Turns Quotes

If I have to apply five turns to the screw each day for the happiness of Argentina, I will do it.
Evita Peron

Happiness, Five, Screw

Success turns a lot of people off. I have a pretty solid sense of joy and respect that irritates people, and can irritate me, too.
Dave Matthews

Success, Respect, Pretty

Trust him not with your secrets, who, when left alone in your room, turns over your papers.
Johann Kaspar Lavater

Trust, Alone, Him

If you hit a midget on the head with a stick, he turns into 40 gold coins.
Patton Oswalt

Head, Hit, Gold

I am interested in getting people to use the healthcare system at the right time, getting them to see the doctor early enough, before a small health problem turns serious.
Donna Shalala

Time, Health, Small

Roaring like a tiger turns some children into pianists who debut at Carnegie Hall but only crushes others. Coddling gives some the excuse to fail and others the chance to succeed.
Ayelet Waldman

Children, Others, Chance

This seems to be the law of progress in everything we do; it moves along a spiral rather than a perpendicular; we seem to be actually going out of the way, and yet it turns out that we were really moving upward all the time.
Frances E. Willard

Time, Moving, Law

I write in freehand equivalents because measuring, to me, takes away from the creative process of cooking. Two turns of the pan with EVOO is about two tablespoons.
Rachael Ray

Two, Away, Creative

From the viewpoint of political power, culture is absolutely vital. So vital, indeed, that power cannot operate without it. It is culture, in the sense of the everyday habits and beliefs of a people, which beds power down, makes it appear natural and inevitable, turns it into spontaneous reflex and response.
Terry Eagleton

Power, Political, Down

If every editor turns you down, maybe you should take a second look at your text, however, just in case.
Piers Anthony

Down, Second, Maybe

I've been on jobs where there's that one actor who is just a miserable, miserable no-good, dirty bastard, and it just turns the whole process sour.
Joe Pantoliano

Whole, Miserable, Actor

There are two types of courage involved with what I did. When it comes to picking up a rifle, millions of people are capable of doing that, as we see in Iraq or Vietnam. But when it comes to risking their careers, or risking being invited to lunch by the establishment, it turns out that's remarkably rare.
Daniel Ellsberg

Courage, Two, Lunch

While sleep is clearly vital to emotional well-being, what is it, exactly, about sleep that is so necessary? As it turns out, mood disorders are strongly linked to abnormal patterns of dreaming.
Andrew Weil

Emotional, Sleep, While

It turns out umpires and judges are not robots or traffic cameras, inertly monitoring deviations from a fixed zone of the permissible. They are humans.
Eric Liu

Humans, Judges, Traffic

All improv turns into anger. All comedy improv basically turns into anger, because that's all people know how to do when they're improvising. If you notice shows that are improvising are generally people yelling at each other.
Albert Brooks

Anger, Comedy, Shows

Readers probably haven't heard much about it yet, but they will. Quantum technology turns ordinary reality upside down.
Michael Crichton

Technology, Reality, Down

All actors who have been around for a long time, which I have, and have been skint for long periods, which I have, find it difficult to turn down jobs. If I turn anything down my stomach turns over. I feel sick. It feels like gambling.
Bill Nighy

Time, Long, Down

Yeah, it turns out that guys don't like deals on laser hair removal or pole dancing lessons.
Andrew Mason

Hair, Guys, Dancing

Yeah, I think that's sort of the American way. And it's also the Polish way, it turns out.
Bill Murray

American, Yeah, Polish

I've never made a film that I didn't believe in, you know? However the picture turns out, I've always given everything to it. That's kind of how I approach life. I can't help it. There's no part-way with me on anything in any area of my life.
Tom Cruise

Life, Help, Film

It turns out that all Netflix streaming peak on Saturday night can fit inside a single fiber optic, which is the size of one human hair.
Reed Hastings

Human, Single, Night

She stops, pauses, turns to the left to glance at some possible threat or irregularity, and then continues to the north. This motion, so intensely human, transcends time.
Mary Leakey

Time, Human, She

Well, some mathematics problems look simple, and you try them for a year or so, and then you try them for a hundred years, and it turns out that they're extremely hard to solve.
Andrew Wiles

Simple, Hard, Try

I like starting off the new year fresh. I'm excited to see how 2013 turns out. Maybe because I'm an actress and I am always on a diet and fitness program, but my New Year's resolution is to let myself be nice to myself about my body.
Busy Philipps

Fitness, Diet, Nice

Whenever a snowflake leaves the sky, it turns and turns to say Good-by!
Alexander Selkirk

Sky, Whenever, Leaves

The person that turns over the most rocks wins the game. And that's always been my philosophy.
Peter Lynch

Game, Person, Philosophy

The perfect lover is one who turns into a pizza at 4:00 a.m.
Charles Pierce

Perfect, Lover, Pizza

It is about this very abstract sense of displacement that he feels the moment he turns off the television.
Atom Egoyan

Moment, Sense, Off

I have a preponderance to look smug in photos; something to do with the way my mouth turns up at the corners.
Chris Ware

Mouth, Photos, Smug

For me, how I feel about what I wrote down turns into a song.
Geddy Lee

Down, Song, Wrote

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