Turning Quotes

I think film had a terrible effect on horror fiction particularly in the 80s, with certain writers turning out stuff as slick and cliched as Hollywood movies.
Poppy Z. Brite

Movies, Film, Stuff

The individual always realizes only one of the possibilities in its development, which could always have taken a different turning whenever it has to make an important decision.
Wilhelm Dilthey

Important, Decision, Different

I like Toronto a lot, it's a good city. The only thing that really annoys me about Toronto is that you're turning Maple Leaf Gardens into a grocery store, which is absolutely nothing short of disgusting.
Rick Wakeman

Good, Nothing, Short

The world is not growing worse and it is not growing better - it is just turning around as usual.
Finley Peter Dunne

Around, Growing, Worse

I think TV is all about not turning off the public, it's about not being too sexy, not being too much of anything really.
Kelly Brook

Sexy, Off, Public

There are severe limitations on civil rights. In the international arena, Iran is turning into an isolated country, and the international community is becoming more hostile toward it.
Moshe Katsav

Country, Rights, Community

The great artist is the man who most obviously succeeds in turning his pains to advantage, in letting suffering deepens his understanding and sensibility, in growing through his pains.
Walter Kaufmann

Great, Through, Suffering

And you see many people just turning away from these channels of mass media, and they're just turning in to alternative providers, because they just see what's happening.
Sibel Edmonds

Away, Media, Happening

I have had a few turning points, the first day I entered a gymnastics school at age 6.
Nadia Comaneci

Age, School, Few

I'd say we do reach somewhat of a younger audience, but I think for the most part that younger audience is picking our music up from a brother or sister or even parent, who is turning them onto the band.
Alex Lifeson

Music, Brother, Sister

In search of a complete education with the ideals of trust, faith, understanding and compassion, many families are turning to the structure, discipline and academic standards of Catholic schools.
Mark Foley

Faith, Education, Trust

The big turning point, really, was the Beatles' influence on American folk music, and then Roger took it to the next step, and then along came the Lovin' Spoonful and everybody else.
Barry McGuire

Music, Big, Else

But, I swear, they're turning Donna into Annie Hall this season. More ties. More suits. But they're also keeping her really motivated, ya know? Like, wanting to be a rock journalist. Wanting to be the first woman president.
Laura Prepon

Rock, Woman, Her

Something is happening to Britain and the British. Or has happened. We are said to be passing through a transition, or a turning point, or a transformation; nobody is quite sure which.
Ferdinand Mount

Through, Said, Sure

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

Art, Political, Away

Come on, come on! And there'll be no turning back! You were only killing time and it can kill you right back. Come on, come on! It's time to burn up the fuse. You got nothing to do and even less to lose.
Jim Steinman

Time, Nothing, Lose

I start with the history, and I ask myself, 'What are the great turning points? What are the big dramatic scenes that are essential to telling the story?'
Ken Follet

Great, History, Big

The turning point was when I hit my 30th birthday. I thought, if really want to write, it's time to start. I picked up the book How to Write a Novel in 90 Days. The author said to just write three pages a day, and I figured, I can do this. I never got past Page 3 of that book.
James Rollins

Birthday, Time, Past

I don't believe in right-angled turning points.
Timothy West

To some extent at that time, we injected rock and roll into that scene- we played loud and that was a huge turning point for that scene. We were involved in playing with all those people.
Arto Lindsay

Time, Rock, Point

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

Sense, Point, Ideas

A page is turning for me. I won't be candidate in legislative elections, nor in any elections to come.
Nicolas Sarkozy

Won, Nor, Elections

In addition to a timeline, I have proposed that U.S. troops be removed from front line combat positions in Iraqi cities and towns, turning over daily security patrols, interactions with citizens, and any offensive security actions to the Iraqis themselves.
Peter DeFazio

Daily, Themselves, Security

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

Enough, Tricky, Believable

I think people are turning inward more now cause the world's got in such a weird, crazy state. I think its making people think more about their life and what it is really that they are doing. And how do we interact with a world that's going crazy? It's a very important time.
Dave Davies

Life, Time, Crazy

We are turning against boys and forgetting a simple truth: that the energy, competitiveness, and corporal daring of normal, decent males is responsible for much of what is right in the world.
Christina Hoff Sommers

Truth, Simple, Energy

I'm concerned that boys have become politically incorrect, that we are a society in the process of turning against its male children.
Christina Hoff Sommers

Society, Children, Become

I was familiar with that and 'Rio Bravo.' 'Rio Bravo' was what John Carpenter did, that brilliant move of taking a western and turning it into an urban flick. And from there you got, you know, all the cop genre movies of the time.
John Leguizamo

Time, Movies, Move

There is nothing better than playing a bad girl for two months, then turning around and playing someone sweet. Films give you this opportunity.
Amy Weber

Girl, Bad, Someone

Wall Street wants to keep its schemes too complicated to understand so that the roulette wheel can keep turning.
Maria Cantwell

Understand, Keep, Wants

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