John Ruskin Quotes

A thing is worth what it can do for you, not what you choose to pay for it.

John Ruskin

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

WorthYouChoosePayThing

If anyone can figure out how to balance my celebrity and my dual careers in music and film, it's me. I don't feel frightened; I feel challenged.

Jennifer Lopez

MusicBalanceMeFeelCelebrityOut

In the Emperor's New Clothes, they got a different celebrity to do each voice. They drew up a picture of each character and then each actor wrote their own part.

Melissa Joan Hart

CharacterVoicePictureClothesNew

The war in Afghanistan is underreported.

Anderson Cooper

WarAfghanistan

The American government will be whatever we all make of it.

Megan Smith

GovernmentAmericanWillWhatever

When a hacker gains access to any corporate data, the value of that data depends on which server, or sometimes a single person's computer, that the hacker gains access to.

John McAfee

ValueDataPersonSometimesHacker

The director of 'Independence Day,' 'Godzilla' and 'The Patriot' has certain attributes, all of which are given full vent in 'The Day After Tomorrow.' He's crude, stupid, slick, cornball, predictable, laughable, relentless, trivial and, the sum of all these, ridiculous. He's never made a movie you could believe and he still hasn't.

Stephen Hunter

DayTomorrowStupidBelieveYou

Some are blessed with musical ability, others with good looks. Myself, I was blessed with modesty.

Roger Moore

GoodMyselfBlessedLooksOthers

Magazines and advertising are flogging the idea that you have to keep changing things and get something new. I think that's balls - evil. But obviously that's your livelihood.

Robin Day

EvilAdvertisingThinkYouNewGet

The Miracle Mop created an entirely new category of stick goods - the twist mop. And when I demonstrated it for people, they'd invariably say, 'I have to have that.'

Joy Mangano

PeopleNewSayMiracleStickTwist

With my friends, I don't feel pressure to be someone other than who I am.

Judith Guest

I AmPressureFeelFriendsSomeone

As a kid, I was definitely a DC guy. I started reading big time in the '80s at the height of the Wolfman/Perez 'New Teen Titans.' That was definitely the book that hooked me.

Jason Aaron

TimeTeenMeBookReadingNew

The only sure weapon against bad ideas is better ideas.

Alfred Whitney Griswold

ImaginationIdeasBetterBadAgainst

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