Turned Quotes

3567 Turned quotes by 2409 unique authors

The work of preservation demands that the feelings playing about in one's guts not be turned into action. Just watch their passing like cherry blossoms. — Maxine Hong Kingston
I taught in the Academy from the opening of the schools until I was turned out, a period much longer than I should have permitted… — Thomas Eakins
If Lee Harvey Oswald had nothing to do with President Kennedy's assassination and was framed....this otherwise independent and defiant would-be revolutionary, who disliked taking orders… — Vincent Bugliosi
A woman once described a friend of hers as being such a keen listener that even the trees leaned toward her, as if they were… — Linda Hogan
With my eyes turned to the past, I walk backwards into the future. — Yohji Yamamoto
I've turned down Barcelona, Inter Milan, Juventus and Manchester United to play here. I hope everyone already knows how much it means to me to… — Alan Shearer
Rough spots sharpen our performance. And more often than not, obstacles can be turned into advantages. You just can't let your disappointment get in the… — Harvey Mackay
At the opening of our exhibition at Deitch Projects in New York we featured a wall of 10,000 bananas. Green bananas created a pattern against… — Stefan Sagmeister
I was a completely normal kid, the school nerd. In Year 8 and 9 I got picked on. I was a freak- no one understood… — Darren Hayes
My steamboat voyage to Albany and back, has turned out rather more favorable than I had calculated. The distance from New York to Albany is… — Robert Fulton
I haven't got a heart: only the former site of one, with a monument there to say that it has been removed and the area… — T.E. Lawrence
My boyfriend dumped me. My best friend won't talk to me. My future is in a garbage can. Everything has turned to crap. Can you… — J J Johnson
There was that sense of we had turned the corner. All of that time, all of that work, all of that effort – we were… — Eric Mangini
I turned everybody on so, psychologically, I guess I was pushing the boundaries creativity. — Jim Capaldi
Coaching and teaching are two different things. The coaching never turned me on that much, but I always enjoyed the teaching, the practice sessions. — Pete Newell
So, I was just a young guy, maybe with an idea, and Cecil Taylor, himself a rebel, would take a chance on a guy like… — Archie Shepp
I never turned down a movie because they wouldn't give me enough money. — Jason Patric
So after a long time of utilizing the American propaganda machine, along with official statements of lies, distortion and falsehood, the focus was basically turned… — Naji Sabri
The EU report speaks for itself. The statement in my view shows that the mission has turned out to be something worse than a farce,… — Meles Zenawi
My own will and desires were now very much broken, and my heart was with much earnestness turned to the Lord, to whom alone I… — John Woolman
For a fortnight nobody at all emailed me, or posted a follow-up. Doesn't anyone care, I thought? It turned out my newsreader was broken, and… — Graham Nelson
But I loved the script to 7th Heaven and couldn't say no. It made me laugh and cry, and I was hooked. I'd love to… — Stephen Collins
The big new development in my life is, when I turned 80, I decided I no longer have to do four pages a day. For… — Frederik Pohl
I thought I might say something to newsmen that could be turned into a scandal. — George Stevens
Naturally enough when I was a young dancer, I was terribly anxious to get ahead, and to get ahead quickly. I was impatient with all… — Anna Neagle

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