John Ruskin Quotes

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• We are asleep with compasses in our hands.

  

  W. S. Merwin
  • Hands
  • Our
  • Asleep

• Certainly there are things in life that money can't buy, but it's very funny - Did you ever try buying them without money?

  

  Ogden Nash
  • Life
  • Money
  • Funny

• 'Shameless' was such a weird time in my life because I never really experienced any kind of role that put me that much in the spotlight before.

  

  Laura Slade Wiggins
  • Life
  • Time
  • Weird

• I am very outspoken, obviously, and I should say that I can't judge anyone for doing anything.

  

  Kat Dennings
  • Judge
  • Outspoken

• I applied for funding to embark on an overseas field trip in Iceland, and spent six weeks there happily holed up in the national archives, museums and libraries, sifting through ministerial and parish records, censuses, maps, microfilm, logs, and local histories.

  

  Hannah Kent
  • Up
  • Through
  • Museums

• But it's a very universal story and the thing is I was reluctant to answer that question because I don't want people latching on to a particular stereotype.

  

  Parminder Nagra
  • People
  • Want
  • Question

• Trinidad may seem complex, but to anyone who knows it, it is a simple, colonial, philistine society.

  

  V. S. Naipaul
  • May
  • Society
  • Simple

• I got into retailing because I wanted a real job.

  

  Sam Walton
  • Real
  • Job
  • Got

• I was very lucky: I started acting in this highly subsidized German theater world, so there was not so much job insecurity. We had great working conditions, long rehearsal times, well paid.

  

  Barbara Sukowa
  • World
  • Great
  • Long

• It was a terrible day for baseball, it was a worse day for Congress.

  

  Fay Vincent
  • Day
  • Baseball
  • Congress

• Writers who are activists are very rarely taken seriously as artists.

  

  Larry Kramer
  • Taken
  • Artists
  • Very

• I started saying, 'I don't want to be crazy anymore.' I need to make some changes. And the first thing I started doing was just got all the men out of my life, because that was a big problem for me. That was a crutch, if you will. You know, trying to define yourself through other people or men, in particular.

  

  Natalie Cole
  • People
  • Life
  • Men

• Denying our courts the ability to hear oil-related cases of great consequence to our environment and our economy is completely the wrong direction to protect the rights of Floridians.

  

  Ted Deutch
  • Great
  • Environment
  • Wrong

• The Indian story has never been written. Maybe I am the man to do it.

  

  Zane Grey
  • Story
  • Indian

• Our true nationality is mankind.

  

  H. G. Wells
  • True
  • Mankind
  • Our

• Governor is not the position to have in Oklahoma. It is the head coach of Oklahoma or Oklahoma State or Tulsa.

  

  J. C. Watts
  • Head
  • Coach
  • Oklahoma

• Fortunately, I'm known as the hardest-working woman in showbiz, not to compete with James Brown. I've always been a multi-tasker.

  

  Tamara Tunie
  • Always
  • Woman
  • Been

• I tell my children now that they are older, 'If something happens to me... don't make no big fuss over me. Don't make no big expense on my funeral. Don't put any pressure on the rest of the family. I've loved everybody, and I hope they loved me. But don't create this big expense for the family.'

  

  B. B. King
  • Children
  • Family
  • Hope

• I continue with the illusion of serving Colombia. Only God knows if it were to be from the presidency.

  

  Ingrid Betancourt
  • God
  • Illusion
  • Serving

• We've never been your traditional rock-pop band. Lyrically, I've always had more of an interest in spirituality and that kind of thing.

  

  Ed Kowalczyk
  • Band
  • Rock

• I'm into the lyrical side of rap. I listen to some old Eminem songs and think, 'Wow, he's a genius.' He's one of the greatest poets of our time. Even when he's out of control, like on 'Cold Wind Blows,' it's incredible.

  

  Phoebe Tonkin
  • Time
  • Control
  • Cold

• I want to continue doing as big a variety of things as I can do, and if that means I have the honor of getting to do more feature work, I would love that. I know that if I make any other long-term TV commitments, it's not going to be on a drama.

  

  Adam Arkin
  • Work
  • Long
  • Love

• Choose equality.

  

  Matthew Arnold
  • Equality

• All books are divisible into two classes, the books of the hour, and the books of all time.

  

  John Ruskin
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