Turning Quotes

1757 Turning quotes by 1375 unique authors

One night I was sitting on the bed in my hotel room on Buker Hill, down in the middle of Los Angeles. It was an… — John Fante
There are quite a number of people in the reading-room; but one is not aware of them. They are inside the books. They move, sometimes,… — Rainer Maria Rilke
And although I broke a lot of laws as a teenager, I straightened out immediately upon turning eighteen, when I realized the state had a… — George Carlin
If there really is such a thing as turning in one's grave, Shakespeare must get a lot of exercise. — George Orwell
Don't let it bring you down. It's only castles burning, find someone who's turning, and you will come around. — Neil Young
I got out on the street and started crying the kind of hysterical tears made justifiable only by turning off one’s cell phone, putting it… — Sloane Crosley
There are no events but thoughts and the heart's hard turning, the heart's slow learning where to love and whom. The rest is merely gossip,… — Annie Dillard
I feel myself shriveling along with my world, getting smaller and harder. I'm turning into a rock, and in some ways that's good, because rocks… — Susan Beth Pfeffer
I wondered if she was trying to convey something to me, something she could not put into words - something prior to words that she… — Haruki Murakami
My father was English. He date-raped my mother so she's hated English men ever since. You know my boyfriend's English, and I'm, uh, I'm half-English,… — Jeaniene Frost
Don't they always go from bad to worse? There's no turning back--your old self rejects you, and shuts you out. ~Lilly Bart — Edith Wharton
The problem, of course, was that turning into a monster was the brighter of my two choices. Choice Number 1: I turn into a vampyre,… — P. C. Cast
...what will we someday do, I always wonder, without the pleasures of turning through books and stumbling on things we never meant to find? — Elizabeth Kostova
A story begins with this nebulous feeling that’s hard to get a hold of and you’re testing your feelings and assumptions, testing what you believe.… — Michael Chabon
I left her there crying as I walked toward the gate. A piece of my soul had died when Dimitri had fallen. Turning my back… — Richelle Mead
Usually my form of turning someone down was shoving a stake through his heart while smirking, Gotcha! — Jeaniene Frost
An increase of tenderness always ended by boiling over and turning to indignation. He was at the point where we seek to adopt a course,… — Victor Hugo
Terror is the instinct that tells you to run, dear God, run, she murmured. Run for your life. But it just makes you into meat.… — Kat Richardson
The danger in happiness - "Now everything is turning out right for me; from now on i'll love every turn of fate - Who wants… — Friedrich Nietzsche
For it was Saturday night, the best and bingiest glad-time of the week, one of the fifty-two holidays in the slow-turning Big Wheel of the… — Alan Sillitoe
Nothing in life is worth, turning your back on, if you love it. — Albert Camus
You have a pet theory, one you have been turning over for years, that life itself is a kind of Rube Goldberg device, an extremely… — Kevin Brockmeier
Like fanning through a deck of cards, my mind flashes on the thousand chances, trivial to profound, that converged to re-create this place. Any arbitrary… — Frances Mayes
Poetry is perhaps this: an Atemwende, a turning of our breath. Who knows, perhaps poetry goes its way—the way of art—for the sake of just… — Paul Celan
Dad always warned that it was misleading when one imagined people, when one sas them in the Mind's Eye, because one never remembered them as… — Marisha Pessl

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