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John Ruskin Quotes

How long most people would look at the best book before they would give the price of a large turbot for it?

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

Best People Book Long Look Price

Yet, if the most frequent sex and apparently the best sex is that between married partners who are faithful to one another, is there not a hint that affection might be an important aspect of sex? Even love?

Love Best Sex Important Affection

I think, in any artist's mind, you can't just be into yourself. You have to look at the world in an objective view.

Yourself Mind World Think View Look

Often the difference between a successful man and a failure is not one's better abilities or ideas, but the courage that one has to bet on his ideas, to take a calculated risk, and to act.

Failure Courage Man Ideas Better

There are a lot of ethical firms on Wall Street.

Wall Street Ethical Wall Street Lot

This to me is the secret comedy of all author interviews, down through the ages, even the good ones in the 'Paris Review' and places. They're all acting. It's like watching a person in a play.

John Jeremiah Sullivan

Good Me Comedy Acting Down Play

I wish I had eight pairs of hands, and another body to shoot the specimens.

John James Audubon

Wish Hands Body I Wish Shoot Pairs

I liked the banana-seat bikes with the high handlebars - maybe a card in the wheel could have been part of it.

Wheel High Been Bikes Part Maybe

The ad industry thinks their clients are their customers. They think the companies who pay for the production are the ones they are supposed to serve. So the ads they produce make their clients happy... but infuriate the rest of us.

Happy Rest Think Clients Pay Serve

I never saw a lawyer yet who would admit he was making money.

Mary Roberts Rinehart

Money Lawyer Legal Making Money Saw

The biggest lesson that I've learned is that fashion is this tightrope where you have to be consistent but inconsistent. You need the connective thread but at the same time you need a sense of surprise.

Time Fashion Surprise You Lesson

TV is not a baby sitter.

Eventbrite is 50-50 male-female, and this has been accomplished organically.

Been Accomplished 50-50 Organically

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