Top 100 I Admit Quotes
#2. I come to the table from a conservative or libertarian point of view, and I admit that. I'm a commentator. I'm not a journalist or anything else.
Glenn Beck
#4. I'm still shy," I admit, pulling the sleeves over my hands, "and I might always be, I don't know, but I think you can be shy and still feel okay about yourself at the same time.
Megan Jacobson
#5. What do you think dignity's all about?'
The directness of the inquiry did, I admit, take me rather by surprise. 'It's rather a hard thing to explain in a few words, sir,' I said. 'But I suspect it comes down to not removing one's clothing in public.
Kazuo Ishiguro
#6. When I got political that blew our marriage out of the water. I was not the same person and I admit that.
Michael Moriarty
#7. I admit to having an imagination feverish enough to melt good judgment.
Dean Koontz
#8. I am eccentric, I admit it, but I am not a nutcase.
Zaha Hadid
#9. I admit to subscribing to all the celebrity rags. The best part of being an author is if the celebs aren't being ridiculous enough, you can just make it up.
Lauren Weisberger
#10. If love is a play, this play, as old as the world, fiasco or not, it is, all in all, the least bad thing that has so far been found. The roles are trite, I admit, but if the play had no value the whole universe wouldn't know it by heart
Alfred De Musset
#11. To this day, while maintaining a healthy respect for the Giants and Jets and other teams I cover, I admit to checking the results every Monday to see how the Bears did.
George Vecsey
#12. I admit I can still run a mile, [Lionel Logue replied,] though I'm not keen on doing it; and you know you can keep young in spirit if you make friends and keep them
Mark Logue
#13. I admit. I confess. I confront. The three likely phrase to live stressless.
Bhavik Sarkhedi
#14. I admit it: I am louder than the average human being and have no fear of speaking my mind. These traits don't come from the color of my skin but from an unwavering belief in my own intelligence.
Michelle Obama
#15. To analyze is to renounce yourself
One can reason only in a circle
One sees only what one wants to see
Birth solves nothing
I admit I'm crying.
Nicanor Parra
#16. To call him a dog hardly seems to do him justice, though inasmuch as he had four legs, a tail, and barked, I admit he was, to all outward appearances. But to those who knew him well, he was a perfect gentleman.
Hermione Gingold
#17. This perplexing, good natured boy who can spin out lies so convincingly to be hopelessly in love with me ... and I admit it there are moments when he makes me believe it myself.
Suzanne Collins
#19. I just want to make it clear that I admit that that's rapey behavior, but I am not a rapist,
David Choe
#20. I never paid you a compliment, Rachel, in my life. Successful love may sometimes use the language of flattery, I admit. But hopeless love, dearest, always speaks the truth.
Wilkie Collins
#21. I admit I distorted intelligence to please Stalin because I feared him.
Filipp Golikov
#22. She is the epitome of injustice, is my mistress. I never sulk, I am no glutton, and at that time I was barely thirty years of age, although to a fourteen-year-old anyone above twenty is an ancient, and I admit that, when it comes to food, I do have the refined tastes of a connoisseur.
Wilbur Smith
#23. Let's just say that life has me beaten ... So I give up! I admit there's no way I can win ... "
"What is it you want, Charlie Brown?"
"How about two out of three?
Charles M. Schulz
#24. Cooking out and hanging out aren't really my things," I admit. "I prefer delivery and solitude.
J.M. Darhower
#25. When I first studied Billie Holiday's life story years ago, I admit that I was quite judgmental.
Rebecca Ferguson
#26. I've been accused of riding roughshod over others' emotions, and I admit, when I feel a friend is being over-indulgent, my patience is in short supply.
Mariella Frostrup
#27. In a general sense, I admit to valuing the worldviews of men under the age of 40 and women over the age of 30.
Criss Jami
#28. In my experience - and I admit I didn't anticipate this - most blacks are delighted to have a 100-percent honest conversation with a white man about race.
Jared Taylor
#29. I admit that Post-it note sheets that adhere to virtually any surface are now my substitute of choice for retention.
Candice Bergen
#30. I admit, I'm suspicious of any career planning that involves chasing the next 'big thing,' just because it's so hard to predict what the next big thing is going to be a couple of years - or even six months - out.
Carrie Vaughn
#31. Children aren't everything. There are other things in the world, thought I admit some people don't seem to suspect it.
Nella Larsen
#32. I am content in bachelor life, but at moments like this, I admit to old-fashioned sexist longing. Sometimes I cook up comfort food, but cooking your own comfort food is akin to scratching your own back. Same sensation, less watts.
Michael Perry
#33. Those who fuck quickly and often. Not my style, I admit. But a style I approve.
Paul Hallam
#34. I now had to walk everywhere rather than just deciding to go places. I admit I was disappointed about that part, since being a ghost had made me quite lazy. Stupid living people with their walking and stepping!
Dennis Liggio
#35. Fast and stupid is still stupid. It just gets you to stupid a lot quicker than humans could on their own. Which, I admit, is an accomplishment," she added, "because we're pretty damn good at stupid.
Jack Campbell
#36. I admit. My sister: master of playing hard to get. Even when she's already gotten.
Anonymous
#37. At least I admit that I don't know. I know that things are fucked up, beyond belief, and I have nothing original to say about it.
Eric Bogosian
#38. Life on Mars would be awesome! Even single-celled life, although I admit that in my heart of hearts, I want it to be the barge-people of the canals.
Sarah Monette
#39. After 40 years of not playing, I admit I'm totally in love with my guitar. It's a Froggy Bottom acoustic steel string guitar. All I have to do is hit a couple of clean chords and the endorphins are right there. It's like the top of my head has come off and stardust and magic have fallen in.
April Gornik
#40. It's sour grapes, I admit, I want to be more famous so people are examining my work couplet by couplet, you know what I mean? That's the level where I want to go.
Frank Black
#41. I admit I was drinking a Guinness ... but I did not swallow.
Kinky Friedman
#42. Now to the term 'relativity theory.' I admit that it is unfortunate, and has given occasion to philosophical misunderstandings.
Albert Einstein
#43. I was born from nothing and to nothing I will return. And yet, when i say the word nothing, when i admit, at last, 'I am nothing,' i feel mysteriously like something again, ground zero, genesis, the pull of possibilities.
Lauren Slater
#44. The nature of things is, I admit, a sturdy adversary.
Edmund Burke
#46. I know. I admit that. You're working with NSC now. And the FBI." "So?" "So how would you like to be part of a joint effort with NIC?" "I already have enough alphabet letters, thanks." "You
David Baldacci
#47. I admit that I am hopelessly hooked on the printed newspaper. I love turning the pages and the serendipity of stumbling across a piece of irresistible information or a photograph that I wasn't necessarily intending to read.
Jill Abramson
#48. I hope to read a Harry Potter novel soon, to see what it's all about. I admit to being annoyed that many good light fantasy writers have had trouble getting published, in England and elsewhere, when it is obvious the readers were waiting for us all along.
Piers Anthony
#50. In general I strive for greatness and rational achievement, but I admit to you I've a terrible fondness for women, a tendency towards drunkenness, and a weakness for the fumes of the poppy - opium and other miserable beauties.
Roman Payne
#51. The ideal condition would be, I admit, that men should be right by instinct; but since we are all likely to go astray, The reasonable thing is to learn from those who can teach
Sophocles
#52. I suppose you'll not let me rest until I admit that I like your company?"
"You're getting to know me well ... "
"Very well, I'll admit. You're slightly more than tolerable.
Jody Hedlund
#53. Oh. There was a black smudge on the real door. I thought that meant it was fake," I admit.
Kasie West
#54. I admit I love clothes and I buy clothes. But they sit in my closet. I like a pair of comfy pants, flip flops and a t- shirt. And when we pick a restaurant, my criteria is: Where can I wear this?.
Jennifer Aniston
#55. I admit that when the facts are not good enough, I always exaggerate them.
Stephen Leacock
#56. Bean finds the best apple in our tree and hands it up to me. "You know what this tastes like when you first bite into it?" she asks.
"No, what?"
"Blue sky."
"You're zoomed."
"You ever eat blue sky?"
"No," I admit.
"Try it sometime," she says. "It's apple-flavored.
Rodman Philbrick
#57. Actually, I was the seventh private explorer but the first Canadian 'space clown.' I never dreamed of going into space; I just dreamed of traveling. But I admit that space is an incredible destination and the absolute traveling experience.
Guy Laliberte
#58. I admit I once threw caution to the wind ...
It doesn't fly well!!
Neil Leckman
#59. There should be no combination of events for which the wit of man cannot conceive an explanation. Simply as a mental exercise, without any assertion that it is true, let me indicate a possible line of thought. It is, I admit, mere imagination; but how often is imagination the mother of truth?
Anonymous
#60. It isn't always easy between us. I admit that. But it's right between us, always.
Caragh M. O'Brien
#61. There's only the writing, which I admit to knowing very little about. But then it's probably best not to know. It allows one to work without expectation. Best to let the poem do the thinking while we concern ourselves with what's called the personal life.
Russell Edson
#62. OK, I admit it. I was just a front-man for the real fathers of Linux, the Tooth Fairy and Santa Claus.
Linus Torvalds
#63. My point is, I went crazy. When I saw what a black, awful joke the world was. I went crazy as a coot! I admit it! Why can't you?
Alan Moore
#64. I admit, I was fascinated by Adolf Hitler. He was a pleasant boss and a fatherly friend.
Traudl Junge
#65. Lady Bracknell: He was eccentric, I admit. But only in later years. And that was the result of the Indian climate, and marriage, and indigestion, and other things of that kind.
Oscar Wilde
#66. I noticed John had brought along a thermos of his coffee, this "favor" already qualifying as an all-nighter. I admit, the horrific burning sensation really did keep you awake.
David Wong
#67. Well, how could a reader notice that? There may be something lacking there I admit. But heavens above, they ought to count themselves lucky! It's full enough of good things as it is, far more than they usually get.
Marcel Proust
#68. My advice is to make a point of apologizing to your child about something at least twice a month. Why twice a month? I don't know. It sounds about right to me. (Almost all the specific advice in parenting books is similarly arbitrary. At least I admit it.)
Alfie Kohn
#69. I admit I'm enthusiastically demanding.
Brad Bird
#70. I admit," Morgan said with another withering look, "it's no donut.
Jim Butcher
#71. And I admit it: there's a rather dirty thrill when 700 people laugh at a joke you've written.
Laura Wade
#72. I admit that the black man is inferior. But what is it that makes him so? It is the ignorance in which white men compel him to live;
Harriet Jacobs
#73. I was working at a candy-wrapping factory before I became an actor. I admit I snuck some hard candy, which is great because you can suck on it while you're working.
Verne Troyer
#74. Do I race motorcycles? I do. I use the word 'race' because, I admit, what I do on a motocross bike is different than riding a Harley down the street.
Jeff Kent
#75. There are many artists that I present that I admit I like less than I do others. But I think that they warrant being presented by my own, personal standards.
Norman Granz
#76. The nature of Christ's existence is mysterious, I admit; but this mystery meets the wants of man. Reject it, and the world is an inexplicable riddle; believe it, and the history of our race is satisfactorily explained.
Napoleon Bonaparte
#77. I've got a big ego, I admit it; I'm ego-driven.
Eli Broad
#78. I swear to you that I am not quite such an ass as I like to appear sometimes, although I am rather an ass, I admit.
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
#79. I admit that at times my prayer for my children is nothing more than vocalized unbelief aimed at God.
Elyse M. Fitzpatrick
#81. I admit that death is not just about you, it's also about the people who love you.
Peter Greenaway
#82. So you believe people can't change? That once you do a bad thing, you're a bad person?"
"I don't know," I admit."But I do think that some stains never wash out.
Jodi Picoult
#83. They are deceptively simple. I admit that. But for me, all my life I try to simplify things. As a child in school, things were very hard for me to understand often, and I developed a knack, I think. I developed a process to simplify things so I would understand them.
Eric Carle
#84. He stares at me so darkly, so hungily that I can only nod. Agree. Of course, I feel it. "I do", I admit.
Sophie Jordan
#85. I'm uncommonly slow to show my work to other people, and by the time I do I've usually exhausted myself so completely that all I really want is for someone to tell me that my efforts have added up to something - not one of my better qualities, I admit.
Kevin Brockmeier
#86. As an old soldier, I admit the cowardice: it's as universal as seasickness, and matters just as little.
George Bernard Shaw
#87. I think you're a wonder. You're beautiful. You're mature. You are, I admit, vastly more experienced than I am. That's what threw me. I was thrown. Forgive me.
Philip Roth
#88. I can get excitement watching rain on a puddle. And then I paint it. Now, I admit, there are not too many people who would find that exciting. But I would. And I want life thrilling and rich. And it is. I make sure it is.
David Hockney
#89. When you bow down your head to pray
Let the first thing that you say
Be a lowly word and meek:
I admit that I am weak.
John Piper
#90. Alright, alright, I admit it: my husband is the quiet, kind, accepting parent, and I'm the one who wants so much to be part of our two daughters' lives than I can't even let them finish a story without interrupting.
Robin Marantz Henig
#91. I admit that books were voted in and out, and that the Bible was finally formed in accordance with a vote.
Robert Green Ingersoll
#92. Critics should help people see for themselves; they should never try to define things, or impose their own explanations, though I admit that if ... a critic's explanations serve to increase the general obscurity, that's all to the good.
Georges Braque
#93. I admit that the direct model has done a lot for Dell. That's the only thing the company has ever really accomplished.
Eckhard Pfeiffer
#94. The beauty of the twentieth century is the charm of the hospital, the grace of the cemetery, of consumption and emaciation. I admit that I have submitted to it all; worse, I have loved with all my heart.
Jean Lorrain
#95. I admit that the generation which produced Stalin, Auschwitz and Hiroshima will take some beating, but the radical and universal consciousness of the death of God is still ahead of us. Perhaps we shall have to colonise the stars before it is finally borne in upon us that God is not out there.
R. J. Hollingdale
#96. I watch too much cable, I admit. Day after day it gets frustrating. Yesterday I watched as someone called legislation to prevent teacher layoffs a bailout - but I know that's not a view held by many, nor were the views I was frustrated about.
Robert Gibbs
#97. In spite of your lies and deceit, I admit I do love you darling, I really do. But I must leave you anyway, because there is nothing left within you that I can live with.
Tonny K. Brown
#98. I admit I was somewhat concerned when we started to sign so many players - naturally you are going to worry about whether you can retain your place in the side.
Frank Lampard
#99. It would not be difficult to be a better ruler than I was: for I admit that I ruled badly; and even if I was fortunate enough to satisfy my subjects, I was not fortunate enough to satisfy myself.
Christina, Queen Of Sweden
#100. You can always find stress in someone's life if you want to. You ask a few questions, and eventually, it's, 'Yes, I admit, I was worried about something recently.'
Barry Marshall
