Turned Quotes
3567 Turned quotes by 2409 unique authors
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All my life I have gone out on a limb, but I have turned the limb into a bridge, and there is cool, clear water…
— Holly Near
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I just turned 66, and I'm starting to work again.
— Lee Majors
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Over the years Woodstock got glorified and romanticised and became the event that symbolised Utopia. It's the last page of our collective memory of the…
— Ang Lee
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Remember how excited you were when you turned five years old. Today, you should be 10 times that excited. Happy 50th birthday!
— Franklin P. Adams
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I recently turned 60. Practically a third of my life is over.
— Woody Allen
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And I'm a believer that you take a negative and turn it into a positive, and as it turned out, it was one of the…
— Nolan Ryan
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One time he (Cool Papa Bell) hit a line drive right past my ear. I turned around and saw the ball hit his ass sliding…
— Satchel Paige
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Once - many, many years ago - I thought I made a wrong decision. Of course, it turned out that I had been right all…
— John Foster Dulles
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My mother turned into a professional widow. She couldnt understand why I wanted to be an engineer; she thought I should be a chicken farmer.
— David Antin
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It may be true that my desk here is really 'nothing but' a transient eddy of electrons in the flux of universal process. Nevertheless, I…
— Edward Abbey
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I had never liked, even feared a little, this wild reach of marsh and mud flats where everything seemed turned away from the land, looking…
— John Banville
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For a great many people, the evening is the most enjoyable part of the day. Perhaps, then, there is something to his advice that I…
— Kazuo Ishiguro
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The fantasy never got beyond that—I didn’t let it—and though the tears rolled down my face, I wasn’t sobbing or out of control. I just…
— Kazuo Ishiguro
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Never mind that the story had turned out to be lies and foolishness—there was always folks stupid enough to say, Where there's smoke there's fire,…
— Orson Scott Card
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The sun burnt every day. It burnt Time. The world rushed in a circle and turned on its axis and time was busy burning the…
— Ray Bradbury
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This life as you now live it and have lived it, you will have to live once more and innumerable times more; and there will…
— Friedrich Nietzsche
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The failure of the reformation to capture France had left for the Frenchmen no half-way house between infallibility and infidelity; and while the intellect of…
— Will Durant
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To be turned from one's course by men's opinions, by blame, and by misrepresentation shows a man unfit to hold an office.
— Unknown Author
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Too often in the past, we have thought of the artist as an idler and dilettante and of the lover of arts as somehow sissy…
— John F. Kennedy
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God, how pointless and empty the world is! Days filled with cheap and tarnished moments succeed each other, restless and haunted nights follow in bitter…
— Malcolm Lowry
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Princess Diana talking to Prince William about the loss of her title Her Royal Highness: She turned to William in her distress. She (Princess Diana)…
— Paul Burrell
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Very quickly a painting is turned into a facsimile of itself when one becomes so familiar with with it that one recognizes it without looking…
— Robert Rauschenberg
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As my mom wiped the tears from my face, she said, 'Tyra, you know what we’re going to do about this? We’re going to go…
— Tyra Banks
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Whence shall come the new barbarians? Go through the squalid quarters of great cities, and you may see, even now, their gathering hordes! How shall…
— Henry George
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The magnitude of this event (9/11) turned the world into a scary place. And perhaps the scariest part of all was that these terrorists believed…
— Nonie Darwish
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