John Ruskin Quotes
Quotes to Explore
-
We all know now that people can look good for their age. It isn't so extraordinary, I don't know why people go on about it so much.
-
My readers at that time were still men of letters; but there had to be other people waiting to read my poems.
-
There are no regions in the world as reciprocally integrated as Latin America and the Caribbean, and Europe.
-
Maui reminded me of San Diego: beautiful, but crowded.
-
We should not pretend to understand the world only by the intellect. The judgement of the intellect is only part of the truth.
-
Pretty much anybody who's ever worked can relate to our show.
-
Regardless of how good or bad a collection might be, it's a letdown after the show is over. It's done. Something you've worked on for months is just over.
-
Few Westerners know Iran as well as Robin Wright: her first trip there as a journalist was in 1973, and she has covered every important milestone since, from the Islamic revolution and the hostage crisis to the more recent staring contest with the West over Tehran's nuclear program.
-
Travel is one of the best anti-war weapons that there are. I've been to Iran, and if you're there you see little kids, cops, old people, cemeteries. Once you see that, you can't say, 'Oh, Iran, let's bomb them.'
-
For me the visual is just as important as the music. I would never record without my red lipstick. It was my way of getting into character, sort of like Method singing.
-
The only unnatural sex act is that which you cannot perform.
-
Once you clarify your purpose for doing something, the way to do it becomes clear.
-
The generality of men are naturally apt to be swayed by fear rather than reverence, and to refrain from evil rather because of the punishment that it brings than because of its own foulness.
-
The ancients said: Hulk to be whole.
-
There is no photograph more inherently photographic than another.
-
When I was younger, I never wanted to rehearse because I thought that someone would figure out I don't know what I'm doing.
-
Would you be in any way offended if I said that you seem to me to be in every way the visible personification of absolute perfection?
-
You take unacceptable risk, you have to be prepared to face the consequence.
