John Ruskin Quotes
There is no action so slight or so mean but it may be done to a great purpose, and ennobled thereby.
John Ruskin
Quotes to Explore
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We like our archetypes and heroes to be what they are at face value. And life doesn't work out like that.
Laura Dern
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I've never worked in advertising - my experience was as an editorial designer for magazines - but you could say, in the bigger picture, that magazines are vehicles for colour advertising.
Barbara Kruger
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We are shallow because we have become enslaved by gross materialism, the glitter of gold and its equivalents, for which reason we think that only the material goods of this earth can satisfy us and we must therefore grab as much as can while we are able.
F. Sionil Jose
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My favorite actresses were Geraldine Paige, Anne Bancroft and Kim Stanley.
Sally Kirkland
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When I first started out in cycling, if there were two girls there, that was successful; but now, if there are 20 girls there, it's just unbelievable. The growth of the sport is just incredible.
Laura Trott
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Abstract painting is abstract. It confronts you. There was a reviewer a while back who wrote that my pictures didn't have any beginning or any end. He didn't mean it as a compliment, but it was.
Jackson Pollock
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Garbage can provide important details for hackers: names, telephone numbers, a company's internal jargon.
Kevin Mitnick
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Freedom is the alone unoriginated birthright of man, and belongs to him by force of his humanity; and is independence on the will and co-action of every other in so far as this consists with every other person’s freedom.
Immanuel Kant
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I have no discipline, which is a horrible flaw for any writer. Once I'm well started on a project, though, then I'm addicted to it all day long. When it's done, I collapse and have to really kick myself to start a new one.
P. N. Elrod
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You are a philosopher, Dr. Johnson. I have tried too in my time to be a philosopher; but, I don't know how, cheerfulness was always breaking in.
James Boswell
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There is no action so slight or so mean but it may be done to a great purpose, and ennobled thereby.
John Ruskin