D. M. Turner Quotes

You take your problems to a god, but what you really need is for the god to take you to the inside of you.

I will never give in to old age until I become old. And I'm not old yet!

Life is a game. Money is how we keep score.

It was unexpected. That's just how it was. I don't believe they were faster than us. I don't believe they had more heart or dedication. It just fell on their side. That's the reality of it.

You should set goals beyond your reach so you always have something to live for.

There is always that one band that comes along when you are 14 or 15 years old that manages to hit you in just the right way and changes your whole perception of things.

I never had that thing about being black. If the whole world was like that, maybe there would be more harmony and love.

A lot of peopletell me I'm a bit dreamy, but I like the idea of that. Of being somewhere else.

You take everything I've made the last 16 years. I'll take my freedom.

Oh what's love got to do, got to do with it What's love but a second hand emotion What's love got to do, got to do with it Who needs a heart When a heart can be broken

So long as free land exists, the opportunity for a competency exists, and economic power secures political power.

There's a sketch at every turn.

My goal was to have one husband and seven children, but it turned out to be the other way around.

I'm self-made. I always wanted to make myself a better person, because I was not educated. But that was my dream - to have class.

Because everything we say and do is the length and shadow of our own souls, our influence is determined by the quality of our being.

To be happy in this world, first you need a cell phone and then you need an airplane. Then you're truly wireless.

My son is now an 'entrepreneur.' That's what you're called when you don't have a job.

If I had been a bricklayer Id still have been a journeyman.

You spend your time thinking about that and you get lost in reflection.

I'm so gullible. I'm so damn gullible. And I am so sick of me being gullible.

Painting is a strange business.

I really enjoy myself in Norway. Because I had started losing confidence in my ability of what I do. But sometimes, man, you just get tired of fighting and trying to prove yourself.

The queen was settling on the edge of the bed, ungainly with hesitation and at the same time exquisite in her grace, like a heron landing in a treetop.

There's that 15 quid we put on One Direction to win down the drain.

Well, I'm going up and up and up - and nobody's going to pull me down!

To me, bravery is to stand up for what you believe in.

My hope for America and the activists is that they never, ever go back to sleep, and they keep fighting for social justice, equality, and decency.

Love's not only blind but deaf.

Each age tries to form its own conception of the past. Each age writes the history of the past anew with reference to the conditions uppermost in its own time.

Where wolves live, the forest is healthy

I'm no genius. I'm not at all; I just happen to look five or 10 years ahead and think things through.

The more famous an actress becomes, the less she's allowed to eat. Unless she wants to play people's mothers. And in bad clothes, yet.

I think the political class, just overall, has underestimated the suffering in America.

What came first the chicken or the dickhead?

I really dislike watching myself on screen. I am very insecure about my acting. We are our own biggest critics. I have to sit in another room to my parents when they watch it.

My life has been a series of emergencies.

Painting can never show her nose in company with architecture but to have it snubbed.

It's going to cost trillions of dollars to rework the energy sources all over the world. Were going to have to move away from fossil fuels.

I'm not wise, but the beginning of wisdom is there; it's like relaxing into - and an acceptance of - things.

I think I'm not really into the handsome, chivalrous knight; I like the bad boys.

I want to know what the difference between the essence of a man and woman is.

There have always been jokes all over our songs; I originally started writing lyrics to make my friends crack a smile, which is difficult.

All men are alike. The approach is different; the result is always the same.

I don't feel like God called me to be a Gospel singer. He didn't call me to be a Christian singer, he called me to be a country singer, and I just happen to be a Christian.

Maybe I'm too busy being yours to fall for somebody new.

The error of the past is the wisdom of the future.

Do something. Either lead, follow or get out of the way.

Over-population is the 'cause of drive-by shootings' and other social ills, but the root of the problem is Christianity, which posits that people are more important than sea otters and elephants.

The mind is just another muscle.

You can't worry what people think.