John Ruskin Quotes
That man is always happy who is in the presence of something which he cannot know to the full, which he is always going on to know.
Quotes to Explore
-
Right now, I'm at the top of the world in my game so my focus isn't on when I'm going to end. My focus is on playing the best tennis that I can, and there is no end to that.
-
I think that I could be an example to young people, and they know that dreams come true.
-
If you go to a tree with an ax and take five whacks at the tree every day, it doesn't matter if it's an oak or a redwood; eventually the tree has to fall down.
-
What brought the British to the Gambia in the first place - which was bigger than it is now - was trade in ivory because the Gambia had a lot of elephants. They wiped out all the elephants and ended up selling Africans.
-
I'm not a power person. I like everyone to be on an equal footing.
-
I thought if I put my book up on the Internet as a file that you could download, and I told people about it, maybe some people would download it and read it, and maybe I could get some response.
-
Ideas are elusive, slippery things. Best to keep a pad of paper and a pencil at your bedside, so you can stab them during the night before they get away.
-
It didn't scare me to be vulnerable because I think that's when you get something great.
-
We are all murderers and prostitutes - no matter to what culture, society, class, nation one belongs, no matter how normal, moral, or mature, one takes oneself to be.
-
The train's always full of football fans going up to see matches. Oh, they make sure I hear their points of view all right. They all want to have their say about their team, and make their opinions known.
-
I have been extremely lucky with reviewers and critics throughout my career.
-
Vain hopes are like certain dreams of those who wake.
-
There's a smartphone gait: the slow sidewalk weave that comes from being lost in conversation rather than looking where you're going.
-
The idea that happiness could have a share in beauty would be too much of a good thing.
-
When I saw 'Pretty In Pink' at the cinema at the age of 11, I just thought it was a period piece from maybe 100 years previously. I had no idea that was what everybody was supposed to be wearing.
-
India has to be transformed into a developed nation, a prosperous nation and a healthy nation, with a value system.
-
My dad was a designer for Upper Deck, and I had hundreds of Ken Griffey Jr. cards. Hundreds. I could have paid for college with them.
-
I have some of the old videos of my performances on it.
-
I paint. I still do it every day. I never neglected it. It's a gift. It's almost like religion for me. It's the quickest way for me to become still.
-
I've done some movies before when you have months, or three weeks at least, to train and to learn choreography.
-
From the very first, my countrymen have followed my literary career, now criticizing, now praising my work, but hardly ever letting a single word be buried in indifference.
-
A lot of people... kind of make heroes that are separate from us, people who are, you know, like... John Wayne and Errol Flynn and, you know, Denzel Washington... people who are different, who are larger than life.
-
I used to always be the young one playing without pressure, but I am just happy to be where I am and enjoying my time.
-
That man is always happy who is in the presence of something which he cannot know to the full, which he is always going on to know.
