#admirable

A stricken tree, a living thing, so beautiful, so dignified, so admirable in its potential longevity, is, next to man, perhaps the most touching of wounded objects. ↗

— Edna Ferber

#beautiful #dignified #living #living thing #longevity

On Being John Malkovich and the cinema of the absurd, I do enjoy it. I wish there were more like it. The very fact that there can't be more like it is one of the reasons it's admirable. ↗

— Carter Burwell

#admirable #being #cinema #enjoy #fact

Great authors are admirable in this respect: in every generation they make for disagreement. Through them we become aware of our differences. ↗

— Andre Gide

#authors #aware #become #differences #disagreement

That is who Barack Obama is - a person of admirable character - and that is who he has remained for me over these last four years. I have not agreed with his every decision, but never once have I seen him break his cool, lose his composure, or abandon his insightful perspective - even during the most serious and/or absurd national disasters. ↗

— Elizabeth Gilbert

#absurd #admirable #agreed #barack #barack obama

Amnesty is as good for those who give it as for those who receive it. It has the admirable quality of bestowing mercy on both sides. ↗

— Victor Hugo

#amnesty #both #both sides #give #good

This is the mark of a really admirable man: steadfastness in the face of trouble. ↗

— Ludwig van Beethoven

#admirable #face #man #mark #really

A complete woman is probably not a very admirable creature. She is manipulative, uses other people to get her own way, and works within whatever system she is in. ↗

— Anita Brookner

#complete #creature #get #her #manipulative

One of the admirable features of British novelists is that they have no scruple about setting their stories in foreign settings with wholly foreign personnel. ↗

— James Buchan

#admirable #british #features #foreign #novelists

What is the thing that Hollywood demands most? Sincerity. No place in the world will pay such a high price for this admirable trait. ↗

— Hattie McDaniel

#demands #high #high price #hollywood #most

People who devote themselves to a life of style are admirable. ↗

— Zac Posen

#devote #life #people #style #themselves