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Tom Sleigh's poetry is hard-earned and well founded. I great admire the way it refuses to cut emotional corners and yet achieves a sense of lyric absolution.

I have a romantic conception of the writer's life, and the sort of writer's life that I admire is probably a childless life, possibly a marriageless life, certainly a travelling life - I'm in awe of how much D.H. Lawrence managed to get around. But that's never been something I'm capable of doing.

When works of art are presented like rare butterflies on the walls, they're decontextualized. We admire their beauty, and I have nothing against that, per se. But there is more to art than that.

The movies we love and admire are to some extent a function of who we are when we see them.

I like movies where you can come back and re-watch them and admire the cinematography 25 years later.

In all the writers I admire, the common detonator is their courage to walk naked.

There is in true beauty, as in courage, something which narrow souls cannot dare to admire.

I really admire medical people. They have a great sense of humour, and they just have to get on with it.

I admire Modi's leadership and his ideology.

When you read a piece of writing that you admire, send a note of thanks to the author.

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.

Humans have a fraught relationship with beasts. They are our companions and our chattel, our family members and our laborers, our household pets and our household pests. We love them and cage them, admire them and abuse them. And, of course, we cook and eat them.

The secret of happiness is to admire without desiring. And that is not happiness.

The secret of happiness is to admire without desiring.

When I was a teacher, teachers would come into my classroom and admire my desk on which lay nothing whatever, whereas theirs were heaped with papers and books.

I admire sensible, kind people. They're not often famous.

I have no idols. I admire work, dedication and competence.

We believe it is bad or dangerous to be carried away by our emotions. We admire the person who is cool, who acts without feeling.