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To me, the black black woman is our essential mother, the blacker she is the more us she is and to see the hatred that is turned on her is enough to make me despair, almost entirely, of our future as a people.
Alice Walker

Future, Mother, Woman

The reason so many people turned up at his funeral is that they wanted to make sure he was dead.
Samuel Goldwyn

Reason, Wanted, Dead

I thought if I had a Twitter feed and say I had a following of a 100,000, that means 100,000 of them would be interested in my book. It was logical, but it didn't turn out to be true. It turned out if I had a Twitter feed of a 100,000, four of them were interested in my book.
Steve Martin

True, Book, Thought

'Dirty Rotten Scoundrels' is a good one because it not only turned out, I think, to be a really funny movie but it was also a delight to shoot. We were in the South of France, working with Glenne Headly and Michael Caine and Frank Oz the director - who were just fun.
Steve Martin

Funny, Good, Fun

If there are occasions when my grape turned into a raisin and my joy bell lost its resonance, please forgive me. Charge it to my head and not to my heart.
Jesse Jackson

Heart, Lost, Joy

The people in the villages had turned in on themselves. You can understand it. When you have a bad day on the field, what do you do? Talk to your teammates.
Ian Botham

Bad, Understand, Talk

Hitler never abandoned the cloak of legality; he recognized the enormous psychological value of having the law on his side. Instead, he turned the law inside out and made illegality legal.
Robert Byrd

Legal, Law, Made

I'm trying to keep a level head. You have to be careful out in the world. It's so easy to get turned.
Elvis Presley

Trying, Keep, Easy

In Ethiopia, the black people became Christians 1700 years ago, hundreds of years before Northern Europe turned to Christianity... And here, most of the saints are black.
Henry Louis Gates

Black, Before, Here

California is a queer place in a way, it has turned its back on the world, and looks into the void Pacific. It is absolutely selfish, very empty, but not false, and at least, not full of false effort.
David Herbert Lawrence

Selfish, Place, Effort

The world is wrong side up. It needs to be turned upside down in order to be right side up.
Billy Sunday

Down, Wrong, Order

The fact is, I loved being English. I was very happy to be turned into an English schoolboy.
Tom Stoppard

Happy, Fact, Loved

When I think of how things could have turned out, I feel as if I've dodged, not just bullets, but 6mm shells.
Tom Stoppard

Bullets, Shells

The idea of the state is, or should be, a very limited, prescribed idea. The state looks after the defense of the realm, and other matters - raising revenue to pay for things which are for all of us, and so on. That idea has turned turtle now. The state isn't any longer perceived as an institution which exists to serve us.
Tom Stoppard

After, Idea, State

All men who have turned out worth anything have had the chief hand in their own education.
Walter Scott

Education, Men, Worth

Driving a motorcycle is like flying. All your senses are alive. When I ride through Beverly Hills in the early morning, and all the sprinklers have turned off, the scents that wash over me are just heavenly. Being House is like flying, too. You're free of the gravity of what people think.
Hugh Laurie

Morning, Through, Free

I just think it's shocking how many of these young people wind up in prison and they get turned into hardcore criminals because they had a possession of a very small amount of controlled substance.
Pat Robertson

Small, Young, Wind

I'm a girl from a good family who was very well brought up. One day I turned my back on it all and became a bohemian.
Brigitte Bardot

Family, Good, Girl

My parents didn't want to move to Florida, but they turned sixty and that's the law.
Jerry Seinfeld

Parents, Law, Move

I turned down a scholarship to Yale. The problem with college is that there's a tendency to mistake preparation for productivity. You can prepare all you want, but if you never roll the dice you'll never be successful.
Shia LaBeouf

Successful, Down, Problem

Who Rebels? Who rises in arms? Rarely the slave, but almost always the oppressor turned slave.
Emile M. Cioran

Almost, Slave, Rarely

So there was a fire inside me. And that fire inside you, it can be turned into a negative form or a positive form. And I gradually realised that I had this fire and that it had to be used in a positive way.
John Newcombe

Positive, Fire, Negative

The infant runs toward it with its eyes closed, the adult is stationary, the old man approaches it with his back turned.
Denis Diderot

Eyes, Old, Toward

I was taught from a young age that I had to serve, so that turned into me thinking I had to save the planet.
Alanis Morissette

Age, Thinking, Young

You're going to hear a lot from President Obama and yes, from Joe Biden, you're hearing a little bit about Medicare these days. What they will not tell you is they turned Medicare into a piggybank to fund 'Obamacare.' They took $716 billion dollars to pay for the 'Obamacare' program.
Paul Ryan

Tell, Days, President

I made some games, but I'm pretending like I didn't because they all turned out weird.
Shigeru Miyamoto

Made, Weird, Pretending

Recollection is the only paradise from which we cannot be turned out.
Jean Paul

Cannot, Paradise

A prayer in its simplest definition is merely a wish turned Godward.
Phillips Brooks

Wish, Prayer, Definition

Faith is an act of a finite being who is grasped by, and turned to, the infinite.
Paul Tillich

Faith, Act, Infinite

I like a view but I like to sit with my back turned to it.
Gertrude Stein

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