Kathleen Turner Quotes

I think my mission is to become the greatest human I can. I know that sounds pompous, but what else do we have?

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• Don't learn to do, but learn in doing. Let your falls not be on a prepared ground, but let them be bona fide falls in the rough and tumble of the world.

  

  Samuel Butler
  • World
  • Learn
  • Doing

• I'm not keeping track, but the record is there for someone to break.

  

  Sammy Sosa
  • Record
  • Break
  • Someone

• Where there is no struggle, there is no strength.

  

  Oprah Winfrey
  • Struggle
  • Strength
  • Where

• I was at our beautiful home in Martha's Vineyard, near Boston, sitting on the porch looking at the ocean when I got a phone called and was asked, 'Would I like to do 'CSI'?' A week later, I'm at a coroner's office in Las Vegas, participating in a quadruple autopsy.

  

  Ted Danson
  • Home
  • Beautiful
  • Ocean

• I think the amazing thing about 'Twin Peaks' was that it completely changed television from that point forward.

  

  Madchen Amick
  • Think
  • Amazing
  • Television

• I think I've really exhausted the magical. It was a lot of fun, but I've put it behind me for the time being.

  

  Joanne Rowling
  • Time
  • Fun
  • Think

• Competition is good and has served us well.

  

  Harold H. Greene
  • Good
  • Competition
  • Well

• What's an expert? I read somewhere, that the more a man knows, the more he knows, he doesn't know. So I suppose one definition of an expert would be someone who doesn't admit out loud that he knows enough about a subject to know he doesn't really know how much.

  

  Malcolm Forbes
  • Man
  • Know
  • Admit

• I'd like to see one person - just one - who would own up to having been a coward.

  

  Edith Piaf
  • Up
  • Like
  • Person

• Every other day there's something - I'm dealing drugs, I'm starving people. I have never done a drug in my life.

  

  Rachel Zoe
  • People
  • Life
  • Done

• I don't particularly like showing furniture on pedestals, but for whatever reasons you always have to in museums.

  

  Zaha Hadid
  • You
  • Museums
  • Furniture

• Our bloom is gone. We are the fruit thereof.

  

  Wallace Stevens
  • Gone
  • Fruit
  • Bloom

• I make appearance at local park and recreation agencies when the program starts, when they have the qualifying meets at the local levels. Then I try to go to the regional competitions, and of course I'm there in Hershey, Pa., in August for the North American final.

  

  Rafer Johnson
  • American
  • Try
  • Appearance

• Well, I asked him who would start the war first.

  

  Samantha Smith
  • War
  • Start
  • Him

• At pivotal moments throughout history, there have always been grey areas, and there likely will be in the future. Courage now lies not in the black and white, as in the past, but in the grey.

  

  Safak Pavey
  • History
  • Future
  • Black

• When I look at a character, whether he's good or bad, one scene or 10 scenes, I just have to find my way in.

  

  Patrick Wilson
  • Good
  • Character
  • Bad

• More often than not, real life is so rich, complex and unpredictable that it would seem completely implausible in the pages of a novel.

  

  Candice Millard
  • Life
  • Real
  • Rich

• The very purpose of existence is to reconcile the glowing opinion we hold of ourselves with the appalling things that other people think about us.

  

  Quentin Crisp
  • People
  • Think
  • Purpose

• Her left hand reminded her of its existence, and she looked round to see what was scratching the heel of her hand. It was a tiny thistle, crouched in a crack in the sandstone, barely lifting its colorless spikes into the light and wind. It nodded stiffly as the wind blew, resisting the wind, rooted in rock. She gazed at it for a long time.

  

  Ursula K. Le Guin
  • Time
  • Long
  • She

• Socialism is nothing but the capitalism of the lower classes.

  

  Oswald Spengler
  • Capitalism
  • Socialism
  • Lower

• I feel like I'm just doing a job. It's amazing to think that you affect other peoples' lives on such a grand scale. I'm so thankful for that, and I'm so lucky. It's hard to stop and think that people are interested in me.

  

  Kip Pardue
  • People
  • Job
  • Stop

• The world of fiction is a sovereign world that comes to life in the author's head and follows the rules of art, of literature. And that is the major difference that is reflected in the form of the work, in its language and its plot. An author invents every aspect of a fiction, every detail.

  

  Imre Kertesz
  • Life
  • World
  • Work

• To me, stretching the capabilities of my imagination is a crucial aspect of writing fiction; you could think of it as a mental form of athleticism.

  

  Julia Glass
  • Writing
  • Imagination
  • Capabilities

• I think my mission is to become the greatest human I can. I know that sounds pompous, but what else do we have?

  

  Kathleen Turner