#admire

There's no reason to keep a piece of furniture in your house that is so sacred and rare that you can't put your feet up on it and a dog can't jump up on it. Likewise, a book that sits on a shelf like a piece of porcelain, only to be admired, never to be read again, is a dead book. ↗

— Elizabeth Gilbert

#again #book #dead #dog #feet

In God, the characteristics of men and women that we admire in men and women are combined. That's been a traditional Catholic teaching that God is the combination of opposites. ↗

— Andrew Greeley

#been #catholic #characteristics #combination #combined

There is a sacred horror about everything grand. It is easy to admire mediocrity and hills; but whatever is too lofty, a genius as well as a mountain, an assembly as well as a masterpiece, seen too near, is appalling. ↗

— Victor Hugo

#admire #appalling #assembly #easy #everything

I look at Jagger and the like and if I see a good attitude I'll admire it but I wouldn't copy their style. ↗

— Michael Hutchence

#attitude #copy #good #good attitude #i

I am a huge admirer of Elizabeth I, and this intriguing biography gives a wonderful picture of the era. ↗

— Barbara Taylor Bradford

#am #biography #elizabeth #elizabeth i #era

As a part owner, I'm going to be not only an admirer... but a nervous wreck. ↗

— Roger Staubach

#going #i #nervous #only #owner

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

— Jean Cocteau

#being #being misunderstood #misunderstood #poet #through

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

#always #beat #fact #figured #had

The person I have admired the most in comedy terms would be Eric Morecambe, who is my total hero. ↗

— Dawn French

#comedy #eric #hero #i #most

I admire those people who hold on to their elegance in old age but I'd rather have fun. ↗

— Heather Graham

#age #elegance #fun #have fun #hold