Turned Quotes

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I turned on the pillow with a little moan, and at this juncture Jeeves entered with the vital oolong. I clutched at it like a… — P.G. Wodehouse
Usually a life turned into a poem is misrepresented. — Mark Strand
Vengeance is having a videotape planted in your soul that cannot be turned off. It plays the painful scene over and over again inside your… — Lewis B. Smedes
The act of living had been enjoyable; at some point when I was not paying attention, it had turned into a different sort of experience,… — Paul Bowles
A novice was trying to fix a broken Lisp machine by turning the power off and on. Knight, seeing what the student was doing, spoke… — Danny Hillis
In a typical desperation for quick answers, easily understood, people had turned to primitive worship as the solution. With less than success. Not only had… — Richard Matheson
Thanks to the central bank, most ‘monetary experts’ and ‘leading macro-economists’ can, by putting them on the payroll, be turned into government propagandists ‘explaining,’ like… — Hans-Hermann Hoppe
If it is not strong upon your heart to practice what you read, to what end do you read? To increase your own condemnation? If… — Thomas Brooks
How dare we, all these stupid evangelists walking around telling men after they've made some little prayer that they need to write their name in… — Paul Washer
The avocation of assessing the failures of better men can be turned into a comfortable livelihood, providing you back it up with a Ph.D. — Nelson Algren
Contrary to what people say, my wife never turned me away from the presidency. She told me to reflect on it and do what I… — Jacques Delors
I'll (Phil Rizzuto) never forget September 6, 1950. I got a letter threatening me, Hank Bauer, Yogi Berra and Johnny Mize. It said if I… — Phil Rizzuto
The things I thought were so important -- because of the effort I put into them -- have turned out to be of small value.… — Thomas Merton
After his first training session in heaven, George Best, from the favourite right wing, turned the head of God who was filling in at left… — Eric Cantona
People in debt become hopeless and hopeless people don’t vote. They always say that that everyone should vote but I think that if the poor in… — Tony Benn
Sadly, a U.S. invasion of Iraq 'would threaten the whole stability of the Middle East' - or so Amr Moussa, secretary-general of the Arab League,… — Mark Steyn
When I went in, my editor said, ‘I hope you don’t think you’re a writer.’ And I said, ‘I hope you don’t think I’m a… — Julia Cameron
I've turned over a new leaf. On TV, Kenny Wallace said I was a pessimist after Charlotte, so I got mad. Now I am so… — Mark Martin
Art in relation to life is nothing more than a glove turned inside out. It seems to have the same shapes and contours, but it… — Morton Feldman
The mind turned inwards is the Self; turned outwards, it becomes the ego and all the world. Cotton made into various clothes we call by… — Ramana Maharshi
It makes me mad when people say I turned and ran like a scared rabbit. Maybe it was like an angry rabbit, who was running… — Jack Handey
You can't just turn on when something happens, you have to be turned on all the time. Then things happen. — Jay Maisel
Once I turned pro, so to speak, I put away childish things forever. — Glenn Gould
Whether at home or abroad, the task of statesman is to work with human nature warts and all, and to draw on instincts and even… — Margaret Thatcher
When in August 1793 a British delegation showed their hosts a terrestrial globe, it turned into a diplomatic incident, for the Chinese were furious to… — Margaret Thatcher

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