Top 100 Turn My Quotes
#1. Wheresoe'er I turn my view,
All is strange, yet nothing new:
Endless labor all along,
Endless labor to be wrong:
Phrase that Time has flung away;
Uncouth words in disarray,
Trick'd in antique ruff and bonnet,
Ode, and elegy, and sonnet.
Samuel Johnson
#2. Quote from "FUTURE GONE":
" ... I set the house on fire. It's dark outside. The fire tears down the darkness. I turn my back to the place and leave, not knowing where.
And suddenly I understand ...
All dreams are dead now".
Alexandar Tomov
#3. I need one good honky tonk angel to turn my life around.
Travis Tritt
#4. I cursed myself not only for forgetting to turn my phone off but for ever thinking that having a rock music ringtone was cool.
Claire LaZebnik
#5. When I turn my eye inward, I find nothing but doubt and ignorance. All the world conspires to oppose and contradict me; though such is my weakness, that I feel all my opinions loosen and fall of themselves, when unsupported by the approbation of others.
David Hume
#6. If I let myself sink into depression, I won't be able to get out. And then I'll be awfully unhappy. I just have to turn my face to the light and walk on. And trust that things will be all right.
Marianne Faithfull
#7. If, in our world, there is any chance of becoming the person you haven't yet become ... will I know how to seize that chance, turn my life into a garden that will be completely different from my forebears'?
Muriel Barbery
#8. Nothing . . . no woman . . . no piece of ass or fake boob thrust in my face will ever turn my eye away from you. Nothing and no one will ever come close to making me feel the way I do just when I'm holding your hand, or listening to you breathe at night. Nothing compares.
Anonymous
#9. So I learned to hold my tongue and to turn my features into an indifferent mask so that no one could ever read my thoughts.
Suzanne Collins
#10. I came into the world a Jew, and although I did not live my life entirely as a Jew, I think it is fitting that I should leave as a Jew. I don't want to turn my back on a great and noble heritage.
Felix Frankfurter
#11. I can't work without a model. I won't say I turn my back on nature ruthlessly in order to turn a study into a picture, arranging the colors, enlarging and simplifying; but in the matter of form I am too afraid of departing from the possible and the true.
Vincent Van Gogh
#12. Sweet memory, wafted by the gentle gale,
Oft up the stream of Time I turn my sail,
To view the fairy haunts of long-lost hours,
Blest with far greener shades, far fresher flowers.
Samuel Rogers
#13. I don't own a cell phone or a pager. I just hang around everyone I know, all the time. If someone wants to get a hold of me, they just say 'Mitch,' and I say 'what?' and turn my head slightly.
Mitch Hedberg
#14. The inner side of every cloud is bright and shining. So I turn my clouds about, and always wear them inside-out, to show the lining...
Unknown
#15. I will bear this grief, I will endure it. I will reach a point where it doesn't kick me down an abyss whenever I turn my back on it.
Jim Beaver
#16. I don't turn my nose up at anything. If it's a great part, it's a great part. I'd love to do a box-office hit.
Laura Dern
#17. I've lived a life
of darkness already, years where the sun didn't shine on me, and now that I've seen daylight again, I
don't think I could ever turn my back to it.
J.M. Darhower
#18. I would love to be able to turn my recording career into something that is substantial, and where I can go and tour with an orchestra.
Billy Porter
#19. I tried to turn my mind off. Shut down the thoughts that were with me every second. Everything in me ached to be with him. It was worse than an obsession. It was a need.
Dan Skinner
#20. Every time I started going in the direction of thinking how it might turn out, I started to just turn my brain around and not go there, because I think the surest way to guarantee that you won't win is to assume that you will.
Brad Bird
#21. All you have to do is utter the words, "I pledge myself to the goddess Artemis. I turn my back on the company of men, accept eternal maidenhood, and join the Hunt." Yes, you heard that right. Eternal maidenhood and
Rick Riordan
#22. I would never turn my back on my fellow citizens.
Ben Carson
#23. There have been a few occurrences where people in restaurants have sent me a rasher of bacon, which I am not going to turn my nose up at. I never let them down.
Nick Offerman
#24. I accept people for who they are and love them. That doesn't mean I have to agree or that I have to turn my back on the tenets of my faith and reject the tenets of my faith when it comes to homosexuality.
Ed Gillespie
#25. I knot my fingers with Haley's and turn my head so I'm focusing out the driver's-side window
away from her. If I look at Haley, I'm terrified of what I might say, what I might feel. And fuck me, I've already said too much.
Katie McGarry
#26. I'd go to the library so I could sit in a big, quiet room and listen to pages being turned. There was a boring librarian who everyone in fifth grade hated. But I loved her because when she would read us stories in her soft voice, she'd turn my head into a snow globe.
Andrea Seigel
#27. I never wanted to fight against the Union, but could not turn my back on Virginia.
John Brown
#28. Despite what people think, I was such a rule follower at school. I loved the whole slacker look, like, 'Hey, I don't care, whatever,' but if I didn't turn my homework in, I would panic.
Kristen Stewart
#29. Some say that you should turn your face from the light of the moon. They say it makes you mad.
I turn my face towards it and I laugh.
Make me mad, I whisper. Go on, make Mina mad.
I laugh again.
Some people think that she's already mad, I think.
David Almond
#30. I turn my head to look at him again. Immediately it gets all fuzzy with hormones.
"Um, I was, uh, I was thinking about being shaken and stirred." He looks over at me and quirks one brow. "I mean I was thinking how well you could probably shake and stir something."
Ohmigod, somebody stop me!
M. Leighton
#31. If you were coffee, you would be bitter and strong; the kind that makes my heart palpitate its way out of my chest -the kind that can turn my thoughts manic. Oh, just the way I would like it. I like it.
Nessie Q.
#32. They didn't recognize me," I repeat.
He stops in turn, my hand still on his arm.
"It is because they have never seen you," he says. "I would recognize you anywhere.
Muriel Barbery
#33. I wanted to live with hope; I wanted to love with my heart and turn my dreams into reality.
Lisa De Jong
#34. Do you know what is nice about friendships as longstanding
as ours?" Hyacinth interrupted.
Felicity shook her head.
"You won't take permanent offense when I turn my
back and walk away."
And then Hyacinth did just that.
Julia Quinn
#35. I keep my phone on the floor in my bedroom, and I turn the sound off when I sleep, but I never really turn my phone off.
Meryl Davis
#36. As I glow in this cold, dark night, I know I can't be a light unless I turn my face to You.
Sara Groves
#37. Since the future's so iffy, I'll turn my attention to the past.
Manil Suri
#38. Do you think I just turn my secrets out for everyone?"
He is unfazed. "I didn't know they were secrets," he says. "Or I wouldn't have asked.
Maggie Stiefvater
#39. I never considered I might make a career out of writing as I was going to school, so when I did turn my attentions that way, I was very ill prepared, having only what I read as a guide, and no formal training whatsoever. I credit that very ignorance with a great deal of my success.
Kim Harrison
#40. I think in my earlier albums I lived in my head a lot more. The issues I dealt with were all personal, depression or how I would react to certain situations. Now, not feeling too depressed that much anymore, I think about other things. I turn my thoughts outward now.
Happy Rhodes
#41. I see crosses at every turn. My flesh shudders over it, but my heart adores them. Yes, I hail you, crosses little and great, I hail you, and kiss your feet, unworthy of the honor of your shadow.
Saint Francis De Sales
#42. I must go where I am bound to go, and turn my back on the bright shores. I was in too much haste, and now have no time left. I traded all the sunlight and the cities and the distant lands for a handful of power, for a shadow, for the dark.
Ursula K. Le Guin
#43. It's hot on my block, somebody turn the fan on
I've been paid, I'm just tryin to turn my mans on.
Slim Thug
#44. The day I won an Emmy was also the day my father passed away. I received a call from my sister on the way to the ceremony and had to turn my car around and catch the first flight back to Karachi.
Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy
#45. There are just certain things that turn my head. It may be a girl's sense of humor, it may be her wit, or her belief system; it could be a lot of different things.
Jensen Ackles
#46. There's a fine line between being truthful and being a complete jerk, I respond and with that I turn my back to the fire. I mutter an obligatory 'goodnight' before falling into sleep.
Celia Mcmahon
#47. On Sunday, I think the most important thing for me is to just turn my brain off. The idea of not trying is the key, because that's where you're relaxed enough to let your brain make new connections.
Rebecca Stead
#48. What can I now do to use my misfortunes constructively, to turn my suffering to advantage by finding something worthwhile to do that I could not have done so well if these tragedies had not occurred?
James C. Crumbaugh
#49. Inconsistency is my very essence; it is the game I never cease to play as I turn my wheel in its ever changing circle, filled with joy as I bring the top to the bottom and the bottom to the top
Boethius
#51. They laughed together then until the woman's features turned somber. "Thank you for not lying about what you thought of my appearance. You might have a face to turn my hair white, but your honesty is handsome.
Grace Draven
#52. Hopped up out the bed, turn my extrovert on, took a look in the mirror said "Oh my god, what's up dude! I haven't seen you in forever, how've you been?
William Randolph
#53. Mikhail stretched out on the bed, his head in her lap. "You are going to turn my well-ordered world upside down, are you not?"
She tunneled her fingers in his hair, enjoying the feel of its silky thickness against the bare skin of her hips and thighs. "I certainly intend to do my best.
Christine Feehan
#54. I turn my negatives into my positives because one of my mottos is, 'Yesterday's history, tomorrow's a mystery,' meaning that you can't go back and change anything in the past.
Vanilla Ice
#55. Go nuts, girlfriend." He grins, making his face instantly more familiar. "I told 'em we met when we were both looking after Jamie. But I skipped the part about taking off my pants and daring you to find out if Wesley's massage chair would turn my dick into a real-life vibrator.
Sarina Bowen
#56. I wanted to surround myself with the kind of people who could help me turn my life around; people whom I could rub up against like iron and be sharpened.
Eric Thomas
#57. I looked around, counting the competition. Sixteen. To win, all I had to do was incapacitate each one, place my hand over their hearts and turn my palm into a flame. Easy.
Yeah right.
Gena Showalter
#58. Indeed, I am as skilled as any alchemist, but instead of turning lead into gold, I turn my fear into daring, and assuredly that is a far greater trick.
Robin LaFevers
#59. Sweet Memory! wafted by thy gentle gale, Oft up the stream of Time I turn my sail.
Samuel Rogers
#60. I don't have so many friends that I can afford to turn my back on any of them.
Tamora Pierce
#61. One thing I turn my back on totally is the unsavory atmosphere at most discos.
Ginger Rogers
#62. I always try to turn my personal struggles into something helpful for others.
Henri Nouwen
#63. I've always been very forward-looking, and it was actually kind of difficult to turn my gaze backwards to look at comics history.
Scott McCloud
#64. This is not what I wantef. This is not why I came to the Wilds, why Alex wanted me to come: not to turn my back and bury the people I care about, and build myself hard and careless on top of their bodies, as Raven does. This is what Zombies do.
Lauren Oliver
#66. I've never had to turn my hand to anything for monetary gain, other than pretending to be somebody else. I'm deeply fortunate.
Ben Kingsley
#67. If you get earaches, I'd turn my volume down a notch or two for you. Cause I will do anything for you.
Alice Cooper
#68. I turn my head and stare out the casement window at the royal gardens instead, wet and slippery and dark as the center of a body, where the roses twitch an extinguished red.
Alexandra Kleeman
#69. I've never chased fame. I came into this business to be a theatre actress. I was nine when I first appeared on stage. But I can't say I would turn my back on fortune. I'm someone who enjoys the benefits of money.
Joan Collins
#70. It would be very ungrateful of me to turn my back or stop doing work in Latin America.
Jaime Camil
#71. And though I cannot honestly say I would ever turn my back on any luxury that I could come by, I do feel there is something a bit wrong in it. Perhaps that makes it all the more enjoyable.
Dodie Smith
#72. The chasm between the beauty and seriousness of the work, and what it has become, has overwhelmed me. The commercialization has reduced the aesthetic and philosophical impact of the creation to nothing. There is only one solution for me: to turn my head away.
Christopher Tolkien
#73. Thank you, God, for loving me, and for sending your Son to die for my sins. I sincerely repent of my sins, and receive Christ as my personal savior. Now, as your child, I turn my entire life over to you. Amen.
Jan Karon
#74. I was slightly brain damaged at birth, and I want people like me to see that they shouldn't let a disability get in the way. I want to raise awareness - I want to turn my disability into ability.
Susan Boyle
#75. One word, that's all you said and something in your voice caused me to turn my head. Your smile just captured me.
Kenny Chesney
#76. I can't do that. I can't turn my emotions off and on like that. I'm either all in or all out. And if you can't do that - if I don't come first, then for God's sake, leave me alone.
Aileen Erin
#77. Let me be accurate in everything, for though you and I have seen some strange things together, you may at the first think that I, Van Helsing, am mad. That the many horrors and the so long strain on nerves has at the last turn my brain.
Bram Stoker
#78. I hope to turn my reader into the quiet person in the corner who, even when no one is telling them anything, sees everything.
Damali Ayo
#79. The world is sown with good; but unless I turn my glad thoughts into practical living and till my own field. I cannot reap a kernel of the good.
Helen Keller
#80. Accept all happiness from me.
Then shall i turn my face, and hear one bird
sing terribly afar in the lost lands.
in the lost lands
E. E. Cummings
#81. It forced me to realise that I'd been blaming you for not being flawless. And none of us is flawless.' Another sigh. 'I was so angry with myself for what happened to Michael and Lucy that I had to turn my anger somewhere else and you were the easiest target.
Val McDermid
#82. I deny the resurrection every time I turn my back on the poor or become a cog in a system of injustice
Peter Rollins
#83. Though you hale my body to that place, and there set me, can you force me also to turn my mind or my eyes to those shows? I shall then be absent while present, and so shall overcome both you and them.
Augustine Of Hippo
#84. Maybe I was a fool to turn my back on him after his warnings, but the bad guys didn't warn you first. No, the truly wicked ones lured you in with kindness and then blindsided you with their mercilessness.
Heather Topham Wood
#85. I can easily go to America, or I can easily escape to some places in Europe with friends. But the place for me is the Philippines. The struggle is there. I cannot turn my back on it. It's a responsibility.
Lav Diaz
#86. I must accept those things over which I have no control. I must turn my adversities into advantages.
Stephen King
#87. I sell my problems. I'm a woman with problems. I've had problems since the day I was born. And I have found a way to turn my problems into assets.
Suzanne Somers
#88. I want to turn my life into sad adventure and myths.
J. Limbu
#89. What if I can't turn my head? I can look in any direction by turning my wheelchair, and I choose to look back. Rodman to the contrary notwithstanding, that is the only direction we can learn from.
Wallace Stegner
#90. Sometimes I feel like a windup doll, like I have to reach behind and turn my golden key to produce a greeting, a laugh, whatever the socially acceptable reaction should be.
Jessica Knoll
#91. I'm going to turn my life around. Make a complete three sixty."
"Don't you mean one eighty?" he corrected. "If you do that, you'll end up right back where you started."
"Maybe. But at least I'll have a chance of coming out of it a different person - a better version of me.
Megan Duke
#92. Alex's eyes went wide. You can't bury them in my backyard. Damn it, Ian, we're putting in a swimming pool in the next couple of weeks. How am I supposed to explain that? First my French doors, then the hardwoods, and now you want to turn my backyard into a fucking body dump. It's not happening, Ian.
Lexi Blake
#93. Tomorrow gives a beck'ning hand
I turn my face away; I'll not invite her to my home
I only love Today.
Phil Jackson
#94. I turn my gaze inward. I fix it there and keep it busy. I look inside myself. I continually observe myself.
Michel De Montaigne
#95. It's my job to turn my mess [life] into a message and never regret a day of my life.
Karrine Steffans
#96. For the beloved should not allow me to turn my infantile fantasies into reality: On the contrary, he should help me to go beyond them.
Frantz Fanon
#97. Wait for me. Be strong, and I'll be strong too. I'll fight my way out of whatever they've got in store.
I won't forget you. I won't ever turn my back on you, no matter what lies I have to tell them. Our center will hold.
Richelle Mead
#98. I started to turn my life around for the better and try to instil a bit of stability and balance back in to it and take a back seat to violence. I wanted to leave that part of my life behind. The leopard wanted to ditch its spots!
Stephen Richards
#99. I set her on her wooden baby seat so her little hiney don't fall in and soon as I turn my back, she off that pot running.
Kathryn Stockett
#100. I can never turn my back on a city that made me.
Eminem
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