X

Sort by

Quote length

Sentiment

Change font

Change background

Tag Name "Turning" (1114)

Page 1 of 47
Filter & Style
Image
Turning on the light is easy if you know where the switch is.
Colin Wilson
Image
Turning one's novel into a movie script is rather like making a series of sketches for a painting that has long ago been finished and framed.
Vladimir Nabokov
Image
Turning away, I stared at the long road winding off ahead of me. I sighed. This trip might take awhile. Then start walking, Rose, I muttered to myself. I set off, off to kill the man I loved.
Richelle Mead
Image
Turning a human being into a thing, an object, is almost always the first step towards justifying violence against that person. It is very difficult, perhaps impossible, to be violent to someone we think of as an equal, someone we have empathy with, but it is very easy to abuse a thing
Jean Kilbourne
Image
Turning, for them who pass, the common dust Of servile opportunity to gold.
William Wordsworth
Image
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.
Carol Vorderman
Image
Turning and turning in the widening gyre The falcon cannot hear the falconer Things fall apart the centre cannot hold Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world, The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere The ceremony of innocence is drowned The best lack all conviction, while the worst Are full of passionate intensity.
William Butler Yeats
Image
Turning to politicians is the worst way to solve a problem.
Jim Babka
Image
Turning a negative into a positive is an expressway to success.
Robert Evans
Image
Turning Wearily, as one would turn to nod goodbye to Rochefoucauld, If the street were time and he as the end of the street.
T. S. Eliot
Image
Turning, then, from this loathsome combination of church and state, and weeping over the follies of our fellow men, who yield themselves the willing dupes and drudges of these mountebanks, I consider reformation and redress as desperate, and abandon them to the Quixotism of more enthusiastic minds.
Thomas Jefferson
Image
Turning on the television set can turn off the process that transforms children into people... It is primarily through observing, playing, and working with others older and younger than himself that a child discovers both what he can do and who he can become — that he develops both his ability and his identity.
Urie Bronfenbrenner
Image
Turning a breakup into a break-over ... We want women to know that as bad as it can be, it can also be an opportunity to reinvent yourself.
Greg Behrendt
Image
Turning against the church I also had to turn against a lot of the teachings of people in my family who were very much of the church and caught in it, and every time I turned to find where resides the good in the church, all I saw was the demonic, the Lucifer of the journey.
Harry Belafonte
Image
Turning music into digital was just a con, a record-company con.
John Mellencamp
Image
Turning the other cheek is a kind of moral jiu-jitsu.
Gerald Stanley Lee
Image
Turning to the colour-classification methodology: The starting point are the four pure colours red, yellow, green and blue their in-between shades and scales of brightness result in colour schemes containing 16, 64, 256 and 1,024 shades. More colours would be pointless because it wouldn't be possible to distinguish between them clearly.
Gerhard Richter
Image
Turning points in human consciousness occur when new energy regimes converge with new communications revolutions, creating new economic eras.
Jeremy Rifkin
Image
Turning away Turkey from the EU would be a great, long-term - a century-long - error by Europe.
William Hague
Image
Turning water to wine? I mean c'mon, that's stupid. They should have let me write the bible.
Zach Braff
Image
Turning 50 gives me more yesterdays than tomorrows.
William J. Clinton
Image
Turning toward what you deeply love saves you
Rumi
Image
Turning seventy is like beginning the eighth inning of a baseball game. The contest is nearing completion, but there's likely to be some action, and even a few exciting plays, before the game draws to an end.
Mardy Grothe
Image
Turning the other cheek isn't submissive. It's defiant.
Roy H. Williams
Previous
Next