Turns Quotes · Page 79

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

— Anonymous

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

— Novalis

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

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

— Malcolm Potts

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

— Franz Grillparzer

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

— Plato

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

— Salman Rushdie

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

For lo! the board with cups and spoons is crowned.The berries crackle, and the mill turns round ... At once they gratify…

— Alexander Pope

I suppose I try to look for those things where the world turns on you. It's every automobile accident, every accident at…

— John Irving

It seemed to me that a lot of people started going to art school recently because they thought they could be famous…

— Wade Guyton

It's a deep and all but certain truth about narcissistic personalities that to meet them is to love them, but to know…

— Jeffrey Kluger

Do you remember the things you were worrying about a year ago? How did they work out? Didn't you waste a lot…

— Dale Carnegie

Rights don't come from human documents. The very idea is only worthy of contempt. Human documents are nothing but pieces of paper,…

— Alan Keyes

I think they [Martin Scorsese, Johnny Carson, Frank Sinatra] liked my honesty. My personality. For that, they always treated me great. I,…

— Don Rickles

Doesn't sunlight kill them? Doesn't it turn them to dust, or make them burst into flames or something?" "Nope. Vampires tan, just…

— Derek Landy

You know that feeling,” she said, “when you are reading a book, and you know that it is going to be a…

— Cassandra Clare

You ever think about having kids?” “All the time.I´d love to have a houseful. Then one of my nieces or nephews turns…

— Sherrilyn Kenyon

Progress is the exploration of our own error. Evolution is a consolidation of what have always begun as errors. And errors are…

— Jacob Bronowski

There is an exercise I teach at colleges: Get yourself a canvas and a bunch of acrylics and go into a very…

— Buffy Sainte-Marie

Leaving wasn't a personal thing where I intentionally wanted to stick it to management or anyone. This is business. I felt I…

— Albert Belle

I'm interested in such things as the difference between how we perceive the world and what the world turns out to be.…

— Julian Barnes

I've always had amazing women in my life help me with my kids. First it was my mom, and then a series…

— Jane Park

Fate is like a small sandstorm that keeps changing directions. You change direction but the sandstorm chases you. You turn again, but…

— Haruki Murakami

Many things happened in the sixties, but the period is no more significant, better, or more 'political' than today. It's time to…

— Jerry Saltz

Never do anything for another with the expectation of gratitude. The expectation itself turns the gift into an exchange and suggests a…

— Michael Josephson

It is the tuning of the universe... It's as if at the beginning of the symphony God turns up the volume just…

— Benjamin Zander

If a man is a fool, you don't train him out of being a fool by sending him to university. You merely…

— Desmond Bagley

Your day usually goes the way the corners of your mouth turn. The most powerful single thing you can do to influence…

— Harvey Mackay

I write about whatever turns up. Every single day, I'm sitting down for three to five hours in the evenings wrestling away…

— Felix Dennis

If you can tell me who your heroes are, I can tell you how you're going to turn out in life.

— Warren Buffett

I never really cook from recipes. But the worst is when something turns out great and I can't figure out how to…

— Blake Lively

Her hair was strawberry blond, and she had the shape of a popsicle stick: turn her sideways and she practically disappeared.

— Becca Fitzpatrick

The writers keep managing to turn the show in on itself, coming up with something that's well thought-out and miraculous.

— Kiefer Sutherland

There's two sorts of fear: one you embrace and one you should listen to and turn the other way.

— Matthew McConaughey

When you turn a company profitable you've gone from a company whose days are numbered to a company whose days can be…

— Reid Hoffman

Realistically, I shouldn't be able to turn a doorknob without having some discomfort.

— R.A. Dickey

Close your eyes and turn your face into the wind. Feel it sweep along your skin in an invisible ocean of exultation.…

— Vera Nazarian

I don't want to impose on anyone else and make anyone else emotional or anything. I tend to quietly cry, kind of…

— Milo Ventimiglia

A lot of directors idealize their leading ladies or turn them into these objects of sexuality and beauty.

— Diane Kruger