John Ruskin Quotes

The infinity of God is not mysterious, it is only unfathomable; not concealed, but incomprehensible; it is a clear infinity, the darkness of the pure unsearchable sea.

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• If someone is sad, they put on a song, or if someone wants to rock out, and they want to get into a good mood, they put on music. Just being able to be a part of something like that I feel like was my ultimate push to do music.

  

  Adam Hicks
  • Good
  • Music
  • Song

• Men move through a much different process before commitment than women do.

  

  Warren Farrell
  • Men
  • Different
  • Women

• In the north we could not hope to keep the worst and poorest servant for a single day in the wretched discomfort in which our negro servants are forced habitually to live.

  

  Fanny Kemble
  • Live
  • Hope
  • Single

• The greatest mathematicians, as Archimedes, Newton, and Gauss, always united theory and applications in equal measure.

  

  Felix Klein
  • Always
  • Greatest
  • Equal

• Marrakech in May is unseasonably tagine-hot.

  

  Hamish Bowles
  • May

• I've never been that guy who says, 'Ooh, I have to play King Lear'. First off, that'd be a disaster anyway. I tend to read something and see who's involved, and then know I want to be part of it. But I don't think I'm through with comedy. I still love to make people laugh.

  

  Ted Danson
  • People
  • Love
  • Guy

• When the audience enjoys your performance, you feel like a magician who is doing magic. It's a great feeling!

  

  Kailash Kher
  • Great
  • Feeling
  • Magic

• Speaking as somebody with three sisters and a very largely female Muslim family, there is not a single woman I know in my family or in their friends who would have accepted the wearing of a veil.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • Family
  • Friends
  • Single

• Versace designs have always been bootlegged. Now it's Versace bootlegging the bootleg for the bootleggers to bootleg the bootleg.

  

  M.I.A.
  • Always
  • Now
  • Been

• I was very innocent and shielded as a child, so I didn't know a lot about music or dancing. When I was in Primary Six, no one would participate in a talent show, so I decided to go on. When the audience applauded me, I felt euphoric, and I started dancing right after that!

  

  Rain
  • Music
  • Child
  • Talent

• Network TV is such a difficult, competitive landscape.

  

  Ed Weeks
  • Difficult
  • Landscape
  • TV

• The 'ideal' body is everywhere you look, and we are made to feel like failures by advertisers and corporations who shame us into buying their products.

  

  Caitlin Stasey
  • Feel
  • Body
  • Look

• I would define the poetic effect as the capacity that a text displays for continuing to generate different readings, without ever being completely consumed.

  

  Umberto Eco
  • Different
  • Text
  • Define

• If my mom reads that I'm grammatically incorrect I'll have hell to pay.

  

  Larisa Oleynik
  • Mom
  • Hell
  • Pay

• You can tell when people think they're a little bit special, and it's quite fun to laugh at them, and I think it's good to laugh at them, because then you can deflate their egos a bit.

  

  Hannah Murray
  • People
  • Good
  • Fun

• I think every country has to recognize its competitive advantage and liberate its strengths to be a partner in global trade, and that's the only way you can survive and succeed.

  

  N. R. Narayana Murthy
  • Country
  • Think
  • Partner

• The Arab Awakening or Arab Spring has transformed the geopolitical landscape.

  

  Ban Ki-moon
  • Spring
  • Landscape
  • Awakening

• Tennis Australia really led the charge as far as upping the prize money and trying to do the right thing by the players. They also led the way so women have equal prize money in all the grand slams too.

  

  Samantha Stosur
  • Women
  • Trying
  • Money

• I've always coached energy, hustling, rushing to the pile, and if it is wiggling, you do hit it because guys are fighting for yardage, and sometimes, you've got to give up the ball because of one inch.

  

  Jon Gruden
  • Up
  • Energy
  • Fighting

• Boys, don't try to find a woman as wonderful as your mother to marry because if you do, you'll stay single your whole lives.

  

  Anthony Perkins
  • Mother
  • Single
  • Woman

• Christianity is being concerned about [others], not building a million-dollar church while people are starving right around the corner. Christ was a revolutionary person, out there where it was happening. That's what God is all about, and that's where I get my strength.

  

  Fannie Lou Hamer
  • People
  • God
  • Church

• Our aim as scientists is objective truth; more truth, more interesting truth, more intelligible truth. We cannot reasonably aim at certainty. Once we realize that human knowledge is fallible, we realize also that we can never be completely certain that we have not made a mistake.

  

  Karl Popper
  • Truth
  • Interesting
  • Knowledge

• You're the best athlete I've seen in high school.

  

  J. M. Roberts
  • School
  • High
  • Athlete

• The infinity of God is not mysterious, it is only unfathomable; not concealed, but incomprehensible; it is a clear infinity, the darkness of the pure unsearchable sea.

  

  John Ruskin
  • God
  • Sea
  • Mysterious