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Quotes About Turn

Having whistled his way well into the recapitulation, he turned and headed toward the bus station.
~ Gregg Hurwitz
Sometimes, for a moment, everything is just as you need it to be. "Life calls the tune, we dance. " Sometimes it takes a wrong turn to get you to the right place.
~ James Hilton ( Cowboy)
The school crossing guard is a zombie?" screams the youngest Smiley. Then she starts crying. "I hugged her once, Mommy! Am I gonna turn into a zombie, too?" "Take it easy, dear," says Aunt Smiley. "It's just a joke. I think. Right, Jamie?
~ James Patterson
Cindy needed both hands on the wheel. She clicked off without leaving a message and tossed her phone back onto the passenger seat. Up ahead, Lake Street terminated at a T intersection. Cindy saw the Subaru take the left onto Arguello Boulevard toward the Presidio, and she followed the Outback into the turn too fast. Centrifugal force sent her handbag and cell phone off the passenger seat and onto the floor.
~ James Patterson
Galileo, yet men turn around women!
~ Ljupka Cvetanova, The New Land
I try to stay true to my style, and I understand the foundation of my style and where it came from. But at the same time, you take that experience and learn different ways to write, different ways to turn on that creative energy.
~ Rakim
We should not interpret this to mean that repentance is another thing a person has to do to receive salvation in addition to faith. Rather, genuine faith includes repentance. Faith that doesn't include repentance is false faith, for those who truly believe turn away from evil.
~ Thomas R. Schreiner
From the breezy doorway. "Serge!" He turned around. "Skid Marks! Bacon Strips!" Two more stools.
~ Tim Dorsey
As long as the character is interesting and I have something to do as an actor, there is no reason to turn it down.
~ Pankaj Kapur
Obsessions turn people off.
~ Grover Norquist
His decision had been made in the valley, and it lay as an iron warp in his mind. He could have turned back no more easily than he could have killed himself.
~ Norman Mailer
I think maybe they are watching, he said. They are watching for a thing that even death cannot undo and if they do not see it they will turn away from us and they will not come back.
~ Cormac McCarthy
I think maybe they are watching, he said. They are watching for a thing that even death cannot undo and if they do not see it they will turn away from us and they will not come back" (210)
~ Cormac McCarthy
He would have to be as clever as a river, he thought, to do well. But he could twist and turn like water, and go his own way, however hard the world tried to drive him along another -- or, the thought he could do that.
~ Cynthia Voigt
If they were afloat on the sea, and blind in the fog — they didn't even know what direction they should turn in. What then did it matter that she knew reading and writing, or that he had been caught out in a plot against his overlord?
~ Cynthia Voigt
If our elaborate and dominating bodies are given to us to be denied at every turn, if our nature is always wrong and wicked, how ineffectual we are—like fishes not meant to swim.
~ Cyril Connolly
You sea! I resign myself to you also- I guess what you mean, I behold from the beach your crooked fingers, I believe you refuse to go back without feeling of me. We must have a turn together, I undress, hurry me out of sight of the land, Cushion me soft, rock me billowy drowse, Dash me with amorous wet, I can repay you.
~ Walt Whitman
So I asked him to go on the night shift. It was a way
~ Walter Isaacson
tangerine clam, and a professional desktop computer that suggested a Zen ice cube. Like bell-bottoms that turn up in the
~ Walter Isaacson
The roads twist and turn up there like maggots on an overripe peach.
~ Walter Mosley
You must teach people to find meaning in their suffering, and in so doing they will be able to turn their personal tragedies into personal triumphs.
~ Wayne W. Dyer
Someone must risk returning injury with kindness, or hostility will never turn to goodwill.
~ Wayne W. Dyer
The requirement is that we turn back. Pivot on our heels and put one foot in front of the other.
~ Charles Martin
In 1984, I turned to theater in the hopes of finding a more direct form of communication between me and my people.
~ Cherrie Moraga