Top 1200 Turned Quotes & Sayings - Page 16

When I turned pro, Muhammad Ali was laying back, and I was able to fill up an area that was empty.

It was so loud and so deep, it wasn't really sound at all, just something that turned the air hard and then hit you with it.

I've just turned 60 and, looking back, I realise all the time I spent worrying I achieved nothing.

I had turned personal validation into my primary source of meaning and value, so that without it I was miserable and depressed.

The adverse economic events following the First World War turned me toward economics.

Had any poet adequately described the wretched ugliness of a loved one turned inside out with grief?

I turned and bumped by head against his chest a few times. It was the nearest hard surface.

[Marriage] is the merciless revealer, the great white searchlight turned on the darkest places of human nature.

Take all that is given whether wealth, love or language, nothing comes by mistake and with good digestion all can be turned to health.

Practicing yoga during the day is a matter of keeping your eyes on the road and one ear turned toward the infinite.

The promise of Western capitalism of ever rising rates of pay has turned out to be the cheque that bounced

A light turned on in a dark room is like receiving a message from God quickly, completely, and all at once.

Sometimes there are historical moments when a country's course could be turned one way or the other, when fate can be escaped.

I had a bad stutter when I was really young. I couldn't get a sentence out. Like, 'D-d-d-d-d-d-d-d-ad.' And that turned into a mumble.

Italy has turned its back on its political class, and a new language of community, identity, and honesty is filling the gap.

A coin is turned around before it is handed to the beggar, yet a child is unflinchingly tossed into cosmic bruteness.

On hitting a shaken opponent - His legs turned to spaghetti and I was all over him like the sauce.

When everyone turned away, the only person I could turn to was God within myself, and that is what I continue to rely on.

Television turned out to be exactly as bad as the most irritating and pedantic intellectuals of the '50s said it was going to be.

In my darkest moments, I have not eaten an entire pie, but I have turned to other baked goods to find solace.

For perhaps most Americans, TV is an apppliance, not to be used selectively but to be turned on - there's always something to watch.

I'm sure there have been missed opportunities, with films I've turned down that went on to be successful, but everyone in the industry has had that happen.

To be turned from one's course by men's opinions, by blame, and by misrepresentation shows a man unfit to hold an office.

Soldiers may grow a soul when turned to fronds, But here the thing's best left at home with friends.

I don't think I can plate-spin, I've turned loads of things down because I just can't get the time to do it.

When somebody turned me on to a Coltrane record around seventh grade, I took up saxophone.

Many who are committed to reason and science have turned against religion altogether and treat it with fear and contempt.

Most of the people are homesick anyway, and a little lonely, and they hide themselves in their hair and are turned into flowers.

The judgment of God against this nation will not be turned by a more conservative President, but by the repentance of its people.

When I turned 16, I thought I was a man. I needed the money. When you don't have it, crazy thoughts go through your mind.

Writers who do crap work believe they have turned in spun gold and all their little darlings must be defended.

For a while I had somebody that came to clean my house that turned out to be in a band that I really loved.

A year ago, I turned the final page of The Book of the Dead. I don't feel young any more.

The world has not just "turned upside down". It is turning in every which way at an accelerating pace.

The truth is, everything that has happened in my life... that I thought was a crushing event at the time, has turned out for the better.

The underlying crime in Watergate was a clumsy, third-rate burglary in an election campaign that turned out to be a landslide.

It's common knowledge that most of the guys at Guantanamo are nobodies. Many were turned in by bounty hunters.

Bo Derek turned down the role of Helen Keller because she couldn't remember the lines.

One cannot in the nature of things expect a little tree that has been turned into a club to put forth leaves.

We always want what we don't have, and I'd like a long, sophisticated nose rather than a short, turned-up one.

Today it's normal. Photos used to be a support to the text, but we turned things around, reducing the words to a minimum.

While turning pro had a lot of upside, for me, it could also have turned out to be a disaster.

When real revival happens, it changes the moral climate of a community...because we've turned from our wicked ways.

Manhood is melted into courtesies, valor into compliment, and men are only turned into tongue, and trim ones, too.

When I reached 80, my world turned upside down physically. I've had a lot of physical problems.

A good name will wear out; a bad one may be turned; a nickname lasts forever.

I was the boy next door who always knew what it meant to have no money. That changed when I turned professional. I was crazy.

I'm sure I'll find some use for the dress before summer."Kavill nodded, and closed his thick ledger. "Do let me know if it causes anyone to faint-or start a riot."She laughed under her breath, and turned to go, stuffing her hands into her pockets and praying her fingers didn't fall off on the way home."Here," Kavill said, and she turned to find a pair of exquisite dove-gray suede gloves in his hands. "On the house. For many years of loyal patronage." His face bore its usual mask of polite calm and courtesy, but his brown eyes were bright. "And a gift-for a year spent without any gloves at all.

I'm on many a pill for my skin... I feel like that's cheating but when I turned 18, out of nowhere I got acne.

I turned up to all my son's performances and baseball games because my father never did that for me.

Britain's independent possession of nuclear weapons has turned into a political touchstone for commitment to national defense, but this is an illusion.

Every viewer who ever turned on 'Doctor Who' has taken him into his heart. He belongs to all of us.

We all, at some point, grow old and acquire other qualities, and these can always be turned to good advantage.

Globalization looked like it was going to answer all the economic questions of class. Turned out not to be the case.

I did graduate early and even received my master's degree in political science before I turned 22.

Perspective - Use It or Lose It. If you turned to this page, you're forgetting that what is going on around you is not reality. Think about that.

Right about when I turned 13, I realized that women could be jockeys, from my travels to the racetrack with my dad.

Achingly funny as it was, Larry Gelbart's writing gave off sparks that turned a hard light on the way we are.

Every viewer who ever turned on Doctor Who has taken him into his heart. He belongs to all of us.

I've turned my back on fancy parties and red carpets. I'm a writer, and if I did that, I'd never get anything done.