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?

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• You need to take care of your time and practice, you need to rest and talk to media. So it's really important to organize those things.

  

  Yani Tseng
  • Time
  • Important
  • Rest

• Ultimately, I don't think even a five-company platform oligopoly is good for consumer tech. By its very nature, it handicaps independent companies with new ideas. But it will end one day. I just don't know when.

  

  Walt Mossberg
  • Good
  • Nature
  • Day

• I don't always have the best eating habits. I like butter and ice cream. There are days when I should work out and I don't. But it's never too late to change old habits.

  

  Florence Griffith Joyner
  • Work
  • Change
  • Best

• I loved Billie Holiday more than any other person other than myself on the stage. Yeah, I do.

  

  Abbey Lincoln
  • Myself
  • Loved
  • Holiday

• My mom was a single parent.

  

  G-Eazy
  • Single
  • Mom
  • Parent

• 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
  • Time
  • Women
  • Struggle

• I don't have fights with actors. In absolute honesty, I've never fought with any actor ever.

  

  Baz Luhrmann
  • Never
  • Actor
  • Honesty

• We think that forgiveness is weakness, but it's absolutely not; it takes a very strong person to forgive.

  

  T. D. Jakes
  • Strong
  • Forgiveness
  • Forgive

• I sometimes wonder whether all pleasures are not substitutes for joy.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • Joy
  • Sometimes
  • Wonder

• When I was growing up, I was obsessed with 'Cagney and Lacey.'

  

  Tamsin Greig
  • Up
  • Growing
  • Growing Up

• 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
  • Different
  • Art
  • Organization

• 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
  • Credit
  • Cards
  • Customer

• I decided that playing piano was a little bit too common, you know what I mean?

  

  Barbara Lynn
  • You
  • Know
  • Piano

• 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
  • Real
  • History
  • Nature

• 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
  • Single
  • Personality

• When Life does not find a singer to sing her heart she produces a philosopher to speak her mind.

  

  Kahlil Gibran
  • Life
  • Mind
  • Heart

• Existence is as deep a verity: Without the dual, where is unity? And the 'I am'' cannot forbear to be;But from its primal nature forced to frame Mysteries, destinies of various name, Is forced to give that it has taught to claim.

  

  Margaret Fuller
  • Nature
  • Deep
  • Unity

• If in a community of the blind one man suddenly received the gift of sight, he would have much to tell which would not be at all scientific.

  

  Arthur Eddington
  • Community

• If there is anything unique about my writing it is the way that I combine poetry and prose, not just on the level of having a poem here, prose there, but that it really is a true amalgam.

  

  Richard Grossman
  • Writing
  • Unique
  • Levels

• Spread good energy. Pay it forward!

  

  Brittany Maynard
  • Energy

• 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