John Ruskin Quotes

Life is a magic vase filled to the brim, so made that you cannot dip from it nor draw from it; but it overflows into the hand that drops treasures into it. Drop in malice and it overflows hate; drop in charity and it overflows love.

John Ruskin

• Love
• Magic
• Life is
• Treasures
• Malice

• Previous
• Next

Quotes to Explore

• Everything's a risk, by the way, these days. Every film you make is a risk. There's no guarantee.

  

  Cameron Diaz
  • You
  • Film
  • Risk

• I devoted my career to building an affinity with my fans who have supported me unflinchingly and no barbed wire fence or prison wall will stop that.

  

  Foxy Brown
  • Career
  • Me
  • Stop

• In the Gulf War, U.S. Marine Corps wheeled vehicles were killing Iraqi T-72 tanks.

  

  Ralph Peters
  • War
  • Marine
  • Marine Corps

• I still love recording and still love the stage, but like my dad, I have the most fun when I am in front of that glorious orchestra or that kick-butt big band.

  

  Natalie Cole
  • Fun
  • Dad
  • Like

• The weapon of suicide bombing is so desperate that you aren't even left with the possibility of taking revenge or punishing anyone; the terrorist is killed along with his victims, his blood mixing with theirs.

  

  A. B. Yehoshua
  • Blood
  • Suicide
  • Revenge

• As a child, I always liked dressing up and getting into character, and actors are lucky in being able to retain that playfulness, though we do seem to find it hard to grow up.

  

  Felicity Jones
  • Up
  • Character
  • Child

• In the future, I want to have super-fights.

  

  Rafael dos Anjos
  • Future
  • Want

• The novel is about, for me, sustained and organized looking. I do think that people have a hunger for a sustained engagement, that concentration that the book can offer.

  

  Dana Spiotta
  • People
  • Book
  • Hunger

• Books are not like albums, where you can simply download and enjoy your favorite chapter and ignore the rest.

  

  Karin Slaughter
  • Rest
  • Enjoy
  • Ignore

• I go to Malawi twice a year. It's where two of my children were adopted from, and I have a lot of projects there that I go and check up on and children who I look after. It's sort of a commitment that I've made to this country and the hundreds of thousands of children there who have been orphaned by AIDS.

  

  Madonna Breakfast Club
  • Up
  • Country
  • Children

• The first girl you go to bed with is always pretty.

  

  Walter Matthau
  • Pretty
  • You
  • Girl

• People have their own opinions but sometimes with the media things get chopped up and cut around to make stories out of it.

  

  Aaron Carter
  • People
  • Up
  • Media

• I started riding the whole 'fluffy' train, and it's a cute word and socially a lot more acceptable than someone saying is fat or obese. If you call a girl 'fat,' yo, she'll raise hell, but if you say, 'Aw girl, look at you, you're fluffy,' there's almost a sexy appeal to it.

  

  Gabriel Iglesias
  • Girl
  • Sexy
  • Train

• I'm very private in person. I'm very sensitive and shy with men individually. But when I'm talking, maybe there's this other channel or this other side and other way of working in my mind, and I convert and become carefree.

  

  Bai Ling
  • Men
  • Mind
  • Working

• I am interested in the way that we look at a given landscape and take possession of it in our blood and brain. None of us lives apart from the land entirely; such an isolation is unimaginable.

  

  N. Scott Momaday
  • Land
  • Landscape
  • Isolation

• The classic, 'Romeo and Juliet,' for me, is the iconic story of young love.

  

  Sam Heughan
  • Love
  • Story
  • Young

• Oh God, my choice of film has never depended on the hero. In fact, you will see that some of my categorical mistakes had nothing to do with the hero in it.

  

  Kajol
  • God
  • Hero
  • Mistakes

• Wrestling in Japan, obviously, the fans are a little bit different - very quiet, very respectful in New Japan - but here in the WWE, these fans are going nuts.

  

  A.J. Styles
  • Different
  • Wrestling
  • Quiet

• I've eaten ice cream from all over the world, but until you've tasted Graham's from Geneva, Illinois, you haven't had ice cream at all.

  

  Irvine Welsh
  • World
  • Ice
  • Ice Cream

• Let us preach you, Dear Jesus, without preaching.... not by words but by our example.

  

  Mother Teresa
  • Example
  • Preach

• I have fans, and I have family that love me, and I have my music, and I have my breath going in and out.

  

  R. Kelly
  • Music
  • Family
  • Love

• Love is, without a doubt, the basis of everything.

  

  Eben Alexander
  • Love
  • Doubt
  • For Her

• I have no problem with people eating meat. I would just like it, for the people who do eat meat, for the animals to be treated better. To be treated humanely. Cows in pastures living the life that they're supposed to live. I have no problem with that.

  

  Daniel Bryan
  • People
  • Life
  • Live

• Life is a magic vase filled to the brim, so made that you cannot dip from it nor draw from it; but it overflows into the hand that drops treasures into it. Drop in malice and it overflows hate; drop in charity and it overflows love.

  

  John Ruskin
  • Love
  • Magic
  • Life is