Admirable Person Quotes

I think Keira Knightley is amazing, and I've heard also that she is one of the coolest, most down-to-earth, brilliant girls, and I really look up to her in that respect. She's got it all, really, and I think she's made interesting, bold choices in her work.

Octavia Spencer is, I think, one of the coolest people you will ever meet.

[ Chadwick Boseman] is a remarkable actor, and he's a remarkable person.

Nariman Irani was such a wonderful man.

It was an experience that was exceptional. People frequently ask what it was like and it truly was inspiring. Sometimes during his lifetime, people would try and put him on a pedestal and that's not where he wanted to be, but he was really a great individual.

One simply cannot pay tribute to Stephen Covey without saying at the outset that he was a lovely human being.

Sonia Gandhi is great. She is adorable.

I'd love to meet Thuli Madonsela, as she is such a powerful and dynamic woman.

Michael Pollan is a champion. In all ways. A man of great integrity, humor, and common sense and kindness.

Ed Herrmann was such a giant and was such a wonderful person. He was just a lovely, lovely man.

Bono. He still is somebody who, and I don't say I'm starstruck in that sense, I'm always in awe of. It doesn't matter how many times I've been with him, he's still an exceptional man that continually inspires me in many ways in life.

Joe Mauer's the real deal. He is absolutely wonderful. Not only is he a great player, but he's a great human being. He's the kind of guy you'd like to see... be your son.

I have met Sunil Dutt-ji two or three times and though I don't have a special memory of these meetings, I know that he was a gentleman and a fantastic human being.

That man, we may be sure, is a person of true worth, whom those who envy him most are yet forced to praise.

Often it seems that there are writers who are their best selves on the page. That Seamus Heaney was as genuine and deeply admirable in person as in his poems was to me a gift, then as now.

Will Rogers was an American hero - someone you could get your teeth into and love.

Mike Dukakis? He's the salt of the earth.