Your invitation to write about Serge Prokofieff to honor his 70th Anniversary for the April issue of Sovietskaya Muzyka is accepted with pleasure, because I admire the music of Prokofieff ; ;

For subtle swinging rhythms, I could admire intensely Mulligan's version of `` Weep '', and the fireworks went on display in `` 18 Carrots For Robert '', a sax tribute to Johnny Hodges.

Now that I am old, I admire kind people.

But this destruction, coupled with a protracted siege of Rain ( 9 – 16 July ), caused Prince Eugene to lament "... since the Donauwörth action I cannot admire their performances ", and later to conclude " If he has to go home without having achieved his objective, he will certainly be ruined.

But I believe the modern writer who has influenced me most is Somerset Maugham, whom I admire immensely for his power of telling a story straightforwardly and without frills.

< p > There is the story of the woman who read Hamlet for the first time and said, " I don't see why people admire that play so.

I admire even more his contributions to modern thought.

In the meantime, I respect and admire my Christian friend and my Muslim friend.

Though I admire the structured thought of theology ( Anselm's proof in the Fides Quaerens Intellectum, for instance ) it is to religion no more than counterpoint exercises are to music.

Mendelssohn answered in an open letter in December 1769: " Suppose there were living among my contemporaries a Confucius or a Solon, I could, according to the principles of my faith, love and admire the great man without falling into the ridiculous idea that I must convert a Solon or a Confucius.

I look forward to spending an evening in the company of artists I admire at the award ceremony in May.

" Aaliyah commented, " I admire her a great deal.

" Japanese singer Crystal Kay commented: " I've always listened to American music and the artists I admire most are American, like Janet Jackson.

He later said, “ I admire him greatly … I read him over and over again .”

He was well-acquainted with many of the great masters from first hand observation, as he wrote in 1874, " I have learned in Venice to admire Tintoretto immensely and to consider him perhaps second only to Michelangelo and Titian.

I admire the pictures, and I heartily approve them, but I did not make them.

I dare say if I went back and read it again I ’ d probably still admire quite a lot of it.

At once my ears were drowned by a flow of what I took to be Spanish, but -- the driver's white teeth flashing at me, the road wildly veering beyond his glistening hair, beyond his gesticulating bottle -- it could have been the purest Oxford English I was half hearing ; ;

At a party an English intellectual -- so-called -- asked me why I write always about distress.

The monk who opened the door immediately calmed his worries about his reception: `` I speak English '', the old man said, `` but I do not hear it very well ''.

Passing through the gate, with towers on either side once used as prisons, I entered a huge square surrounded by buildings, and on the wall to my right found a general plan of the grounds, with explanations in English for each building.

I have used a variety of heavy-weight hand-made papers, but prefer an English make, rough surface, in 400-pound weight.

At the same time, however, I availed myself of the services of that great English actor and master of make-up, Sir Gauntley Pratt, to do a `` quickie '' called The Mystery of the Mad Marquess, in which I played a young American girl who inherits a haunted castle on the English moors which is filled with secret passages and sliding panels and, unbeknownst to anyone, is still occupied by an eccentric maniac.

`` Oh yes, the other day I reread some of Emerson's English Traits, and there was an anecdote about a group of English and Americans visiting Germany, more than a hundred years ago.

I have found myself saying with other foreigners here that English Catholics are good Catholics.

`` I don't believe I know you, and I can't understand your quaint brand of English -- it was meant to be English, wasn't it ''??

This was developed into the language " E-Prime " by D. David Bourland, Jr. 15 years after his death ( E-Prime a form of the English language in which the verb " to be " does not appear in any of its forms ; for example, the sentence " the movie was good " could translate into E-Prime as " I liked the movie ", thereby distinguishing opinion from fact ).

Not only was his Belgian nationality interesting because of Belgium's occupation by Germany ( which provided a valid explanation of why such a skilled detective would be out of work and available to solve mysteries at an English country house ), but also at the time of Christie's writing, it was considered patriotic to express sympathy with the Belgians, since the invasion of their country had constituted Britain's casus belli for entering World War I, and British wartime propaganda emphasized the " Rape of Belgium ".

: " It is true that I can speak the exact, the idiomatic English.

* 1642 – Charles I calls the English Parliament traitors.

I grant that the dog may not be really protective, based on his training, but if you were roaming the streets looking for a purse to snatch or a young lady to molest, how quick would you be to attack a person strolling with a dog??

The policeman got a confused, funny look on his face, and he had answered kind of politely, `` Now, look here, lady: I know you got to entertain these kids and all.

I don't feel much like a maryed man but I never forgit it sofar as to court enny other lady but if I should you must forgive me as I am so forgitful ''.

I make this observation about the lady, Miss Judy Garland, because she brought up the subject herself in telling a story about a British female reporter who flattered her terribly in London recently and then wrote in the paper the next day:

`` I meant that you have a nice singing voice dear '', the lady amended.

`` No, I say '', the lady twittered.

Agatha Christie attributed the inspiration for the character of Miss Marple to a number of sources: Miss Marple was " the sort of old lady who would have been rather like some of my grandmother's Ealing cronies – old ladies whom I have met in so many villages where I have gone to stay as a girl ".

Influential French critic M. Henri Rochefort commented, " I am compelled to admit, not without some chagrin, that not one of our female artists … is strong enough to compete with the lady who has given us this year the portrait of Dr. Grier.

:" Also in another volume from the times of Pope John XV, Dagome, lord, and Ote, lady, and their sons Misico and Lambert ( I do not know of which nation those people are, but I think they are Sardinians, for those are ruled by four judges ) were supposed to give to Saint Peter one state in whole which is called Schinesghe, with all its lands in borders which run along the long sea, along Prussia to the place called Rus, thence to Kraków and from said Kraków to the River Oder, straight to a place called Alemure, and from said Alemure to the land of Milczanie, and from the borders of that people to the Oder and from that, going along the River Oder, ending at the earlier mentioned city of Schinesghe.

: I have much regretted the failure of the attempt to save the life of so esteemed and respected a lady.

Adolfo said the first lady embodied an " elegant, affluent, well-bred, chic American look ", while Bill Blass commented, " I don't think there's been anyone in the White House since Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis who has her flair.

" She wrote in her memoirs, " I don't think I was as bad, or as extreme in my power or my weakness, as I was depicted ," but went on, " owever the first lady fits in, she has a unique and important role to play in looking after her husband.

The elder to the elect lady and her children, whom I love in the truth, and not only I but also all who know the truth, because of the truth that abides in us and will be with us for ever:

But now, dear lady, I ask you, not as though I were writing you a new commandment, but one we have had from the beginning, let us love one another.

* January 15 – Catherine Carey lady in waiting to Elizabeth I ( b. 1524 )