Turning Quotes
1757 quotes by 1375 authors
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The relation between what we see and what we know is never settled. Each evening we see the sun set. We know that the earth…
— John Berger
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The water crumbles on it's way down as my hands and feet push me forward. The world is lightening, taking shape, and turning to color.…
— Markus Zusak
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Has my heart gone to sleep? Have the beehives of my dreams stopped working, the waterwheel of the mind run dry, scoops turning empty, only…
— Antonio Machado
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Have you killed anyone?†she asked quickly. “What? Did you miss what I said, about turning murder into an art form?†“But you haven’t actually…
— Derek Landy
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The weird, weird thing about devastating loss is that life actually goes on. When you're faced with a tragedy, a loss so huge that you…
— James Patterson
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Turning away, I stared at the long road winding off ahead of me. I sighed. This trip might take awhile. "Then start walking, Rose," I…
— Richelle Mead
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She crossed the room to him, put her arms around him, clung to him, turning her face to the side, learning all at once that…
— Kristin Cashore
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Clear-cutting" was the word for what the Rusties had done to the old forests: felling every tree, killing every living thing, turning entire countries into…
— Scott Westerfeld
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As artist Nature splashes color across the vast canvas of the sky with the radiance and splendor of sunrise and sunset. She arches rainbows against…
— Wilferd Peterson
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Our leaders know we’re turning into a giant ghetto and they are taking every last hubcap they can get their hands on before the rest…
— Matt Taibbi
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Heaven, Kiwi thought, would be the reading room of a great library. But it would be private. Cozy. You wouldn’t have to worry about some…
— Karen Russell
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As though she had entered a fable, as though she were no more than words crawling along a dry page, or as though she were…
— Salman Rushdie
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The shortest unit of time in the multiverse is the New York Second, defined as the period of time between the traffic lights turning green…
— Terry Pratchett
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Dear God, Tatiana prayed in bed that night, turning to the wall and pulling the white sheet and the thin brown blanket over herself. If…
— Paullina Simons
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Ultima came to stay with us the summer I was almost seven. When she came the beauty of the llano unfolded before my eyes, and…
— Rudolfo Anaya
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When you plant a fertile meme in my mind you literally parasitize my brain, turning it into a vehicle for the meme's propagation in just…
— Richard Dawkins
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He nods. "My mum has one just the same and you have no idea how disturbing it is that it's turning me on.
— Melina Marchetta
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Every war has turning points and every person too.
— Meg Rosoff
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Surely we cannot take an open question like the supernatural and shut it with a bang, turning the key of the madhouse on all the…
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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The future is meant for those who are willing to let go of the worst parts of the past. When you cannot take two steps…
— Corey Taylor
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