John Ruskin Quotes

Sunshine is delicious, rain is refreshing, wind braces us up, snow is exhilarating; there is really no such thing as bad weather, only different kinds of good weather.

John Ruskin

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: writer
  • Nationality: english
  • Birth: February 8, 1819 - January 20, 1900

Topics

NatureGoodSnowRainSunshineWind

You do wonder - when you are at 28,000 feet, the height that aeroplanes cruise at, when you are struggling to draw breath and every limb aches - why do I do this?

Jimmy Chin

FeetYouWonderWhyHeightCruise

I remember being so homesick and realizing that where I came from was not something that existed in the cultural imagination outside the city. People used to think Miami was just partying in South Beach all the time.

Jennine Capó Crucet

TimeBeachImaginationPeopleCity

I think that the dehumanization of another person can happen in the matter of an instant.

John Carroll Lynch

ThinkPersonMatterHappenInstant

I always felt that with an Antoine Doinel film, Truffaut was taking a vacation, that Francois could relax when making a Doinel film. All of the language came to him very easily. 'The 400 Blows,' I felt, was a collage of all his childhood experiences. Every time he felt an Antoine Doinel film was necessary, he'd make one.

Jean-Pierre Leaud

TimeChildhoodVacationRelaxHim

Of course, we avoid death. To know something is inevitable is one thing. To accept, to truly feel it... that's different.

Michael Haneke

DeathFeelInevitableKnowAccept

Maybe some people are attracted to the alt-right that are homophobes, right? But that's just like, there are certain elements of the progressive left and the hard left that attract certain element.

Steve Bannon

PeopleSome PeopleHardRightLeft

My job is to make sure we keep performing.

Mats Sundin

JobKeepSureMakePerforming

I'm saying that you can create success for yourself but also understand that you have a responsibility to others.

Jonathan Tisch

SuccessResponsibilityYourselfYou

I like to check out of reality for a little bit when I listen to music and kind of go somewhere, so I feel like the more broken-down acoustic songs tell stories to me the best.

Chord Overstreet

MusicBestMeRealityFeelKind

My mother told me not to listen to anyone. She had been told that she wouldn't be able to teach and she did.

Archie Panjabi

MotherMeTeachListenSheBeen

The State of Alabama let me down tremendously.

Anthony Ray Hinton

MeDownAlabamaStateTremendously

There are many reasons I love novels with multiple narratives. In novels where the events are filtered through the consciousness of a single 'reliable' narrator, I often wonder, is this the whole story? What could be missing here?

Susan Barker

LoveStoryWonderEventsSingle

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