Turning Quotes

I didn't really start writing music or lyrics or turning them into songs until I went to San Francisco.

The turning point really is just knowing you're an imbecile.

An inborn tendency toward science turning it into a lifelong commitment.

It's totally mistaken to suppose that an armed escort is going to give a journalist any protection - on the contrary, journalists who turn up surrounded by armed personnel are just turning themselves into targets and in even worse danger.

At 23 it was all about acting. Today it's getting my kids to school, making sure that they've done their homework. I'm in my fifties, and I'm turning into a square. I saw a kid walk into a restaurant the other day and his belt was below his backside. I would have turned him away.

God may be in the details, but the goddess is in the questions. Once we begin to ask them, there's no turning back.

There is nothing better than playing a bad girl for two months, then turning around and playing someone sweet. Films give you this opportunity.

As I have been saying for more than a year now, turning this vital mission over to the Iraqi people as soon as possible should remain a topic of debate for Congress while relying on our military commanders to set up the timetable.

If you have nothing but love for your avocados, and you take joy in turning them into guacamole, all you need is someone to share it with.

Like every other girl in the world, my most embarrassing moment had to do with a guy completely turning me down. His loss!

Turning corporations loose and letting the profit motive run amok is not a prescription for a more livable world.

Without television and mass communication, that knowledge wouldn't exist. So I think it actually has the possibility of turning people into more understanding and more empathetic people.

Turning 50 changed me and I'm far more accepting of myself. I'm not thin, but I am a size 10. I go in at the middle and very much out at the bottom and top. And now I think, 'Well, that's how I am.'

Candidate Obama promised to fundamentally transform America and that's one promise he has kept. Turning a shining city on a hill into a sinking ship.

Speed kills colour... the gyroscope, when turning at full speed, shows up gray.

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

Come on, come on! And there'll be no turning back! You were only killing time and it can kill you right back. Come on, come on! It's time to burn up the fuse. You got nothing to do and even less to lose.

I wouldn't mind turning into a vermilion goldfish.

Behold a worthy sight, to which the God, turning his attention to his own work, may direct his gaze. Behold an equal thing, worthy of a God, a brave man matched in conflict with evil fortune.

The turning point for me was when the Supreme Court installed Bush in 2000, even though he got half a million votes less nationally than Gore. It was nothing more than a bloodless coup and that's when I really started paying attention.

I know this sounds strange, but as a kid, I was really shy. Painfully shy. The turning point was freshman year, when I was the biggest geek alive. No one, I mean no one, even talked to me.

There is no turning back.

I am basically turning football players into sprinters for a while. When we first talked about it, I didn't know how my expertise could be used.

What I do is draw but if you make an animated feature obviously it takes a whole team of people, and Zippy is my work. I felt that turning it over to a team of people would be wrong.

We grow tired of everything but turning others into ridicule, and congratulating ourselves on their defects.

The big turning point, really, was the Beatles' influence on American folk music, and then Roger took it to the next step, and then along came the Lovin' Spoonful and everybody else.

And you see many people just turning away from these channels of mass media, and they're just turning in to alternative providers, because they just see what's happening.

Turning the Internet over to the U.N. or some other phony international organization would be a disaster, and I am not willing to stand by and let it happen.

I understand that one of the purposes of bipartisanship is to cram something difficult and necessary down the American people's gullets for which neither party has the fortitude to assume full responsibility. It's a way of turning a possible gangplank into a teeter-totter.

A boy can learn a lot from a dog: obedience, loyalty, and the importance of turning around three times before lying down.