Turning Quotes

The trick is the paradox - turning your story inside out. Now if it is something that appears to be of total normality and then suddenly turns inside out and is a different thing all together then that's fun to write.

I think that turning on the charm without being fake is really important.

The media's power is frail. Without the people's support, it can be shut off with the ease of turning a light switch.

I got a book deal without even turning in one shred of a writing sample.

This lady is not for turning.

I don't need arms, and neither does anyone else... At the very least, a ban would prevent fights from turning deadly.

It turns out that the 'Cry It Out' method of baby sleep training, where you ignore that your kid is screaming, crying and turning 40 shades of purple so that she can break herself out of the habit of being spoiled and cuddled to sleep, does more harm - way more - than good.

I think film had a terrible effect on horror fiction particularly in the 80s, with certain writers turning out stuff as slick and cliched as Hollywood movies.

Chi Chi Rodriguez had as good a pair of hands as anybody I ever saw, and more shots than you can imagine. But Chi Chi had a habit of turning simple shots into difficult ones.

It was such a turning point to find that I had a talent and I had something to contribute, somewhere.

I've been getting a lot of science fiction scripts which contained variations on my 'Star Trek' character and I've been turning them down. I strongly feel that the next role I do, I should not be wearing spandex.

Well I travelled quite a lot in the east, and one of the things that impressed me greatly was the buddhist notion of the continuity of things, the wheel of life which is what we're talking about, the ever turning wheel.

Turning 16 is kind of scary because when you're 16, you go from being a kid and then you can drive and are more of a young adult in a way.

I've grown so much since 1996. I think that was the turning point of when I started to go to church every Sunday and not just because you're supposed to. But because you enjoy going and listening to the Word and being excited about it.

No one can go on being a rebel too long without turning into an autocrat.

If you see the President, tell him from me that whatever happens there will be no turning back.

The problem with the future is that it keeps turning into the present.

To some extent at that time, we injected rock and roll into that scene- we played loud and that was a huge turning point for that scene. We were involved in playing with all those people.

The individual always realizes only one of the possibilities in its development, which could always have taken a different turning whenever it has to make an important decision.

There's nothing like turning on the radio and listening to the high-speed chase that you're leading police on!

I think we've all been kind of... everyone's been hurt, everyone's felt loss, everyone has exultation, everyone has a need to be loved, or to have lost love, so when you play a character, you're pulling out those little threads and turning them up a bit.

Unwearied ceaseless effort is the price that must be paid for turning faith into a rich infallible experience.

We are turning against boys and forgetting a simple truth: that the energy, competitiveness, and corporal daring of normal, decent males is responsible for much of what is right in the world.

I don't believe in right-angled turning points.

You looked at Stanford or Harvard, or the University of Colorado, these were powerful engines just turning out people ready to create and grow businesses.

The argument for getting our own house in order is not an argument for turning our back on the world. We cannot and should not do that.

I don't have ugly ducklings turning into swans in my stories. I have ugly ducklings turn into confident ducks.

I have had a few turning points, the first day I entered a gymnastics school at age 6.

Somali is turning into a desert. Rwanda, you can hardly find a place to plant a potato, it's so crowded.

There are severe limitations on civil rights. In the international arena, Iran is turning into an isolated country, and the international community is becoming more hostile toward it.