John Ruskin Quotes

It is far more difficult to be simple than to be complicated; far more difficult to sacrifice skill and easy execution in the proper place, than to expand both indiscriminately.

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• Often, a serial killer has no felony record.

  

  Pat Brown
  • Record
  • Often
  • Killer

• The last album, 'Falling Faster Than You Can Run.' I was really proud of, but then I didn't actually know whether it was going to come out on any label at all. So I didn't know if anyone was going to hear it. Then of course we ended up doing another EP after that called 'Closer.'

  

  Nathaniel Rateliff
  • Up
  • Know
  • Proud

• I wouldn't compare myself to any past Idol contestant, because I don't feel like I am like any of them. Maybe stories are cool but my story is different from most people's story. I don't like to compare myself to other people, I like to just be me.

  

  Naima Adedapo
  • People
  • Different
  • Past

• But now that I'm a blonde, guys are so blatant about coming on to me.

  

  Laura Prepon
  • Me
  • Now
  • Blonde

• No ideas and the ability to express them - that's a journalist.

  

  Karl Kraus
  • Ideas
  • Communication

• For the record, I have long suspected that my favorite book is actually 'Charlotte's Web.'

  

  Gabrielle Zevin
  • Long
  • Book
  • Favorite

• Love doesn't just sit there, like a stone; it has to be made, like bread, remade all the time, made new.

  

  Ursula K. Le Guin
  • Time
  • Love
  • Made

• I don't think we should do anything that should make the people hate the American people more.

  

  Ziggy Marley
  • People
  • American
  • Think

• Everyone thought I was going to die like a year later, they didn't know. So I helped educate sports, and then the world, that a man living with HIV can play basketball. He's not going to give it to anybody by playing basketball.

  

  Magic Johnson
  • World
  • Man
  • Die

• The polls and the pundits and the media seem to talk to each other. It's sort of like an echo chamber.

  

  Larry Hogan
  • Like
  • Media
  • Talk

• I'm not one icon. I'm every icon. I'm an icon that is made out of all the colors on the palette at every time. I have no restrictions. No restrictions.

  

  Lady Gaga
  • Time
  • Colors
  • Icon

• I don't like movies about serial killers, necessarily; it's too real and unpleasant for me.

  

  Sam Raimi
  • Me
  • Movies
  • Necessarily

• I train as hard as I can every time I train and I do extra training every day and I've done that since I was a young boy.

  

  Wayne Rooney
  • Time
  • Done
  • Day

• I like to think I'll just be walking down the street one day and stop and meet someone, like, 'Oh my God, you're awesome,' and then we start dating.

  

  Laura Prepon
  • God
  • Stop
  • Day

• The Mavericks and I have mutually agreed that it's in the best interest of both parties for me to step away from the team.

  

  Lamar Odom
  • Team
  • Best
  • Step

• If I go to a baseball game, I hear 'Shoeless Joe,' but otherwise, I hear 'toe pick' five times a day. No matter how many more movies I make, that'll be on my gravestone.

  

  D. B. Sweeney
  • Game
  • Day
  • Baseball

• I'm gonna stay an album guy. In fact, concept albums are really blowing my mind right now, because if you want to promote an album, think about it - a concept album might be the way to go.

  

  Garth Brooks
  • Mind
  • Think
  • Guy

• Painting is self-discovery. Every good artist paints what he is.

  

  Jackson Pollock
  • Good
  • Art
  • Painting

• Little known fact about me...do you know the first words I ever spoke were Bobby Orr ...thanks to my hockey fanatic grandfather saying his name over and over and over to me until I eventually repeated it.

  

  Ken Casey
  • Name
  • Grandfather
  • Repeat

• What is one man's and one woman's love and desire, against the history of two worlds, the greatest revolution of our lifetimes, the hope, the unending cruelty of our species? A little thing. But a key is a little thing, next to the door it opens.

  

  Ursula K. Le Guin
  • History
  • Hope
  • Desire

• We have less civil liberties than we had on 9/ 1 1 in some significant ways. But we are also, I believe, less safe as a result in many instances of the sacrifice in human rights, civil liberties, and the rule of law that (the Bush) administration has adopted.

  

  David D. Cole
  • Believe
  • Sacrifice
  • Rights

• Temperamentally I'm not a natural producer, because I don't have the patience.

  

  Damian Lewis
  • Patience
  • Natural
  • Producer

• Love is the oxygen of the soul.

  

  Anthony Robbins
  • Love
  • Soul
  • For Her

• It is far more difficult to be simple than to be complicated; far more difficult to sacrifice skill and easy execution in the proper place, than to expand both indiscriminately.

  

  John Ruskin
  • Simple
  • Sacrifice