In practice, attempts to sort out good erotica from bad porn inevitably comes down to: What turns me on is erotica; what turns you on is pornographic.
Ellen Willis

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

It is not until you become a mother that your judgment slowly turns to compassion and understanding.
Erma Bombeck

It is too great comfort which turns a man against himself. Life is most readily renounced at the time and among the classes where it is least harsh.
Emile Durkheim

It still holds true that man is most uniquely human when he turns obstacles into opportunities.
Eric Hoffer

It turns out that my memory is just not that great, so for specific scenes with people doing stuff, sometimes I'd have the details all wrong or I couldn't remember what happened exactly, so I just let that be.
Rick Moody

It's a comedy thriller, brilliantly written and it's full of twists and turns at every page. When I was reading it I was desperate to get to the end to find out what happens, it really hooks you.
Louise Jameson

Jealousy is bred in doubts. When those doubts change into certainties, then the passion either ceases or turns absolute madness.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld

John Wayne treated me fine, but that macho stuff turns me off. It's not real.
Tab Hunter

Justice turns the scale, bringing to some learning through suffering.
Aeschylus

LIfe has got all those twists and turns. You've got to hold on tight and off you go.
Nicole Kidman

Life is tragic simply because the earth turns and the sun inexorably rises and sets, and one day, for each of us, the sun will go down for the last, last time.
James A. Baldwin

Love is a perky elf dancing a merry little jig and then suddenly he turns on you with a miniature machine gun.
Matt Groening

Love is like a faucet, it turns off and on.
Billie Holiday

Love turns, with a little indulgence, to indifference or disgust; hatred alone is immortal.
William Hazlitt

Man is an idea, and a precious small idea once he turns his back on love.
Albert Camus

Money, like vodka, turns a person into an eccentric.
Anton Chekhov

My mother would put me on a wooden box at the stove and tell me to call her if certain things would happen. Like if the steam turns blue, that is danger!
Paul Prudhomme

My plumbing is all screwed up. Because it turns out, I do not own a garbage disposal.
Demetri Martin

No one turns down a film with Woody; it's something everyone wants in their career as an important moment. He's such a comedic genius, without question, so I was thrilled.
Mark Rydell