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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Inconsistencies of opinion, arising from changes of circumstances, are often justifiable.
Daniel Webster
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Why would you envy a man who doesn't know the names of all the planets, is a 'high functioning' sociopath, and has no friends? Because Sherlock Holmes thinks in all the ways we wish we could.
Kyle Hill
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Expand the definition of 'reading' to include non-fiction, humor, graphic novels, magazines, action adventure, and, yes, even websites. It's the pleasure of reading that counts; the focus will naturally broaden. A boy won't read shark books forever.
Jon Scieszka
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People don't like the same thing. You have to keep their attention.
Kevin Harvick
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The brain secretes thought as the stomach secretes gastric juice, the liver bile, and the kidneys urine.
Karl Vogt
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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