Turn Words Into Quotes

#1. I decided to become an author when my grandmother taught me to write, when I was six. I can still recall the sensation of being able to turn words into stories. It was a miracle.

Henning Mankell

#2. My parents both work in publishing, and I was a bright, academic kind of kid, and I read a lot of books, and when you read a lot, I guess the muscle that gets exercised is where you can hear the voices in your head. You can turn words into pictures and into sounds and into colours and smells.

Harry Lloyd

#3. Watch your thoughts. They turn into words, then turn into actions.

Inbar Lavi

#4. I get so nervous on stage I can't help but talk. I try. I try telling my brain: stop sending words to the mouth. But I get nervous and turn into my grandma. Behind the eyes it's pure fear. I find it difficult to believe I'm going to be able to deliver.

Adele

#5. Have your dream ... What you need now more than anything is discipline. Cast off mere words. Words turn into stone. (from Thailand)

Haruki Murakami

#6. It's my turn, to take a leap into the darkness!

Thomas Hobbes

#7. I don't like losing the words, as you have to, when I'm asked to turn a play into a movie. It's not a matter of ego ... I'm just better able to create the character for an audience through words rather than through actions.

Neil Simon

#8. Helen's words had hit Quentin like a weed whacker stuck down the front of his underwear and turned on high. And not the wimpy electric models, but the four-stroke gas engine that produce enough RPMs to turn his junk into noodle soup and effectively emasculate him. Fortunately it was metaphorical.

Jay Barry

#9. I know I've married the right person when words turn you on as much as they do me. I read deeper into that, as I should. Translation: I could only ever be with you, Rose.

Krista Ritchie

#10. It has long been known that if you want to see me turn into a raging, snarling beast, then all you have to do is use any combination of the words 'chill out,' 'chilling,' or - my maximum red rag - 'chillax.'

John Niven

#11. Giving these students, teenagers, any form of power over the use of their own words, allowing them to turn everyday raw material into some form of beauty, is a gift beyond measure.

Gloria Ng

#12. You are the language
so universal
you are forgotten

Be my linguist

Turn me
into your words.

Banoo Zan

#13. A gap will yawn, achingly, day by day, it will turn into a colossal pit, an abyss without foundation, a gradual invasion of words by margins, blank and insignificant, so that all of us, to a man, will find nothing to say.

Georges Perec

#14. The writer's job is to turn the unspeakable into words - not just any words, but, if you can, into rhythm and blues.

Anne Lamott

#15. Let the poets cry themselves to sleep, and all their tearful words will turn back into steam.

Conor Oberst

#16. Do the things you want to do; if you don't, the things which keep you alive inside you die and you turn into a ghost!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#17. Draw every bad word you've ever called yourself on your body. Stand in the shower and pay attention to the way the words turn back into ink and disappear down the drain.

Iain S. Thomas

#18. Kind words toward those you daily meet, Kind words and actions right, Will make this life of ours most sweet, Turn darkness into night.

Isaac Watts

#19. And to turn it into rap wasn't too difficult besides just rhymin' the last words of each line.

Slick Rick

#20. Life is potentially meaningful under any conditions, even those which are most miserable. And this in turn presupposes the human capacity to creatively turn life's negative aspects into something positive or constructive. In other words, what matters is to make the best of any given situation.

Viktor E. Frankl

#21. Words, you see," he said, looking at me again, "allow us to make permanent what is essentially transient.Turn a world filled with injustice and hurt into a place that is beautiful and lyrical.

Vaddey Ratner

#22. One word can turn into a book just as one poem should never be overlooked.

Delano Johnson

#23. Last words of wisdom.If your parents are screewed up, don't turn into them. Use them as an example of what not to be- be yourself instead. you can overcome your fears, you can change, you can make your life into what you've always wanted it to be. Maybr not tomorrow but soon. So hang in.

Susane Colasanti

#24. Imagine what you are writing about. See it and live it. Do not think it up laboriously, as if you were working out mental arithmetic. Just look at it, touch it, smell it, listen to it, turn yourself into it. When you do this, the words look after themselves, like magic.

Ted Hughes

#25. One of the plainest truths about both towns and individuals is that they usually don't turn into what we tell them to be, but what they are told they are.

Fredrik Backman

#26. When he was born, I looked at my little boy and felt an unconditional love I never knew was inside me. As he grew, and I watched him stagger about, squeak his first words, and turn into a beautiful little boy, that feeling did not change.

Tony Parsons

#27. One must be chary of words because they turn into cages.

Viola Spolin

#28. Words are like swords, if you use them the wrong way, it'll turn into ugly weapons.

Gosho Aoyama

#29. Some words were made up without any thought given. Nice is one of them. Nice has no meaning. Nice gets thrown out there to replace something meaningful. Take Goodreads and turn it into Nicereads. This goes to show that nice provides no justice.

J.R. Rim

#30. We did musical chairs to sit with our partner. Glasses were refilled and heads bent in pairs. Looking over the table, I was suffused with affection for my friends. If you could bottle this warm feeling and turn it into words, I thought, that would be the perfect toast.

Kerry Reichs

#31. The time has come to put into practice the charity taught by the masters and priests of all times. The words said between the pigeons' cooing under the sacred porticos of all the temples should now turn into concrete reality.

Samael Aun Weor

#32. In other words, we may, by fixing our attention almost fiercely on the facts actually before us, force them to turn into adventures; force them to give up their meaning and fulfill their mysterious purpose.

G.K. Chesterton

#33. If you look hard enough, chaos turns into order the way letters turn into words.

Patricia McCormick

#34. people say things
meant to rip you in half
but you hold the power to not
turn their words into a knife
and cut yourself

Rupi Kaur

#35. Don't tell me anymore. You should have your dream, as the old woman told you to. I understand how you feel, but if you put those feelings into words they will turn into lies. (from Thailand)

Haruki Murakami

#36. The creative mind can turn chaos into a master piece and call it Art.

Nikki Rowe

#37. Rights don't come from human documents. The very idea is only worthy of contempt. Human documents are nothing but pieces of paper, they are nothing but words
until by will, and conscience, and courage, and commitment, human beings turn them into reality.

Alan Keyes

#38. Countries which are governed by the dabblers will undoubtedly turn into the miserable countries!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#39. Hundreds of wise men cannot make the world a heaven, but one idiot is enough to turn it into a hell.

Raheel Farooq

#40. It's the living that turn and chase the dead. The long bones and skulls are tumbled from their shrouds, and words like stones thrust into their rattling mouths: we edit their writings, we rewrite their lives.

Hilary Mantel

#41. A lot of negative words adults call the young, like 'naive,' 'impulsive' and 'way too connected online,' are all things we can turn into strengths to help us.

Adora Svitak

#42. It was from a very young age that I fell in love with this wonderful artifact
the turn of the first page is almost like a sacred ritual to me. Whenever I walk into a library, it is never without some degree of reverence.

Lang Leav

#43. What kind of beast would turn its life into words?

Adrienne Rich

#44. One must be careful with words. Words turn probabilities into facts and by sheer force of
definition translate tendencies into habits.

Fay Weldon

#45. You have to have a good vocabulary to do magic. And you have to be able to think on your feet. And be brave enough to speak up. And have an ear for a solid turn of phrase. And you have to actually understand what you're saying - how the words translate into magic.

Rainbow Rowell

#46. For everyone is pained by the thought of disappearing, unheard and unseen, into an indifferent universe, and because of that everyone wants, while there is still time, to turn himself into a universe of words.

Milan Kundera

#47. Motivation doesn't come from empty words, because words fade over time. If persistance and perservance is what you live then what motivation do you need? Your dreams can turn into goals and your goals can turn into a reality. You are all the motivation you need to succeed.

Gabriel Mason

#48. I will always try to turn sights and sounds into words. I will always try to shape words into my singing poems.

Arnold Adoff

#49. In their different ways, art and philosophy help us, in Schopenhauer 's words, to turn pain into knowledge.

Alain De Botton

#50. Turn around.
Only two words, but they deliver such a sensual threat.
I do as you ask without question. You are right behind me, breathing hard into the small of my neck, where I like to be kissed.

Felicity Brandon

#51. Sometimes just looking into a person's eyes can tell a graphic story and a brilliant novel if you have the ability to turn it into words.

L.L. Caulton

#52. A little girl's fantasies are one thing, and literature is another; just as numbers require rules to give them human meaning, words, too, demand a form to turn them into literature.

Benjamin Moser

#53. Do not allow another person to set you back. Continue moving forward not backwards. When someone pulls you back, be like the arrow to a bow and spring forth greater than ever. And, what they thought would be your disadvantage, you turn it into your advantage.

Amaka Imani Nkosazana

#54. To turn life into words is to make life yours to do with as you please, instead of the other way round

Gore Vidal

#55. Ace would be the first to turn the words into a joke, one about how artists fell in love every day before noon and got their hearts broken by dinner.

Kit Rocha

#56. I'll write lines or words in a notepad. You work on little things and little parts; sometimes they turn into bigger songs.

Albert Hammond Jr.

#57. We write to expose the unexposed. If there is one door in the castle you have been told not to go through, you must. The writer's job is to turn the unspeakable into words - not just into any words, but if we can, into rhythm and blues.

Anne Lamott

#58. If you are young and you drink a great deal it will spoil your health, slow your mind, make you fat - in other words, turn you into an adult.

P. J. O'Rourke