J.M.W. Turner Quotes

I like Obama. I don't know who could do a better job. He's got an incredibly tough situation, and a good heart and mind. I'd like to see him rally support a little better.

I didn't get here for my acting... but I love show business.

Where's the upside in opening your mouth?

I don't watch entertainment. I haven't watched in years. I want to see serious news.

We must go through a natural revolution if we are to survive on earth. We need to change people's perceptions. If there's no environment, there's no human race. We are in a state of global denial.

I wanted to better inform the world.

I see what keeps people young: work!

The reason that the World Trade Center got hit is because there are a lot of people living in abject poverty out there who don't have any hope for a better life.

They're still in good shape, but I'm not flashing them anymore. I'm an old lady. I leave all the flesh to the kids.

I kind of felt I left a good message and memory with the people in terms of my work, and I always felt with a good record, I could always come back.

I remember music first artists second.

Sometimes we need help from a god

It's every man for himself, every woman, every child. A new breed ferocious and wild.

I don't have a problem with being black in a white country or being with my people.

I've never bothered about my color.

Movies are movies: they take you back in time, and how it still is for some

I find that the British audience listens and they accept the performer for its value, value as a singer, as a vocalist, value as a performer. You're only accepted if you're good.

I don't want to act just to be on the screen doing anything and looking any kind of way.

On the third day in India, I realized people were not suffering as much as I thought.

My parents separated when I was younger

Do you ever have a day like that, where you just look back and you're like 'why did today happen?'

Garden design theory explains, or should explain, the 'What, Where, Why and How' of making gardens.

There is much to learn about what could happen in the gardens of the future, should designers wish to learn about the past.

Mozart 's music is very mysterious.

I am not sure I trust you.""You can trust me with your life, My King.""But not with my wine, obviously. Give it back.

We are a noisy and blessed little family

She didn’t know how this ended, she just knew that it needed to, one way or another.

Marcii hoped she was wrong, though she knew the odds were slim.Still, in the face of everything, there is always hope.

[Children] just cannot be sad too long, it is not in them, as children mourn in little bits here and there like patchwork in their lives.

That's it then. This is how it ends. I haven't even read Proust.

We believe that religions are basically the same…they only differ on matters of creation, sin, heaven, hell, God, and salvation.

If there was one advantage of the numerous lifetimes he’d been forced to endure, it was undoubtedly knowledge.

Peace will only come about through understanding and a relevant education.

Time will teach you more lessons than I ever can.

I’d never heard of a rain check before, but hoped it was something storm rescuers bought bags of souvenirs for their kids with.

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

The Bookshop has a thousand books, All colors, hues, and tinges, And every cover is a doorThat turns on magic hinges.

A friendship like theirs was hard to come by, and when such a thing is found, it is often even harder to hold on to.But, as so few come to learn, absence does indeed make the heart grow fonder.

She hoped Alistair would prove to be more than she imagined. But, unfortunately, she knew without a shadow of a doubt that people weren’t what they once were.

You can’t demand peace, but you can reduce the reasons for war.

Dreams are renewable. No matter what our age or condition, there are still untapped possibilities within us and new beauty waiting to be born.

I have a dream: That everyone may experience a heaven on earth by their own whim.

Writing is pure sweet freedom.

The Attolians liked to point out with a snicker that there was no sign anywhere of the king's hand at work.

Wherever man did not settle, the world was not owned.It was not wanted.In time of course this was bound to change, for there is never enough it seems.

The color and shape of flowers are a precise record of what bees find attractive

If beauty truly is in the eye of the beholder, then surely I would have to had been blind to not see it in her.

True beauty lies in the eye of the beholder.

The arts can sharpen the vision, quicken the intellect, preserve the memory, activate the conscience, enhance the understanding and refresh the language.

My business is to paint what I see, not what I know is there.