J.M.W. Turner Quotes

Everyone must find a capacity in which they can serve, because we all benefit from society.

There are still women who are not living their own lives, but living through their men or their children

The idea behind doing comedies is that you go home a little happier.

I don't see anything wrong with technology as long as it doesn't interfere with your life.

It's fascinating how all of us, everyday, rely - at some point, to some extent, for some reason - on faith in our life. Whether it's God or not, or "Please help me!"

Professionally, I have no age.

My greatest fear when we were doing "Body Heat" was that I wouldn't be sexy. I didn't have a self-image of myself as this alluring, powerful, sexual female.

When someone is kissing you passionately, you feel passionate!

I am dedicated to ensuring reproductive health and freedom for all.

There are always people doing things wrong who need to be taught, for their own good. That's doable.

I always thought the point was to have a bigger life, to meet more people. So I don't understand Hollywood

I think Europeans have enough tradition and respect for the experience and body of work of an actress that they don't sell out to the new ones

I had a great deal of pressure to move to LA after Romancing the Stone came out and I'd become very popular. But people came to me anyway.

If a woman can plan when to have her family and how to support a family, huge issue for our economy and our country's well being.

I want people to like me. They don't have to always like my characters, you understand

The roles that I am attracted to are women who try to do something about their lives, and not a woman who waits for some circumstance or man to come rescue her. I have no interest in that.

I often play women who are not essentially good or likable, and I often go through a stage where I hate them. Then I end up loving and defending them.

My husband says I can do anything I put my mind to, but the truth i, the only thing I want to do is act.

I don't think I'm anything like the improviser. I'm not. I do better with at least an outline.

I never took to Hollywood.

I am certainly a liberal.

The roles that are written for women as they grow older in theater are much richer and much more powerful.

There's something so muffled about the way you experience things. It's as if you were trying to slip through life unchanged.

I have no desire to play most of the roles being offered

I don't really go to YouTube or, especially, participate in Facebook. I just really don't want to know that many people!

I don't think it has to be one religious structure, one church. I think the issues of faith and redemption are much more universal than any one religion.

I'm a Canadian Jamaican. For me, I carry my Jamaican element into my music in my more recent releases.

Jamaica is so musical, diverse and so extreme, from people singing in the streets to dancing.

I'm definitely trying to incorporate a Caribbean and reggae element.

I'm inspired by everything that I encounter, from the environment to people to other songs, movies and artists.

To me, the creative inspiration is endless and coming in all sorts of different directions at all times.

Jamaica is an island that is filled with so much culture.

I would be lying if I didn't say that the most inspirational place for me is Jamaica.

When you're given a song, it's my job to record the lyrics, story and emotion, and make everyone who is listening to the song believe that it was my words and experience.

I've always felt acting is a part of music.

When you think about the passion that's involved wth Jamaican culture, it's like, they're not sitting around waiting for things to get all pretty: they want it raw and dutty.

Dance brings us all together.

When I lived in Jamaican I lived in Kingston, in Spanish Town, and when I go there the only place I want to go is Kingston because that's where the culture is the richest.

The Thieves of Eddis don't have breaking points. We have flash points instead, like gunpowder.

Were you lying?" "I never lie," he said piously. "About what?" "The sand, the snake." For a young man who never lied, he seemed surprisingly unoffended by the question.

I'm dying of boredom. Or maybe just dying.

You learn something new everyday." "What are you learning?" Sophos asked. "To keep my mouth shut, I hope.

And the Earth had no name. The gods know themselves and have no need of names. It is man who names all things, even gods.

This is the stupidest plan I have ever in my career participated in," Xenophon said. "I love stupid plans," said Eugenides.

It was a race between the tortoise and the hare, but the tortoise had just enough head start, and he had the magus to drag him along.

I thought that being king meant I didn't have to kill people myself. I see know that was another misconception.

Where are my guards, Teleus?" He was still speaking softly. Three men dead and he wasn't even breathing hard, Costis noted.

I think a good book is a good book forever. I don't think they get less good because times change.

One of us might be assassinated and then my heir will be king. Don't give up hope just because chances are slim." "For the assassination or the heir, your majesty?

One cannot toss ambassadors back like bad fish," said Eugenides. "You treat them with care, or you'll find you've committed an act of war.