Turns Quotes

Love is like a faucet, it turns off and on.

Our live experiences, fixed in aphorisms, stiffen into cold epigrams. Our heart's blood, as we write it, turns to mere dull ink.

Love is a perky elf dancing a merry little jig and then suddenly he turns on you with a miniature machine gun.

My plumbing is all screwed up. Because it turns out, I do not own a garbage disposal.

When something hasn't been around much for a while, and one example of it turns up and catches people's eyes, they go looking for more like it - until they get tired of it again.

I can feel very brave through all the action scenes in front of the people who are on the set, but when a girl comes close to me my face turns red because I'm so shy.

Psychotherapy theory turns it all on you: you are the one who is wrong. If a kid is having trouble or is discouraged, the problem is not just inside the kid; it's also in the system, the society.

Out in the lonely woods the jasmine burns Its fragrant lamps, and turns Into a royal court with green festoons The banks of dark lagoons.

If the theory turns out to be right, that will be tremendously thick and tasty icing on the cake.

Abused patience turns to fury.

It turns out that my memory is just not that great, so for specific scenes with people doing stuff, sometimes I'd have the details all wrong or I couldn't remember what happened exactly, so I just let that be.

Our Palestinian brethren continue to be slaughtered at the hands of Israelis while the world turns the other cheek.

When you work you are a flute through whose heart the whispering of the hours turns to music. Which of you would be a reed, dumb and silent, when all else sings together in unison?

When a fantasy turns you on, you're obligated to God and nature to start doing it - right away.

The artist is seen like a producer of commodities, like a factory that turns our refrigerators.

You can't trust water: Even a straight stick turns crooked in it.

All religion seems to need to prove that it's the only truth. And that's where it turns demonic. Because that's when you get religious wars and persecutions and burning heretics at the stake.

Even for practical purposes theory generally turns out the most important thing in the end.

The father of a daughter is nothing but a high-class hostage. A father turns a stony face to his sons, berates them, shakes his antlers, paws the ground, snorts, runs them off into the underbrush, but when his daughter puts her arm over his shoulder and says, 'Daddy, I need to ask you something,' he is a pat of butter in a hot frying pan.

I must say I find television very educational. The minute somebody turns it on, I go to the library and read a good book.

It is too great comfort which turns a man against himself. Life is most readily renounced at the time and among the classes where it is least harsh.

If you hit a midget on the head with a stick, he turns into 40 gold coins.

If a book I've committed myself to review turns out to be 'disappointing' I make an effort to present it objectively to the reader, including a good number of excerpts from the text, so that the reader might form his or her own opinion independent of my own.

You can't climb up to the second floor without a ladder. When you set your aim too high and don't fulfill it, then your enthusiasm turns to bitterness. Try for a goal that's reasonable, and then gradually raise it.

The perfect lover is one who turns into a pizza at 4:00 a.m.

Without tolerance, our world turns into hell.

Everything I touch turns to gold.

I've never made a film that I didn't believe in, you know? However the picture turns out, I've always given everything to it. That's kind of how I approach life. I can't help it. There's no part-way with me on anything in any area of my life.

Wherever a man turns he can find someone who needs him.

I like to compare the holiday season with the way a child listens to a favorite story. The pleasure is in the familiar way the story begins, the anticipation of familiar turns it takes, the familiar moments of suspense, and the familiar climax and ending.