Turner Quotations

Lana Turner was adorable and funny. Jimmy Stewart was such a nice person. I quickly realized that if you're not a nice person, you're not going to last in this business. I mean, once your box office starts to drop off, like Veronica Lake, they'll get rid of you fast.

I saw Tina Turner do 'Proud Mary' on TV, and it was so electrifying and such a unique experience. I remember crying out of excitement, and I knew that I wanted to be a performer and make people feel excited and moved, and that's why I gravitated towards it.

It would be a dream come true to appear on Turner Classic Movies with Robert Osborne, who is one of my heroes.

Singers like her, Patti, Tina Turner, I revere them when I'm in their presence.

James Ralston, my guitar player, has performed with Tina Turner for about 22 years. Jim Hanson on bass has played with Johnny Cash, Rodney Crowell and Bruce Springsteen, and they're fantastic musicians and amazing singers they get a really cool vocal sound together.

One thing I love about Josh Turner is his faith; that's why I looked up to him so much.

I can't believe Tina Turner actually was on the same stage. I can't believe I set foot on the same stage, and it's going to be an album, people are going to buy it, and it's going to be a video.

'The Turner Diaries' is a racist daydream by a former physics teacher writing under the pseudonym Andrew Macdonald.

Shortly after I turned 50, both Ted Turner and the AARP came into my life. The only difference? With AARP, there were benefits.

When we started the 125-pound weight class, I think we were down 24 points and Turner still had five wrestlers. The key wins were the ones when we were head-to-head with Turner. When you look at the end of the day, all the matches throughout the day worked into the final outcome. I take that, and I appreciate that, but the way the team played for the championship was really good.

She's another Tina Turner is what I see,

Most people would rather stay home and watch Casablanca for the fourth time or the 10th time on Turner Classic Movies than go see Matrix 12 or whatever the hell the flavor of the month is.

Mrs. Turner and her husband (Cal) wanted giraffes at the zoo and worked hard along with many others to get them here. Naming one after Margaret seemed right.

Movies for adults sucked in the 1980s, and music for adults sucked even worse; whether we're talking about Kathleen Turner flicks or Sting albums, the decade's non-teen culture has no staying power at all.

I got on this bus because I wanted people like Steve Shaffer and Don Turner to experience this,

I am grateful to Ted Turner and Tom Johnson for the opportunity to have helped build CNN into a first-class television news institution.

I did have a falsetto, but I only used it when I was joking around with friends or to annoy my girlfriends, or in the shower, because no one else was around. Or in college. I'd go to karaoke bars and sing Tina Turner songs in the original key.

Having a senior athletic enough that she can play inside and outside and can move some of their players away from the basket, not having that allowed them to pack it in. It made it difficult for us to get anything going, but at the same time, Pitt's defense and how physical they were had more to do with it than Turner not playing.

Kevin Turner was seen as an up-and-comer within senior management ranks, so the departure does result in a loss of talent.

I thank God and I thank Ted Turner (her estranged husband) everyday that I don't have to make movies.

I was with Tina Turner when she first saw Janis Joplin, and she said to Janis, 'Honey, you can't continue to sing like that, or you'll have no voice,' and Janis' response was just to laugh and take a swig on her Southern Comfort.

I think there are obviously differences,'' Turner said.

Robert Osborne either has the best job in the world, or comes very close. As millions of viewers know, Osborne is the resident host of the great Turner Classic Movies (TCM) channel, the most reliable source of pure enchantment in the cable universe.

Justin has definitely gotten a lot better in my eyes. I feel like he's playing with more confidence and making big catches out there. I trust him to come down with those plays and he's extremely smart, he's gotten a better understanding of defenses and how to run his routes and what coach Turner is asking him to do.

I would like to thank Adair Turner and his fellow commissioners for their thorough analysis of this important issue. The Commission has had a hard look at the pension system in the UK, and has set out the stark challenges we all face in providing for increasingly long retirements. This report brings home the message the Government first highlighted in the 2002 Green Paper; that people must either save more or work longer.

You know, I like to be competitive. I mean, it's all part of the game. But, yes, sure, I'd rather not have it. I'll go with Ted Turner on that.

We came out swinging today and it paid off. We have a few guys in the middle of the lineup who can take the ball deep; that pitch that Turner hit got up in the jet stream and just took off.

We came down here at 26-1, but a lot of people were already expecting to see Turner Ashby and Charlottesville in the final. We wanted to come down here and earn respect and show that we are one of the best teams in the state. Tonight we did that.

This report increases pressure on the government and the Turner Commission to bring forward radical proposals to tackle the future of pensions.

We will move the bottling operation at Turner Road Vintners to Woodbridge, primarily, and to other sites.

Turner said, 'She did not want this; we hid in the room and took her by surprise,'

Turner is simply one of the best in the U.S. beverage business. Growing carbonated soft drinks today is a challenge, and Turner is very well equipped to do that with Big Red.

Turner is arguably the best tight end in the state of Missouri. But, not only does he do a fantastic job offensively, at defensive end he's very difficult to run the football on -- or throw.

While the timing of this executive departure is not particularly good for Wal-Mart in light of the Coughlin situation, which exposed weakness inside the upper ranks of Wal-Mart management, the loss of Kevin Turner is not going to alter the course of the company.

While the proposed merger of Time Warner and Turner Broadcasting is one of the biggest and most complicated deals that antitrust officials have reviewed, the central issue it raises can be summarized in one word: access,

What Gordon Brown has done is attempt to sabotage this report before it is even published. We should allow Lord Turner to present his report and then debate his findings in a proper and constructive way and a way that will try to aim for consensus, but that is not Gordon Brown's way of doing things.

We are taking care of this world-class resource and creating something that will be sustainable for the next hundred years. We want to bring the millionaires like Ted Turner in here and squeeze as much money out of them as we can. The more money we squeeze out of them, the more we will put back into the community, so that people in the villages can finally have some money in their pockets. They have to get something out of it too.

We did a good job of not going for fakes. And Turner had some massive, high-elevating, snatch-it-down rebounds.

We have engaged an investment banking firm to help us assess strategic options for Turner South and a significant programming contributor to that network, the Atlanta Braves franchise, which may lead to the sale of one or both.

Even though Ted Turner fired me back in 1984, we remain friends,

At one point I was having a good run with Will Turner in the #2 car. We were fighting for sixth place and the lead pack was in sight. Knowing we had run quite a while under yellow, and with Will in my mirrors, I was pushing pretty hard. Unfortunately, the way we were crashing the curbs, one of my control arms gave out. When I entered turn one, I just couldn't hang on and Will was able to get by me. I did another lap, but then the car spun going into turn one. It was obvious my day was over so I got the car safely out of the way.

I started singing in pubs and clubs around Belfast when I was 10. My dad is a musician, and he took me 'round; I impersonated Tina Turner and Shirley Bassey, and the crowd couldn't believe what was coming out of this little girl.

The scheme as broadly proposed by Turner is perfectly workable.

I've worked with lots of musicians - like Tina Turner - and I love when they go in front of the fitting mirror and do their thing, pose, dance. I love that moment!

I wanted Bryce to start going to the hoop. Troy Turner was guarding him and he was in foul trouble. We wanted to take it at him and score or get the foul.

Ted Turner's legendary record as a media pioneer and executive at Turner Broadcasting and Time Warner speaks for itself. He is a visionary leader who has made an extraordinary contribution to this company and, indeed, to the world at large.

Ted Turner sailed into the meeting, and I mean sailed. He holds himself as if he were at the helm of his sailboat, in the process of winning the race.

Some day Turner Gill is going to get us another one.

They play real big. Young and Turner are two really good players. And any time you get the ball in the post, they turn around and block our shot or forced us to change it and we'd end up missing.

It's the end of a chapter in Time Warner's history. Ted Turner is one of the higher profile media icons we have in this industry.

It's how (offensive coordinator) Ron Turner calls different plays with me in there. They only have a game and a half to watch me in this offense.

The notice to appear directs two juveniles to appear before Judge Turner on January 24th at 8 a.m.

It's an extraordinarily compelling page turner that also happens to be a major work of literature.

It will be good for Tim to scout that match because we haven't seen the Turner kid.

On behalf of us at CNN ... from Ted Turner to the entire staff, I want to convey our deepest condolences to Rowland's family and to his many, many friends,

So Coach Turner called for a hitch-and-go. It was a great call.

I knew the momentum was either going to go their way or ours. Will Crockett and Barbara Turner set some awesome screens and I finally hit some shots. As a senior in this position, you want to leave everything out there.

I met with Ted during that same period and supposedly he was very unhappy, but he was very focused, had lots of ideas, lots of things he wanted to get done. I think in this world there's some confusion about roles. There shouldn't be. Ted Turner is Ted Turner. Ted Turner is going to do what he was doing on a broader canvas, in terms of having division of this company and division of the assets he knows something about as well as contributing to the other assets...I think he's very valuable to us and every interaction I've had with Ted has been very positive.

In the end, (Nate) Turner was way too much for us.

I think a higher court is going to really have to take a look at that. We heard more evidence on the Thompson case than the Turner case. If we had tried the Glenn Turner case alone, in my heart I believe the verdict would have been different.

By adopting a prayer policy that allows only nondenominational prayer, the City Council has effectively deprived Turner of his freedom of speech under the First Amendment.

Tina Turner gave me the highway blues.

If I'm on form and I'm not being bothered too much by mental problems or whatever, I can whip out something good. That's why I've done quite a few overdubs for Tina Turner and things like that, because even before she made this comeback I said yes to her, just because I love Tina Turner.

I can't complain about traffic,' Turner said. 'I put triple windows on my house. The noise doesn't bother me anymore.'

I can't compete in relays with them, (Burnt Hills). But I know Coach (Matt) Turner and I swim with a lot of the guys in Schenectady Swim Club. I qualified for sectionals in the 50-free and the states today. I was close in the 200-IM and the 100-butterfly, but I'm close.

I had listened to Joe Turner. When they'd book Joe there, I'd play the blues behind him.

Let there be no mincing of comparisons in this assertion. Not Turner, not Monet, painted so directly blinding shafts of sunlight as has this Spaniard.

The first relay really set the pace for the whole night. Lacey swam awesome, and Anna Turner really stepped it up as a freshman. I am so proud of my whole team.

The clothes need to pop in terms of color, but without the Turner Classic Movie color feel.

Anyone who follows me on Twitter knows that I am a massive Frank [Turner] fanboy.

I'm a long way from Ike Turner.

You can almost reach out and touch Ed Turner's impact on CNN. His standards were so high. The things that this network does routinely, and the kinds of people that work for CNN ... are a testament to what Ed Turner stood for.

Before Turner there was no fog in London.