John Ruskin Quotes

You do not see with the lens of the eye. You seen through that, and by means of that, but you see with the soul of the eye.

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• If some people have the belief or view that the Dalai Lama has some miracle power, that's totally nonsense.

  

  Dalai Lama
  • People
  • Power
  • Miracle

• Let me go to hell, that's all I ask, and go on cursing them there, and them look down and hear me, that might take some of the shine off their bliss.

  

  Samuel Beckett
  • Me
  • Hell
  • Shine

• He who would not be idle, let him fall in love.

  

  Ovid
  • Love
  • Fall
  • For Him

• I do not want to be a long-term CEO.

  

  Osman Rashid
  • Long
  • Want
  • CEO

• I generally have a brand of brief on every day.

  

  Gary Lineker
  • Day
  • Everyday
  • Brand

• The person who grieves suffers his passion to grow upon him; he indulges it, he loves it; but this never happens in the case of actual pain, which no man ever willingly endured for any considerable time.

  

  Edmund Burke
  • Time
  • Man
  • Pain

• Originally I had planned to revert to nuclear physics there, in particular the structure of the deuteron.

  

  Walter Kohn
  • Physics
  • Structure
  • Planned

• Whenever people ask me what the story is for my next film, I won't tell and people feel it's because I'm being secretive or something, but it's actually because I'm ashamed to sum up a film in three sentences.

  

  Abbas Kiarostami
  • People
  • Up
  • Me

• As I began to take risks, leaving my very comfortable and secure job and taking this first leap into fashion, every subsequent risk became easier to take because I began to see the kind of opportunity and excitement that risk-taking offered.

  

  Imran Amed
  • Job
  • Opportunity
  • Fashion

• I love badminton. That's my sport!

  

  Olga Kurylenko
  • I Love
  • Sport
  • Badminton

• His mother should have thrown him out and kept the stork.

  

  Mae West
  • Mother
  • Should
  • Him

• Pubescent girls, it seems, are manifestly more likely to exhibit extreme and bizarre psychological symptoms than are teenage boys.

  

  Caitlin Flanagan
  • More
  • Seems
  • Extreme

• Florentine had grown more or less immune to the charms of spring.

  

  Gabrielle Roy
  • Spring

• She was a student of history, valued the lessons of it. The worst atrocities began with half-measures, with apologies, compromising with the wrong side, shrinking from what had to be done.

  

  C. J. Cherryh
  • History
  • Student
  • Apologies

• You have to find balance. Whenever I start feeling stressed or not feeling myself, it's about balance, and it means I need to find it again.

  

  Bernard Sumner Bad Lieutenant
  • Feeling
  • Balance

• I have a two-story house and a bad memory, so I'm up and down those stairs all the time. That's my exercise.

  

  Betty White
  • Up
  • Time
  • Bad

• There was no one in particular I really tried to copy.

  

  Caroline Corr

• For only by nurturing the minds and strengthening the values of our children can we give them an opportunity to be full, productive citizens, to reach their God-given potential, and to have good jobs right here in Oklahoma.

  

  Brad Henry
  • Good
  • God
  • Children

• In particular, Australia, because of its ancient geography, soil profile and distinctive weather patterns, is more adversely affected by climate variability than some other continents.

  

  Peter Garrett Midnight Oil

• I think theatre is by far the most rewarding experience for an actor. You get 4 weeks to rehearse your character and then at 7:30 pm you start acting and nobody stops you, acting with your entire soul.

  

  Christopher Eccleston
  • Character
  • Experience
  • Soul

• In the act of creation, as in all the arts, the soul should be felt in the face and the fingers and the tongue, even in the cavities.

  

  Chris Campanioni
  • Soul
  • Creation
  • Act

• Riven and torn with cannon-shot, the trunks of the trees protruded bunches of splinters like hands, the fingers above the wound interlacing with those below.

  

  Ambrose Bierce

• You do not see with the lens of the eye. You seen through that, and by means of that, but you see with the soul of the eye.

  

  John Ruskin
  • Soul
  • Eye
  • Means