Turner Quotes
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Turner looks a bit shakyand unsteady, but I think he's going to bat onone ball left!
Brian Johnston— Radio commentary, during an England Test match after batsman Glenn Turner was hit on the box by a cricket ball on the fifth ball of the over.
The Turner should be renamed the B&Q diy prize.
charles thomson— Dalya Alberge, "One Man and His Boat Sail into a Storm over the Turner" The Times, 2005-12-06.
— On the 2005 Turner Prize winner, Simon Starling, who turned a shed into a boat and back into a shed.
D.M. Turner: 1962-1997 Brief biography at Erowid.org
d.m. turner— In Memory of D.M.Turner
Don't let Ted Turner deface my movie with his crayons
orson welles— Near death request to filmmaker Henry JaglomLebo, Harlan (1990). Citizen Kane:the fiftieth-anniversary album. Doubleday. p. 194. ISBN 978-0-385-41473-9.
Why doth IT so and so, and ever so, This viewless, voiceless Turner of the Wheel?
thomas hardy— Thomas Hardy, The Dynasts, Fore Scene, Spirit of the Pities.
CNN is one of the participants in the war . I have a fantasy where Ted Turner is elected president but refuses because he doesn't want to give up power .
arthur c. clarke— Quoted in And I Quote: The Definitive Collection of Quotes, Sayings, and Jokes for the Contemporary Speechmaker (1992) by Ashton Applewhite, Tripp Evans and Andrew Frothingham, p. 279
What I am trying to do is something different an effect of reality, but what some fools call Impressionism , a term that is usually misapplied, especially by the critics who don't hesitate to apply it to Turner , the greatest creator of mysterious effects in the whole world of art.
claude debussy— As quoted in The Lives of the Great Composers (1997) by Harold C. Schonberg, p. 464
Why doth IT so and so, and ever so, This viewless, voiceless Turner of the Wheel?
thomas hardy— Pt. I, forescene, Spirit of the Pities.
What I am trying to do is something different an effect of reality, but what some fools call Impressionism, a term that is usually misapplied, especially by the critics who don't hesitate to apply it to Turner , the greatest creator of mysterious effects in the whole world of art.
— Claude Debussy As quoted in The Lives of the Great Composers (1997) by Harold C. Schonberg, p. 464
With Wordsworth , the mountains of Cumberland passed into World Literature, became, like the music of Beethoven and the paintings of Turner , symbols of the power, the vitality, the force of nature and super-nature which haunted and compelled the imagination of the nineteenth century.
— Norman Nicholson The Lake District (Harmondsworth: Penguin, [1977] 1982) p. 14.
