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Quotes About Turn

There's a Washington standard of casually putting things off the record. It's really gone too far. I don't know an easy way to turn it back.
~ Adam Clymer
One of the things I like about a character: I always think it's fascinating when a character can turn on a dime and go from one emotion to another. I like watching that.
~ Albert Brooks
It's hard to be surprised by a film. It's hard to be surprised by another actor or by a director when you've seen enough and been around. So when I am, or when I forget that I'm watching someone's movie, or when I don't know how someone made a certain turn that I didn't expect . . . You know, I'm in.
~ Brad Pitt
There's two sorts of fear: one you embrace and one you should listen to and turn the other way.
~ Matthew McConaughey
We cannot turn our back and say that violence in films or anything that we do doesn't have a sort of influence. It does.
~ Jamie Foxx
I think that this television medium, or whatever we call it now, is a really great frontier to turn people onto music - to new music or old music. It's a great platform where you've got people's ears, and you can throw something at them. I like to use it to the fullest that I can.
~ Brian Reitzell
I'm very good at plot.
~ Matthew Reilly
When we turned right on Thirty-fifth Street our suffix came along. By the time we rolled to the curb in front of Wolfe's house there wasn't even hyphen between us.
~ Rex Stout
I followed the pavement a little over a mile and then turned left again onto a dirt road. It was as narrow as a bigot's mind, and I got in the ruts and stayed there.
~ Rex Stout
They might be beautiful memories, future events, funny moments, nature, a person you love, or your favorite music. Your Secret Shifters are unique to you, and you need to have a list of them to turn to, because different things will shift you at different times, and if one doesn't work, another will.
~ Rhonda Byrne
I turned to look at him. It was Darcy.
~ Rhys Bowen
Almost every part of need is created by a reflex, phantasmal, and democratic committee whose job is to turn one season's necessities into the next's yard sales. He
~ Richard Powers
Thalia blushed. Hi, Lord Apollo. Zeus's girl, yes? Makes you my half sister. Used to be a tree, didn't you? Glad you're back. I hate it when pretty girls turn into trees. Man, I remember one time—
~ Rick Riordan
Percy grunted. "Believe me, some days I regret the choice. Oh, you want to turn down our offer? Okay, fine! ZAP! Lose your memory! Go to Tartarus!
~ Rick Riordan
If he turned round suddenly and caught her—like a game of statues—she could say she was going to Harrods.
~ Kate Atkinson
He turned to look at the dog and said, "Oh, it's not mine. I thought you could perhaps do me the favor of looking after it for a short while.
~ Kate Atkinson
That was one reason why we always thought so much about being in the window. Each of us had been promised our turn, and each of us longed for it to come.
~ Kazuo Ishiguro
Well, Watson. Yes, Holmes? I believe the wheel has turned yet again–and now it's back to work!
~ Ken Ludwig
Join a company of young men and women who have made a covenant by sacrifice to turn a nation through united massive fasting and prayer.
~ Lou Engle
Prayer is the forerunner of mercy. Turn to sacred history, and you will find that scarecely ever did a great mercy come to this world unheralded by supplication.
~ Charles Spurgeon
I have never known a great trader, with his first reputation established as a bear operator, who did not either turn bull or drop out of the market altogether.
~ William Peter Hamilton
To turn and wind a fiery PegasusAnd witch the world with noble horsemanship.
~ William Shakespeare
Sits the wind in that corner?
~ William Shakespeare
I don't want to live in a city where the only cultural advantage is that you can make a right turn on a red light.
~ Woody Allen