John Ruskin Quotes

Imaginary evils soon become real one by indulging our reflections on them.

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• It was a movement that had all the art critics, all the museum directors in its thrall.

  

  Jack Levine
  • Art
  • Movement
  • Museum

• During my captivity, I felt abandoned by everyone apart from my family and supporters, because there was no part of the political spectrum that would want me released.

  

  Ingrid Betancourt
  • Family
  • Political
  • Me

• Nearly everywhere monarchs raised themselves further above the level of the greatest nobles and buttressed their new pretensions to respect and authority with cannons and taxation.

  

  J. M. Roberts
  • Respect
  • New
  • Greatest

• As artists, we're always going to like the songs we just now made over the songs we made a year ago.

  

  Quavo Migos
  • Always
  • Year
  • Now

• Giving frees us from the familiar territory of our own needs by opening our mind to the unexplained worlds occupied by the needs of others.

  

  Barbara Bush
  • Mind
  • Giving
  • Own

• Are you really sure that a floor can't also be a ceiling?

  

  M. C. Escher
  • Art
  • You
  • Floor

• When I first started, I thought I was wack. Lyrically, I thought I was wack. The thing I had over everybody was that I was the realest rapper.

  

  Fat Joe
  • Thought
  • First
  • Rapper

• I can't go into a mob scene and sense the mood and the attitude of the crowd. I can't conduct man-on-the-street interviews or even get reactions that I can be sure are honest, because they know who I am.

  

  Walter Cronkite
  • Sense
  • Scene
  • Crowd

• You won't find me in a romantic comedy. Those movies don't speak to me. People don't come to talk to me about those scripts, because they probably think I'm this dark, twisted, miserable person.

  

  Naomi Watts
  • People
  • Comedy
  • Dark

• No adultery is bloodless.

  

  Natalia Ginzburg
  • Adultery
  • Bloodless

• I like to play a strong woman, but a strong woman can also be very fragile and vulnerable at the same time.

  

  Carice van Houten
  • Time
  • Strong
  • Strong Woman

• Michael was very specific during rehearsals. When he was pleased, he always had this charming grin.

  

  Madeleine Stowe
  • Always
  • Charming
  • Rehearsals

• Pictures are for entertainment, messages should be delivered by Western Union.

  

  Samuel Goldwyn
  • Should
  • Entertainment
  • Union

• Japan's biggest problems are conservatism and cowardice.

  

  Tadashi Yanai
  • Problems
  • Japan
  • Cowardice

• Usually I design the lighting and when I have the physical set there, I'm not good at going out loosely and saying, 'Do you what you want, give it to the editor, and he'll figure it out.' I physically then walk on with the actors and I say, 'Let's walk until you guys feel the space works for you, and tell me when all that happens.'

  

  Tarsem Singh
  • Good
  • Me
  • Space

• When you go from one place to another, you go with experience, you don't go with prescriptions.

  

  Lakhdar Brahimi
  • Experience
  • You
  • Place

• I served in the state Senate for six years with retiring Gov. John Lynch. During that time, we had the fourth-lowest unemployment rate in the country.

  

  Maggie Hassan
  • Time
  • Country
  • Years

• I am always looking for stories that have not been told too much, and one story that I think is really gripping and important is what police officers go through.

  

  Sam Jaeger
  • Important
  • Stories
  • Police

• I think coldness is chic among writers, and particularly ironic coldness. What is absolutely not allowable is sadness. People will do anything rather than to acknowledge that they are sad.

  

  Mary Gordon
  • People
  • Sad
  • Ironic

• Without going outside, you may know the whole world!

  

  Lao Tzu
  • World
  • Know
  • Outside

• Everybody uses mime and gesture in real life, though we don’t realize it. It’s very useful as a performance technique, though it can be boring to watch on its own. As for radio, I had a wonderful teacher. I was hugely lucky. I didn’t want to play a robot, but the situation was an object lesson in fate taking over.

  

  Anthony Daniels
  • Life
  • Real
  • Teacher

• I'm a real lazy, slow kind of person.

  

  Edward Furlong
  • Real
  • Person
  • Lazy

• When I was in college, I wrote poetry very seriously, and then once I had started writing short stories, I didn't go back to poetry, partially because I felt like I understood how incredibly difficult it was.

  

  Elizabeth McCracken
  • Writing
  • College
  • Poetry

• Imaginary evils soon become real one by indulging our reflections on them.

  

  John Ruskin
  • Real