Turning Quotes

1757 Turning quotes by 1375 unique authors

I imagined my soul taking in these words like silicated water in the Petrified Forest, turning my wood to patterned agate. I liked it when… — Janet Fitch
And yet, in each human coupling, a thousand million sperm vie for a single egg. Multiply those odds by countless generations, against the odds of… — Alan Moore
And Flock Rule Number Two is, Don't argue with Max or you'll live to regret it." I spun and stomped out to the clearing, turning… — James Patterson
All I can do is lie here, brain turning somersaults. It's nights like these when memories stir, whipping themselves into stiff peaks of pain. — Ellen Hopkins
Sometimes you never feel meaner than the moment you stop being mean. It's like how turning on a light makes you realize how dark the… — Rebecca Stead
What can you do if you are thirty and, turning the corner of your own street, you are overcome, suddenly, by a feeling of bliss… — Katherine Mansfield
Without turning on the light, I went to my bed and lay down, my arm thrown across the mattress, my hand aching because Grace wasn't… — Maggie Stiefvater
I must admit I’m impressed, Sadie. You controlled your magic and controlled Isis. And you, Carter, did well turning into a lizard. — Rick Riordan
Habit is necessary. It is the habit of having habits, of turning a trail into a rut, that must be incessantly fought against if one… — Edith Wharton
Adieu, Lord Dain,” she answered without turning her head. “Have a pleasant evening with your cows.” Cows? She was merely trying to provoke him, Dain… — Loretta Chase
Tobias asked. "Weird? Weird?" Marco crowed. "The talking bird wants to know if getting information on the location of an alien from a whale, that… — Katherine Applegate
A submissive spirit might be patient, a strong understanding would supply resolution, but here was something more; here was that elasticity of mind, that disposition… — Jane Austen
We all to some extent meet again and again the same people and certainly in some cases form a kind of family of two or… — William Butler Yeats
A wise man from my home once told me that these mountains have seen far too much suffering and killing, and that each rock and… — Greg Mortenson
Nathanial can show me how to better control the change, but even so, you never have to worry about me turning into a cat again.… — Jeaniene Frost
Look, I guess it's natural, you're teenagers, its springtime,everyone's thoughts are turning to birds and bees and caterpillars and moths..... - Iggy — James Patterson
XXIX Traveler, there is no path. The path is made by walking. Traveller, the path is your tracks And nothing more. Traveller, there is no… — Antonio Machado
He was silent for a moment, staring out the window into the rain; I imagined he was contemplating the fact that his family's presence was… — Stephenie Meyer
I did what most writers do at their beginnings: emulated my elders, imitated my peers, thus turning away from any possibility of discovering truths beneath… — Ray Bradbury
She took comfort in the soft occasional sound of turning pages. — Lauren Kate
Humans! They lived in a world where the grass continued to be green and the sun rose every day and flowers regularly turned into fruit,… — Terry Pratchett
If you have no past or no future, which, after all, is all that the present is made of, why then you may as well… — Sylvia Plath
It is a painful thing to say to oneself: by choosing one road I am turning my back on a thousand others. Everything is interesting;… — Antonin Sertillanges
So, like I asked, what’s with the nightie?” “It smells like what I always think mothers smell like,” I tell him honestly, knowing I don’t… — Melina Marchetta
Madness is not what it seems. Time stops. All my life I've been obsessed with time, its motion and velocity, the way it works you… — Marya Hornbacher

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