Turning Quotes

1757 Turning quotes by 1375 unique authors

A kiss can be like the world turning over. It can be like the tide of a dragon's dream washing through the unseen world that… — Kate Elliott
Jobs insisted that Apple focus on just two or three priorities at a time. “There is no one better at turning off the noise that… — Walter Isaacson
What are the five products you want to focus on? Get rid of the rest, because they’re dragging you down. They’re turning you into Microsoft.… — Walter Isaacson
Books smell and feel better. They have that wonderful thingness of turning the pages. — Neil Gaiman
The sound of the pages turning was the sound of magic. The dry liquid feel of paper under fingertips was what magic felt like. — Emma Donoghue
Why did I not die? More miserable than man ever was before, why did I not sink into forgetfulness and rest? Death snatches away many… — Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
His head was swimming, and he was far from certain even of the direction they had been going in when he had his fall. He… — J.R.R. Tolkien
I don’t know [why we're here]. People sometimes say to me, ‘Why don’t you admit that the humming bird, the butterfly, the Bird of Paradise… — David Attenborough
How can I tell Bob that my happiness streams from having wrenched a piece out of my life, a piece of hurt and beauty, and… — Sylvia Plath
Rarely is it possible to study all of the instructions to a game before beginning to play, or to memorize the manual before turning on… — Mary Catherine Bateson
No single decision you ever made has led in a straight line to where you find yourself now. You peeked down some roads and took… — Deepak Chopra
To come to know that nothing is good, nothing is bad, is a turning point; it is a conversion. You start looking in; the outside… — Rajneesh
Folk in those stories had lots of chances of turning back, only they didn’t. They kept going. Because they were holding on to something. That… — J.R.R. Tolkien
I'm a writer and this is what I do no matter what name we put to it. Year by year, the world is turning into… — Charles de Lint
Colin emphatically pushed the book cover shut when he finished reading. "Did you like it?" His dad asked. "Yup," Colin said. He liked all books,… — John Green
Ask yourself these three questions, Tatiana Metanova, and you will know who you are. Ask: what do you believe in? What do you hope for?… — Paullina Simons
But I’ve been turning over in my mind the question of nostalgia, and whether I suffer from it. I certainly don’t get soggy at the… — Julian Barnes
Indolent and unworthy the beggar may be—but that is not your concern: It is better, said Joseph Smith, to feed ten impostors than to run… — Hugh Nibley
I swear, sometimes it feels like there's this monkey in my head who runs around turning the dials and changing channels on me. One minute… — Michael Thomas Ford
It's a date," Leo repeats, and we shake on it.Leo's mother sticks her head in the door. "You guys are too young to be dating!"… — Wendy Mass
It would be erroneous to say Sohrab was quiet. Quiet is peace. Tranquility. Quiet is turning down the volume knob on life. Silence is pushing… — Khaled Hosseini
...she merely wished to find a way out of the maze. She knew that she had become a burden to him: she took things too… — Milan Kundera
If you won't talk about yourself, at least compliment the audience. Just keep turning it back around, all right. Gush. — Suzanne Collins
As I thought of these things, I drew aside the curtains and looked out into the darkness, and it seemed to my troubled fancy that… — William Butler Yeats
Look, Mrs. McGillicuddy, it's not my fault your son jumped out a dorm room window on Christmas eve. I've written over fifty books as a… — Eric Foner

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