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Quotes About Turn

Cameras flashed. I turned away and saw spots. It was surreal. That's what people always say to describe moments that are merely unusual. I thought: You have no fucking idea what surreal is. My hangover was really warming up now, my left eye throbbing like a heart.
~ Gillian Flynn
Here the choice is simple. To remain at play within the field of living, fluid consciousness. Or to turn and face down evil one last time.
~ Grant Morrison
Lefty-loosy, righty-tighty
~ Greg Cox
Up until the First World War, when people turned anti-German, Germany had been described by American political scientists as the model of democracy.
~ Noam Chomsky
But for me, the challenge is how you turn a character into behavior. Once the director says 'action', you just try to live between those two worlds.
~ Robert Duvall
We had two cameras, so they could turn it on and shoot as much as we wanted. You don't have to worry about wasting money on film. A lot more takes are possible.
~ Marguerite Moreau
I've downloaded the BBC's 'Cranford' with Judi Dench because I like a bit of bonnet acting, and I can turn it on and off without worrying about whether I can follow what's happening.
~ Sandi Toksvig
A story is not finished, until it took the worst turn.
~ Friedrich Durrenmatt
The worst thing that can happen to the New Left in this country is to turn the struggle into a military struggle against the establishment.
~ David Dellinger
Lord, in our work for justice, let us not seek after martyrdom for its own sake, but neither let us turn away from your truth because we fear suffering. Give us grace to live faithfully whatever the cost. Amen.
~ Shane Claiborne
This is the team that when you look at it, you say, 'This is our time.
~ Shaquille O'Neal
Before I turned out the light, he touched my face, then turned away, then the dark.
~ Sharon Olds
There is a time you can't turn it back. When a person is very destructive, when they hate you tremendously, you have to disassociate with them.
~ Frederick Lenz
I hate our current leaders becouse they don't know the value of there people, but like there ideas because it will soon turn against them and any of there kind.
~ Hamzatribah
My heart palpitated in the sickness of fear; and I hurried on with irregular steps, not daring to look about me: Like one who, on a lonely road, Doth walk in fear and dread, And, having once turn'd round, walks on, And turns no more his head; Because he knows a frightful fiend Doth close behind him tread.
~ Mary Shelley
Women so frequently turn out like their mothers I don't know why I was even surprised.
~ Barbara Hambly
We newspaper readers all have our pet vexations. Somewhere in one of those sections is the column we anxiously turn to for the sole purpose of disagreeing with the columnist. Volubly.
~ Barbara Kingsolver
It would be to hear resonating within oneself the shouting of the Mothers of the Disappeared in the Plaza de Mayo in Buenos Aires in the 1970s, and to turn instead to other things.
~ Barry Lopez
turn aside her sorrow with the sword" (ferroque averte dolorem;
~ Bart D. Ehrman
sitting in the booth and I get the same result. Either his battery is dead—it happens fast on flights if you forget to put it on airplane mode or to turn it off—or his phone was off. Perhaps
~ Steve Martini
So that the Universe felt love, by which, as somebelieve, the world has many times been turned to chaos. And at that moment this ancient rock, here and elsewhere, fell broken into pieces.
~ Dante Alighieri
Rise, prophet, rise, and hear, and see, And let my words be seen and heard By all who turn aside from me. And burn them with my fiery word.
~ Joseph Frank
It was never meant to be.
~ Erin Hunter
Shakespeare refers to thoughts which "in their currents turn awry and lose the name of action." Perlsian poetry calls this "mind-fucking".
~ Erving Polster