Turning Quotes

'Jaws' was the definitive filmmaking turning point for me. It came out in the summer of '75 and I saw it an obsessive 55 times. They even ran a very embarrassing article about me in the local paper, about the weird kid who's seen 'Jaws' 55 times.
Victor Salva

Times, Point, Weird

'Catcher in the Rye' changed my life when I was a kid. I read it as I was a boy turning into a man, and I was so fascinated by the values. I believe in it.
Paul Wesley

Life, Read, Values

One of the great things about turning 30 is figuring out how to dress comfortably and still look good.
Cobie Smulders

Good, Great, Dress

I've been getting a lot of science fiction scripts which contained variations on my 'Star Trek' character and I've been turning them down. I strongly feel that the next role I do, I should not be wearing spandex.
Marina Sirtis

Science, Character, Down

Turning back the pages of my sweet shattered dream, I wonder if she'll ever do the same; And the thing that I call living is just being satisfied With knowing I've got no one left to blame.
Gordon Lightfoot

Blame, Living, Same

Mother is the first word that occurs to politicians and columnists and popes when they raise the question, 'Why isn't life turning out the way we want it?'
Mary Kay Blakely

Life, Mother, Why

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

Business, Strong, Person

At that moment Mr. Clifford, quite unconscious that he and his most personal feelings and aspirations were subjects of discussion, was turning from the main road into the lower road.
Joseph C. Lincoln

Feelings, Moment, Personal

Actors pull from their own experiences to bring reality to the characters. I wouldn't want to play someone who's a lot like me. There would be no turning it on or off.
Emily Osment

Someone, Reality, Play

A writer can write in an attic, or on top of a bus. Or with a sharp stick in some wet cement. To act, an actor has to have words. A stage. a camera turning.
Paul Muni

Words, Write, Act

In terms of weapons, the best disarmament tool so far is nuclear energy. We have been taking down the Russian warheads, turning it into electricity. 10 percent of American electricity comes from decommissioned warheads.
Stewart Brand

Best, Down, Energy

Whenever we don't turn the ball over, we're pretty productive. When you're turning the ball over, you're cutting down on offensive opportunities.
Eric Snow

Down, Pretty, Turn

An inborn tendency toward science turning it into a lifelong commitment.
Bruno Rossi

Science, Commitment, Toward

For an actor, you're rejected eight or ten times a day. All you've got to sell is yourself. You're not selling products, they're not turning down a car, they're turning you down. Most people can't handle that. Most people are essentially not set up that way.
Barry Corbin

Car, Yourself, Down

Writing is turning one's worst moments into money.
J. P. Donleavy

Money, Writing, Worst

I woke up on the plane this morning and was turning on my phone and I had to put my pin number in. That's when I realized that since the age of 10 I've been using 2012 as my pin number. But now that I've won gold in the 2012 Olympics, I've achieved that goal and, for the first time in 14 years, I'll have to change my pin.
Cameron van der Burgh

Change, Age, Time

The Copernican revolution brought about by Kant was, I think, the most important single turning point in the history of philosophy.
Bryan Magee

History, Important, Single

Without so much as turning a hair I freely admit that I am one of America's greatest realists.
Thorne Smith

Greatest, America, Hair

You just don't give up. There have been times when everything seemed to conspire against getting a book done or printed, and I would feel like turning my back on the whole thing. But I came back and persisted.
Dee Brown

Book, Everything, Done

Creativity often consists of merely turning up what is already there. Did you know that right and left shoes were thought up only a little more than a century ago?
Bernice Fitz-Gibbon

Thought, Creativity, Often

Life is always at some turning point.
Irwin Edman

Speed kills colour... the gyroscope, when turning at full speed, shows up gray.
Paul Morand

Full, Shows, Speed

The indictment, in a lot of ways, that was the turning point.
Jeffrey Skilling

Point, Ways, Indictment

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