I believe the right question to ask, respecting all ornament, is simply this; was it done with enjoyment, was the carver happy while he was about it?
John Ruskin

I have not written in vain if I have heretofore done anything towards diminishing the reputation of the Renaissance landscape painting.
John Ruskin

Nothing is ever done beautifully which is done in rivalship: or nobly, which is done in pride.
John Ruskin

The sky is the part of creation in which nature has done for the sake of pleasing man.
John Ruskin

No good is ever done to society by the pictorial representation of its diseases.
John Ruskin

If I could be a third of the woman that my mom is and have a third of the strength that she has, then I will have done good by this life.
Brittany Murphy

To not be modest about it, you'll find that with only a couple of exceptions, most of the musicians that I've worked with have done their best work by far with me.
David Bowie

Everything we do should be a result of our gratitude for what God has done for us.
Lauryn Hill

I stopped playing football because I'd done as much as I could. I needed something which was going to excite me as much as football had excited me.
Eric Cantona

We have already done so much that people call dynamics. Look at the bumblebee being unaware of scientific truths, goes ahead and flies anyway. If it is possible, we will do it here.
Tom Hopkins

Remorse for what? You people have done everything in the world to me. Doesn't that give me equal right?
Charles Manson

I'm not likely to forget where I've been and what I've done and learned. I think it's just as important to play new instruments as to play new pieces. The old ones are getting scarcer and the new ones more and more wonderful.
Yo-Yo Ma

I have mixed feelings about those sorts of things. When I see it done by interesting young people, I think it's very valid. But when established photographers, people in their forties, copy me and get a lot of money, well, I find that to be very stupid.
Helmut Newton

So much to do, so little done, such things to be.
Elizabeth Taylor

Americans are far more remarkable than we give ourselves credit for. We've been so busy damning ourselves for years. We've done it all, and yet we don't take credit for it.
Ray Bradbury

A great many people have come up to me and asked how I manage to get so much work done and still keep looking so dissipated.
Robert Benchley

The Difficult is that which can be done immediately; the Impossible that which takes a little longer.
George Santayana

A religious man is a person who holds God and man in one thought at one time, at all times, who suffers harm done to others, whose greatest passion is compassion, whose greatest strength is love and defiance of despair.
Abraham Joshua Heschel

All that mankind has done, thought or been: it is lying as in magic preservation in the pages of books.
Thomas Carlyle

The work an unknown good man has done is like a vein of water flowing hidden underground, secretly making the ground green.
Thomas Carlyle