He liked the mere act of reading, the magic of turning scratches on a page into words inside his head.
Usually my form of turning someone down was shoving a stake through his heart while smirking, Gotcha!
The window doesn't open, the fan is broke, and my face is turning blue. I haven't been in a crowd like this since I went to see the Who.
While turning pro had a lot of upside, for me, it could also have turned out to be a disaster.
My first career ambitions involved turning into a boy; I intended to be either a railway guard or a knight errant.
Between the ages of 30 and 40 was the time when both my spirit and body were young and powerful and I could do anything!
It's a strange phenomenon how this piece of wood, wheels and a turning system has made so many people so happy
I haven't told anyone this before, but when I was a teenager... I actually thought I was turning into a boy, and I didn't really care. It didn't bother me at all.
Baseball is a game where you are always waiting, and then when something happens it's like turning a kaleidoscope when you were a kid.
I think in today's society we are dealing with an epidemic of fatherless homes. We're turning everywhere else for people to be fathered.
People now are beginning to cheer for me. I've never heard that before. .. Maybe things are turning a bit.
For Gazprom, 2015 is turning out auspiciously. We already see the possibility for additional investments in our investment program.
The combination of cheaper and more widespread broadband and increased mobile usage is turning us all into independent viewers.
I don't regret turning out in the colours of Super Eagles. I love Nigeria, and I was prepared to come and play for the nation.
One senses the figures as passing by the tree line and, caught in the presence of the wall, turning to gaze upon it almost as a vision.
Art is both the taking and giving of beauty, the turning out to the light of the inner folds of the awareness of the spirit.
Before turning pro, I would never have just left my skates sitting in the locker room unattended.
Entrepreneurism is simply taking nothing, applying talent, brains, financial creativity and hustle, and turning that into something.
When a private talk over a bottle of wine is broadcast on the radio, what can it mean but that the world is turning into a concentration camp?
Sometimes when people ask a lot of me, or they're not liking what I'm turning in, especially when I'm working one on one with someone, I can get really insecure.
The ratification of the 19th Amendment giving women the right to vote marked a major turning point for America.
Second-generation Muslims who have lived all their lives in Europe are turning up among the suicide bombers and terrorists.
Rarely has a people paid the lavish compliment and taken the subtle revenge of turning its oppressor's speech into sorcery.
Golf is a puzzle without an answer. I've played the game for 40 years and I still haven't the slightest idea how to play.
Miserable Orpheus who, turning to lose his Eurydice, beholds her for the first time as well as the last.
For the last 40 years of my life I have broken my back, my fingernails, and sometimes my heart, in the practical pursuit of my favourite occupation.
Regret or remorse of the wrong we have done should be in a positive spirit of changing, turning towards God with humility.
Every good business story has a conflict and triumph at the core and a turning point where a transformation takes place.
I'm a quite erratic person: From setups to actually when I'm doing a track, it's just turning and switching and changing all the time.
Our lives are changing, this old world keeps turning. And I sit here and wonder, baby, what we're really learning.
More than any other time in history, the 1990s will be a turning point for human civilization.
Sitting through the whole experience of your face turning into somebody else's, you become part of the character.
We want to be on the winning team, but at the risk of turning our backs on the losers, no, it is not worth it. So we fight the long defeat.
Turning one's back on stardom might be the highest form of common sense. One that I would aspire to be more complete with.
I think a way that feminist photographers work is turning what was the object into the subject and really making it our own.
Science works its miracles by turning its enterprise into a kind of parlor game confined to the category matter and energy.
What drives me is the prospect of turning an obstacle into a business opportunity, and then growing that into something lasting and rewarding.
I would never have got involved in something that just meant turning up at eight and leaving at five.
The tide of history is turning women from beasts of burden and sexual playthings into full-fledged human beings.
Listening to 'Raising Sand' was one of those turning points in my life that really made something click in my brain.
I'm not turning my back on classical theater. It's all about opportunities and timing a lot of the time when things come up.
I have ideas all of the time from the beginning, but they never really wind up turning out like I thought they would.
Turning a breakup into a break-over ... We want women to know that as bad as it can be, it can also be an opportunity to reinvent yourself.
In 2011, agricultural exports hit a record high and producers saw their best incomes in nearly 40 years.
Being 40 and having three kids puts lots of things in perspective and helps me stay grounded.
You know, it's hard to say what's going to happen in the future. But, if I stay healthy, I think I'll probably play until I'm about 40.
The talent of turning men into ridicule, and exposing to laughter those one converses with, is the qualification of little ungenerous tempers.
Success for me has been turning a hobby into a job and when my kids left school, I did the same for them.
I loved the experience of going to the farmers' market, seeing where your food is grown, turning it into something delicious.
You always hear people saying, 'I hope I'm not turning into my dad', but I'd be honoured if I became half as decent a bloke as he is.
Cloning represents a very clear, powerful, and immediate example in which we are in danger of turning procreation into manufacture.
Turning cash flows from contracts of professional athletes into securities is now possible through the power of blockchain.
Where my cancer was, if it moves just a tiny bit... towards the area where there's no return, it stays, then there's no turning back.
I ended up turning down a full scholarship of music at the conservatory to pay to go to cooking school.
Turning corporations loose and letting the profit motive run amok is not a prescription for a more livable world.
Search, which is extremely important, represents about 5% of the page views on the Internet and 40% of the revenue. So, highly monetized.
Whoever invented smooth jazz, man, I wanna kill 'em: You're turning an art form into a hooker.
As an engineer by training, turning down the offer - getting to lead Ericsson, one of Sweden's greatest companies - is impossible.
If you have nothing but love for your avocados, and you take joy in turning them into guacamole, all you need is someone to share it with.
A critical part of Tantric Buddhism is a process of turning of the activities and experiences in your daily life into meditation.
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