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History doesn't turn on a dime; it turns on a plugged nickel.

— Jeff Greenfield

If you are in a dark room, don’t beat at the darkness with a stick, but rather try to turn on the…

— Paramahansa Yogananda

If I feel in need of sleep, I just open a book or turn on the television. Both are better than any…

— Ethel Merman

Death and blood didn’t turn on a vampire. Fear and the chance to take blood did. There was a difference.

— Kim Harrison

One doesn't stop seeing. One doesn't stop framing. It doesn't turn off and turn on. It's on all the time.

— Annie Leibovitz

No one has the answers, but one thing is true. You got to turn on evil, when its coming after you.

— Neil Young

“You cannot really be greatly turned on by something, and not be turned off by its opposite or absence.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Democracy will defeat the economist at every turn on its own genre.

— Harold Innis

When a big event happens, people turn on to CNN, not only because they know there will be people there covering an…

— Anderson Cooper

There's the world of the newspapers. They believe that what is happening is happening, which is so naïve. Because they're the first…

— James Purdy

They say that a good cook can ignite sparks by the way he kisses. The way I see, just because a guy…

— Stefanie Powers

There's part of our brain that we shut off when we're in the studio. There's part of our brain that we turn…

— Taylor Swift

Sometimes we don’t realize how destructive our creations are until it’s too late. And sometimes those creations we make turn on us…

— Sherrilyn Kenyon

I want to be a race car passenger: just a guy who bugs the driver. Say man, can I turn on the…

— Mitch Hedberg

I can't turn on the television without seeing me, or open the newspaper without seeing me and, honestly, I'm sick to death…

— Elizabeth Edwards

He [Chris Martin] can't have background music on. It has to be 100 percent of his attention. But if he isn't at…

— Gwyneth Paltrow

You know, you take a little infant and you turn on the music mobile on their crib and you find that if…

— Sheena Iyengar

There is an Indian story -- at least I heard it as an Indian story -- about an Englishman who, having been…

— Clifford Geertz

I think when ordinary working people come home, turn on the TV and see a gala of a bunch of people at,…

— Stephen Harper

Certain kinds of things that the novel used to do, which was, "Oh, I'm living out here in West Nowhere, Nebraska and…

— Jonathan Franzen

So," she went on, "it got me thinking about what cost beauty. Or for that matter, what cost anything? Would you trade…

— Sarah Dessen

But I must admit I didn´t like that idea; do the same thing as everyone else. Eating to live, living to eat…

— Simone de Beauvoir

As a doc, though, I've seen what happens when people are under a lot of stress. Doesn't always bring out their best.…

— Ilsa J. Bick

I am so excited this year getting to play the 85th Anniversary Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade. Everyone knows on Thanksgiving morning to…

— Rodney Atkins

Direct, forceful, energetic. Loves power, eats up publicity and flattery... Can turn on charm at will and knows it.

— Joseph Stilwell

Whoever came up with "hold the shift key for eight seconds to turn on 'your keyboard is buggered' mode" should be shot.

— Linus Torvalds

Seeking happiness apart from a right relationship God is like trying to turn on a light that's unplugged.

— Randy Alcorn

And God help Bruce Springsteen when they decide he's no longer God... They'll turn on him, and I hope he survives it.

— John Lennon

Maybe law enforcement would like the ability to turn on the camera on your Mac.

— Tim Cook

Turn on the prudent Ant, thy heedful eyes, Observe her labours, Sluggard, and be wise.

— Samuel Johnson

I didn’t even cry, I was stunned. You know, and that’s just how fast life turns. It turns on a dime.

— Sandra Lee

I'm tactile, very tactile. A woman who has really nice, looked-after skin is such a turn-on for me. It's always sexy.

— Idris Elba

Everyone wants to turn on their TV and have a break from their normal day.

— Megyn Price

The baby bat Screamed out in fright, 'Turn on the dark, I'm afraid of the light.

— Shel Silverstein

Stuff up the cracks, turn on the gas, I'm gonna take my life.

— Frank Zappa

Because of the makeup of the NBA, it cannot afford for the public to turn on them.

— Julius Erving

People don't know how chickens can turn on you, but they can -- just like mad dogs.

— Mary Ann Shaffer

If you want to turn on your boyfriend, get naked and strap on an accordion.

— Sheryl Crow

Turn on the prudent ant thy heedful eyes. Observe her labors, sluggard, and be wise.

— Samuel Johnson

If my competitor were drowning I'd stick a hose in his mouth and turn on the water.

— Ray Kroc