Turning Quotes
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Sometimes you hear a voice through the door calling you... This turning toward what you deeply love saves you.
Rumi -
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
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Agree with an idiot and you're only one step away from turning into one yourself.
Dave Courtney -
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 -
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 -
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 -
Th' longest lane will have a turning.
Elizabeth Gaskell -
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
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Are you negative in a world that never stops turning on you?
Neil Young Buffalo Springfield -
Design is the beauty of turning constraints into advantages.
Aza Raskin -
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 -
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 -
Turning the other cheek is a kind of moral jiu-jitsu.
Gerald Stanley Lee -
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
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That’s what history is, really,” Bianca says, “the process for turning idiots into visionaries.
Charlie Jane Anders -
Hiring consultants to conduct studies can be an excellent means of turning problems into gold, your problems into their gold.
Norman R. Augustine -
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 -
Most people seem to be interested in turning their dreams into reality. Then there are those who turn reality into dreams. I belong to the latter group.
Allen Say -
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 -
All you hear Catholics turning out these days are pop versions of the old Protestant anthems.
Richard Morris
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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 -
Especially with the video games and social media we have now, I think that turning point from kid to sort of adult has gotten earlier with TV shows that are on right now and video games. They all contribute to that.
Gage Munroe -
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 -
We're machines for turning caffeine into physics.
Nima Arkani-Hamed