Turned Quotes
3567 quotes by 2519 authors
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Please don't make the mistake of thinking that 'Oryx and Crake' is anti-science. Science is a way of knowing, and a tool. Like all ways…
— Margaret Atwood
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It is fitting that yesteryear's swashbuckling newspaper reporter has turned into today's solemn young sobersides nursing a glass of watered white wine after a day…
— Russell Baker
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Money, it turned out, was exactly like sex, you thought of nothing else if you didn't have it and thought of other things if you…
— James A. Baldwin
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I'm a girl from a good family who was very well brought up. One day I turned my back on it all and became a…
— Brigitte Bardot
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The attention of a traveller, should be particularly turned, in the first place, to the various works of Nature, to mark the distinctions of the…
— William Bartram
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On close inspection, this device turned out to be a funereal juke box - the result of mixing Lloyd's of London with the principle of…
— Cecil Beaton
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Bracketing has turned all my experiences, remembered and present, into a gallery of miracles where I wander around dazzled by the beauty of events I…
— Martha Beck
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After being Turned Down by numerous Publishers, he had decided to write for Posterity.
— George Ade
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The Holocaust committed by the Nazis turned this country, where most of the European Jews used to live and where their culture used to flourish,…
— Marek Belka
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Many a man in his hour of trial has turned to the Book of Mormon and been enlightened, enlivened, and comforted. The psalms in the…
— Ezra Taft Benson
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The principle of asceticism never was, nor ever can be, consistently pursued by any living creature. Let but one tenth part of the inhabitants of…
— Jeremy Bentham
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Any concern too small to be turned into a prayer is too small to be made into a burden.
— Corrie Ten Boom
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But you have to give your whole life to a cello. When I realized that, I went back to the guitar and just turned the…
— Ritchie Blackmore
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Pious XII was too neutral to mention the gas chambers; decent people like my own family were turned into devils by crude Christianity.
— Lionel Blue
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I attempted to fish in Scotland and I managed to hook a dog. It was a horrible moment but the dog turned out to be…
— Emily Blunt
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In order to govern, the question is not to follow out a more or less valid theory but to build with whatever materials are at…
— Napoleon Bonaparte
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Hanging out with politicians and corporations is very unhip work. But I think that the U2 audience have turned out to be incredibly subtle in…
— Bono
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My greatest point is my persistence. I never give up in a match. However down I am, I fight until the last ball. My list…
— Bjorn Borg
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The people in the villages had turned in on themselves. You can understand it. When you have a bad day on the field, what do…
— Ian Botham
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I turned to music originally because of my past and needing a release or an outlet to get out anger or frustration or hurt.
— Christina Aguilera
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