Ruins Quote by Greg Kinnear Download Open image “I have always been interested in the concept of ruin.” — Greg Kinnear ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.1 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare Ruins
A ruin is not just something that happened long ago to someone else; its history is that of us all, the transience of power,… — George Schaller Copy Share Image
“A ruin is an accidental aesthetic object. If it becomes beautiful, this was certainly not the intention. A ruin is not constructed or maintained.… — Edouard Levé Copy Share Image
RUIN, v. To destroy. Specifically, to destroy a maid's belief in the virtue of maids. — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
A ruin should always be protected but never repaired - thus may we witness full the lingering legacies of the past. — Walter Scott Copy Share Image
Some cities have fallen into ruin and some are built upon ruins but others contain their own ruins while still growing. — Jeffrey Eugenides Copy Share Image
Well, there is something beautiful about ruins. I mean, in one sense it's not that different from going to Rome and looking at the… — David Maraniss Copy Share Image
I like ruins because what remains is not the total design, but the clarity of thought, the naked structure, the spirit of the thing. — Tadao Ando Copy Share Image
Audiences don't ever disappoint me, in the sense that movies I feel really good about, they usually feel really good about too. — Greg Kinnear Copy Share Image
Ultimately, I'm not so sure that, as a person, I'm all that interesting. — Greg Kinnear Copy Share Image
My adolescence was all tits and champagne. I'm downplaying the magic of it all. — Greg Kinnear Copy Share Image
I'm happy to report that everybody whose face I've wanted to punch on Earth has already been punched. — Greg Kinnear Copy Share Image
There's times when I'll see a show, or something cooking on TV, and think, 'That can really be fun when it's working.' But it's… — Greg Kinnear Copy Share Image
I was 12 when my parents told me we were moving to Lebanon. I remember thinking, 'Leba-who?' I had absolutely no concept of the… — Greg Kinnear Copy Share Image
You don't get to pick your partners in families; you get assigned a seat at the table. — Greg Kinnear Copy Share Image
I really don't make a concerted effort to try to find a type of role. — Greg Kinnear Copy Share Image
'Little Miss Sunshine' was one of those small movies that you don't hold out huge hope for. It's usually found in small pockets. But,… — Greg Kinnear Copy Share Image
'Little Miss Sunshine' snowballed. It was a tiny movie. We shot it in 30 days, and it was really fun to do, but it… — Greg Kinnear Copy Share Image
Above Coblentz almost every mountain has a ruin and a legend. One feels everywhere the spirit of the past, and its stirring recollections come… — Bayard Taylor Copy Share Image
The less we show our love to a woman, Or please her less, and neglect our duty, The more we trap and ruin her… — Alexander Pushkin Copy Share Image
I do like talking with friends about big concepts, you know, the stuff that will ruin a party. To me, the party hasn't begun… — James Mercer Copy Share Image
The religion of art, like the religion of politics, was born from the ruins of Christianity. Art inherited from the old religion the power of consecrating things and endowing them with a sort of eternity; museums are our temples, and the objects displayed in them are beyond history. Politics--or more precisely, Revolution--co-opted the other function of religion: changing human beings… — Octavio Paz Copy Share
How strange that something so simple could have been instrumental in my decision to ruin one of my most relationships and friendships, and damage… — Veronica Roth Copy Share Image
Beware of self-indulgence. The romance surrounding the writing profession carries several myths: that one must suffer in order to be creative; that one must be cantankerous and objectionable in order to be bright; that ego is paramount over skill; that one can rise to a level from which one can tell the reader to go to hell. These myths, if… — David Brin Copy Share
The chief wonder of education is that it does not ruin everybody concerned in it, teachers and taught. — Henry Adams Copy Share Image
I would hate to see a UFO. Because it would ruin my life. I would have to talk about it the rest of my… — Kevin Costner Copy Share Image
Ruin, eldest daughter of Zeus, she blinds us all, that fatal madness—she with those delicate feet of hers, never touching the earth, gliding over… — Homer Copy Share Image
