John Ruskin Quotes

Nature is always mysterious and secret in her use of means; and art is always likest her when it is most inexplicable.

John Ruskin

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• Knitting not only relaxes me, it also brings a feeling of being at home.

  

  Magdalena Neuner
  • Home
  • Feeling
  • Me

• Me and my dad are kind of distant since my mom and him separated.

  

  Gabby Douglas
  • Me
  • Dad
  • Kind

• German writers in the late 18th century were the first to uphold a prickly, literary nationalism, in reaction to the then dominance and prestige of French literature.

  

  Pankaj Mishra
  • Literature
  • First
  • German

• Authority has to exist before it can be limited, and it is authority that is in scarce supply in those modernizing countries where government is at the mercy of alienated intellectuals, rambunctious colonels, and rioting students.

  

  Ferdinand Marcos
  • Government
  • Students
  • Mercy

• Since belief determines behavior, doesn't it make sense that we should be teaching ethical, moral values in every home and in every school in America?

  

  Zig Ziglar
  • School
  • Home
  • America

• I went to my mum at about seven or eight and said I want to start acting, but the week before, I had said I wanted to do ballet. She said if I took acting classes for a full year, she would look further into it, and that's how it started.

  

  Hailee Steinfeld
  • She
  • Start
  • Year

• I'm very much against war; I'm very much against terrorism of any kind. I find terrorism to be one of the most appalling things that can exist in society.

  

  Gary Sherman
  • War
  • Society
  • Terrorism

• I am permanently relaxed.

  

  Daniel Barenboim
  • Relaxed

• I would love to be an amazing singer. I take voice lessons. It's good to have as a dancer - to be able to sing and act, too, because for a Broadway show or musical, you have to be able to do everything.

  

  Maddie Ziegler
  • Amazing
  • Voice
  • Act

• If all difficulties were known at the outset of a long journey, most of us would never start out at all.

  

  Dan Rather
  • Long
  • Travel
  • Journey

• Performance art can involve the audience with taste, smell and sounds not available with electronic media and not practical with conventional theater. This is due to the usually small audience.

  

  Jack Bowman
  • Art
  • Small
  • Media

• And for whatever reason I've loved the news since I can remember. I loved it when I was in elementary school.

  

  Dan Rather
  • School
  • Remember
  • Loved

• I am very aware that playwrights, particularly good ones, have a intention for everything they write. Language and punctuation is used specifically, and most of the time actors can find wonderful clues about character in the rhythm and cadence of the language used.

  

  Laura Linney
  • Time
  • Good
  • Character

• The 19th century became the age of the museum. Objects were scrambled for, specimens seized, and friezes and antiques grasped.

  

  Kate Williams
  • Age
  • Museum
  • 19th-Century

• I think there's a part of my brain where food, language, and memory all intersect, and it's really powerful. I think I'm not alone in this.

  

  Kate Christensen
  • Food
  • Alone
  • Powerful

• My 2005 calendar we actually did a shoot in Lake Las Vegas. Since I had requests do some swimwear and athletic shots we tried them and they came out good so we inserted them into the new calendar.

  

  Natalie Gulbis
  • Good
  • Vegas
  • Lake

• Descobri que a leitura é uma forma servil de sonhar. Se tenho de sonhar, porque não sonhar os meus próprios sonhos?

  

  Fernando Pessoa

• You are not responsible for anyone who stubbornly chooses to ruin his own life.

  

  Vernon Howard
  • Life

• If we choose the easy way, by letting another think for us, we must eventually tread the hard way. If we select the hard way, by insisting upon our own mental integrity, we eventually come to the easy way.

  

  Vernon Howard
  • Integrity

• Nobody likes to make a hard decision, because you're running every two years.

  

  Blake Farenthold
  • Running
  • Decision

• Liberty is on the march, and this year promises to be a great year in European history. Our Government is blind enough, and the Parliamentary majorities are more regarded than opinion out of doors. We must have another League of some kind, and our aristocracy must be made to submit again.

  

  John Bright
  • Great
  • History
  • Opinion

• It is what makes the reform process an art, not just a science. You have to develop a strategy that tells you what reform measures you should follow and in what sequence.

  

  Vaclav Klaus
  • Art
  • Science
  • Strategy

• Beauty plus pity-that is the closest we can get to a definition of art. Where there is beauty there is pity for the simple reason that beauty must die: beauty always dies, the manner dies with the matter, the world dies with the individual.

  

  Vladimir Nabokov
  • World
  • Art
  • Simple

• Nature is always mysterious and secret in her use of means; and art is always likest her when it is most inexplicable.

  

  John Ruskin
  • Art
  • Nature
  • Use