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A passion for politics stems usually from an insatiable need, either for power, or for friendship and adulation, or a combination of both. -- Fawn M. Brodie
Most good programmers do programming not because they expect to get paid or get adulation by the public, but because it is fun to program. -- Linus Torvalds
I'm always shy in front of an audience, so I'm always at the back, in the shadows, just doing it. I don't like the front, the adulation. -- Bill Wyman
I wanted to play drums because I fell in love with the glitter and the lights, but it wasn't about adulation. It was being up there playing. -- Charlie Watts
We do this for the art, not the adulation. I'd rather our music get liked and we get ignored. I don't want to be adored for anything other than the music. -- Andy Partridge
I savour the adulation and love I have been getting from my fans and the blessings of elders in my family. Fourteen years have given me a lot and I can't thank God and the industry enough. -- Akshay Kumar
And it was only released in London last week, so when I go back to England Monday or whatever, I am expecting heaps of adulation. I'm hoping there is. If that doesn't happen I will be disappointed. -- David Thewlis
Look, three love affairs in history, are Abelard and Eloise, Romeo and Juliet and the American media and this President at the moment. But this doesn't matter over time. Reality will impinge. If his programs work, he's fine. If it doesn't work, all of the adulation of journalists in the world won't matter. -- George Will
The ambitious are forever followed by adulation for they receive the most pleasure from flattery. -- Oliver Goldsmith
No adulation; 'tis the death of virtue; Who flatters, is of all mankind the lowest Save he who courts the flattery. -- Hannah More
Flattery corrupts both the receiver and the giver; and adulation is not of more service to the people than to kings. -- Edmund Burke
Robert Downey Jr. doesn't work out like us regular folks. Adulation bathes him from the moment he arrives at his Los Angeles martial arts studio. -- Stephen Rodrick
If you are lucky enough to be a success, by all means enjoy the applause and the adulation of the public. But never, never believe it. -- Robert Montgomery
Only the very rarest of princes can endure even a little criticism, and few of them can put up with even a pause in the adulation. -- Walter Lippmann
I believe that it is possible for one to praise, without concern, any man after he is dead since every reason and supervision for adulation is lacking. -- Niccolo Machiavelli
The reason that adulation is not displeasing is that, though untrue, it shows one to be of consequence enough, in one way or other, to induce people to lie. -- Lord Byron
Smitten as we are with the vision of social righteousness, a God indifferent to everything but adulation, and full of partiality for his individual favorites, lacks an essential element of largeness. -- William James
Men are weak and constantly need reassurance, so now that they fail to find adulation in the opposite sex, they're turning to each other. Less and less do men need women. More and more do gentlemen prefer gentlemen. -- Anita Loos
While the impostor draws his identity from past achievements and the adulation of others, the true self claims identity in its belovedness. We encounter God in the ordinariness of life: not in the search for spiritual highs and extraordinary, mystical experiences but in our simple presence in life. -- Brennan Manning
I have always hated biography, and more especially, autobiography. If biography, the writer invariably finds it necessary to plaster the subject with praises, flattery and adulation and to invest him with all the Christian graces. If autobiography, the same plan is followed, but the writer apologizes for it. -- Carolyn Wells
Celebrities were quick to understand that paparazzi could make icons of them. The more a star is followed and admired, the greater the adulation. So they raised the stakes, sometimes hiding when they don't even need to. Today, stardom is more ephemeral and it's photography that gives them their celebrity status. -- Ron Galella
It appears to me that those who rely simply on the weight of authority to prove any assertion, without searching out the arguments to support it, act absurdly. I wish to question freely and to answer freely without any sort of adulation. That well becomes any who are sincere in the search for truth. -- Vincenzo Galilei
The gospel of grace nullifies our adulation of televangelists, charismatic superstars, and local church heroes. It obliterates the two-class citizenship theory operative in many American churches. For grace proclaims the awesome truth that all is gift. All that is good is ours, not by right, but by the sheer bounty of a gracious God. -- Brennan Manning
I remember being in Atlantic City once when I was 18 or 19, and a sea of people were screaming and pulling their hair because I was there. It was weird. Nobody deserves adulation like that. I tried to explain it to my kids once. I said, 'Mommy used to be kind of cool, kind of like a Britney Spears. -- Genie Francis
Where the work goes, I go. Wherever adulation occurs, that's where you'll find me. -- Ed Asner
The enthusiasm, the adulation for us as jazz artists, in Kiev and Odessa was really heartwarming. -- Paul Horn
I savour the adulation and love I have been getting from my fans and the blessings of elders in my family. -- Akshay Kumar
I have received more fulfillment and adulation than I would ever know what to do with in terms of show business. -- Maria Bamford
I'm not sure that it matters as much to women as to our male colleagues to have the public adulation and be on the public mind. -- Jenny Shipley
I am living on the razor's edge between success and failure, adulation and humiliation - between justifying my existence and revealing my unworthiness to be alive. -- Scott Stossel
I spent so long studying really hard to become a fine actor, but threw it all away because I got the adulation and the fame so easily. -- Mickey Rourke
If you're a movie star, there's a cycle you go through: adoration, adulation, you're used, and then you're discarded. And it happens again and again, always in that sequence. -- John Cusack
On the road, as a 'rock star,' there's superficial attention and adulation is thrown at you for a couple of hours - then you're alone in your room and it's lonely. -- Melissa Etheridge
Weirdly, there have been a lot of critics of conservatism, but very few critics of innovation. As a culture, we are deeply paranoid about politics, but we gaze upon innovation with rapturous adulation. -- Jill Lepore
In whatever adulation you get, there's truth and there's not truth. And wherever they dog you, and they say it was horrible - there's truth and there's not truth. It's human nature to like to read the adulation more. -- Matthew McConaughey
The thing I fail to do is fully comprehend what's given back to me by the audience. You would think you would be a performer partly so you could feel all the appreciation or adulation, but I haven't quite managed that yet. -- Michelle Shocked
Ever since Pele's extraordinary talents blessed the world of football, black footballers have been accepted in the pantheon of the greats. But to achieve commercial recognition is somewhat different: it requires a form of adulation that also spells identification and role model. -- Martin Jacques
I remember being in Atlantic City once when I was 18 or 19, and a sea of people were screaming and pulling their hair because I was there. It was weird. Nobody deserves adulation like that. I tried to explain it to my kids once. I said, 'Mommy used to be kind of cool, kind of like a Britney Spears.' -- Genie Francis
I go for a couple of parties; you won't find me at every film party and never at award ceremonies. I tried attending for the first three to four years, and I've performed at award shows. I sat in them, and I've also exited pretty fast from them. It's just not my place. I'd rather get their adulation in a cinema hall. -- Emraan Hashmi
Looking back, yes, I made too many comebacks. But each comeback I was 100 percent sure that I would win. I never came back for the money, because I didn't need it. The adulation I was getting anyway in other spheres. But I'm a guy who likes to see how close he can get to the edge of the mountain - that's what makes me tick. -- Sugar Ray Leonard
The ocean has the conscienceless temper of a savage autocrat spoiled by much adulation -- Joseph Conrad
In the game of cricket it has always been customary to accord more adulation to batsman than to bowlers. -- Ian Peebles
Across the dying fire, Seth Clearwater - his eyes wide with adulation for the fraternity of tribal protectors- nodded his agreement." -- Stephenie Meyer
Las Vegas is a city of kickbacks. A desert city of greased palms. A place where a $20 bill can buy approval, a $100 bill adulation and $1,000 canonization. -- Nicholas Pileggi
The most stable, and therefore, the most healthy self-esteem is based on deserved respect from others rather than on external fame or celebrity and unwarranted adulation. -- Abraham Maslow
I spent so long studying really hard to become a fine actor, but threw it all away because I got the adulation and the fame so easily -- Mickey Rourke
I had no expectation of the level of adulation that would come my way. I just wanted to make a living with a regular role in a television series. -- Harrison Ford
The more boring a child is, the more the parents, when showing off the child, receive adulation for being good parents â?? because they have a tame child-creature in their house. -- Frank Zappa
It`s important to know where you`ve come from so that you can know where you`re going. I probably chose my profession because I was seeking approval, adulation, admiration and affection. -- Cary Grant
The joy he brings to the millions of his countrymen, the grace with which he handles all the adulation and the expectations and his innate humility - all make for a one-in-a-billion individual. -- Glenn McGrath
[John's Adams] description of [Benjamin] Franklin in a letter to [his wife] Abigail in 1775 is laudatory. Only when he experiences all the adulation paid to Franklin in Paris does he begin to change his tune. -- Gordon S. Wood

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