to select a few... of classic writers, I have always admired Emily Dickinson and Henry David Thoreau.

- Joyce Carol Oates

I admired anyone who could unsettle people.

- J. G. Ballard

I was very proud of my father, and I admired him, but I always thought he was more interesting than the shows he was working on.

- Joss Whedon

The human quality Degas most admired was endurance.

- John Berger

A desire to be observed, considered, esteemed, praised, beloved, and admired by his fellows is one of the earliest as well as the keenest dispositions discovered in the heart of man.

- John Adams

The worst tragedy for a poet is to be admired through being misunderstood.

- Jean Cocteau

I can't say I ever loved my mother; I admired her.

- Humphrey Bogart

When I was young, I admired clever people. Now that I am old, I admire kind people.

- Abraham Joshua Heschel

I had admired Richard Burton for years and years before I had ever worked with him. He was a great, great actor. It was a joy to get to know him as a person.

- Gale Gordon

I admired in others the strength that I lacked myself.

- Georg Brandes

The modest person is usually admired, if people ever hear of them.

- E. W. Howe

A modest man is usually admired, if people ever hear of him.

- E. W. Howe

I always admired virtue - but I could never imitate it.

- Charles II

Celerity is never more admired than by the negligent.

- Cleopatra

It's always tricky, meeting an author you've admired.

- Christopher Buckley

I've always admired Jeff Bridges. I really like how one can never get a handle on what he's doing.

- Bill Hader

He who goes unenvied shall not be admired.

- Aeschylus