I'll tell you who I absolutely adore: Ian McEwan.

- David Bowie

I adore my apartment in New York. It was a ballroom that I remade, so it's like a loft but done by Louis the Fifteenth.

- Joan Rivers

I adore John Mayer. I don't see how anything that surrounds John could be negative.

- Jessica Simpson

I absolutely adore Thanksgiving. It's the only holiday I insist on making myself.

- Ina Garten

I adore adverbs; they are the only qualifications I really much respect.

- Henry James

I grew up with such an affinity to cats. I adore the way that they think and operate.

- Guy Pearce

Americans adore me and will go on adoring me until I say something nice about them.

- George Bernard Shaw

Tell people you're a Canadian or a Kiwi when you travel and they'll adore you.

- Daniel Gillies

I'd love to do a cop film in America. That's a genre I absolutely adore.

- Danny Boyle

I adore dark chocolate.

- Diane von Furstenberg

'Russian Ark,' I adore - I almost cried at the end of that film, it's so beautiful.

- Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

I am self-centred. I just adore myself.

- Danny DeVito

I adore the incredibly tight clothing! My own wardobe's changed - I've streamlined a little bit and definitely learnt from Joan's sleekiness and tailoring.

- Christina Hendricks

I am addicted to 'Vogue' magazines, be they French, British - I adore, adore, adore.

- Cat Deeley

Daytime soap operas, which I used to adore, have been declining in quality and importance for over a decade, and I gradually stopped monitoring them.

- Camille Paglia

I adore Copenhagen, where I live, but I'm really drawn to New York.

- Birgitte Hjort Sorensen

I am becoming increasingly difficult to please as a reader, but I adore being surprised by a really wonderful book, written by someone I've never heard of before.

- Alexandra Fuller

I adore doing classic adaptations, but I also feel their frustrations and their limitations.

- Andrew Davies

I just adore Kate Winslet. I love her because you're never aware of all the stuff that's going into her characterization and, yet, she completely transforms.

- Anna Torv

I adore women, and the one thing I want to do more than anything is to see a transformation of personality when someone puts on one of my dresses.

- Alber Elbaz