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Quotes About Turn

Really, he mused, chasing green peas up the back slope of his fork with the edge of the butter knife, all a smirk was, was what a smile turned into when you fought with it.
~ Elizabeth Bear
I took a step back. "Here." He plunked his wet hat on my head. "Don't go anywhere," he told me, then turned away.
~ Elizabeth Chandler
the plateau? she silently demanded of Ty. Why did you turn her loose? She could lead
~ Elizabeth Lowell
If restoration and renewal are to come from the presence of the Lord—and what hope is there without them?—then it is men and women like these whom God will use to turn the tide.
~ Arthur Wallis
Let me be your plot twist.
~ Aulia
I think the warning labels on alcoholic beverages are too bland. They should be more vivid. Here is one I would suggest: Alcohol will turn you into the same asshole your father was.
~ George Carlin
It is the favourite stratagem of our passions to sham a retreat, and to turn sharp round upon us at the moment we have made up our minds that the day is our own.
~ George Eliot
I once won a Grammy for an Australian version of 'Turn the Page' that another artist did; I can't remember his name. There've been covers down through the years around the world, but I did like Metallica's, because I kind of related to Metallica when they first came out, because Jimmy Hetfield really reminded me of me in 1965, you know?
~ Bob Seger
My agent sent me the script and I loved it. I wondered how they would turn me into a chimp. My agent said it would probably not entail to much time. Just some hair and make-up. I found out that it was not so simple.
~ Kim Hunter
We've been performing with symphonies all of our career and it sounds so wonderful when they play 'My Girl' with the large string section, I want to turn around and look.
~ Otis Williams
It's not fun telling people they have to turn their stories in. But you can't actually have a creative work environment if there are no rules and there's no structure.
~ Alex Wagner
Sometimes life throws you a shortcut. You either take it, or you continue the way you were going.
~ Henry Golding
Sin bins are the way forward if we want to turn the tide on discipline in football.
~ Robbie Savage
In India, horns function as turn signals, brake lights, hand gestures, prayers.
~ Sallie Tisdale
Each morning the pitched window above her bed turned a fresh card from the deck of clear skies
~ Sam Thompson
and all the beauty and the blasphemy. Petals, petals, scattering from the stands where only vestals were allowed to sit, having tended the flame for all of us. Here, I knew, was the empire of my soul showing on my face as I turned to you.
~ Sarah Arvio
It is written in the Disks of Mishakal that evil, by its very nature, will always turn in upon itself. Thus it becomes self-defeating.
~ Margaret Weis
Light is constant, we just turn over in it.
~ Marilynne Robinson
One or two individuals in times of crisis turn into Heroes, a handful into Villains, the rest into Fools.
~ Marisha Pessl
Before saying anything further about culture, I consider the world is hungry and does not care about culture, and people artificially want to turn these thoughts away from hunger and direct them towards culture.
~ Antonin Artaud
The gate opened. The gate closed. In a moment of time too short to be measured, space opened and turned on itself.
~ Arthur C. Clarke
The Star Gate opened. The Star Gate closed. In a moment of time too short to be measured, Space turned and twisted upon itself. Then Japetus was alone once more, as it had been for three million years--alone, except for a deserted but not yet derelict ship, sending back to its makers messages which they could neither believe nor understand.
~ Arthur C. Clarke
Do you know, Watson, said he, that it is one of the curses of a mind with a turn like mine that I must look at everything with reference to my own special subject. You look at these scattered houses, and you are impressed by their beauty. I look at them, and the only thought which comes to me is a feeling of their isolation and of the impunity with which crime may be committed there.
~ Arthur Conan Doyle
Do you know, Watson, said he, that it is one of the curses of a mind with a turn like mine that I must look at everything with reference to my own special subject.
~ Arthur Conan Doyle