John Ruskin Quotes

Science is the knowledge of constant things, not merely of passing events, and is properly less the knowledge of general laws than of existing facts.

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• I'm not sure if being known opened or closed doors for me.

  

  Adam Goldberg
  • Me
  • Known
  • Sure

• I do all of my good thinking at over 65 miles per hour. The speed limit is, luckily, the same speed as my brainstorming speed.

  

  Maggie Stiefvater
  • Good
  • Thinking
  • Same

• Whether or not we establish freedom rests with ourselves.

  

  Florence Ellinwood Allen
  • Freedom
  • Whether
  • Rests

• Everything begins with an idea.

  

  Earl Nightingale
  • Idea
  • Everything
  • Begins

• I read in the paper that I'd slashed my wrists. But I didn't.

  

  Gail Porter
  • Read
  • Paper

• Sometimes I can be misunderstood. I'm really competitive.

  

  Ed Belfour
  • Sometimes
  • Competitive

• All I ever wanted to do was play competitive golf against the best players in the world.

  

  Jack Nicklaus
  • World
  • Best
  • Golf

• I am sure it does not hurt that Mitt Romney is my dad. I'm sure it's opened a lot of doors for me. But I think I've been pretty effective once I've gotten through the door at doing a pretty good job.

  

  Tagg Romney
  • Job
  • Dad
  • Effective

• I'm almost completely without family and it's a very odd feeling in life. I have no children.

  

  Walter Mosley
  • Life
  • Children
  • Family

• Mental life is indeed practical through and through. It begins in practice and it ends in practice.

  

  Samuel Alexander
  • Life
  • Practice
  • Mental

• Before going on 'X Factor' again, I felt like I'd tried everything else.

  

  Fleur East
  • Like
  • Everything
  • Before

• I think it is widely agreed that Carl Steinitz, over the 50 years he taught at Harvard, has been one of the most important figures in influencing the theory and practice of landscape architecture and the application of computer technology to planning.

  

  Jack Dangermond
  • Important
  • Technology
  • Practice

• The analysis of the thing is not the thing itself.

  

  Aaron Allston
  • Thing
  • Analysis
  • Itself

• For me, it's really day to day. I don't really plan ahead and I like to be excited about what I'm wearing. Being on the road all the time, it's various articles of clothing that keep me inspired and feeling good. A fun or beautiful thing to wear can change your day. I think spontaneity and not adhering to any narrow styles keep me happy.

  

  Victoria Legrand Beach House
  • Time
  • Good
  • Happy

• Some people can sing, and they can sing sing, but Brandy can not only sing sing, but she has a voice and a tone that is unlike any other.

  

  Babyface
  • People
  • She
  • Voice

• I don't think anyone who has been to Africa comes away untouched by the place. You see a lot of beauty and optimism, but you also come away with an awareness of the huge gulf between what most of us have and what most of them have to make do with. Then, every now and then, a famine or a war makes everything a hundred times worse.

  

  Gary Frank
  • War
  • Beauty
  • Optimism

• In Mexico, theater is very underground, so if you're a theater actor it's very difficult to make a living. But it's also a very beautiful pathway to knowledge and to an open education.

  

  Gael Garcia Bernal
  • Beautiful
  • Knowledge
  • Education

• When I was outed on July 14th, 2003, I was, until that moment, covert. That means no one outside of a very small circle knew where I really worked.

  

  Valerie Plame
  • Small
  • Moment
  • Circle

• I have built my reputation on honesty, I have sometimes been too honest.

  

  David Blunkett
  • Honesty

• I do indeed disbelieve that we or any other mortal men can attain on a given day to absolutely incorrigible and unimprovable truth about such matters of fact as those with which religions deal. But I reject this dogmatic ideal not out of a perverse delight in intellectual instability. I am no lover of disorder and doubt as such. Rather do I fear to lose truth by this pretension to possess it already wholly.

  

  William James
  • Men
  • Doubt
  • Intellectual

• Our heroes are fighting to bring stability to the Middle East, and they have put pressure on all of the tyrannies of the Middle East. They have taken a stand against tyranny, against terrorists, and for the prospect of decent societies throughout that region.

  

  Orrin Hatch
  • Taken
  • Fighting
  • Pressure

• I'm lucky to have worked with all the people that I have, and I really love what I do, and that is very important, too.

  

  Emily Alyn Lind
  • People
  • Important

• Color! What a deep and mysterious language, the language of dreams.

  

  Paul Gauguin
  • Dream
  • Language
  • Color

• Science is the knowledge of constant things, not merely of passing events, and is properly less the knowledge of general laws than of existing facts.

  

  John Ruskin
  • Science
  • Knowledge
  • Laws