Turn Quotes

There were 15 people in the village, including five of us. If my father arrested somebody in the winter, he'd have to wait until the thaw to turn him in.

When you turn your heart and your life over to Christ, when you accept Christ as the savior, it changes your heart.

Whenever a situation develops to its extreme, it is bound to turn around and become its opposite.

I've had people turn up to book signings with knives, with guns.

It would have been nice for Greg to eventually grow into a mature relationship with Laura. He was moving toward that already but then took a turn into the juvenile with Paige.

When you turn from one room to the next, when your animal senses no longer perceive the sounds of the dishwasher, the ticking clock, the smell of a chicken roasting - the kitchen and all its seemingly discrete bits dissolve into nothingness - or into waves of probability.

I don't know if my agent will be upset but I quoted him saying that he would jump out a window if I turn down another project.

I always give the example, if you turn on the radio today, black radio, Lenny Kravitz is not black. Bob Marley wasn't black: in the beginning, only white college stations played Bob Marley.

Analysts may be correct that the presidential election won't primarily turn on entitlements reform, but by choosing Paul Ryan as his running mate, Mitt Romney can, contrary to conventional wisdom, make it a winning issue and lay the foundation for a reform mandate when he wins.

The worst possible turn can not be programmed. It is caused by coincidence.

It's been real weird. It wasn't how I expected my life to turn out. Especially, mainly pertaining to the show. It never crossed my mind that one day I'm gonna be big and famous and have my own TV show, you know?

Human beings want to be free and however long they may agree to stay locked up, to stay oppressed, there will come a time when they say 'That's it.' Suddenly they find themselves doing something that they never would have thought they would be doing, simply because of the human instinct that makes them turn their face towards freedom.

The mastery of the turn is the story of how aviation became practical as a means of transportation. It is the story of how the world became small.

Some people turn from God because they cannot understand how a good God can permit evil in the world.

Another turn in my life happened when I took on the Canada Council.

Turn on, Tune in, Drop out.

The expansion of the market creates a need for enhanced and more regular supply, and this in turn impels commercial capital to acquire control of production as well.

Also, an area that interests me - and it will probably take years to state what I mean - is the period of the rise of democracy, with Tom Paine, which is around the turn of the 18th century into the 19th.

The future comes quickly. Before you know it, you turn around and it's tomorrow.

It's not magic! It's physics. The speed of the turn is what keeps you upright. It's like a spinning top.

I'm floored that the House leadership would turn its back on job creation for Mississippians.

If I were a Roman Catholic, I should turn a heretic, in sheer desperation, because I would rather go to heaven than go to purgatory.

You try to stay within the rules for the sake of the game, but you can always turn up the intensity.

At every turn, when humanity is asked the question, 'Do you want temporary economic gain or long-term environmental loss, which one do you prefer,' we invariably choose the money.

People have to eat and it's good to have a last-resort dole they can turn to.

I never want to turn something down because I'm afraid to do it, because of some idea of image or whatever. That was never anything I set out to do. In fact, the opposite, I always want to confuse people in terms of any kind of image and be unpredictable in any kind of movie I make.

I would love to work with Adam Sandler. Because then all I'd have to do is just turn the camera on and off.

There are three things men can do with women: love them, suffer for them, or turn them into literature.

Usually, when people get to the end of a chapter, they close the book and go to sleep. I deliberately write a book so when the reader gets to the end of the chapter, he or she must turn one more page.

For me, the most fun is change or growth. There are definitely elements of both that I like. Launching a business is kind of like a motorboat: You can go very quickly and turn fast.