Selected appreciation quotes

1. How blessings brighten as they take their flight!

2. There is more hunger for love and appreciation in this world than for bread.

3. Let me stop there, but my God, how beautiful Shakespeare is, who else is as mysterious as he is; his language and method are like a brush trembling with excitement and ecstasy. But one must learn to read, just as one must learn to see and learn to live.

4. Children are given Mozart because of the small quantity of the notes; grown-ups avoid Mozart because of the great quality of the notes.

5. I'm of a fearsome mind to throw my arms around every living librarian who crosses my path, on behalf of the souls they never knew they saved.

6. About six months ago, I listened to Siamese Dream. That was the first time I'd ever really heard my own album, because I had separated from the experience of making the record. And it really moved me. It made me cry, it's so beautiful.

7. The paintings of Francis Bacon to my eye are very beautiful. The paintings of Bosch or Goya are to my eye very beautiful. I've also stood in front of those same paintings with people who've said, 'let's get on to the Botticellis as soon as possible.' I have lingered, of course.

8. We have had some bad incidents and there continue to be allegations of others which will be investigated; but overwhelmingly American forces there, putting their lives on the line every day, protecting Iraqis, helping to liberate them, that is appreciated by the Iraqi people and by the Prime Minister.

9. I would rather be able to appreciate things I can not have than to have things I am not able to appreciate.

10. All scientific men will be delighted to extend their warmest congratulations to Tesla and to express their appreciation of his great contributions to science.

11. My notion about any artist is that we honor him best by reading him, by playing his music, by seeing his plays or by looking at his pictures. We don't need to fall all over ourselves with adjectives and epithets. Let's play him more.

12. The eager or dutiful persons who subject themselves to these tidal waves of the classics and the moderns find everything wonderful in an absent-minded way. The wonder washes over them rather than into them, and one of its effects is to make anything shocking or odd suddenly interesting enough to gain a month's celebrity. And so another by-product of our come-one, come-all policy is the tendency to reward cleverness, not art, and to put one more hurdle in the path of the truly original artist.

13. No duty is more urgent than that of returning thanks.

14. Of all the fire mountains which like beacons, once blazed along the Pacific Coast, Mount Rainier is the noblest.

15. When a nation gives birth to a man who is able to produce a great thought, another is born who is able to understand and admire it.

16. It's always worthwhile to make others aware of their worth.

17. There is a very fine line between loving life and being greedy for it.

18. We the willing, led by the unknowing, are doing the impossible for the ungrateful. We have done so much, with so little, for so long, we are now qualified to do anything, with nothing.

19. What makes men indifferent to their wives is that they can see them when they please.

20. I awoke this morning with devout thanksgiving for my friends, the old and the new.

21. Films like Fargo are why I love the movies.

22. It is quite untrue that British people don't appreciate music. They may not understand it but they absolutely love the noise it makes.

23. Good things, when short, are twice as good.

24. Appreciation is a wonderful thing: It makes what is excellent in others belong to us as well.

25. Everything alive is part of each of us, and many things which do not move as we move are part of us. The sun is part of us, the earth, the sky, the stars, the rivers, and the oceans. All things are part of us, and we have come here to enjoy them and to thank God for them.

26. Sometimes we get caught up in our troubles and our problems and we let life slip away, but life is precious, all of life, and one must try to take in as much of it as possible.

27. You ain't gonna miss your water until your well runs dry.

28. Nine-tenths of wisdom is appreciation. Go find somebody's hand and squeeze it, while there's time.

29. Being taken for granted can be a compliment. It means that you've become a comfortable, trusted element in another person's life.

30. How blessings brighten as they take their flight!

31. There's night and day, brother, both sweet things; sun, moon, and stars, brother, all sweet things; there's likewise a wind on the heath. Life is very sweet, brother; who would wish to die?

32. It's funny how most people love the dead. Once you're dead, you're made for life.

33. 'To find the universal elements enough; to find the air and the water exhilarating; to be refreshed by a morning walk or an evening saunter... to be thrilled by the stars at night; to be elated over a bird's nest or a wildflower in spring - these are some of the rewards of the simple life.'

34. A single rose can be my garden... a single friend, my world.

35. Wagner's music is better than it sounds.

36. There is more hunger for love and appreciation in this world than for bread.

37. Watching old movies is like spending an evening with those people next door. They bore us, and we wouldn't go out of our way to see them; we drop in on them because they're so close. If it took some effort to see old movies, we might try to find out which were the good ones, and if people saw only the good ones maybe they would still respect old movies. As it is, people sit and watch movies that audiences walked out on thirty years ago. Like Lot's wife, we are tempted to take another look, attracted not by evil but by something that seems much more shameful - our own innocence.

38. A friend may well be reckoned the masterpiece of nature.

39. The age seems sore from excess of stimulation, just as a day or two after a thorough Debauch and long sustained Drinking-match a man feels all over like a Bruise. Even to admire otherwise than on the whole and where 'I admire' is but a synonyme for 'I remember, I liked it very much when I was reading it,' is too much an effort, would be too disquieting an emotion!

40. There's a pretty woman for ever lucky man in the world: every man in the world is a lucky man if he only knew it, so why waste time?

41. 'Thanks be to God,' says the Admiral; 'the air is soft as in April in Seville, and it is a pleasure to be in it, so fragrant it is.'

42. 'Celebrate we will, because life is short but sweet for certain'

43. Any relic of the dead is precious, if they were valued living.

44. And I say, 'Yes, you look wonderful tonight.'

45. I'd like to be in the country so that I'd could like being in the city.

46. When I say it's you I like, I'm talking about that part of you that knows that life is far more than anything you can ever see or hear or touch. That deep part of you that allows you to stand for those things without which humankind cannot survive. Love that conquers hate, peace that rises triumphant over war, and justice that proves more powerful than greed.'

47. 'I believe that appreciation is a holy thing, that when we look for what's best in the person we happen to be with at the moment, we're doing what God does; so in appreciating our neighbor, we're participating in something truly sacred.

48. The glory of creation is in its infinite diversity.

49. He was a very, very gifted young man. Incredibly talented.

50. 'The trouble with music appreciation in general is that people are taught to have too much respect for music; they should be taught to love it instead.'

51. Life is a gift horse in my opinion.

52. I thank God for the Apollo Theater. When I saw those people, that was the awards.

53. Ultimately, though, what I love about being [in France] is the culture, which is very old. (2004)

54. Plaudite, amici, comedia finita est. (Applaud, my friends, the comedy is over.)

55. You can't appreciate home till you've left it, money till it's spent, your wife till she's joined a women's club, nor Old Glory till you see it hanging on a broomstick on the shanty of a consul in a foreign town.

56. I love everything that's old: old friends, old times, old manners, old books, old wines.

57. Of captain Elliot, already so well known to the government, it would be almost superfluous to speak; in this action, he evinced his characteristic bravery and judgment; and, since the close of the action, has given me the most able and essential assistance.

58. There is something fucking unbelievable about seeing all of the fans go crazy and chanting 'Ozzy!' I would pay to see them..

59. The biggest thing has been realizing how much people really do love the early Sabbath music. People have said it in the past but I've never really believed them before. I remember years ago when Metallica opened up for me, I went backstage and they were playing old Black Sabbath albums and I thought they were taking the piss! They said, 'No, we really love Sabbath.' I couldn't see that at the time--because towards the end of my time with Sabbath 20 years ago I thought what we were doing was boring and stupid, because we were boring and stupid, totally sick of what we were doing and totally out of our brains with drink or drugs when we were playing it.

60. I don't suppose she would recognize a deep, beautiful thought if you handed it to her on a skewer with tartar sauce.

61. The true wisdom of life consists in seeing the extraordinary in the common.

62. That sweet enemy, France.

63. Thank you, if you appreciate the tuning so much, I hope you will enjoy the playing more.

64. What a wonderful world it is that has girls in it!

65. I love all beauteous things, I seek and adore them.

66. That's the wise thrush; he sings each song twice over, Lest you should think he never could recapture The first fine careless rapture!

67. In politics, he has always been a republican with advanced Socialist sympathies, and internationalist at heart, and, as they said in the eighteenth century, a 'citizen of the world.' He has always fought social injustice. In art, he loves, above all, Beethoven, Shakespeare, and Goethe... Rembrandt is the painter dearest to him. But his chosen country is Italy.

68. I tell you who I also think is wonderful is a chap called Leonard Cohen : do you know him? [:] He's remarkable. I mean, the orchestration is fantastic and the words, the lyrics and everything, he's a remarkable man, and has this incredibly sort of laid back gravelly voice, it's terrific stuff I think. I enjoy jazz and things:

69. Does it not seem as if Mozart's works become fresher and fresher the oftener we hear them? ~ Robert Schumann

70. A fucking good tune