John Ruskin Quotes

At every moment of our lives we should be trying to find out, not in what we differ with other people, but in what we agree with them.

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• When it looks like I may live longer than five minutes I'll drop cigarettes like a hot potato.

  

  Patrick Swayze
  • Live
  • May
  • Like

• I want to be able to make people laugh and cry and feel happy or sad and feel all these different emotions through singing and acting. Hopefully throughout my career, I'll get to pursue them.

  

  Olivia Holt
  • People
  • Different
  • Happy

• Plays by people like Martin McDonagh and Brian Friel attract huge audiences, not because they're Irish, but because they're brilliant plays.

  

  Garry Hynes
  • People
  • Like
  • Irish

• Broccoli gets such a bad rap. This is perplexing to those of us who love that green, treelike, stalky vegetable.

  

  Kate Christensen
  • Love
  • Bad
  • Green

• At the end, it's your movie and your performance that stands out. So if I am a good actor, and if am being part of good entertaining engaging films, audiences will like me.

  

  Ranbir Kapoor
  • Good
  • Movie
  • End

• What we see today is an American economy that has boomed because of policies and developments of the 1950s and '60s: the interstate-highway system, massive funding for science and technology, a public-education system that was the envy of the world and generous immigration policies.

  

  Fareed Zakaria
  • World
  • American
  • Today

• The movie I've watched a million times is 'A Face in the Crowd,' directed by Elia Kazan, starring Andy Griffith and Patricia Neal. I first saw this movie, I guess I was in my early 20s. I'd never heard of it, and somebody told me about it, and I watched it and was just completely jaw-droppingly shocked at how current it was.

  

  Callie Khouri
  • Movie
  • Me
  • Never

• I bought an island in 1987. It's in one of the lakes in Canada. I went around it in my boat and went to the real estate office and bought it. It's the best $65,000 I've ever spent. My family camp on it and we have great times there.

  

  Dan Aykroyd
  • Great
  • Real
  • Family

• A lot of people have culturally induced ethical blindness, but they can be cured!

  

  Ingrid Newkirk
  • People
  • Ethical
  • Blindness

• As beautiful as simplicity is, it can become a tradition that stands in the way of exploration.

  

  Laura Nyro
  • Beautiful
  • Simplicity

• Faces that have charmed us the most escape us the soonest.

  

  Walter Scott
  • Beauty
  • Escape
  • Charmed

• There shall be no love lost.

  

  Ben Jonson
  • Lost

• I do not own an inch of land, But all I see is mine, - The orchard and the mowing fields, The lawns and gardens fine.

  

  Lucy Larcom

• Perfect love is rare indeed - for to be a lover will require that you continually have the subtlety of the very wise, the flexibility of the child, the sensitivity of the artist, the understanding of the philosopher, the acceptance of the saint, the tolerance of the scholar and the fortitude of the certain.

  

  Leo Buscaglia
  • Perfect
  • Understanding
  • Wise

• How could you have a soccer team if all were goalkeepers? How would it be an orchestra if all were French horns?

  

  Desmond Tutu
  • Team
  • Soccer

• Having grown up so familiar with creating a pleasing facade, I now end up compelled to reveal things inside and say, 'Okay, now you really see me. Do you still love me?' And then it's never enough; it always has to be total self-revelation.

  

  Kathryn Harrison
  • Up

• You're stuck with being yourself, so the important thing is to find people who like that.

  

  Andrew Davies
  • People
  • Important

• Elvis is symbolic of a lot of things, dreams coming true being one of them.

  

  Elizabeth Berg
  • True

• If you live in a place that you perceive to be a crowded place, you appreciate government; you see it as this thing that protects you against crime, that keeps order, that makes sure that nobody puts a massage parlor next to your house, that keeps other people's dogs from pooping on the sidewalk.

  

  Gail Collins
  • People
  • Live
  • House

• I like attractive people who aren't so terribly aware that they are attractive... people who aren't afraid to roll on the floor and make fools out of themselves.

  

  Bob Fosse
  • People

• You name it, I'm interested in a lot of things.

  

  Chris Hughes

• When it comes down to music, I have no balance. I am 100 percent. It is like full throttle. Five hundred miles an hour.

  

  Yiannis Chryssomallis
  • Music
  • Balance

• Be who you are, and go the whole way.

  

  Lao Tzu
  • Way
  • Being

• At every moment of our lives we should be trying to find out, not in what we differ with other people, but in what we agree with them.

  

  John Ruskin
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