Ted Turner Quotes
Quotes to Explore
-
Once Dwight Eisenhower makes up his mind, he's full of indecision.
-
My professional and human obsession is the nature of language, and my best relationships are with other writers. In many ways, I know George Eliot better than I know my husband.
-
Waste Management was based in Chicago, but I lived in Ft. Lauderdale and for 10 years had to commute to work - catch the 5 P.M. Sunday flight to Chicago and the midnight return flight on Friday.
-
By 1892, enlightenment had progressed to the point where the Salem trials were simply an embarrassing blot on the history of New England. They were a part of the past that was best forgotten: a reminder of how far the human race had come in two centuries.
-
All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.
-
It's like you have a child and you think, 'Everything that I've done up until this point is insignificant in comparison to being a father.' It's a beautiful, beautiful thing.
-
It may be that apartheid brings such stupendous economic advantages to countries that they would sooner have apartheid than permit its destruction.
-
I learned how to read in second grade, and I entered a summer contest at my local library in Chattanooga, Tennessee. If you read more books than anybody else, you got your Polaroid up on the bulletin board, and I did.
-
I like winning. There's also a certain joy in it. I feel fulfilled by it.
-
My mother worked in factories, worked as a domestic, worked in a restaurant, always had a second job.
-
This horror of pain is a rather low instinct and... if I think of human beings I've known and of my own life, such as it is, I can't recall any case of pain which didn't, on the whole, enrich life.
-
I'd like to imagine that in order to beat me a person would have to play almost perfect tennis.
-
I have been writing poetry since 1975. My first poetry book was published in 1986.
-
I am hopeful that no one will forget what happened in Bosnia.
-
I do like the research part of writing, I must admit.
-
It doesn't matter if people perceive me as being a little strange. I think overall, even when I am on stage, when people see me, I am setting an example.
-
I started playing piano when I was 6, ukulele at 7.
-
In the country, it feels like you don't have control over nature anymore - nature is in control of you.
-
I have thought it my duty to exhibit things as they are, not as they ought to be.
-
We have to deal with the world as we find it. The world of what it takes to get this done.
-
I haven't listened to much music lately; I've been out of it.
-
It was the first and most striking characteristic of Socrates never to become heated in discourse, never to utter an injurious or insulting word-on the contrary, he persistently bore insult from others and thus put an end to the fray. (64).
-
If I'm an entrepreneur and I have an idea, and I don't have the development talent around me but I need to find a developer, I would do my selection just like I would with hiring an employee.
-
I didn't care what, how much adversity life threw at me. I intended to get to the top.
