Turning Quotes

Marriage is like twirling a baton, turning hand springs or eating with chopsticks. It looks easy until you try it.

From a certain point onward there is no longer any turning back. That is the point that must be reached.

I'm concerned that boys have become politically incorrect, that we are a society in the process of turning against its male children.

I think TV is all about not turning off the public, it's about not being too sexy, not being too much of anything really.

All you hear Catholics turning out these days are pop versions of the old Protestant anthems.

If America wants to retain its position as a global power, its president must listen to the people and show strong leadership at this turning point in human history.

Ty Tryon made a lot of money after turning pro, but he might not have been ready. I don't want to make a lot of money for a couple of months and then not be ready.

The United States has done more for the war crimes tribunal than any other country in the world. We're turning over all the information we have, including intelligence information.

People think I must have been turning cartwheels on the night I sealed the movie deal - which was only two days after sealing the book deal - but I was really quite terrified.

I better make the plot good. I wanted to make it grip people on the first page and have a big turning point in the middle, as there is, and construct the whole thing like a roller coaster ride.

Mother is the first word that occurs to politicians and columnists and popes when they raise the question, 'Why isn't life turning out the way we want it?'

I didn't want to be told what to do. I don't want to water down my music to fit into their formats. I know what rock and roll is to me, but everything's turning into one big commercial.

Before turning pro, I would never have just left my skates sitting in the locker room unattended.

The Copernican revolution brought about by Kant was, I think, the most important single turning point in the history of philosophy.

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

When I first got pregnant, I freaked out. Then I had to remind myself: I'm turning 30.

I have a hard time getting motivated to do something that seems like a career move. I've gotten into vague trouble with my agents for turning down work that I thought was exploitative.

This is a government takeover of our healthcare system. It is the government basically running the entire healthcare system, turning large insurers into de facto public utilities, depriving people of choice, depriving people of options, raising people's prices, raising taxes when we need new jobs.

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

In closing, let me just thank God, on the floor of the House, for not turning away from us even though we seem to be turning away from Him.

Rather than turning away from the staggering scale and depth of misery caused by war, we must strive to develop our capacity to empathize and feel the sufferings of others.

It was in our power to cause the Arab governments to renounce the policy of strength toward Israel by turning it into a demonstration of weakness.

Happiness, contentment, the health and growth of the soul, depend, as men have proved over and over again, upon some simple issue, some single turning of the soul.

Most of us came out of Popeye, so turning Popeye into something believable was tricky enough.

The capacity for people to kid themselves is huge. Living on illusions or delusions, and the re-establishing of these illusions or delusions requires a big effort to keep them from being seen through. But a very old idea is at work behind our current state of affairs: enantiodromia, or the Greek notion of things turning into their opposite.

And you know, I've had great fun turning quite a lot of different industries on their head and making sure those industries will never be the same again, because Virgin went in and took them on.

I woke up on the plane this morning and was turning on my phone and I had to put my pin number in. That's when I realized that since the age of 10 I've been using 2012 as my pin number. But now that I've won gold in the 2012 Olympics, I've achieved that goal and, for the first time in 14 years, I'll have to change my pin.

Oh, I have to say Romana; she was much more fun to do but I did enjoy the Princess when she was turning bad.

I don't deserve any credit for turning the other cheek as my tongue is always in it.

I have been criticized and ridiculed for turning to astrology, but after a while, I reached the point where I didn't care.