Turns Quotes · Page 164

Hence, viper thoughts, that coil around my mind,Reality's dark dream!I turn from you, and listen to the wind,Which long has raved unnoticed.

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

“The world turns, that's all. You can hold on and turn with it, or stand up to protest and be spun right…

— Stephen King

...and when I lift my head to scream out my fury, a million stars turn black and die. No one can see…

— N.K. Jemisin

After all, it is an ancient and valuable right of the English people to turn their nouns into verbs when they are…

— Henry Watson Fowler

The playful perspective is not meant to turn your life into a game or a jungle gym. It's rather that the activity…

— Ian Bogost

Once you’re sensitized to the negative effects of unhealthy choices, it gets easier to turn down what used to seem impossible to…

— Mark Sisson

I'm always storing away phrases and ideas and things that I think might turn into songs.

— Mose Allison

Two cannibals were eating a comedian, and one of them turns to the other and asks, 'Does this taste funny to you?

— Nicholas Sparks

The White House, in advancing the agenda for a [school] "choice" plan, rests its faith on market mechanisms. What reason have the…

— Jonathan Kozol

The Alchemyst had discovered that the seats revolved and had been amusing himself by swinging back and forth. His chair squeaked with…

— Michael Scott

I splash my head with ice-cold water and turn to face the mirror. When my image appears I instinctively look away. Is…

— Shan Sa

I start off but I don't know where I'm going; I try this avenue and that avenue, that turns out to be…

— Galway Kinnell

The world is a dysfunctional place in so many ways. It is unstable. So even though that chaos can be reflected in…

— Jennifer Gilmore

God turns clouds inside out to make fluffy beds for the dogs in Dog Heaven, and when they are tired from running…

— Cynthia Rylant

At one point in the mid-Eighties I shared a promoter with the Smiths. One night, we were sitting backstage when Morrissey burst…

— Paul Merton

My parents raised me that you never ask people about their reproductive plans. “You don’t know their situation,” my mom would say.…

— Tina Fey

I remember going into a raggedy studio, still with my work uniform on. At the time, I was driving money trucks for…

— Sharon Jones

I'm the guy who will persist in his path. I'm the guy who will make you laugh. I'm the guy who strives…

— Blake Jenner

You've got to give kids really beautiful children's books in order to turn them into revolutionaries. Because if they see these beautiful…

— Tony Millionaire

The vitality of thought is in adventure. Idea's won't keep. Something must be done about them. When the idea is new, its…

— Alfred North Whitehead

My advice to women is the same advice I would give to any young man trying to make it in the business…

— Ondi Timoner

I must say I find television very educational. The minute somebody turns it on, I go to the library and read a…

— Groucho Marx

Sometimes you walk into things, that, if you were paying attention, vibrationally, you would know right from the beginning that it wasn't…

— Esther Hicks

There is some other form that you contain within yourself that is not will or purpose and, when applied to art, serves…

— Milton Resnick

Anger requires that the offender should not only be made to grieve in his turn, but to grieve for that particular wrong…

— Richard Whately

If we turn to the divine Conductor and follow the wise and loving baton that is His will, His Word, then the…

— Peter Kreeft

I think of myself as more the non-turn-on type. so when I do get turned on, I don’t trust it, I have…

— Haruki Murakami

We forget that the nineteenth century often turned work into sport. We, in contrast, often turn sport into work.

— Geoffrey Blainey

I can turn on some jazz guitarist, and he won't do a thing for me, if he's not playing electrically. But Jeff…

— Ritchie Blackmore

O turn to Him [Jesus Christ], turn in a sense of your own unworthiness, and be not faithless, but believing.

— George Whitefield

It has been said that the gate of history turns on small hinges, and so do people's lives. The choices we make…

— Thomas S. Monson

Buy a condom, ribbed for her pleasure. Turn it inside out, now it's ribbed for your pleasure.

— Katt Williams

As people turn to contraception, there will be a rise, not a fall, in the abortion rate.

— Malcolm Potts

Wars produce warlike societies, which in turn make the world more dangerous for other societies, which are thus recruited into being war-prone…

— Barbara Ehrenreich

Everything at a distance turns into poetry; distant mountains, distant people, distant events; all become Romantic.

— Novalis

I still didn't look at him. I was afraid if I did that, I would turn around, run back to him, and…

— Anonymous

I would love to be able to write a tragedy in my imagination--it would turn into a masterpiece.

— Franz Grillparzer

If by some bizarre chance there turns out to be a god [...], I'm willing to bet he's an atheist too.

— Salman Rushdie

... because it is correct to make a priority of young people, taking care that they turn out as well as possible...

— Plato

I guess I'm adaptable. You know, I turn up at work and [photographers] can kind of do what they want with me,…

— Kate Moss