Turned Quotes
3567 quotes by 2480 authors
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A prayer in its simplest definition is merely a wish turned Godward.
— Phillips Brooks
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The Dancing Girls of Lahore was offered to dozens of British publishers and was turned down by everyone. It is still on offer in the…
— Louise Brown
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One who never turned his back but marched breast forward, never doubted clouds would break, Never dreamed, though right were worsted, wrong would triumph, Held…
— Robert Browning
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As a precocious teen I dreamed of being Graham Greene. Well, as it turned out, I never wrote a great novel, sadly, and I never…
— Julie Burchill
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In my third husband I had discovered a blissfully laid-back type who thought it nothing less than hilarious when I misread the map on the…
— Julie Burchill
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The condition of the tribes which occupy the country set apart for them in the West is highly prosperous, and encourages the hope of their…
— Martin Van Buren
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In 1980, Atari was bringing in around two billion dollars in revenue and Chuck E. Cheese's some five hundred million. I still didn't feel too…
— Nolan Bushnell
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Hitler never abandoned the cloak of legality; he recognized the enormous psychological value of having the law on his side. Instead, he turned the law…
— Robert Byrd
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My kid was a great baseball player. I thought I had it made. Front-row seats at Yankee Stadium. Then he turned sixteen and wanted to…
— James Caan
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I have had four happy days in my life, and three of them turned out to be illusions.
— Taylor Caldwell
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The biggest danger to the European Union comes not from those who advocate change, but from those who denounce new thinking as heresy. In its…
— David Cameron
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I think the person who takes a job in order to live - that is to say, for the money - has turned himself into…
— Joseph Campbell
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I remember my wife wanted me to go see 'Contagion,' and I was like, 'Oh my God, why would I want to see that movie?'…
— Steve Carell
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Having your book turned into a movie is like seeing your oxen turned into bouillon cubes.
— John le Carre
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I'm so fast that last night I turned off the light switch in my hotel room and was in bed before the room was dark.
— Muhammad Ali
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The flood of print has turned reading into a process of gulping rather than savoring.
— Raymond Chandler
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When George Bush asked me to sign on, it obviously wasn't because he was worried about carrying Wyoming. We got 70 percent of the vote…
— Dick Cheney
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The blues are what I've turned to, what has given me inspiration and relief in all the trials of my life.
— Eric Clapton
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Who Rebels? Who rises in arms? Rarely the slave, but almost always the oppressor turned slave.
— Emile M. Cioran
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I've made up stuff that's turned out to be real, that's the spooky part.
— Tom Clancy
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