Turns 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.

Beauty is composed of an eternal, invariable element whose quantity is extremely difficult to determine, and a relative element which might be, either by turns or all at once, period, fashion, moral, passion.

On the set I make jokes I can't get too involved, or it turns into sentimental soup. I try to keep it light.

Where every something, being blent together turns to a wild of nothing.

Readers probably haven't heard much about it yet, but they will. Quantum technology turns ordinary reality upside down.

Some people aren't touchy-feely, but I grew up in a family where you'd walk into the family room and there'd be five people on the couch with an arm here, an arm there, everyone scratching and taking turns.

We found that when people put this issue on the table, it turns out that men acknowledge the issue, and employers and employees can work out solutions just as working mothers do.

The major difference between a thing that might go wrong and a thing that cannot possibly go wrong is that when a thing that cannot possibly go wrong goes wrong it usually turns out to be impossible to get at and repair.

Our humor turns our anger into a fine art.

At the age of about eight years, if he is a boy, she turns him over to his father for more Spartan training.

A society that thinks the choice between ways of living is just a choice between equally eligible "lifestyles" turns universities into academic cafeterias offering junk food for the mind.

Old friendships are like meats served up repeatedly, cold, comfortless, and distasteful. The stomach turns against them.

Having those extra dimensions and therefore many ways the string can vibrate in many different directions turns out to be the key to being able to describe all the particles that we see.

All of our songs take these really big creative turns and twists throughout the process, so sometimes songs will start out as a melody or some musical chord progressions.

If you live long enough, you'll see that every victory turns into a defeat.

Man is an idea, and a precious small idea once he turns his back on love.

It's a comedy thriller, brilliantly written and it's full of twists and turns at every page. When I was reading it I was desperate to get to the end to find out what happens, it really hooks you.

When you are on assignment, film is the least expensive thing in a very practical sense. Your time, the person's time, turns out to be the most valuable thing.

It wouldn't be a Carrie Underwood album without a revenge song on it. People really like when I do that. I don't mean to. I don't hate men that much. But it turns out so well!

A Protestant has seldom any mercy shown him, and a Jew, who turns Christian, is far from being secure.

We usually break our records every Monday, so we'll see what turns up tonight after midnight. Next month it'll probably be higher, which is always weird.

Being in a band turns you into a child and keeps you there.

It turns out umpires and judges are not robots or traffic cameras, inertly monitoring deviations from a fixed zone of the permissible. They are humans.

Stanley Kramer? Spencer Tracy? No one turns down being in a movie with them.

Things don't turn up in this world until somebody turns them up.

But I felt all the more bound to make this proposal, because it at once turns to a reproach.

If the conditions were right there could be great acceptance. Often it is only when they pose an economic or political threat that it turns really ugly.

The Germans certainly - the intelligence service believed that there were WMD. It turns out that we were all wrong, probably in my judgment, and that is most disturbing.

What we call Man's power over Nature turns out to be a power exercised by some men over other men with Nature as its instrument.

Unless you have a sense of values that's shared by people and turns them loose to do certain things on their own within those sets of values, the organization, whether a nation or corporation or citizen group, just doesn't work very well.