John Ruskin Quotes

We require from buildings two kinds of goodness: first, the doing their practical duty well: then that they be graceful and pleasing in doing it.

John Ruskin

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• I came from the theater playing leading roles, and when I started doing film and television, I felt as if I had to start from the bottom.

  

  Frances Fisher
  • Doing
  • Start
  • Television

• The secret of happiness is to admire without desiring.

  

  Carl Sandburg
  • Happiness
  • Without
  • Admire

• Our underwear used to just be cotton, but we wanted to see if we could create something out of synthetics.

  

  Tadashi Yanai
  • Create
  • Just
  • Cotton

• When you get to 15 and most of your teachers are priests, there's bound to be a conflict.

  

  Ian Hart
  • You
  • Conflict
  • Teachers

• I get more upset at losing at other things than chess. I always get upset when I lose at Monopoly.

  

  Magnus Carlsen
  • Lose
  • Losing
  • Chess

• Music is universal too. Even deaf people like to dance, love rhythm, and can kind of pick it up.

  

  Rainn Wilson
  • People
  • Up
  • Music

• English is necessary as at present original works of science are in English. I believe that in two decades times original works of science will start coming out in our languages. Then we can move over like the Japanese.

  

  A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
  • Believe
  • Science
  • Present

• Having a baby is a life-changer. It gives you a whole other perspective on why you wake up every day.

  

  Taylor Hanson Hanson
  • Life
  • Up
  • Why

• I've had a good life, full of more success and happiness than I ever expected.

  

  Maeve Binchy
  • Life
  • Good
  • Success

• The wonderful thing about writing for theatre is you can go anywhere you want with the language. There are no limits. With film, they frown on language - it's always 'Too many words.'

  

  Sam Shepard
  • Writing
  • Words
  • Language

• Obviously ,you want to demand the puck; you want to have it as much as you can because you feel like good things can happen when it's on your stick.

  

  Patrick Kane
  • Good
  • Want
  • Good Things

• I regard it as a waste of time to think only of selling: one forgets one's art and exaggerates one's value.

  

  Camille Pissarro
  • Time
  • Art
  • Value

• It is not 'scientism' to concede the objectivity and precision of good science, any more than it is history worship to concede that Napoleon did once rule in France and the Holocaust actually happened. Those who fear the facts will forever try to discredit the fact-finders.

  

  Daniel Dennett
  • Good
  • History
  • Science

• While there are worldly singularities, there are Christian and salutary ones, too; and this singularity by which one is differentiated from the crowd who tread the broad path is what constitutes the straight and narrow path of the Gospels. ... Holy things will never be established or reestablished so long as we have this fear of appearing singular.

  

  Pasquier Quesnel
  • Long
  • Fear
  • Christian

• The light came through the window, Straight from the sun above, And so inside my little room There plunged the rays of Love.In streams of light I clearly saw The dust you seldom see, Out of which the Nameless makes A Name for one like me.

  

  Leonard Cohen
  • Light
  • Sun

• There are two great fundamental problems common to all thought: (i) the problem of world- and life-affirmation and world- and life-negation, and (2) the problem of ethics and the relations between ethics and these two forms of man's spiritual attitude to Being.

  

  Albert Schweitzer
  • Life
  • World
  • Great

• Sí, es necesario padecer, aún en vano, para no vivir en vano.

  

  Antonio Porchia

• It's always very special for me to work Chicago. Both of the record companies I was with, early on, were based in Chicago. The music was always huge there.

  

  Frankie Valli Frankie Valli & The Four Seasons
  • Work
  • Music
  • Chicago

• My father was a singer. So it just kind of happened that one Sunday while my dad was singing, I just walked out and stood next to him, and I started singing the song that he was leading, and I sang it in perfect pitch.

  

  Marvin Sapp
  • Father
  • Song
  • Dad

• I had a pretty bad time when I was an undergraduate at Cornell University. I failed out of school. I was much, much heavier.

  

  Victor LaValle
  • Time
  • School
  • Bad

• By increasing productivity and becoming more competitive, we will be able to offer better opportunities and improve the standard of living for all Mexicans.

  

  Enrique Pena Nieto
  • Productivity

• In 1984, when I was a rookie member of the House, there was a bill introduced to make Martin Luther King's birthday a state holiday. It didn't have a chance. As time passed, though, more and more states adopted the holiday. Finally, after about five years, we passed it and, I think, almost unanimously. As I said, change is slow and hard.

  

  John Grisham
  • Time
  • House
  • King

• We require from buildings two kinds of goodness: first, the doing their practical duty well: then that they be graceful and pleasing in doing it.

  

  John Ruskin