I'd lived through World War II and hadn't been able to wait to join the army as soon as I turned 18.
I actually ended up in fashion as opposed to sport because I needed the money. And it turned out that it tapped all my skills.
The sunset caught me, turned the brush to copper,/ set the clouds/ to one great roof of flame/ above the earth.
Some People are more turned on by money than they are by love.
In one respect they're alike. They're both wonderful as long as they last.
Indignation and determination are much more constructive emotions than shame and embarrassment. And feminism was this engine that turned one into the other.
I find most of the things I've done through the Internet. I'm like, 'Oh, that's how that turned out! I look good!'
I registered as a Republican when I turned 18 because of Ronald Reagan - he was the president at the time; I admired what he stood for. I respected him.
As long as I was alive, I was something. That was just how it was. But somewhere along the way it all changed. Living turned me into nothing.
By the age of nine or ten, I knew that I loved history and writing. It got hold of me and never turned loose.
The infant runs toward it with its eyes closed, the adult is stationary, the old man approaches it with his back turned.
I turned to the Partition experiences, which were churning in my mind. Then came my first novel Train to Pakistan.
I never believed - or knew for sure - if I would be able to make a professional life in music. But it turned out that way.
I gave myself until I turned 25 to make it. And if it didn't happen, I thought I'd just try to find a nice husband.
If you look at the primitive societies that we know about, the worst thing that could have happened to you was to be captured and be turned over to the women.
I was an outsider, never quite part of what was going on, always looking in. It turned out to be great preparation for writing fiction.
Life turned out much better than I thought. I knew after a little while that I could act.
Hopes have precarious life.
They are oft blighted, withered, snapped sheer off
In vigorous growth and turned to rottenness.
I was 12 years old when I first realized that food could be hot. That's why I turned out the way I am.
My focus is my art, and that's what I love to do. I have to be really passionate in order to do something. I've turned down many things that I just didn't believe in.
By the time I turned 12, I was a 5-foot 10-inch social disaster. Towering over my friends was the bane of my adolescence.
Regardless of how Beautified turned out, it was a great experience, and it was an excellent product and one that people really appreciated in the space.
Hamas has effectively kidnapped Gaza. Instead of turning it into the Singapore of the Middle East that was promised, they have turned it into a fortress of terror.
I turned down a lot of things that were so-called commercial. You're coming out of one film, and then they want you to be in the same one.
Jay wondered how they'd feel the morning they all woke up and realized that somehow Camelot had turned into Mordor.
I very seldom, during my whole stay in the country, heard a sentence elegantly turned, and correctly pronounced from the lips of an American.
I've turned vegetarian and am on an ayurvedic diet. I go to the beach every day, and I feel the creative energy of Auroville.
The Internet has turned the world into one gigantic linked community, capable of instantly sharing vast amounts of incorrect information.
Once upon a time, I sat in my mother's lap as she turned the pages of Golden Books, and I gradually learned to read.
I've got my head screwed on in the right direction, for the most part. It may be turned a little bit to the left, but we're getting there.
I didn't make a decision not to be married and not to be a mother - life just turned out like that because my involvement in acting was so total.
I thought about texting Lucas, but what would i say? That I'd tossed and turned all night, thinking of his hands on me?
I bought a Dutch barge and turned it into a recording studio. My plan was to go to Paris and record rolling down the Seine.
Art is definitely a passion of mine, but one that I couldn't afford to keep-up post-graduation, so I turned to DJing to pay the bills.
I was very interested in what happens to the husband when his wife goes missing, and how quickly they can be turned into heroes and villains.
When I started out in the industry, I turned to magazines like 'Flex' and 'Muscle & Fitness' - the people on their covers were my inspiration.
I turned from my wicked ways and embraced Jesus. The next thing I knew, good times had come my way.
The widespread belief that Yuppies as a class would perish from Brie-cheese poisoning turned out to be over-optimistic.
My will broke at the sound of his voice, and my head turned with as much inevitability as a sunflower turning its face to the sun.
Every time fans turned on the television or watched the Dallas Cowboys, I wanted to give them the performance of a lifetime.
I turned 24 in the middle of my first World Cup and it was quite an unbelievable experience. It's really hard for words to do it justice.
I had five children in six years. The day I brought my fifth baby home, that week, my daughter turned 6.
Somebody asked me what do you regret. I said, well I was offered the role of Maverick in 'Top Gun' and I turned it down.
People thought I was an idiot, but I saw social networks were going to be more important, and it turned out to be true.
Our age believed herself pregnant with auspicious progeny, but when her hour came, it turned out to be dropsy.
Ever since I turned 22, I've grown weaker. I think I'm going to die after riding a slide once.
I started playing hockey late and it was unclear until the very last moment if I was talented or not. But it turned out well.
When things gets difficult, and it seems like the intensity has been turned up, that’s a sign you are close to your victory.
After 'Crocodile Dundee,' I turned down lots of stuff, most of it where I'd play the girlfriend of some funny man.
You I expected better of." He turned his swirling sliver gaze from Sam to Dev and Fang. "You two not so much." -Acheron
I have never turned a trick in my life, and I just resent the American definitions of ’sex slave’ and ’prostitute’ so much. I was a mistress!
When I was on 'Trauma,' the first order was six, which turned to 12, and then there were rumors of getting cancelled. I'm used to that.
I turned off my Google alerts in 2009 as I learnt that following yourself on the Internet very quickly becomes unhealthy.
What strikes me as memorable about 'Predator' was a lot of the decisions that were made so quickly turned out to be so iconic.
It wasn't until I'd turned 50 and had been in the business 25 years that I realized I might actually have a career as an actor.
Many people are turned off at eating vegetarian because of the misconception that all dishes are just an arrangement of bland vegetables.
I was the 10th pick, people were thinking could be an All-Star, but I turned out to be a pretty damn good pro.
No, he wasn't a pig. He was a lonely, hurt man who didn't know how to cope in a world that had turned its back on him. [Astrid]
In my plays I want to look at life at the commonplace of existence as if we had just turned a corner and run into it for the first time.
Working and being involved in multiple businesses and fixing things has almost turned into an addiction, but I can't seem to want to change it.
So many nurses had turned into emotionally disturbed handmaidens of the war, in their yellow-and-crimson uniforms with bone buttons.
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