Turns Quotes

7697 Turns quotes by 4468 unique authors

Nothing turns off an investor more than when an entrepreneur comes in with a ridiculous valuation. — Kevin Harrington
It's often said that you learn more from defeat than victory and the RNC has certainly taken that to heart. After difficult losses in 2012,… — Alice Stewart
No one suggests that writing about science will turn the entire world into a model of judgment and creative thought. It will be enough if… — Isaac Asimov
For me, writing [was] a question of survival...I could not trust anyone, even my family. The atmosphere was so poisoned. People even in your own… — Gao Xingjian
I hate outlines. I have a broad sense of where the story is going; I know the end, I know the end of the principal… — George R. R. Martin
What I eventually realized is that the real business of books is not done by awards committees or people who turn trees into paper or… — John Green
Under fun's new administration, writing fiction becomes a way to go deep inside yourself and illuminate precisely the stuff you don't want to see or… — David Foster Wallace
I want the reader to turn the page and keep on turning to the end. — Barbara Tuchman
If you're going to be a writer, the first essential is just to write. Do not wait for an idea. Start writing something and the… — Louis L'Amour
It is defeat that turns bone to flint; it is defeat that turns gristle to muscle; it is defeat that makes men invincible. Do not… — Henry Ward Beecher
What is being said is the effect of something that has happened; at the same time, what is being said is in itself something happening,… — Elizabeth Bowen
Thus, in a real sense, I am constantly writing autobiography, but I have to turn it into fiction in order to give it credibility. — Katherine Paterson
Remember the street car cannot turn out. — Charles Melville Hays
Every now and again take a good look at something not made with hands - a mountain, a star, the turn of a stream. There… — Sid Lovett
We cannot ask forgiveness over and over again for our sins, and then return to our sins, expecting God to forgive us. We must turn… — Billy Graham
Youth! youth! how buoyant are thy hopes! they turn, like marigolds, toward the sunny side. — Jean Ingelow
Mathematics is the abstract key which turns the lock of the physical universe. — John Polkinghorne
All learning begins when our comfortable ideas turn out to be inadequate. — John Dewey
Chess can never reach its height by following in the path of science ... Let us, therefore, make a new effort and with the help… — Jose Raul Capablanca
I have always thought that if I could turn back the pages of history and photograph one man, my choice would be Moses. — Margaret Bourke-White
Many pictures turn out to be limp translations of the known world instead of vital objects which create an intrinsic world of their own. There… — Robert Heinecken
Photographs objectify: they turn an event or a person into something that can be possessed. — Susan Sontag
And having looked to Government for bread, on the very first scarcity they will turn and bite the hand that fed them. — Edmund Burke
He's a gift from heaven, he is truly a gift from heaven. Whatever he touches turns to gold. — Cristiano Ronaldo
The laws of nature may be operative up to a certain limit, beyond which they turn against themselves to give birth to the absurd. — Albert Camus

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