John Ruskin Quotes
It is perhaps the principal admirableness of the Gothic schools of architecture, that they receive the results of the labour of inferior minds; and out of fragments full of imperfectionraise up a stately and unaccusable whole.John Ruskin
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Conferences at the top level are always courteous. Name-calling is left to the foreign ministers.
W. Averell Harriman -
Anything - a destination, a person - that has some mystery around it becomes exciting and attractive.
Cam Gigandet -
Even as our economy starts to pick up, and new jobs are created, there is a risk that young people in Britain won't get the chances they deserve because businesses will continue to look elsewhere.
Iain Duncan Smith -
One of my side strange abilities is to hear a good song, no matter how it's being performed. Even if you get a bad performance, I can still hear that there's a good song.
Manfred Mann -
Black women, whose experience is unique, are seldom recognized as a particular social-cultural entity and are seldom thought to be important enough for serious scholarly consideration.
Barbara Smith -
The war on drugs is wrong, both tactically and morally. It assumes that people are too stupid, too reckless, and too irresponsible to decide whether and under what conditions to consume drugs. The war on drugs is morally bankrupt.
Larry Elder
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Unusually for an Indian man of his generation, my father, being aware of my mother's intellectual abilities, encouraged her to go abroad by herself to obtain a Ph.D.
Venkatraman Ramakrishnan -
I wish I could say I see my little brother more. We used to fight all the time but now that I don't see him very often I cherish the time I have with him.
Zac Efron -
The price of empire is America's soul, and that price is too high.
J. William Fulbright -
Usually, in musical theater, if you sing operatically or if you sing in a legit style, you're the heart of the show. You maybe get to be moving and do dramatic stuff, but it's very rare to be that funny.
Laura Benanti -
After I can be happy with knowing that I did what I wanted to do.
Namie Amuro -
Getting your screenplay right is the most important thing you'll ever do on your film.
Yahoo Serious
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Mum asks why I am so often cast in adulterous roles. I think it must be because I am fairly flirty.
Orla Brady -
Joy's smile is much closer to tears than laughter.
Victor Hugo -
What a glorious morning is this!
Samuel Adams -
While the happy couple are enjoying the thrill of the rose garden, the in-laws are saying that they are just not right for each other. We keep telling them that they cannot pay couples to stay together, and it is clear that it will take more than a three-quid-a-week tax break to keep this marriage together.
Harriet Harman -
I listen to your demo tape and act like I don't like it, six months later you hear your lyrics on my shit.
Eminem -
All men are prepared to accomplish the incredible if their ideals are threatened.
Maya Angelou
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My happiness is very fragile.
Marianne Faithfull -
In L.A., cinema and television might be seen as more interesting places for architecture than ever before.
Neil Denari -
I've always liked traveling around Europe and seeing the architecture. The buildings in capital cities have been there for hundreds and hundreds and hundreds of years. Some look better than the new ones.
Joe Elliott Def Leppard -
Before taking final leave of me, my instructor inquired concerning my physical strength, and I was able to inform him that I hadn't any.
Mark Twain -
It's funny how we imagine that lifelong relationships have to be build on a mountain top of moments, so huge they're written across the sky in letters a mile wide. But I knew a skywriter once and he told me the letters are just strategically placed puffs of smoke that are easily blown away. In reality, a life together is made of the simplest, smallest things.
Stephen Tobolowsky -
It is perhaps the principal admirableness of the Gothic schools of architecture, that they receive the results of the labour of inferior minds; and out of fragments full of imperfectionraise up a stately and unaccusable whole.
John Ruskin