William Turner Painter Quotes & Sayings

When somebody like Elvis Costello comes along, anybody can make a good record with him. — Nick Lowe

Watching, I could feel again the stirrings of my characters - the faint, as yet inaudible, suggestion of their voices, and their movements close around me, in the way someone can sense another's presence in a darkened room. I didn't need to shut my eyes. They were already fixed, not truly seeing, on the window glass, in that strange writer's trance that stole upon me when my characters began to speak, and I tried hard to listen. — Susanna Kearsley

I rarely joke unless I'm in front of a camera. It's not what I am in real life. It's what I do for a living. — Christopher Guest

A system under which it takes three men to check what one is doing is not control; it is systematic strangulation. — Hyman Rickover

By fairy hands their knell is rung; By forms unseen their dirge is sung. — William Collins

Relationships can be compared to the shopping process. You shop for clothes, food, shoes, etc. You aim at getting yourself the very best things you need and carefully select the items. We can apply this same concept when we take the time to know and understand those we invite into our space. We may not know everything about them upfront but just as we try on clothes to see if they fit, so also should we evaluate those we surround ourselves with and set boundaries where applicable. — Kemi Sogunle

No one conquers who doesn't fight. — Gabriel Biel

There's a power in words. There's a power in being able to explain and describe and articulate what you know and feel and believe about the world, and about yourself. — Tracy Chapman

My parents got divorced and military school gave me a structure. A lot of kids my age were children of divorced parents. They didn't know what to do with the kids. — Stephen Sondheim

And while I at length debate and beate the bush, There shall steppe in other men and catch the burdes. — John Heywood

My wife had taken off on a plane. Two airplanes had crashed into the World Trade Center. I, of course, like any other person, felt potentially devastated, panicky a little bit. — Ted Olson

My life is spontaneous and things just kind of happen. — Harry Connick Jr.