Turned Quotes

My life turned out to be beyond my greatest dreams.

The large ensemble cast and the fact that it was being shot in New York, combined with a lot of strong positive images as far as African Americans are concerned, really turned me on to The Best Man.

I turned down 'Some Like It Hot.' See how smart I am? I felt I couldn't bring anything funny to it. The outfit was funny. I don't need to compete with the wardrobe.

The United States' gasoline industry, as Hurricanes Katrina and Rita demonstrated, is remarkably fragile. And the process of how oil is pumped from the ground, turned into gasoline and distributed to consumers is complicated.

All of them turned their backs on me at that time because they thought I was a troublemaker.

Know, thou, that the lines that live are turned out of a furrowed brow.

I lost agents and managers because I turned down big movies that were smutty.

I'm trying to look at my blessings and how amazingly well against all odds things have turned out for me.

The condition of the tribes which occupy the country set apart for them in the West is highly prosperous, and encourages the hope of their early civilization. They have for the most part abandoned the hunter state and turned their attention to agricultural pursuits.

So I applied to medical school and received a scholarship at Washington University in St. Louis. Washington University turned out to be a lucky choice. The faculty was scholarly and dedicated and accessible to students.

I began imagining scenes in public which some drunk would come up to me and slap me in the face. Nothing like that ever happened, but I often wonder if I would have turned the other cheek.

However, many skilled medical volunteers are turned away because community health centers cannot afford to cover their additional medical liability insurance.

The work of an advertising agency is warmly and immediately human. It deals with human needs, wants, dreams and hopes. Its 'product' cannot be turned out on an assembly line.

For a fortnight nobody at all emailed me, or posted a follow-up. Doesn't anyone care, I thought? It turned out my newsreader was broken, and hadn't posted at all.

I'm delighted by how Nobody's Fool turned out. It was a rare movie.

I learned a lot from Vietnam veterans, especially as some of them turned against their own war.

We went through all the scenes and they became kind of funny and they expanded a little bit and because it seemed to be working so well in the movie, they added a couple of things later on in the movie and that's how it turned out.

My mother-in-law had a pain beneath her left breast. Turned out to be a trick knee.

I turned on VH1 this morning just to get a little warm-up before I came over here, and I think it's just terrific. There's so much great stuff: diverse and wonderful music, good performances, great looking girls, great videos, the whole thing.

After Barbarossa and Pearl Harbor, the war tide slowly turned against the Axis.

Whenever I've chosen a song because it's clever, it's always turned out to be a mistake.

I never regretted what I turned down.

Faulkner turned out to be a great teacher. When a student asked a question ineptly, he answered the question with what the student had really wanted to know.

Gary Cooper was a good friend. He was a great nature lover. He was like an American Indian, he knew every leaf that was turned over. It was an education to go for a walk with him.

After this, I took private lessons in Italian from an elementary school teacher. He gave me themes to write about, and some of them turned out so well that he told me to publish them in a newspaper.

Well, after the divorce, I went home and turned all the lights on!

There are some liberals eager to embrace a culture void of morals, but the majority of America is made up of honest, hard-working families who turned out in droves to protect the traditional way of life.

My wife and I have been together since 1986. I graduated in '86 and she graduated in '88. We began dating when she was 17. Actually she turned 18 when we started kissing and stuff.

The US military still blames the media for stories and images that turned the American public against the war in Vietnam.

You heard on all sides that the brightest Jewish children were turned down if the examining officers did not like the turn of their noses.