J Turner Quotes & Sayings

Painting is a strange business. — J. M. W. Turner

Writing is pure sweet freedom. — J. Hale Turner

To select, combine and concentrate that which is beautiful in nature and admirable in art is as much the business of the landscape painter in his line as in the other departments of art. — J. M. W. Turner

Work hard, respect yourself, respect others, and never, ever turn your back on the needy. — J.B. Turner

Light is therefore color. — J. M. W. Turner

If I could find anything blacker than black, I'd use it. — J. M. W. Turner

Tread carefully when using a Time-Turner, stop searching for the Chamber of Secrets - unless you're a Parselmouth - and don't linger too long before the Mirror of Erised. — J.K. Rowling

Shh! Listen! Someone's coming! I think - I think it might be us! — J.K. Rowling

So given a Time-Turner, I'd tell my 21 self that personal happiness lies in knowing that life is not a checklist of acquisition or archievement. Your qualifications, your CV, are not your life. — J.K. Rowling

Acquaintances are abundant, but friends are the few most valuable gems we hold dear. — J. Hale Turner

Mozart 's music is very mysterious. — Walter J. Turner

Writing is an ever learning experience of voice and thought. — J. Hale Turner

Take one day at a time, nurture each day, and the hurt will be yesterdays past. — J. Hale Turner

Life is made for the living. — J.J.V. The Storyteller

Painting can never show her nose in company with architecture but to have it snubbed. — J. M. W. Turner

My job is to paint what I see, not what I know. — J. M. W. Turner

No, I may not flavor your mind with hot and spicy ingredients that leave you panting for cool relief. I write for family, so I indulge your thoughts with just the right seasoning to awaken your palate for more without cause for heartburn. — J. Hale Turner

Everything has a cause and the cause of anything is everything. — Walter J. Turner

I don't paint so that people will understand me, I paint to show what a particular scene looks like. — J. M. W. Turner

It is only when we are no longer fearful that we begin to create. — J. M. W. Turner

(Out of the Shadow is) Exceptional....Meticulously plotted, beautifully paced, its an intelligent, fascinating story that draws you in.
I couldn't put it down, a great read..
Winn, masterfully weaves together the lives of characters into a rich and vivid tapestry,
all the while exploring complex human emotions.
A definite page turner.

Patricia O'Halloran — J.K. Winn

Listen, I'm sorry to bother you when you're obviously busy with, uh, important things, " B. J. Says. He sounds sarcastic. "But you remember a few months ago, when we scored that pot for Brian Turner?"
"Sort of, " I say, wondering if it would be going too far to call B. J. "pookie" or "schmooper. " I want Courtney to be jealous, but I also don't want her thinking I'm a pussy. Which is really fucked up, since, you know, I'm the one that broke up with her. — Lauren Barnholdt

Reading together draws family closer together. — J. Hale Turner

As I aspire, I inspire ... there's room for all of us! — J. Hale Turner

Three turns should do it. — J.K. Rowling

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

I hate married men. They never make any sacrifices to the arts, but are always thinking of their duties to their wives and families or some rubbish of that sort. — J. M. W. Turner

My business is to paint what I see, not what I know is there. — J. M. W. Turner

Writing over a century ago, the historian Frederick Jackson Turner made the essential point. "Not the Constitution, but free land and an abundance of natural resources open to a fit people," he wrote, made American democracy possible.4 A half century later, the historian David Potter discovered a similar symbiosis between affluence and liberty. "A politics of abundance," he claimed, had created the American way of life, "a politics which smiled both on those who valued abundance as a means to safeguard freedom and those who valued freedom as an aid in securing abundance."5 William Appleman Williams, another historian, found an even tighter correlation. For Americans, he observed, "abundance was freedom and freedom was abundance."6 — Andrew J. Bacevich

Life is always full of surprises. We have our ups and downs, but the biggest pleasure is enjoying the ups to keep us going. — J. Hale Turner

...indistinctness is my forte... — J. M. W. Turner

Mozart's mental grip never loosens; he never abandons himself to any one sense; even at his most ecstatic moments his mind is vigorous, alert, and on the wing. He dives unerringly on to his finest ideas like a bird of prey, and once an idea is seized he soars off again with an undiminished power. — Walter J. Turner

I know of no genius but the genius of hard work. — J. M. W. Turner

It is necessary to mark the greater from the lesser truth: namely the larger and more liberal idea of nature from the comparatively narrow and confined; namely that which addresses itself to the imagination from that which is solely addressed to the eye. — J. M. W. Turner