Turns Quotes
7697 Turns quotes by 4468 unique authors
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There are signs that Allah will grant Islam victory in Europe - without swords, without guns, without conquests. The 50 million Muslims of Europe will…
— Muammar al-Gaddafi
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When a gay person turns his back on you, it is anything but an insult; it's an invitation.
— Rush Limbaugh
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It turns out I have clinical schizophrenia. The unborn chicken voices were telling me to kill my family.
— Thom Yorke
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It's impossible being me, I radiate a glow that makes others turn and grimace in horror as if staring into the sun.
— Thom Yorke
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Being in a band turns you into a child and keeps you there.
— Thom Yorke
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Describe a circle, stroke its back and it turns vicious.
— Eugene Ionesco
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I personally would like to bring a tortoise onto the stage, turn it into a racehorse, then into a hat, a song, a dragoon and…
— Eugene Ionesco
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People ask me, 'Don't you ever run out of ideas?' In the first place I don't use ideas. Every time I have an idea it's…
— Robert Rauschenberg
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The deeper the blue becomes, the more strongly it calls man towards the infinite, awakening in him a desire for the pure and, finally, for…
— Wassily Kandinsky
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Hope I die before I turn into Pete Townshend. It would look ridiculous to do what we're doing now when I'm 40. That's why I…
— Kurt Cobain
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You may ask what kind of a republic I dream of. Let me reply: I dream of a republic independent, free, and democratic, of a…
— Vaclav Havel
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Star Wars is adolescent nonsense; Close Encounters is obscurist drivel; ‘Star Trek’ can turn your brains into puree of bat guano; and the greatest science…
— Harlan Ellison
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A phrase is born into the world both good and bad at the same time. The secret lies in a slight, an almost invisible twist.…
— Isaac Babel
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Laughter keeps you healthy. You can survive by seeing the humor in everything. Thumb your nose at sadness; turn the tables on tragedy. You can’t…
— Bel Kaufman
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In the end dreams became his life, and his whole life thereafter took a strange turn: one might say he slept while waking and watched…
— Nikolai Gogol
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Modernism is about space. Postmodernism is about communication. You should do what turns you on.
— Robert Venturi
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Some folks are natural born kickers. They can always find a way to turn disaster into butter,
— Katherine Paterson
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I want you to be afraid to turn the page (and to do that) you need to show right from the beginning that you're playing…
— George R. R. Martin
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Our live experiences, fixed in aphorisms, stiffen into cold epigrams. Our heart's blood, as we write it, turns to mere dull ink.
— F. H. Bradley
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I am interested in the way that we look at a given landscape and take possession of it in our blood and brain. None of…
— N. Scott Momaday
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As my mom wiped the tears from my face, she said, 'Tyra, you know what we’re going to do about this? We’re going to go…
— Tyra Banks
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When the devil grows old he turns hermit.
— Ludovico Ariosto
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When a friend, then, indulges in the joy unburdening a secret on to another friend's bosom, he makes the latter, in his turn, feel the…
— Alessandro Manzoni
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One can make this generalization about men: they are ungrateful, fickle, liars, and deceivers, they shun danger and are greedy for profit; while you treat…
— Niccolo Machiavelli
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With a tear for the dark past, turn we then to the dazzling future, and, veiling our eyes, press forward. The long and weary winter…
— Edward Bellamy
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