In turning from the smaller instruments in frequent use to the larger and more important machines, the economy arising from the increase of velocity becomes more striking.
Charles Babbage

Instead of yelling and spanking, which don't work anyway, I believe in finding creative ways to keep their attention - turning things into a game, for instance. And, when they do something good, positive reinforcement and praise.
Patricia Richardson

Is Walt turning over in his grave? A man named Joe Roth runs Disney right now-he gave me the go-ahead and total freedom to do whatever I wanted to do.
Tim Robbins

It was a turning point in the sense that as a scene, we can up with a lot of new ideas.
Arto Lindsay

It was in our power to cause the Arab governments to renounce the policy of strength toward Israel by turning it into a demonstration of weakness.
Moshe Dayan

It was such a turning point to find that I had a talent and I had something to contribute, somewhere.
Gwen Stefani

It's like turning the space program over to the Long Island Railroad.
David R. Brower

It's not the case of turning in a bunch of songs and recording the next month. I think you're looking for songs all year long and you're writing all year long.
Keith Urban

It's too simplistic to advance the notion of the autonomy of art as a reason for turning away from the public. You can have autonomy and simultaneously have connections with the social and political world.
Thom Mayne

It's totally mistaken to suppose that an armed escort is going to give a journalist any protection - on the contrary, journalists who turn up surrounded by armed personnel are just turning themselves into targets and in even worse danger.
Kate Adie

Know what you're trying to do before you do it. Turning knobs at random isn't enlightening any more than throwing paint at a wall blindfolded will let you paint a nice picture.
Steve Albini

Life is always at some turning point.
Irwin Edman

Like every other girl in the world, my most embarrassing moment had to do with a guy completely turning me down. His loss!
Kelly Clarkson

Marriage is like twirling a baton, turning hand springs or eating with chopsticks. It looks easy until you try it.
Helen Rowland

Men's fortunes are on a wheel, which in its turning suffers not the same man to prosper for ever.
Herodotus

Mexican Shuffle was a turning point of the Brass.
Herb Alpert

Middle age is when a guy keeps turning off lights for economical rather than romantic reasons.
Lillian Gordy Carter

More people than ever are slowly but surely turning their ears toward poetry.
Saul Williams

Most of us came out of Popeye, so turning Popeye into something believable was tricky enough.
Gil Kane

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