Turns Quotes

We turn to Marx, therefore, not because he is infallible, but because he is inescapable.

Even in the scorched and frozen world of the dead after the holocaust The wheel as it turns goes on accreting ornaments.

But the world turns, and even legends change; and somewhere there is a border, and sometime, perhaps, someone will decide to cross it, however well guarded its thorns may be.

It turns out Dungeons & Dragons is much better on paper than it is in reality.

I'm not a great lover of Madonna's voice. She's done very well with what she's got, and I'm sure my voice turns her right off, but she's not my favourite singer.

If you turn your back on a customer, you turn your back on success.

My generation never experienced (fortunately) that type of collective tragedy, where everybody goes totally crazy and turns the world into a gigantic nightmare.

I never open the newspaper, never. I never go to a website; I never turn on the T.V. hoping to find something I can attack. It isn't what I do. I defend.

Every actor turns everything round to their character.

When you sign on to say, "Okay, yeah, let's develop this," usually that turns into, "Oh, he's doing it." But there's no script for some of these things.

Y'all were heroes from the beginning. You just didn't 'turn' all of a sudden

I got more bands and went on the road and turn down more movies than you would believe.

You want an idea that turns into a monopoly. But you can't get a monopoly, in a big market right away; too much competition for that.

Donald Trump enters office with historically low approval ratings, that's where the battle could get fought. If the country turns against him, his Republican adversaries could feel emboldened.

Mine be a cot beside the hill; A bee-hive's hum shall soothe my ear; A willowy brook, that turns a mill, With many a fall shall linger near.

I used to be an optimist, but now I know that nothing is going to turn out as I expect.

As for doing more dramatic work over comedy, I do whatever turns me on at the moment.

I didn’t even cry, I was stunned. You know, and that’s just how fast life turns. It turns on a dime.

All my life I've tried to make everybody happy while I just hurt and hide, waiting for someone to tell me it's my turn to decide.

I was going to get an abortion the other day. I totally wanted an abortion. And it turns out I was just thirsty.

A movie is a miracle, even if it turns out to be a disappointment.

Turns out if you never lie, there's always someone mad at you.

In whatever direction you turn, you will see God coming to meet you; nothing is void of him, he himself fills all his work.

That poverty is no disaster is understood by everyone who has not yet succumbed to the madness of greed and luxury that turns everything topsy-turvy.

No man can live happily who regards himself alone, who turns everything to his own advantage. Thou must live for another, if thou wishest to live for thyself.

[During difficult times and after mistakes and failures it is helpful to remember ...] Oftentimes calamity turns to our advantage and great ruins make way for greater glories.

Ideas that spread win. Ideas don't have to be selfish to win, in fact, it turns out that the more generous the interactions an idea produces, the more likely it is to spread.

Wouldn't it be great to be gifted? In fact It turns out that choices lead to habits. Habits become talents. Talents are labeled gifts. You're not born this way, you get this way.

Caring, it turns out, is a competitive advantage, and one that takes effort, not money.

You have a pre-conceived notion of what you want the scene to be, but once you get there, that goes out the window and it turns out to be a way that you never imagined.

You can't just turn love on and off.

I know how to turn the bad into good always.

It's a pretty heavy thing that happens to me when I'm at competitions. I get so sucked in, I can't really turn it off.

Acting is a sport, like a game of tennis, and you and your opponent take turns setting the level of play.

The Ryan budget gets rid of Medicare in 10 years and turns it into a voucher program.

He probably couldn’t turn off his sexiness without medical intervention.’ (Abbie)

Notwithstanding all the care and anxiety of the persons who frame Acts of Parliament to guard against every event, it frequently turns out that certain cases were not foreseen.

There's only so many times you can kick a dog before it turns viscous. (Julian)

Have you ever wanted to put your head in a blender and turn on the liquefy switch? (Tate)

Possible or not, they tried to turn me into a Nick McNugget. (Nick)

My first record had just broken, and these guys wanted my autograph. I thought, Oh, god, they recognize me. Turns out they thought I was Heidi Fleiss.

Any philosophical and theoretical assurance that laughter is unique to the human being becomes somewhat unsure when one turns to the anthropological literature.

One is not conceived a lady, one turns into one.

As If I could just turn my feelings off like a faucet.

It turns out inconvenience was a really important part of our lives, and we didn't realize it.

I know what it's like to squander all your hours and all your tears and all your heart on something which turns out to be nothing. Don't waste your time.

You never know how things are going to turn out, however much you plan. But you already know that.

Rather throw away that which is dearest to you, your own life, than turn away a good friend.

For the gods, though slow to see, see well, whenever a man casting aside worship turns folly.

If you have to choose between power and speed and it often turns out you have to make that choice, you've got to go for speed.