John Ruskin Quotes
But whether thus submissively or not, at least be sure that you go to the author to get at his meaning, not to find yours.
Quotes to Explore
-
If we don't have God in our life, we're considered dead.
-
My view is that innovation has declined in the everyday processes that businesses tinker with incrementally as they try to become more productive over time.
-
Too many executives I've met over the years have the mentality of a bodybuilder; they've come to accept the idea that growth is synonymous with success.
-
If you go back and watch 'The French Connection,' it's been cannibalized so many times. There are certain movies like that, where you see the original and think, 'This isn't so great.' And the reason it isn't so great is because everyone has copied it.
-
I don't like controversy.
-
When you're 21, you think, 'Oh God, when I'm 36, oh God, that's nearly 40 and I'll look really old and wrinkly by then.' And actually, I quite like the way I look.
-
The death of a beautiful woman, is unquestionably the most poetical topic in the world.
-
I'm obsessed with 'Scandal.' I love, love, love it. I've gotten to meet all of the cast at this point, and they're all so, so nice.
-
I've never rejected the world I came from. To be rejected by it is horrible.
-
I hope that tomorrow we can all, wherever we are, join in expressing our grief at Diana's loss, and gratitude for her all-too-short life. It is a chance to show to the whole world the British nation united in grief and respect.
-
Leadership comes in small acts as well as bold strokes.
-
God, I can push the grass apart and lay my finger on Thy heart.
-
Actors are just soldiers who follow commands.
-
Jazz is the only music in which the same note can be played night after night but differently each time.
-
If a strong government finds that it can, with impunity, destroy a weak people, then the hour has struck for that weak people to appeal to the League of Nations to give its judgment in all freedom. God and history will remember your judgment.
-
'Runaround Sue' was a big record for me, as well as the music video for it.
-
I just had to find something else to fulfill me. Always being a singer and writing, it was a blessing. My brother started making music that was the kind of music I always saw myself singing.
-
In Washington, the translation of E Pluribus Unum has been lost. The belief that we are one nation - united in purpose - caring about and for one another is no longer the practice.
-
Only one marriage I regret. I remember after I got that marriage license I went across from the license bureau to a bar for a drink. The bartender said, "What will you have, sir?" And I said, "A glass of hemlock."
-
I learned that despite having years and years of experience in math and computer science and so on, I didn't really know how to code until I formed a company.
-
Ask Jeeves! Who ever used that thing? College freshmen to find out who Goethe was - that's it.
-
I think it's good if a song has more than one meaning. Maybe that kind of song can reach far more people.
-
It is sometimes fun when you party and listen to those fun songs but they don't have a lot of meaning behind them.
-
But whether thus submissively or not, at least be sure that you go to the author to get at his meaning, not to find yours.
