Turns Quotes · Page 276

A good edit process turns rocks into diamonds, and every author should love that part as much as the creative phase. I…

— Kim Smith

Here's a simple experiment that you might want to try if there is absolutely nothing else going on in your life. All…

— Dave Barry

Can you imagine if everyone on the planet turned off their TV to stop the intake of fear from the news channels…

— DJ QBert

The monster I kill every day is the monster of realism. The monster who attacks me every day is destruction. Out of…

— Anais Nin

A great deal of the joy of life consists in doing perfectly, or at least to the best of one's ability, everything…

— William Matthews

Men look at women. Women watch themselves being looked at. This determines not only most relations between men and women but also…

— John Berger

Everything government touches turns to crap.

— Ringo Starr

As countries appear and disappear, then I began to ask, what makes countries successful? And it turns out, after a long slog…

— Juan Enriquez

When you're visiting an antiques fair, turn left once you've passed through the entrance. Everyone else will turn right, which means you…

— Judith Miller

Wine is like women. It tempts you; it comforts you; it confuses you and can even turn on you when you least…

— Alton Brown

Houses turn to corpses overnight when we cease to live and love in them.

— Anais Nin

I have no idea why she quieted down on the subject. Maybe she was told to. I can imagine that it wasn't…

— William A. Rusher

Be quick to do good. If you are slow, The mind, delighting in mischief, Will catch you. Turn away from mischief. Again…

— Gautama Buddha

Something made greater by ourselves and in turn that makes us greater.

— Maya Angelou

Wretched excess is an unfortunate human trait that turns a perfectly good idea such as Christmas into a frenzy of last-minute shopping.

— Jon Anderson

Desire is what takes the hot water of mediocrity and turns it into the steam of outstanding success.

— Zig Ziglar

The idea of some people being less than people is poison to any society and needs to be named as such in…

— Richard Flanagan

Those who turn good organizations into great organizations are motivated by a deep creative urge and an inner compulsion for sheer unadulterated…

— James C. Collins

The interesting question is, how do you put yourself in a position so that you can allow ‘what is’ to be. The…

— Ram Dass

Mary bring out your umbrella - The sun shines down on this fine, fine day But the ashes raining down forever Are…

— Lauren Oliver

Some of the 'worst' red carpet looks of all time, it turns out, were really just ahead of their time.

— Brad Goreski

Every idol, however exalted, turns out, in the long run, to be a Moloch, hungry for human sacrifice.

— Aldous Huxley

I knew she was a party girl. The book I liked most on her was called [princess] Margaret: A Life of Contrasts…

— Vanessa Kirby

That's the scary thing about hope," she said. "If you let it go too long it turns into faith.

— Christopher Moore

You can do something really radical, which is turn your phone off and reclaim your private life.

— Devra Davis

Most satirists are indeed a public scourge; Their mildest physic is a farrier's purge; Their acrid temper turns, as soon as stirr'd,…

— William Cowper

When you leave them in the morning, they stick their nose in the door crack and stand there like a portrait until…

— Erma Bombeck

I talk to myself on paper about my characters - sometimes writing in first person... I keep lists of unanswered questions that…

— Phyllis A. Whitney

You snore worse. At least I don't turn into a lion in my sleep." "I only did it once." "Once was weird…

— Ilona Andrews

We praise like frogs, Swear like frogs, Turn midgets into heroes, and heroes into scum: We never stop and think.

— Nizar Qabbani

If your child has a weakness, teach them how to turn it into a strength! The only Failure is not trying.

— Kevin Heath

Reviewers, with some rare exceptions, are a most stupid and malignant race. As a bankrupt thief turns thief-taker in despair, so an…

— Percy Bysshe Shelley

The one-word cinema wasn't possible for me anymore. I'd hit a wall, a dead end. Therefore I thought I'd turn back.

— Abbas Kiarostami

The extraordinary thing is not that people in a lifetime turn out worse or better than we had prophesied; particularly in America…

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

For every nation that lives peaceably, there will be many others to grow hard and push their arrogance to extremes; the gods…

— Sophocles

The Romans had, like other Pagan nations, a nature festival, called by them Saturnalia, and the Northern peoples had Yule; both celebrated…

— Samuel L. Jackson

Count no day lost in which you waited your turn, took only your share and sought advantage over no one.

— Anonymous

When came the invasion of privacy.That kind of thing turns the newspaper from a friendly organ - not necessarily appeasing everybody -…

— Harold Evans

Let the massacres remind us to turn down our political volume and venom.

— Phillip Adams

Sometimes the greatest adversities turn out to be the greatest blessings.

— Charles Caleb Colton