John Ruskin Quotes

The relative majesty of buildings depends more on the weight and vigour of their masses than any other tribute of their design.

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• The world at large doesn't always make sense to me, and there are safe havens. Linda Manz in 'Out of the Blue' is one of them.

  

  Natasha Lyonne
  • World
  • Me
  • Blue

• I think if we understand better the impact of war on women and children, we might be more careful about the wars we start.

  

  Abigail Disney
  • Women
  • Children
  • War

• Love is not just tolerance. It's not just distant appreciation. It's a warm sense of, 'I am enjoying the fact that you are you.'

  

  N. T. Wright
  • Love
  • For Her
  • Sense

• I have a theory that if you're famous more years than you're not famous, then you get a little nutty.

  

  Dana Carvey
  • You
  • Famous
  • Theory

• Whether it's backing up or starting, I have the confidence to go out there and do good, so I'm gonna play my role.

  

  Zach LaVine
  • Up
  • Good
  • Confidence

• People in their handlings of affairs often fail when they are about to succeed. If one remains as careful at the end as he was at the beginning, there will be no failure.

  

  Lao Tzu
  • People
  • Beginning
  • Failure

• Take life slowly and deliberately, making sure to acknowledge the people who have helped you succeed along the way.

  

  Ted Levine
  • People
  • Life
  • You

• I know I'm only one human being and I'm only making one tiny contribution and it's nothing more than that.

  

  Halle Berry
  • Know
  • Human
  • Contribution

• You just have to work super hard, and if you have a passion, that's the most beautiful thing in life, and you just have to bust out and do it, baby!

  

  Kate McKinnon
  • Life
  • Work
  • Beautiful

• I always love that phrase, 'Oh, this is a good idea, but it's execution dependent.' As if anything in life is not execution dependent. Breathing is execution-dependent.

  

  Ted Sarandos
  • Life
  • Good
  • Idea

• Whether you're making a million dollar film or a $100 million film there is never enough money, there's never enough time.

  

  Vera Farmiga
  • Time
  • Money
  • Never

• Design is about point of view, and there should be some sort of woman or lifestyle or attitude in one's head as a designer. So my being able to reach the masses was something that meant a great deal to me - especially for women who could never wear Vera Wang.

  

  Vera Wang
  • Great
  • Women
  • Design

• More and more people in my country recognise the dangers of having their governors appointed by Putin and having no influence in parliament because Parliament today is also following instructions from Kremlin and no longer represents its people.

  Garry Kasparov
  • People
  • Country
  • Today

• First ask yourself: What is the worst that can happen? Then prepare to accept it. Then proceed to improve on the worst.

  

  Dale Carnegie
  • Yourself
  • Worst
  • Prepare

• There's just something about that cold rush that I know I hate and a lot of other swimmers hate.

  

  Natalie Coughlin
  • Hate
  • Know
  • Cold

• You must read Plato. But you must hold him at arm's length and say, 'Plato, you have delighted and edified mankind for two thousand years. What have you to say to me?'

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Plato

• Putin is slouching…looking like that bored schoolboy in the back of the classroom.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Bored

• The soul that does not consider the question of the body’s self-sufficiency cannot make itself self-sufficient.

  

  Apollonius of Tyana
  • Soul
  • Question

• Quite frankly, I'm tired of taking insulin and pumping my stomach every three days and pricking my finger and drawing blood out of it every day - it's a tedious, meticulous, annoying disease that never goes away. And I want to get rid of it like everybody else does.

  

  Elliott Yamin
  • Tired
  • Drawing
  • Annoying

• She and the other witches probably turned themselves into bats and had bat sex one hundred feet up, or had sex on the spirit plane, or with fire elementals or whatever.

  

  Charlie Jane Anders
  • She
  • Sex
  • Bats

• Design in art, is a recognition of the relation between various things, various elements in the creative flux. You can't invent a design. You recognize it, in the fourth dimension. That is, with your blood and your bones, as well as with your eyes.

  

  D. H. Lawrence
  • Art
  • Eyes
  • Design

• I wouldn't exactly call it 'Intelligent', but somebody has to be behind designing the human form other than just biological necessity. Why else would women have arms? Or feet? Or mouths?

  

  Zach Braff
  • Women
  • Why
  • Design

• But if you pick up every other magazine, it is the peanut butter diet, or the cabbage soup diet, and then you go to the radio and you hear that you can drink some solution and you will lose weight overnight. It just does not work that way!

  

  Richard Simmons
  • Lose
  • Radio
  • Weight

• The relative majesty of buildings depends more on the weight and vigour of their masses than any other tribute of their design.

  

  John Ruskin
  • Design
  • Weight
  • Buildings