Turns Quotes

A father is always making his baby into a little woman. And when she is a woman he turns her back again.

Good writers define reality; bad ones merely restate it. A good writer turns fact into truth; a bad writer will, more often than not, accomplish the opposite.

You spend a good piece of your life gripping a baseball and in the end it turns out that it was the other way around all the time.

Evil always turns up in this world through some genius or other.

Nowadays three witty turns of phrase and a lie make a writer.

Chris is the engineer down at the studio where we do these things. And he's just such an integral part and he has such a marvelous ear. Also it turns out, we didn't know, but he's a pretty good fiddle player.

To revolt is a natural tendency of life. Even a worm turns against the foot that crushes it. In general, the vitality and relative dignity of an animal can be measured by the intensity of its instinct to revolt.

I'm using the afterlife as a backdrop against which to explore the joys and complexities of being human - it turns out that it's a great lens with which to understand what matters to us.

I personally believe the film turns out better when shot in one short schedule, plus it doesn't stress the actors.

A wise man turns chance into good fortune.

You have twenty-one days to shoot a whole movie and sometimes you go into that thinking 'ugh, this could potentially be really, really difficult' and it turns out to be the most incredible experience.

Well, some mathematics problems look simple, and you try them for a year or so, and then you try them for a hundred years, and it turns out that they're extremely hard to solve.

Age is getting to know all the ways the world turns, so that if you cannot turn the world the way you want, you can at least get out of the way so you won't get run over.

He that is giddy thinks the world turns round.

Today, free agency takes away a lot of your heroes, they go somewhere else. Some of them don't but a lot of them do-take the higher offer to go somewhere else. And, it turns the fans off because they get attached to the players.

I'm going to focus on speed, doing little things like my turns and my starts - just speed.

I had the misfortune of getting what skateboarders call hippers. It's when you fall on your hip again and again and again, just the same spot. It turns into like a blue purple bruise and it's just torture because I had to keep on doing the same move, going around in the pool again.

When we get to wishing a great deal for ourselves, whatever we get soon turns into mere limitation and exclusion.

A man who as a physical being is always turned toward the outside, thinking that his happiness lies outside him, finally turns inward and discovers that the source is within him.

Whenever a snowflake leaves the sky, it turns and turns to say Good-by!

'Harry Potter' shouldn't be children's first experience with suspense and plot turns.

It is about this very abstract sense of displacement that he feels the moment he turns off the television.

It still holds true that man is most uniquely human when he turns obstacles into opportunities.

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.