Turn-on Quotes
231 quotes by 205 authors
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Mostly what I listen to when I turn on my little iPod is opera.
— Joan Baez
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Violence and smut are of course everywhere on the airwaves. You cannot turn on your television without seeing them, although sometimes you have to hunt…
— Dave Barry
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I can turn on some jazz guitarist, and he won't do a thing for me, if he's not playing electrically. But Jeff Beck's great to…
— Ritchie Blackmore
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I will say that walking down the street, getting on the subway, taking the elevator, if there's one or two people and they say, 'Great…
— Michael Bloomberg
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You don't have to turn on the TV set. You don't have to work on the Internet. It's up to you.
— Ray Bradbury
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The creative process is not controlled by a switch you can simply turn on or off; it's with you all the time.
— Alvin Ailey
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Anytime you turn on your own concept of God, you are no longer a free man. No one needs to put chains on your body,…
— John Henrik Clarke
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It is true you cannot eat freedom and you cannot power machinery with democracy. But then neither can political prisoners turn on the light in…
— Corazon Aquino
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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
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Daydreams are doable. The turn-on is not in scale, spectacle, or cost. It's in the doing. Anything you haven't done is an adventure. Wanting to…
— Malcolm Forbes
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Every time you turn on your new car, you're turning on 20 microprocessors. Every time you use an ATM, you're using a computer. Every time…
— Scott McNealy
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When I turn on my radio, when I hear that Negroes have been lynched in America, I say that we have been lied to: Hitler…
— Aime Cesaire
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If they turn on their radars we're going to blow up their goddamn SAMs. They know we own their country. We own their airspace ...…
— William R. Looney III
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Learn the craft of knowing how to open your heart and to turn on your creativity. There's a light inside of you.
— Judith Jamison
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Blood transforms the warm bath water and, in it, I see weakly that this was a mistake. The razor's cut is not deep, nevertheless the…
— Joyce Carol Oates
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The laws of economics tell us that the expansion of the central state can't go on forever. Its limit is reached when the looted turn…
— Llewellyn Rockwell
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Turn on its noiseless hinges, delicate sleep!
— Thomas Bailey Aldrich
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Creativity is so delicate a flower that praise tends to make it bloom while discouragement often nips it at the bud. Creativity is now something…
— Alex Faickney Osborn
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It is important to be nice. But sometimes niceness can be misconstrued as weak. Should we be nice to everybody? Should we be nice only…
— Dave Barry
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As historians, we refuse to allow ourselves these vain speculations which turn on possibilities that, in order to be reduced to actuality, suppose an overturning…
— Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon
Who Wrote These Turn-on Quotes
205 authors contributed a total of 231 Turn-on Quotes, led by these top contributors: