Compliment Quotes - Page 33

• There is still such a thing as subversive. Subversive makes hip people nervous. It's something new that scares you in a good way. I mean, subversive to me is a compliment. Subversive is something that influences people to do something against society that they haven't thought of before.

  John Waters

  Mean, People, Scare

  Source: edition.cnn.com

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• A lobster bisque ought to be the crowning glory of the potager. And this one was excellent. Silky as a gigolo's compliment and fishy as a chancellor's promise.

  A. A. Gill

  Promise, Lobster, Glory

  A.A. Gill (2010). “Table Talk: Sweet And Sour, Salt and Bitter”, p.45, Hachette UK

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• I often accuse my finest acquaintances of an immense frivolity; for, while there are manners and compliments we do not meet, we donot teach one another the lessons of honesty and sincerity that the brutes do, or of steadiness and solidity that the rocks do. The fault is commonly mutual; however, for we do not habitually demand any more of each other.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Friendship, Honesty, Character

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• Compliment others on the virtues they have; and they're not half as pleased as being complimented for the ones they don't have.

  Malcolm Forbes

  Half, Virtue

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• I have visited many countries, and have been in cities without number, yet never did I enter a town which could not produce ten or twelve little great men; all fancying themselves known to the rest of the world, and complimenting each other upon their extensive reputation.

  Oliver Goldsmith

  Country, Men, Cities

  Oliver Goldsmith (1834). “The citizen of the world”, p.217

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• I had a friend write me that our music was being played at Gay Pride in New York, which is a big compliment. In the biggest city in the country with the most culture and the most grit - I love it.

  Jennifer Nettles

  Country, New York, Writing

  ChicagoPride.com Interview, chicago.gopride.com. August 26, 2009.

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• To be acceptable is for one to ignore his weakness while knowing his strength, to cover the scar even though it's always there, however, to be impossible is for one to see his weakness as, not an adversary, but the cherry on top of his strength, to rearrange the scar so that it compliments his features.

  Criss Jami

  Knowing, Weakness, Impossible

  Criss Jami (2015). “Killosophy”, p.128, Criss Jami

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• We compliment weight loss, monitor our appetites, and shrink ourselves to fit some kind of standard. I wish we could all be the size we actually are. One size doesn't fit all because there are as many sizes as there are women. Let's look closer at the size of our hearts, the width of our souls, and the length of our spirits.

  Sark

  Heart, Loss, Soul

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• To keep farmers on the farm we must maintain a strong farm safety net, but we will also have to build a thriving companion economy to compliment production agriculture in rural America.

  Tom Vilsack

  Strong, Agriculture, America

  "Rebuilding and Revitalizing America’s Rural Communities" by Sec. Tom Vilsack, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 3, 2010.

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• From Bonheur de Vivre - I was thirty-five then - to this cut-out - I am eighty-two - I have not changed; not in the way my friends mean who want to compliment me, no matter what, on my good health, but because all this time I have looked for the same things, which I have perhaps realized by different means.

  Henri Matisse

  Mean, Cutting, Two

  Henri Matisse, Jack D. Flam (1973). “Matisse on art”

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• The best compliment was Ben Kingsley coming up to me, putting his hand on the back of my neck, and saying, "Good job, son.".

  Aaron Stanford

  Jobs, Son, Hands

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• I am not here to pass civilities or compliments with you, but on other business. I have stood your meanness as long as I intend to. You have played the part of a damned scoundrel, and are a coward, and if you were any part of a man I would slap your jaws and force you to resent it. You may as well not issue any more orders to me, for I will not obey them... and as I say to you that if you ever again try to interfere with me or cross my path it will be at the peril of your life.

  Nathan Bedford Forrest

  War, Men, Order

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• I realize there will not be another Gretzky, and I will be the first one to say I will not break his records, .. But for him to say that I could, it means I am doing something right. It was probably the best compliment I could get. I'm going to remember it.

  Sidney Crosby

  Mean, Records, Firsts

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• Of course, your ideas can be stolen... I used to think it was immoral; now I think of it as a compliment... Ultimately, an idea isn't yours; it's only your take on something.

  Peter Wolf

  Thinking, Ideas, Plagiarism

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• There is an Irish way of paying compliments as though they were irresistible truths which makes what would otherwise be an impertinence delightful.

  Katharine Tynan

  Ireland And The Irish, Way, Irresistible

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• It's such a thrill when an adult comes up to me and says, 'I read your book as a child and really loved it.' That's a tremendous compliment.

  Katherine Paterson

  Children, Book, Adults

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• When people compliment my cooking, it's like somebody telling me that they like my music. And it's great to be known for something else.

  Trisha Yearwood

  People, Cooking, Known

  "Trisha's Southern Comfort". Interview with Jancee Dunn, www.redbookmag.com. August 14, 2008.

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• I wanted to start a menswear line of slim-fitting, luxury cashmere jumpers in a range of great colors. I know these jumpers will become season-less staples in my own wardrobe. Cashmere and silk printed scarves and hand-beaded T-shirts compliment the line and form a solid foundation for the collection to grow next season.

  Matthew Williamson

  Hands, Color, Luxury

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• Acting is not a genteel profession. Actors used to be buried at a crossroads with a stake through the heart. Those people's performances so troubled the onlookers that they feared their ghosts. An awesome compliment. Those players moved the audience not such that they were admitted to a school, or received a complimentary review, but such that the audience feared for their soul. Now that seems to me something to aim for.

  David Mamet

  School, Heart, Player

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• If someone thinks I'm a dickhead, fine, listen to someone else's record, then. We're not a totalitarian regime; no one's forced to listen to Coldplay. It's actually quite a compliment if you're something that people can stand against.

  Chris Martin

  Thinking, People, Records

  Interview with Ryan Dombal, pitchfork.com. October 31, 2011.

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• There's a fine line between heartbreak and love. It's a compliment when someone tells me my music put them in a place when where they were almost in tears.

  Chris Botti

  Tears, And Love, Lines

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• Baz [Luhrmann] paid me one of the greatest compliments ever. I don't know him, really, but when I first met him I was congratulating him on ROMEO + JULIET - which I think is a wonderful adaptation - and he said, "Oh, well we couldn't have done it without your RICHARD III, which was an inspiration!" I've never quite checked up on the dates to see whether or if, in fact, we did our film before he did his.

  Ian Mckellen

  Inspiration, Thinking, Done

  Source: www.broadwayworld.com

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• Whenever anybody does well spiritually, I usually ignore them. It's the greatest compliment I can pay them.

  Frederick Lenz

  Humility, Buddhism, Doe

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• A lot of people say about 'Gossip Girl,' 'Well, how do you feel about gossip?' Well, who really likes gossip? No one likes to be talked about if it's not flattering or a compliment.

  Jessica Szohr

  Girl, People, Gossip

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I am still so proud to have been a part of something that introduced theater to so many people who weren't exposed to it before. We took Broadway and put it in peoples' living rooms once a week for two seasons. People still come up to me in the street and say, 'I never went to theater before I saw "Smash.'" That's the greatest compliment.

  Megan Hilty

  Two, People, Broadway

  "Megan Hilty on motherhood, ‘Smash’ and returning to Broadway". Interview with Mark Kennedy, www.apnews.com. May 21, 2015.

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