Turning Quotes

'Jaws' was the definitive filmmaking turning point for me. It came out in the summer of '75 and I saw it an obsessive 55 times. They even ran a very embarrassing article about me in the local paper, about the weird kid who's seen 'Jaws' 55 times.

At times, we were forced to go through a history of dependence, unable to determine our own destiny. But today, we are at the threshold of a new turning point.

I love turning my daughter on to old movies.

The goldenrod is yellow, The corn is turning brown, The trees in apple orchards With fruit are bending down.

My mother was right when she said that turning pro would take away my youth.

I was being called to surrender the very citadel of my self. I was completely in the dark. I did not really know what repentance was or what I was required to repent of. It was indeed the turning point of my life.

In search of a complete education with the ideals of trust, faith, understanding and compassion, many families are turning to the structure, discipline and academic standards of Catholic schools.

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.

You don't change the course of history by turning the faces of portraits to the wall.

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

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.

There is something so settled and stodgy about turning a great romance into next of kin on an emergency room form, and something so soothing and special, too.

The British Red Cross asked me to help them spearhead a fundraising campaign for the victims of the war in Nicaragua. It was a turning point in my life. It began my commitment to justice and human rights issues.

The real success in golf lies in turning three shots into two.

No more turning a blind eye to Chinese spies in our nuclear labs. No more keeping silent about Chinese slave labor camps.

Human folly does not impede the turning of the stars.

Men's fortunes are on a wheel, which in its turning suffers not the same man to prosper for ever.

I did a terrible television pilot that was so badly written and dumb that it became a turning point for me and I decided that I would never accept a job just because I needed the money.

What they are doing is taking something that otherwise creates pollution and turning it into something useful.

This is what Hollywood tends to do. It tends to disregard tradition, history and anything factual, twisting it and turning it and making it all okay regardless of what the English may think of it.

Steve Jobs didn't really set the direction of my Apple I and Apple II designs but he did the more important part of turning them into a product that would change the world. I don't deny that.

All the breaks you need in life wait within your imagination, Imagination is the workshop of your mind, capable of turning mind energy into accomplishment and wealth.

Writing songs has always been hard and easy. It's not always easy when you want it to be, and then sometimes it's just like turning on the faucet. That's just the nature of it.

In turning from the smaller instruments in frequent use to the larger and more important machines, the economy arising from the increase of velocity becomes more striking.

There is just no getting around that turning bad things into good things is up to you.

A page is turning for me. I won't be candidate in legislative elections, nor in any elections to come.

Hubert Humphrey talks so fast that listening to him is like trying to read Playboy magazine with your wife turning the pages.

We bring together the best ideas - turning the meetings of our top managers into intellectual orgies.