John Ruskin Quotes

Better the rudest work that tells a story or records a fact, than the richest without meaning.

John Ruskin

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

WorkStoryBetterMeaningWithout

Liberty is security. Freedom is security.

Jesse Ventura

FreedomSecurityLiberty

Dr. King was one of the most inspiring human beings I ever met. He was such a warm, compassionate, and loving human being.

John Lewis

KingWarmLovingHumanHuman Being

No TV show in history, no movie ever made - nothing you can imagine as being written or filmed or performed can turn a normal human being into a Dexter.

Jeff Lindsay

HistoryYouNothingHumanTurnShow

I've loved reading all my life.

John Wayne

LifeReadingLovedMy Life

I never do anything fun, because I'm a housewife. I hate that word 'housewife.' I prefer to be called 'domestic goddess.'

Roseanne Barr

HateFunGoddessNeverAnything

In general, I try to eat food without added hormones and pesticides, but I'm not so strict that I won't have a Big Mac once in a while.

Missy Peregrym

FoodTryEatWithoutBigPesticides

I liked to think I had written 'scripts' when I was in high school, but looking back at them, they were about thirty pages of wannabe-Mamet dialogue with a staple through them.

Lorene Scafaria

SchoolLooking BackLookingThink

Some memorizers arbitrarily associate each playing card with a familiar person or object, so that the king of clubs is represented by, say, Tony Danza. The grand masters associate each card with a person, an action, or an object so that every group of three cards can be converted into a sentence.

Joshua Foer

KingActionCardsPersonThreeSay

When you try to unravel something you've written, you belittle it in a way. It was created as a mystery.

Don DeLillo

MysteryYouWayTrySomething

I probably don't have any more of a bigger following on the Internet than anybody else does - I just probably have a stranger one.

Dean Ambrose

InternetMoreStrangerBiggerJust

Fashion needs to be worn.

Christian Lacroix

FashionNeedsWorn

What excites me about picture books is the gap between pictures and words. Sometimes the pictures can tell a slightly different story or tell more about the story, about how someone is thinking or feeling.

Anthony Browne

WordsMeStoryThinkingPicture

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