John Ruskin Quotes

It is excellent discipline for an author to feel that he must say all he has to say in the fewest possible words, or his reader is sure to skip them; and in the plainest possible words, or his reader will certainly misunderstand them. Generally, also, a downright fact may be told in a plain way; and we want downright facts at present more than anything else.

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• A horse never runs so fast as when he has other horses to catch up and outpace.

  

  Ovid
  • Up
  • Never
  • Horse

• When I was in school, you could pick any instrument you want, and they'd teach you how to play it. That changed my life. I loved playing music in school, and it sent me on my path as a musician.

  

  Flea Jane's Addiction
  • Life
  • Music
  • School

• I shall have a beautiful dream tonight. I also wish everyone to have a beautiful dream.

  

  Yani Tseng
  • Beautiful
  • Dream
  • Wish

• It is not from ourselves that we learn to be better than we are.

  

  Wendell Berry
  • Learn
  • Better
  • Than

• You can't be perfect. You can't be the perfect father. You can't be the perfect singer.

  

  Eddie Vedder Pearl Jam
  • Father
  • You
  • Perfect

• Imagination grows by exercise, and contrary to common belief, is more powerful in the mature than in the young.

  

  W. Somerset Maugham
  • Powerful
  • Imagination
  • Exercise

• I never had one beer. If I bought a six-pack of beer, I kept drinking till all six beers were gone. You have to have that kind of understanding about yourself. I haven't had a drink now in 12 years.

  

  Samuel L. Jackson
  • Kind
  • Understanding
  • Yourself

• When I am going out, I am in ponytail, jeans, tees. I am just like any girl-next-door. Beauty is not external; it's internal. When you are a happy soul, you would be beautiful any time.

  

  Rakul Preet Singh
  • Time
  • Happy
  • Soul

• You know, when I did 'American Idol' the three times, I tried to tell these kids you have to tell the story of the lyric.

  

  Barry Manilow
  • Kids
  • American
  • You

• There is no absolute point of view from which real and ideal can be finally separated and labelled.

  

  T. S. Eliot
  • Real
  • View
  • Point Of View

• The other teams could make trouble for us if they win.

  

  Yogi Berra
  • Win
  • Trouble
  • Other

• Establishing an equilibrium between the Islam of truth and Islam as an identity is one of the most difficult tasks of religious intellectuals.

  

  Abdolkarim Soroush
  • Truth
  • Religious
  • Identity

• It kind of varies according to what I'm doing and what my situation is, but, most of the time, I have no idea what I'm doing until the day of.

  

  Mackenzie Foy
  • Time
  • Day
  • Doing

• 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

• DJs play a big responsibility of what hip-hop is doing... At the end of the day, it's up to us to control and to own hip-hop. DJs need to challenge us rappers. They got so much power, they need to challenge us.

  

  Nas
  • Up
  • Power
  • Control

• Even the distribution of rations leaves much to be desired; the fatigue party, well-intentioned and sympathetic though it be, often finds itself short of provisions.

  

  Patrick MacGill
  • Party
  • Short
  • Often

• We needed time off from each other after our last tour because there was a lot of personal stuff we had to take care of. Eddie needed hip replacement surgery. Al needed his back worked on. And I was going to have a baby.

  

  Sammy Hagar Chickenfoot
  • Time
  • Care
  • Baby

• As far as I'm concerned, love means fighting, big fat lies, and a couple of slaps across the face.

  

  Edith Piaf
  • Love
  • Fighting
  • Lies

• I will never be unemployed.

  

  Dave Ramsey

• I, personally, have a lot of energy, so I don't see it as an immediate problem.

  

  Mick Jagger The Rolling Stones
  • Energy
  • Problem
  • See

• When I went to school, it was really just to immerse myself in listening to, studying, and making music.

  

  Dan Deacon
  • Music
  • School
  • Myself

• It is excellent discipline for an author to feel that he must say all he has to say in the fewest possible words, or his reader is sure to skip them; and in the plainest possible words, or his reader will certainly misunderstand them. Generally, also, a downright fact may be told in a plain way; and we want downright facts at present more than anything else.

  

  John Ruskin
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