J.M.W. Turner Quotes

At about 40, the roles started slowing down. I started getting offers to play mothers and grandmothers

I find the idea of today's icons being teenagers incredibly uninspiring.

If conquest does not bind posterity, so neither can compact bind it.

I'm very practical. What I'm reaching for is individualism for women

I have a brother who's a psychologist. He says three-quarters of the world are born feeling that they will be affected by the world; one quarter are born knowing that they will affect the world

If your credit is going to grow at 10-15 percent per year in order to get your 5 percent GDP growth per year, eventually you're going to have a problem. This isn't a stable system.

How do you make a compass? Uhhh hmmm so if I was a compass how would I make myself?

I'm perfectly fine now if I never went on stage again.

I was always attracted to science fiction movies

My career always took me away from home, I was always away from home and I just wanted to be at home.

I grew up in the south, poor - on rock, dirt roads.

It just feels like Erwin and me... even at night I don't feel I have to look pretty in bed.

I believe in prayer and in strong belief.

In the USA there is no female equivalent to god.

Over a three year period, I gave away half of what I had. To be honest, my hands shook as I signed it away. I knew I was taking myself out of the race to be the richest man in the world.

The worst thing you can do if you want to start a fight is to use derogatory terminology.

Even if we didn't have greenhouse gases, were going to have to move away from fossil fuels, as we're going to run out. They're finite, whereas solar and wind are infinite.

War has been good to me from a financial standpoint but I don't want to make money that way. I don't want blood money.

The chance for mistakes is about equal to the number of crew squared.

It was a struggle financing CNN, but I did it without ever asking the government for a nickel.

We have to do more than keep media giants from growing larger; they're already too big. We need a new set of rules that will break these huge companies to pieces.

I know what I'm having 'em put on my tombstone: 'I have nothing more to say'.

We'll be eight degrees hotter in ten -- not ten, but thirty or forty years, and basically none of the crops will grow. Most of the people will have died and the rest of us will be cannibals.

The media is too concentrated, too few people own too much. There's really five companies that control 90 percent of what we read, see and hear. It's not healthy.

Rupert Murdoch is the most dangerous man in the world.

The biggest thing I learned from losing? Winning's better.

When our time's up, it's up. All the money in the world won't buy you one more day.

There's really five companies who control 90% of what we read, see, and hear.

Im a Rihanna, Beyonce kind of person.

Aviation is going to control the world economically and militarily whether we like it or not. Airpower is not merely military aviation, it is also civilian aviation and airpower is peace power.

There is no excuse for an airplane unless it will fly fast!

Mudslinging - In politics, anything bad the opponent says about our candidate; in contrast, when our candidate does this, it is called 'making a good point.

Anytime I see someone blocking the aisle in the supermarket while talking on a phone, I want to ram that person with my shopping cart.

If a mother or a caregiver does not have a job that pays a living wage and they cannot afford child care, that is unacceptable.

Under our thatch, friend, place shall abide for you, touch but the latch, friend, the door will swing wide for you!

Why did you come if not to murder my king?" "I came to steal his magus." "You can't," said the magus in question. "I can steal anything," Eugenides corrected him, "even with one hand.

I grew up in a world before people had credit cards. There were no magic cards - it was all about budgeting.

I'm not very active politically. The causes I work on offer immediate, practical, accessible help, and politics has never meant that to me

No 'Glory shall be your reward' for me. Oh, no, for me, it is, 'Stop whining' and 'Go to bed'.

If my ego was out of whack and I believed I could carry anything off, that would be a stupid risk. But so far there's been no reason not to try anything.

Her queen danced like a flame in the wind, and the mercurial king like the weight at the center of the earth.

Who knows but that you will get up to find that the world has inverted itself yet again?

It never occurred to me that I couldn't change things that needed changing or couldn't have what I wanted if I worked hard enough and was good enough

Today, she had yielded the sovereignty of her country to Eugenides, who had given up everything he had ever hoped for, to be her King.

I'll stop shouting. I won't sit down. I might need to throw more inkpots.

Every actor wants to change things up a bit. You don't want to be pigeonholed, and not just because of what the industry might think.

Who am I, that you should love me?

You're awake," he said. "Phresine is not," pointed out the queen. "Oh?" "You gave her lethium." "She gave it to me first.

I never feel more alive than when I'm on stage. On film you feel chopped up, you can be acting from the neck up, or the hand, there is a lot of close up.

What we need is more women writers, writing for older women. There are some actresses who have production companies and create their own material, and I truly admire that