Ruskin Glass Centre

Famous quotes containing the words ruskin, glass and/or centre:

    “How long most people would look at the best book before they would give the price of a large turbot for it?”
    —John Ruskin (1819–1900)

    “Each day I live in a glass room
    Unless I break it with the thrusting
    Of my senses and pass through
    The splintered walls to the great landscape.”
    —Mervyn Peake (1911–1968)

    “To make our idea of morality centre on forbidden acts is to defile the imagination and to introduce into our judgments of our fellow-men a secret element of gusto.”
    —Robert Louis Stevenson (1850–1894)