If we were all determined to play the first violin we should never have an ensemble. therefore respect every musician in his proper place.

I have no problem going on record with this and probably have gone on record with this before there aren't that many people who I respect. There just aren't.

If I pick up a book with spaceships on the cover I want spaceships. If I see one with dragons I want there to be dragons inside the book. Proper labeling. Ethical labeling. I don't want to open up my cornflakes and find that they're full of pebbles... You need to respect the reader enough not to call it something it isn't.

There are only two occasions when Americans respect privacy especially in Presidents. Those are prayer and fishing.

When I was young there was no respect for the young and now that I am old there is no respect for the old. I missed out coming and going.

There's one advantage in having been around as long as I have. Everybody in the Senate knows me and - I'm going to say something presumptuous to repeat myself - I think most respect me.

If there is one realm in which it is essential to be sublime it is in wickedness. You spit on a petty thief but you can't deny a kind of respect for the great criminal.

Some people lose all respect for the lion unless he devours them instantly. There is no pleasing some people.

There is a lovable quality about the actual tools. One feels so kindly to the thing that enables the hand to obey the brain. Moreover one feels a good deal of respect for it without it the brain and the hand would be helpless.

I do get recognized but I must say Edinburgh is a fantastic city to live if you're well-known. There is an innate respect for privacy in Edinburgh people and I also think they're used to seeing me walking around so I don't think I'm a very big deal.

Respect the masterpiece. It is true reverence to man. There is no quality so great none so much needed now.

Often people display a curious respect for a man drunk rather like the respect of simple races for the insane... There is something awe-inspiring in one who has lost all inhibitions.

There is a secret pride in every human heart that revolts at tyranny. You may order and drive an individual but you cannot make him respect you.

There is no tragedy in missing a putt no matter how short. All have erred in this respect.

I for one respect those who believe with all their hearts and conscience that there are no circumstances under which any abortion should ever be available.

There is no need to worry about mere size. We do not necessarily respect a fat man more than a thin man. Sir Isaac Newton was very much smaller than a hippopotamus but we do not on that account value him less.

There may be fairies at the bottom of the garden. There is no evidence for it but you can't prove that there aren't any so shouldn't we be agnostic with respect to fairies?