John Ruskin Quotes
Quotes to Explore
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All human actions are equivalent... and all are on principle doomed to failure.
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I often get mistaken for Dumbledore. One wizard is very much like another.
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There are some who complain that there is not enough food grain. But I put the argument that at the moment we use 2000 census population figures and require 50-55 million tonnes for distribution.
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I don't know what DVD commentaries are about. I'd like to strangle the person who came up with that concept.
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In its worse forms, conservatism is a matter of 'I hate strangers and anything that's different.'
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The term 'personal ambition' immediately puts me off. It feels like finding a sliver of onion in my ice cream. There's nothing wrong with a sliver of onion, but I don't want it in my ice cream.
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There are lots of concerns facing English football but for me the major one is the way in which football clubs are run by owners, whether they are growing organically and sustainably and how that is being policed by the football authorities.
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The universe will put signposts in your life. You can either ignore them or embrace them. You can choose and wish for all the things you want, but the things that are coming to you, you will never be able to hide from and the things that you want so bad that are not supposed to be for you for whatever reason, they'll never come to you.
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Singles, whatever. But selling a million albums feels like an impossible thing to do.
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I don't usually wear a lot of makeup because I tend to like a natural look.
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When I was little, I wanted to be an astronomer, but that didn't happen.
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I don't know if they were all functioning, but I did play in a bunch of bands.
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I grew up reading 19th-century novels and late Victorian children's books, so I try for a good story full of coincidence and error, landscape and weather. However, the world was radically changed during my lifetime, and I tell of that battering as best I can.
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It was never important for a wedding to be about anything other than me and my partner. A big celebration was never my cup of tea.
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I do have a lot of female friends who are stand-ups and also women who are actresses and also happen to have an act.
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If you're an artist, you have to use everything to your advantage, even the pain.
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When you arrive at a fork in the road, take it.
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A 'Friends' shoot night could extend well into the small hours of the morning.
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Real freedom lies in wildness, not in civilization.
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You look in my room and it looks neat enough, but if you dared to look under my bed or in my closet, oh what a mess!
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You know, there's a lot of activism that doesn't deal with empowerment, and you have to empower yourself in order to be relevant to any type of struggle.
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People do not have a constitutional right to be married any more than we could say that someone has a constitutional right to a driver's license. You either meet the requirements or you don't. In the case of marriage, homosexuals do not meet the requirements of marriage.
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I'm just glad I've had these opportunities to be geeks in some really awesome movies.
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See! This our fathers did for us.
