Turner Quotes

• I really have not so much sympathy. If Tina Turner and Prince's back-up band can perform on stage in them for three hours, you can't tell me they are impossible to walk in. High heels are pleasure with pain. If you can't walk in them, don't wear them.

  Christian Louboutin

  Pain, High Heels, Band

  "‘High heels are pleasure with pain! If you can’t walk in them, don’t wear them’: Christian Louboutin has no sympathy for women who struggle in his stilettos" by Maysa Rawi, www.dailymail.co.uk. April 17, 2012.

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• I'm a fighter. I believe in the eye-for-an-eye business. I'm no cheek turner. I got no respect for a man who won't hit back. You kill my dog, you better hide your cat.

  Muhammad Ali

  Dog, Revenge, Believe

  FaceBook post by Muhammad Ali from Sep 28, 2013

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• Turner has outdone himself; he seems to paint with tinted steam, so evanescent and so airy.

  John Constable

  Paint, Masters, Airy

  John E. Thornes, John Constable (1999). “John Constable's Skies: A Fusion of Art and Science”, p.181, A&C Black

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• I'm just not the glamour type. Glamour girls are born, not made. And the real ones can be glamorous even if they don't wear magnificent clothes. I'll bet Lana Turner would look glamorous in anything.

  Teresa Wright

  Girl, Real, Clothes

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• Poem (Lana Turner has collapsed!) Lana Turner has collapsed! I was trotting along and suddenly it started raining and snowing and you said it was hailing but hailing hits you on the head hard so it was really snowing and raining and I was in such a hurry to meet you but the traffic was acting exactly like the sky and suddenly I see a headline LANA TURNER HAS COLLAPSED! there is no snow in Hollywood there is no rain in California I have been to lots of parties and acted perfectly disgraceful but I never actually collapsed oh Lana Turner we love you get up

  Frank O'Hara

  Party, Rain, Love You

  Frank O'Hara (2014). “Lunch Poems: 50th Anniversary Edition”, p.64, City Lights Books

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• Once, Turner had himself lashed to the mast of a ship for several hours, during a furious storm, so that he could later paint the storm. Obviously, it was not the storm itself that Turner intended to paint. What he intended to paint was a representation of the storm. One's language is frequently imprecise in that manner, I have discovered.

  David Markson

  Storm, Ships, Language

  David Markson (1995). “Wittgenstein's mistress”, Dalkey Archive Pr

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• Turner let his face fell into his hands. "I'm never going to touch her again", he moaned. "He's never going to touch me again!" they heard Miranda roar."Well,it doesn't look like you'll have much argument from your wife on that point", Olivia chirped.

  Julia Quinn

  Hands, Wife, Olivia

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• I just -- I know my own heart and I love you, Turner. And if you have even the tiniest shred of decency, you'll say something because I've said everything I possibly can, and I can't bear the silence, and -- oh for heaven's sake! Will you at least blink?" He couldn't even manage that.

  Julia Quinn

  Love You, Heart, Silence

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• Before Turner there was no fog in London.

  Oscar Wilde

  Fog, London

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• Brian Turner has given us not so much a memoir as a mediation, rendered with grace and wit and wisdom. If you want to know what modern soldiers see when they look at their world, read this book.

  Larry Heinemann

  Book, Grace, Soldier

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• Sons of the Dawn is a page-turner, and author Hank Nuwer is to be thanked for enriching our sense of the West with this memorable novel.

  Gerald Haslam

  Memorable, Son, Dawn

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• I talked with Tom Hanks. I saw that movie 'Turner and Hooch' at least 50 times. It took all my guts to go up to him. I went up to him, I was like, 'Can I have a picture?' We talked acting; he wanted to know what I was doing. We talked a little tennis. I mean, he knew all about myself and my sister.

  Serena Williams

  Mean, Tennis, Acting

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• When Ava Gardner get in a taxi, the driver knows at once she’s Ava Gardner. It’s the same for Lana Turner or Elizabeth Taylor, but not for me. I’m never Grace Kelly, I’m always someone who looks like Grace Kelly.

  Grace Kelly

  Grace, Looks, Taxi

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• She's so hairy - when she lifted up her arm I thought it was Tina Turner in her armpit.

  Joan Rivers

  Arms, Hillarious, Armpits

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• I have been to lots of parties and acted perfectly disgraceful but I never actually collapsed oh Lana Turner we love you get up

  Frank O'Hara

  Party, Love You, Excellence

  Frank O'Hara (1995). “The Collected Poems of Frank O'Hara”, p.449, Univ of California Press

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• Every time there's a revolution, it comes from somebody reading a book about revolution. David Walker wrote a book and Nat Turner did his thing.

  Mike Tyson

  Sports, Book, Reading

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• We were thrilled and we were privileged to be part of a revolution, because make no mistake about it, Ted Turner changed the world with CNN.

  Christiane Amanpour

  Mistake, Cnn, World

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• For a war correspondent to miss an invasion is like refusing a date with Lana Turner.

  Robert Capa

  War, Missing, Invasion

  Robert Capa (2015). “Slightly Out Of Focus”, p.142, Pickle Partners Publishing

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• At least once a year, I meet with a group called the Giving Pledge. It's a group of billionaires - including me, Warren Buffett, Bill Gates, and Ted Turner - who have pledged to give away most of their money to charity. We meet for three days to talk about what we're doing to help make the planet a better place to live.

  John Paul DeJoria

  Years, Giving, Groups

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• Tina Turner is someone that I admire, because she made her strength feminine and sexy. Marilyn Monroe, because she was a curvy woman. I'm drawn to things that have the same kind of silhouettes as what she wore because our bodies are similar.

  Beyonce Knowles

  Sexy, Body, Silhouettes

  "The Beyoncé Experience". Cosmopolitan Interview, www.cosmopolitan.com. November 13, 2007.

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• Atlantic's Jerry Wexler believes first-rate records are made by first-rate voices. He certainly has worked with enough of them: Clyde McPhatter, Joe Turner, La Vern Baker, Ray Charles, Otis Redding, Solomon Burke, Wilson Pickett and Aretha Franklin.

  Jon Landau

  Believe, Voice, Rays

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• Today, one year after their divorce, Pamela and Tommy Lee announced they're getting back together. You know what that means? There's still hope for Ike and Tina Turner.

  Jay Leno

  Mean, Divorce, Years

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• There are people out there who are into traditional country music and for those people you have artists like Brad Paisley and Josh Turner and Alan Jackson. Then you have artists with a progressive style of country music, like myself and Eric Church and Luke Bryan and Miranda Lambert.

  Jason Aldean

  Country, Artist, People

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• If you read the first page of one of my novels, I can guarantee that you will read the last one. This isn't just social commentary. This is also about writing good page-turners. I want people to keep reading.

  Jodi Picoult

  Reading, Writing, Guarantees That

  "The great unknown". Interview with Louise France, www.theguardian.com. April 14, 2007.

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• I was with Ted Turner when he came to see Kofi Annan - the Secretary-General of the UN - to announce his decision to put $1 billion to the service of UN projects and programs.

  Maurice Strong

  Decision, Program, Projects

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