I Turned Quotes

413 I Turned quotes by 356 unique authors

I'd be satisfied just coaching in high school. I turned down a number of colleges when I was teaching in South Bend, Indiana, before I… — John Wooden
When I turned 45, I lay in bed reflecting on all life had taught me. My soul sprang a leak and ideas flowed out. My… — Regina Brett
I turned silences and nights into words. What was unutterable, I wrote down. I made the whirling world stand still. — Arthur Rimbaud
When my friend Melot set the trap, I think I knew it. I turned to death full face, as I had turned to love with… — Jeanette Winterson
The year I turned ninety, I wanted to give myself the gift of a night of wild love with an adolescent virgin. — Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Even if I turned myself in, it wouldn't change anything. It wouldn't make me one of them. I knew that when I got my powers,… — Austin Grossman
It goes a long way back, some twenty years. All my life I had been looking for something, and everywhere I turned someone tried to… — Ralph Ellison
Life happened because I turned the pages. — Alberto Manguel
I turned around, stepped over the Zebra and threw myself overboard. — Yann Martel
Angry, and half in love with her, and tremendously sorry, I turned away. — F. Scott Fitzgerald
The children were overwhelmingly morbid. Not a single adult asked me where butterflies go when they die, but this question was more popular than pixie… — Sloane Crosley
Great God! What have I turned into? What right have you people to clutter up my life, steal my time, probe my soul, suckle my… — Henry Miller
On my first day in jail, a three hundred pound man named Porterhouse hit me in the back of the head with a metal tray.… — James Frey
Thunder rumbled. My heart beat faster. I turned away from Evernight for the last time and looked back at the flower as it trembled upon… — Claudia Gray
In order to get the things I want, it helps me to pretend I’m a figure in a daytime drama, a schemer. Soap opera characters… — David Sedaris
I turned to my own bunk and examined it with a kind of appalled fascination. If the mattress stains were anything to go by, a… — Bill Bryson
Hush Hattie!" I said, intoxicated with my success. "I don't want to go to my room. Everyone must know I shan't marry the prince." I… — Gail Carson Levine
You look invincible,' my mother said one night. I loved these times, when we seemed to feel the same thing. I turned to her, wrapped… — Alice Sebold
I began dividing life in absolutes... Things and people were either perfectly bad, or perfectly good, and when life didn't obey this black-and-white rule, when… — J. R. Moehringer
Your shower is ready - I turned it on last night. — Scott Adams
What I saw next stopped me dead in my tracks. Books. Not just one or two dozen, but hundreds of them. In crates. In piles… — Jennifer Donnelly
I took a bite of cookie and chewed. “Hmmm,” I said, trying not to spit crumbs. “Clear vanilla notes, too-sweet chocolate chips, distinct flavor of… — James Patterson
I walked down my snow covered street. Out of habit I turned and checked for my footsteps. When I arrived at my building I looked… — Nicole Krauss
I turned to look into his face one last time. It was as if I could see the whole universe in his eyes. Maybe he… — Christopher Pike
I turned to Dionysus. "You cured him?" "Madness is my specialty. It was quite simple." "But...you did something nice. Why?" He raised and eyebrow. "I… — Rick Riordan

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