John Ruskin Quotes

One can't be angry when one looks at a penguin.

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• If there was no Black Sabbath, I could still possibly be a morning newspaper delivery boy. No fun.

  

  Lars Ulrich Metallica
  • Fun
  • Black
  • Morning

• I stop working at about 3 p.m. on Fridays.

  

  Patricia Cornwell
  • Stop
  • Working
  • About

• It was a big-time change, coming off the bench.

  

  Zach LaVine
  • Time
  • Change
  • Coming

• Lots of people want to ride with you in the limo, but what you want is someone who will take the bus with you when the limo breaks down.

  

  Oprah Winfrey
  • People
  • Friendship
  • Ride

• I should not proceed by land to the East, as is customary, but by a Westerly route, in which direction we have hitherto no certain evidence that any one has gone.

  

  Christopher Columbus

• 'How long have we been friends, Dan?''I wouldn’t exactly call it friendship; more a kind of mutual parasitism.'

  

  Alastair Reynolds
  • Long
  • Friends
  • Friendship

• Comedy lives on in the web and TV, but nobody's pressing comedy albums anymore.

  

  Jason Alexander
  • Comedy

• There are two perspectives on the oil sands. You have companies that want to make it the next Saudi Arabia. The other is that it's a transitional resource to a low-carbon economy, and to regard it as anything else is to drain the continent's financial resources.

  

  Andrew Nikiforuk
  • Financial

• I appreciate people who are authentic. Someone who just wants to be cool, I can tell when their intentions aren't right.

  

  Diplo
  • People
  • Cool

• I seriously love Cleveland. It's a great city.

  

  Brendon Urie Panic! at the Disco
  • Great
  • City

• I've completed half of my space training at Space City in Moscow. I love adventure, and I've been training in a centrifuge and MiG Fighter with a view to going into space and being a spokesman for space exploration!

  

  Brian Blessed
  • City
  • Space
  • Training

• When I'm very motivated, and when I have to compete, I change a little bit; I become very competitive.

  

  Ana Ivanovic
  • Motivated

• If you talk to most people under 30, they don't read a newspaper.

  

  Douglas Alexander
  • People

• My dad was a really funny, really talented guy who had a great success in a limited audience. But from him, I learned that he always felt the audience was entitled to 150 per cent. If he was performing at an event, he'd keep playing until the last person had finished dancing.

  

  Joel Grey
  • Great
  • Guy
  • Success

• I grew up three and a half hours outside of Chicago, but people would call me a 'hick' or 'country boy.' Maybe it's because I talked with more of a country accent.

  

  Brett Eldredge
  • People
  • Up
  • Country

• Why do something that's already been done?

  

  Brian Azzarello
  • Done
  • Why

• We believe in cures; we're a quick-fix country, and we drive forward, and we eat up what we have extremely fast in terms of natural resources and also ideas and intellectual property. We're kind of wilfully stupid a lot of the time, anti-intellectual.

  

  David Means
  • Up
  • Time
  • Believe

• I had to learn how to trust my gut. Trust what I know to be right... not right, but not waver on who I am. Know who I am, know what I want, and know it. Not waver on it and be secure in that. And I still struggle with it. But I really... I can't be moved. You can't move me, and that all comes with loving myself, and I'm like my best buddy.

  

  Mary J. Blige
  • Trust
  • Struggle

• To the factory farmer, in contrast to the traditional farmer with his sense of honor and obligation, the animals are 'production units,' and accorded all the sympathy that term suggests.

  

  Matthew Scully
  • Honor
  • Sympathy
  • Farmer

• It got so ridiculous that I was like, there's no way this is going to last.

  

  Philip J. Kaplan

• There must, whether the gods see it or not, be something great in the mortal soul. For suffering, it seems, is infinite, and our capacity without limit.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • Great
  • Soul
  • Suffering

• The best aspects of every vampire, with all of their gifts, what makes them really special is just an enhanced version of what they were when they were human.

  

  Kristen Stewart
  • Humans
  • Special
  • Vampire

• To know much and taste nothing-of what use is that?

  

  Bonaventure
  • Knows
  • Use
  • Taste

• One can't be angry when one looks at a penguin.

  

  John Ruskin
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