Turning Quotes

• When the cameras are turning you are monkeying with my pride. When the man says 'roll 'em' you are fooling with what I exist for.

  

  Phil Silvers
  • Pride
  • Cameras
  • Fooling

• Turning something upside-down elicits a reversal of content and pointing a steeple into the ground directs it to hell as opposed to heaven.

  

  Dennis Oppenheim
  • Ground
  • Pointing
  • Directs

• Turning points in my life... the bush, the trails, lakes, waterfalls... moving camp from one wonderful lake to another... the companionship of a great individual, a wonder with canoe, axe and fish line.

  

  Arthur Lismer
  • Life
  • Points
  • Turning

• Agree with an idiot and you're only one step away from turning into one yourself.

  

  Dave Courtney
  • Yourself
  • Agree
  • Turning

• Sometimes you hear a voice through the door calling you... This turning toward what you deeply love saves you.

  

  Rumi
  • Love
  • Voice
  • Turning

• That was the turning point. It was as though the signal was there, 'This is the disease you're going to have to work against.' I never really stopped to think about anything else. It was that sudden.

  

  Gertrude B. Elion
  • Thinking
  • Disease
  • Points

• Turning one hundred was the worst birthday of my life. I wouldn't wish it on my worst enemy. Turning 101 was not so bad. Once you're past that century mark, it's just not as shocking.

  

  Annie Elizabeth Delany
  • Worst
  • Birthday
  • Century

• History, you see, is like the interlocking wheels turning in a ticking-thing. Something unexpected happens, some sort of hiccup... the wheels are jogged... and then they set off again, beating out the time in a new pattern.

  

  Cressida Cowell
  • History
  • Happens
  • Wheels

• Design is the beauty of turning constraints into advantages.

  

  Aza Raskin
  • Advantages
  • Turning
  • Constraints

• I think the best decade of my life was between 40 and 50. Forty was the turning point for me as an actress.

  

  Catherine Deneuve
  • Life
  • Best
  • Actress

• It's sort of like turning a light on in the dark closet to show a kid that there's nothing really there, there's nothing to be afraid of.

  

  Chet Zar
  • Light
  • Nothing
  • Afraid

• Are you negative in a world that never stops turning on you?

  

  Neil Young Buffalo Springfield
  • World
  • Negative
  • Turning

• Hiring consultants to conduct studies can be an excellent means of turning problems into gold, your problems into their gold.

  

  Norman R. Augustine
  • Problem
  • Gold
  • Consultants

• People on radio and television started making nasty comments about me and I felt awful. Turning from a teenager into a woman is hard enough without dealing with snide comments.

  

  Nicola Roberts
  • Woman
  • Turning
  • Comments

• Turning the other cheek is a kind of moral jiu-jitsu.

  

  Gerald Stanley Lee
  • Moral
  • Turning
  • Cheek

• You say, it's dark. And in truth, I did place a cloud before your sun. But do you not see how the edges of the cloud are already glowing and turning light.

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche
  • Truth
  • Light
  • Turning

• That’s what history is, really,” Bianca says, “the process for turning idiots into visionaries.

  

  Charlie Jane Anders
  • History
  • Idiots
  • Visionaries

• Don't let it bring you down. It's only castles burning, find someone who's turning, and you will come around.

  

  Neil Young Buffalo Springfield
  • Someone
  • Bring
  • Burning

• We're machines for turning caffeine into physics.

  

  Nima Arkani-Hamed
  • Physics
  • Turning
  • Caffeine

• I think you need a really strong businessperson running the state, a person who's used to turning negatives into positives, which is what happens in business.

  

  Mike Curb
  • Person
  • Happens
  • Really

• The distinguishing of the strata, or layers, in the embryonic membrane was a turning-point in the study of the history of evolution, and placed later researches in their proper light. A division of the (disc-shaped) embryo into an animal and a plastic part first takes place. In the lower part (the plastic or vegetative layer) are a serous and a vascular layer, each of peculiar organization. In the upper part also (the animal or serous germ-layer) two layers are clearly distinguishable, a flesh-layer and a skin-layer. (1828)

  

  Karl Ernst von Baer
  • Study
  • Evolution
  • Division

• How in hell can you handle love without turning your life upside down? That's what love does, it changes everything.

  

  Lauren Bacall
  • Life
  • Love
  • Hell

• I'm turning left. Look, everyone, my blinker is on, and I'm turning left. I am so happy to be alive, driving along, making a left turn. I'm serious. I am doing exactly what I want to be doing at this moment: existing on a Tuesday, going about my business, on my way somewhere, turning left.

  

  Amy Krouse Rosenthal
  • Business
  • Way
  • Turning

• All you hear Catholics turning out these days are pop versions of the old Protestant anthems.

  

  Richard Morris
  • Versions
  • Catholics
  • Protestant

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