A Quote by Jerry Spinelli

Who doesn't love a compliment? But every compliment comes with a warning: Beware—Do Not Overuse. Go ahead, sniff your compliment. Take a little sip. But don't chew, don't swallow. If you do, you risk abandoning the good work that inspired the compliment in the first place. If that happens, maybe it was the compliment and not the job well done that you were aiming for all along.

Jerry Spinelli

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Jerry Spinelli
American - Author
Born: February 1, 1941

For me it's a compliment, playing baddie characters. I take it as a compliment.

Ben Mendelsohn

Do not offer a compliment and ask a favor at the same time. A compliment that is charged for is not valuable.

Mark Twain

Getting a compliment, even if you need a cooty shot afterwards, is still a compliment.

Jen Sincero

The biggest compliment I get is that I don't sound like anybody else. I think I value that as the highest compliment.

Burton Cummings

It's still a compliment when you're backed by younger and older, but it's actually unexpected. It's surprising, but for me it's in fact the most beautiful compliment.

Stromae

I used to think that a guy telling me I'm "not like other girls" was a compliment and I've now flipped to seeing that for the back-handed compliment that it is.

Liz Prince

Lovely was my compliment. Could you not come up with your own?" "Lord Paen said compliment her, he did not say we had to be creative about it," the second man pointed out with a shrug

Lynsay Sands

It takes the same energy to complain as it does to compliment. When there is a short circuit, there is a complaint, and when the energy is flowing, there is a compliment.

Harbhajan Singh Yogi

When an audience does not complain, it is a compliment, and when it does, it is a compliment, too, if unaccompanied by violence.

Mark Twain

Everyone knows that a compliment goes a very long way, and you never know what someone's going through in their life - giving them a compliment might mean the world to them.

Gigi Gorgeous

Well, I think every now and again, some people deserve to get their butts chewed. Every now and again some people deserve a pat on the back. What I try and do is compliment folk who deserve a compliment, and chew folks out who deserve to be chewed out.

Mills Lane

Judge Mills Lane

I think it's his perception of knowing how to make a record build, keeping the integrity of the song in the music and really adding a lot of musical elements to compliment my voice and to compliment the song.

Deborah Cox

There's so many things about Babymetal you cannot just grasp with the sound. The visual has to compliment the sound, the costumes have to compliment the sound.

Suzuka Nakamoto

I have lots of people tell me I'm beautiful and ask if I'm a model, but the biggest compliment I got was a fan came up to me and said, 'You're the best female technical wrestler.' That's the one compliment that sticks out.

Gail Kim

No one's too big for a compliment. A lot of times, people think with celebrities, 'Oh, she knows she's great in that!' Meryl Streep still likes a compliment. I guarantee you, it touches her heart.

Nikki Glaser

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