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

• 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'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

• 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

• It's not always about gold medals, I think. It has to be about development, and we are missing that in U.K. at the moment.

  

  Lizzie Armitstead
  • Gold
  • Missing

• Only if you aspire for more will you achieve more.

  

  Chanda Kochhar

• I have to have a daily, vibrant relationship with Jesus in order to survive that process toward healing.

  

  Beth Moore
  • Relationship
  • Jesus
  • Daily

• I know no man who feels deeper disgust than I do at the ambition, avarice, and profligacy of the priesthood, as well because every one of these vices is odious in itself, as because each of them separately and all of them together are utterly abhorrent in men making profession of a life dedicated to God.

  

  Francesco Guicciardini
  • Life
  • God
  • Men

• I was an angry, angry child at times.

  

  Orlando Bloom
  • Child
  • Angry
  • Times

• So how come it looks so beautiful? How come the moon falls from the sky?

  

  Thomas Edward Yorke Atoms for Peace
  • Beautiful
  • Fall
  • Looks

• My answer to someone who is in contrast with me - by not seeing God in the scientific data - is that you don't see God in the scientific data because you're not me. I have other experiences than you have, that bring me to look at this data as enriching my experience of God.

  

  George Coyne
  • Looks
  • Answers
  • Seeing

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

  

  John Ruskin
  • Looks
  • Angry
  • Penguin