John Ruskin Quotes
What do we, as a nation, care about books? How much do you think we spend altogether on our libraries, public or private, as compared with what we spend on our horses?
John Ruskin
Quotes to Explore
For me, the struggle for women's human rights began the moment I was born in Tehran at the height of the Iranian Revolution, a time when the status of women was quickly deteriorating.
Nazanin Boniadi
I don't have fights with actors. In absolute honesty, I've never fought with any actor ever.
Baz Luhrmann
We think that forgiveness is weakness, but it's absolutely not; it takes a very strong person to forgive.
T. D. Jakes
I sometimes wonder whether all pleasures are not substitutes for joy.
C. S. Lewis
When I was growing up, I was obsessed with 'Cagney and Lacey.'
Tamsin Greig
Whereas fiction is a continual discovery of what one wants to say, what one feels, what one means, and is, in that sense, a performance art, biography requires different skills - research and organization.
Edmund White
It turns out that CVS is one of about 40 merchants in a consortium that formed in 2011 to develop their own mobile-phone-based payment system. The consortium, called the Merchant Customer Exchange, or MCX, is in large part all about eliminating, or at least reducing, the fees banks charge retailers for swiping credit cards.
Walt Mossberg
I decided that playing piano was a little bit too common, you know what I mean?
Barbara Lynn
That fellow seems to me to possess but one idea, and that is a wrong one.
Samuel Johnson
All those instances to be found in history, whether real or fabulous, of a doubtful public spirit, at which morality is perplexed, reason is staggered, and from which affrighted Nature recoils, are their chosen and almost sole examples for the instruction of their youth.
Edmund Burke
It is both humiliating and humbling to discover that a single generation after the events that constructed me as a public personality, I am remembered as a hairdo.
Angela Davis
When Life does not find a singer to sing her heart she produces a philosopher to speak her mind.
Kahlil Gibran
