Ted Turner Quotes

I didn't care what, how much adversity life threw at me. I intended to get to the top.

Ted Turner

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• Once Dwight Eisenhower makes up his mind, he's full of indecision.

  

  Oscar Levant
  • Up
  • Mind
  • Once

• 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.

  

  A. S. Byatt
  • Nature
  • Best
  • Language

• 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.

  

  Wayne Huizenga
  • Work
  • Management
  • Chicago

• 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.

  

  Edmund Morgan
  • History
  • Past
  • Best

• All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.

  

  J. R. R. Tolkien
  • Time
  • Given
  • Decide

• 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.

  

  Vin Diesel
  • Up
  • Done
  • Father

• It may be that apartheid brings such stupendous economic advantages to countries that they would sooner have apartheid than permit its destruction.

  

  Oliver Tambo
  • May
  • Economic
  • 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.

  

  Frances McDormand
  • Up
  • You
  • Summer

• I like winning. There's also a certain joy in it. I feel fulfilled by it.

  

  Carl Icahn
  • Joy
  • Winning
  • Feel

• My mother worked in factories, worked as a domestic, worked in a restaurant, always had a second job.

  

  Ed Bradley
  • Job
  • Mother
  • Mom

• 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.

  

  Malcolm Muggeridge
  • Life
  • Think
  • Pain

• I'd like to imagine that in order to beat me a person would have to play almost perfect tennis.

  

  Venus Williams
  • Perfect
  • Play
  • Person

• I have been writing poetry since 1975. My first poetry book was published in 1986.

  

  Taslima Nasrin
  • Writing
  • Book
  • Poetry

• I am hopeful that no one will forget what happened in Bosnia.

  

  Fatos Nano
  • Forget
  • Bosnia

• I do like the research part of writing, I must admit.

  

  C. J. Box
  • Writing
  • Research
  • 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.

  

  Warren Cuccurullo Duran Duran
  • Strange
  • Example
  • Setting

• I started playing piano when I was 6, ukulele at 7.

  

  Carlene Carter
  • Piano
  • Started
  • Ukulele

• In the country, it feels like you don't have control over nature anymore - nature is in control of you.

  

  Sam Trammell
  • Country
  • Nature
  • Control

• He didn't want his wife to read historical romances because it might give her unrealistic expectations. If I had been him, I would have been reading your books every time you laid them down to see how I could improve my skills and please you. Second warning of the night. I bought a couple." You bought a couple of what?" Historical romances. I'm three-quarters through the first one." He flashed her a slow grin. "All I can say is, I like the way your mind works." ~Jake Coulter and Molly Wells

  

  Catherine Anderson
  • Mind
  • Book
  • Night

• I have seen life from the top down and the bottom up. I know how it looks both ways. And I know there is wisdom and that there is hope.

  

  L. Ron Hubbard
  • Life
  • Up
  • Hope

• We lay out our lives in a narrative we understand, like a movie, but are you enjoying making it or are you wondering who's watching my movie.

  

  Donald Glover
  • Life
  • Movie
  • Wonder

• When I took the entrepreneurship class at Stanford, the first lecture was about an entrepreneur and his personality. They described it as being different than a businessman, who is an overall scientific manager.

  

  Phil Knight
  • Different
  • Personality
  • Entrepreneur

• My work includes something about death, and about love, because the photos always have something to do with death. The photograph is like taxidermy. It is like the animals I use. They are posed in order to appear to be alive, but they are dead. Their time has passed. The photos have to do with time and loss, and conclusion.

  

  Annette Messager
  • Death
  • Loss
  • Photos

• I didn't care what, how much adversity life threw at me. I intended to get to the top.

  

  Ted Turner
  • Life
  • Me
  • Adversity