Humanity may endure the loss of everything; all its possessions may be turned away without infringing its true dignity - all but the possibility of improvement.
Johann Gottlieb Fichte

If my parents had discouraged me, I would have turned out very differently. They raised me in an open-minded, liberal environment.
Tom Ford

Night comes to the desert all at once, as if someone turned off the light.
Joyce Carol Oates

Freud was a hero. He descended to the Underworld and met there stark terrors. He carried with him his theory as a Medusa's head which turned these terrors to stone.
R. D. Laing

I went to my friend's house one day, and he had an electric guitar he had just bought with a tiny little amp. I turned the volume up to 10 and I hit one chord, and I said, I'm in love.
Ace Frehley

The digestive canal represents a tube passing through the entire organism and communicating with the external world, i.e. as it were the external surface of the body, but turned inwards and thus hidden in the organism.
Ivan Pavlov

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

I've turned down a lot of arena dates because I've done the big-arena thing. Now, I want to do something where people can feel me and I can feel them.
Whitney Houston

It is not Kafka's fault that his wonderful writings have lately turned into a fad, and are read by people who have neither the ability nor the desire to absorb literature.
Herman Hesse

It is, I think, particularly in periods of acknowledged crisis that scientists have turned to philosophical analysis as a device for unlocking the riddles of their field. Scientists have not generally needed or wanted to be philosophers.
Thomas Kuhn

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

I've never turned over a fig leaf yet that didn't have a price tag on the other side.
Saul Bellow

We turned what is virtually a glorified independent label into one of the powerhouse labels in the town.
Toby Keith

I dainty little lass I wasn't. I looked twice my age until I turned 10 or 11.
Maureen O'Hara

So everything turned out fine, and we were given the opportunity to go to Washington and be briefed on the project of man in space, and given the opportunity to choose whether we wanted to get involved or not.
Alan Shepard

Facts can be turned into art if one is artful enough.
Paul Simon

Being thrown into the fire and getting the thing turned around in a hurry made it more difficult. Things have been done the hard way. I think you learn better when things are done the hard way.
John Elway

I look at my career and it's still hard for me to believe the way things turned out and how things happened. I've been so blessed.
John Elway

I turned down some movies that were quite good. mainly on the basis of taste.
Dick Van Dyke

I got an offer in 1992 to buy a major-league team. I turned down the offer because I don't want my love of the game to involve business.
Garth Brooks