Turn Them Quotes
128 Turn Them quotes by 115 unique authors
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A conscious attempt to fall asleep is sure to produce insomnia, to try to be conscious of one's own digestion is a sure way to…
— Boris Pasternak
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Time can divorce us from the reality of people, it can separate us from people and turn them into ghosts. Or rather it is we…
— Iris Murdoch
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Emotions were for those too weak to turn them off.
— Jennifer Estep
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Can you play the piano like Beethoven? Or sing like Carly Simon? Can you take fie pages' worth of quotes and turn them into a…
— Jennifer Estep
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Folks who make such a fuss about their rights turn them into wrongs sometimes. -- (from Behind the White Brick)
— Frances Hodgson Burnett
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Fifteen minutes later I was an expert. That's all you need. I think I was even getting the upper hand, which is very simple with…
— Melina Marchetta
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Maybe, in the final analysis, they saw me as something I wasn't and I tried to turn them into something they could never be. I…
— Ava Gardner
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things cannot be expected to turn up of themselves. We must in a measure assist to turn them up
— Charles Dickens
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I don't know if watching Chaz Bono will turn your kids into transsexuals, but I'm pretty sure that letting them watch Keith Ablow will turn…
— Lewis Black
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Nothing like poetry when you lie awake at night. It keeps the old brain limber. It washes away the mud and sand that keeps on…
— Joyce Cary
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People are best on records and books because you can turn them off or put them back on the shelf.
— Henry Rollins
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I love to watch the fine mist of the night come on, The windows and the stars illumined, one by one, The rivers of dark…
— Charles Baudelaire
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Good writing is remembering detail. Most people want to forget. Don't forget things that were painful or embarrassing or silly. Turn them into a story…
— Paula Danziger
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Dreams can be of value even if you don’t have an opportunity to turn them into reality.
— Henning Mankell
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To love light, you have to love dark. I'm not trying to be profound, I know you'll understand. I don't mean that you have to…
— Alaya Dawn Johnson
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Doesn't sunlight kill them? Doesn't it turn them to dust, or make them burst into flames or something?" "Nope. Vampires tan, just like you and…
— Derek Landy
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Since changes are going on anyway, the great thing is to learn enough about them so that we will be able to lay hold of…
— John Dewey
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I think that it is useless to fight directly against natural weaknesses. One has to force oneself to act as though one did not have…
— Simone Weil
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But there's one thing about quitters you have to guard against - they are contagious. If one boy goes, the chances are he'll take somebody…
— Bear Bryant
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The one thing that TV is bad at doing is preaching. There are two extremes, you either turn the people into a punchline or turn…
— Mike Rowe
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You can survive tough situations and even turn them to your advantage by acting as if you are the person you want to be. When…
— Bernie Siegel
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Michael Lewis has the amazing ability to take complex formulas and concepts and turn them into page-turners.
— Adam McKay
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After Scour, I started a company called Red Swoosh. The idea was to take those litigants who sued us for a huge amount of money…
— Travis Kalanick
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If you have a wormhole, then you can turn them into time machines for going backward in time.
— Kip Thorne
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If you think someone committed a crime, you should turn them in to whomever you perceive authority to be.
— Marcia Gay Harden
Who Wrote These Turn Them Quotes
115 authors contributed a total of 128 Turn Them Quotes, led by these top contributors: