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 try to find a reason to laugh each day. Somehow, if you can incorporate laughter into your day, every day, it really helps. It's the little things in life that make me happy.

  

  Faith Hill
  • Life
  • Happy
  • Day

• 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 fell in love with dressing myself up.

  

  Fan Bingbing
  • Myself
  • Dressing
  • Fell

• 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

• Our work is never over.

  

  Kanye West
  • Work
  • Never
  • Over

• 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
  • Past

• I can't tell you the thrill and joy of when I was cast in my first Broadway show. Granted, it was 'Starlight Express' and it was exhausting, but it was my first time on Broadway, and there was nothing like it.

  

  Bryan Batt
  • Time
  • Joy

• If they are opposed to abortion, they should be for preventing unintended pregnancies.

  

  Louise Slaughter

• 'I have nine lives,' said the kitten, purring softly as it walked around in a circle and then came back to the roof; 'but I can't lose even one of them by falling in this country, because I really couldn't manage to fall if I wanted to.'

  

  L. Frank Baum
  • Country
  • Fall

• I've chosen not to challenge the rule of law, because in our system there really is no intermediate step between a Supreme Court decision and violent revolution. When the Supreme Court makes a decision, no matter how strongly one disagrees with it, one faces a choice - are we, in John Adams' phrase, a nation of laws, or is it a contest made on raw power?

  

  Al Gore
  • Power
  • Law
  • Decision

• Failure is delay, but not defeat. It is a temporary detour, not a dead-end street.

  

  William Arthur Ward
  • Failure
  • Ends
  • Defeat

• 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