Quotes About Turning

found the use of actual old-school books off putting, but over time, he'd learned there was something very satisfying to the turning of pages, and the emotional catharsis of slamming a book shut

and you turn over to your left side to get the sun on your back and out of your eyes

If he's serious about turning, I can probably walk him through the process using the tablet as a teaching tool: damn Alex for inventing such an easy-to-understand visualization. If you could broadcast it over a TV channel … my blood runs cold at the thought.)

It's turning. If fate is a millstone… …we are the ones that make it turn. We believe that the crushing wheel… …is guided by an infallible power.

As you are surely aware, our planet is turning on its axis around and around in space. It turns slowly, however, making one complete rotation only every twenty-four hours; and that's a good thing -- isn't it? -- because if our world turned as fast as Gracie's room appeared to be turning, the sun would be either rising or setting every fifteen minutes, astronomers would be as woozy as rodeo clowns, and it'd be nearly impossible to keep our meatballs from rolling out of our spaghetti.

When I'm not working, it does. You turning Jack on?' 'God, what a revolting thought.

They sipped and ate, all of existence passed over by nonexistence, the gate leading nowhere, and they watched the tea spill copious ribbony curls of vapor, watched their breath join the mist slowly twisting and turning, twisting and turning.

It is entropy, not energy, that keeps stones on the ground and the world turning.

It was going to be one of those days that in appearance are like all the rest, inoffensive like the rest, but one on which a very faint stroke suddenly changes the course of our life and moves it into a new period.

As turning the logs will make a dull fire burn, so change of studies a dull brain.

This year's book, at midnight turns to footnote in the next.

Will you take me to the motherboard, he said, turning around to her. The and into your bed part he left off. What a gentleman. Of course.

This is what Hollywood tends to do. It tends to disregard tradition, history and anything factual, twisting it and turning it and making it all okay regardless of what the English may think of it.

We have now reached a turning point in the struggle between freedom and terror.

Because I do not hope to turn againBecause I do not hopeBecause I do not hope to turn.

My doom was sealed when I saw a girl turn cartwheels at a circus in Birmingham.

For months she had slowly been turning into my own secret magnetic north.

It does that to you, being a detective. You look at blank space and see gears turning, motives and cunning; nothing looks innocent any more. Most times when you prove away the gears, the blank space looks lovely, peaceful. But that arm: innocent, it looked just as dangerous.

There are moments where history is made... This is one of those moments.

There is a tide in the affairs of men

There is a cunning which we in England call "the turning of the cat" in the pan; which is, when that which a man says to another, he says it as if another had said it to him.

A nontraditional hockey market is turning into more of a traditional market. We're now a fabric of Nashville.

I promise to be careful. Really careful, she insisted. He found the hard edges of his mouth turning up. Really really careful, he clarified.

She was bound to him, body and soul, as he was to her. For the first time in centuries he felt hope. And to a male Carpathian on the verge of turning vampire, hope was the only thing left.