J.M.W. Turner Quotes

I've found throughout the years that I needed a place where I can go with no TV, no computer, no phone and just have no distractions and just be able to sit and think and just not be disturbed.

Singing allowed me to express myself in ways that I wouldn't be able to do otherwise.

Either accept people for what they are, or don't. So, in other words, man, if people don't know me, I think they do themself an injustice. Because, as a whole, I think I'm a good person.

I'm not gonna try to defend, or undo what's been done. All I could say about whatever's been done, it's been done, and it's water under the bridge. I have no regrets of my life.

In those days, man, in the '50s, black people in the South... We didn't recognize contracts that much. And we didn't recognize marriages that much, either.

I'm very fast on teaching guys. Like, when I came over here, I only had two rehearsals with the band. I wondered when I first got here... but it sure came up great.

They would come down in Mississippi, they hired me as a talent scout. And I would go all over Mississippi, Alabama, Texas, and find out different artists for them.

In China, when you get to the airport everyone be talking in American slang.

Thus, during the winter of 2003 I ventured into a new arena as a professional photographer.

He lies to himself. If Eugenides talked in his sleep, he'd lie then, too.

I've never had the patience of a teacher.

We need to move beyond the demonisation of overpaid traders ... In finance and economics, ill-designed policy is a more powerful force for harm than individual greed or error.

The mind of the people is like mud, from which arises strange and beautiful things.

Everything has a cause and the cause of anything is everything.

Modernism', as a label, has currency in the arts, architecture, planning, landscape, politics, theology, cultural history and elsewhere.

Many of the world's best-designed cities have been inspired by garden concepts.

In ancient times the ritual, mythological and doctrinal aspects of spiritual space were predominant.

I am a practicing Buddhist. I have been for 25 years.

There comes a point where it is just undignified to be a rock 'n' roll star.

As a child my grandmother used to tell us stories about the dead and the mystical.

Hell, we spent $200 Billion to get a scared guy who needed a shave out of a fox-hole! And he may even die of prostate cancer before we even get a chance to try him, dammit!

What the Bible says is really true-it's better to give than to receive.

The worst sin, the ultimate sin for me, in anything, is to be bored.

The happiest people are those who are contributing to society.

Warranty – A notice telling the buyer when the product that was just purchased will no longer function.

The better a work environment is, the better it is for the employer - not just the employee.

Women should not need a permission slip from government to take care of their own reproductive health.

Easter's nearly here, now - Sing, world, sing!

Death is only an old door/Set in a garden wall.

I sometimes believe his lies are the truth, but I have never mistaken his truth for a lie.

"Before you make a decision," he said, "I want you to know that I love you."

I am a master of foolhardy plans, I thought. I have so much practice I consider them professional risks.

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.

Especially as an artist who has been signed to one of the majors throughout my last ten years, you don't always get to write your own music.

Risk is the willingness to fail.

My desire is to let go of my ego and let in His direction.

The probability that we face global warming caused by fossil fuels is now so overwhelming that it is legitimate to doubt the motives of those who deny it

In following their line through, and those of Plantagenet and Tudor, there is but little to soothe the mind.

I need to take a break from this life as a human for 45 minutes and go experience a little bit of immortality.

We are born with our eyes closed and our mouths open, and we spend our whole lives trying to reverse that mistake of nature.

If we had had the right technology back then, you would have seen Eva Braun on the Donahue show and Adolf Hitler on Meet the Press.

I advocate the use of force to rescue Terri Schiavo from being starved to death. I further advocate the killing of anyone who interferes with such rescue.

The bands I like, they don't sell too many records and the girls I like, they don't kiss too many boys. Books I read will never be bestsellers yeah but come on fellas at least we made our choice.

A proper family diary with everyone's events and parties in it really helps organise the household.

And if we seem nutty to you and if we seem like an odd ball to you, just remember one thing. The mighty oak tree was once a nut just like me.

The world is crammed with messages. We’ll never have time to read them all.

I'm just beginning to develop callouses on my fingers, because I haven't played a lot.

I took the batteries out my mysticism / 
And put them in my thinking cap

Men should be disqualified for public office. Women should run the planet. They're better than us.

I like to fish when it's not too hot.