Top 100 Turned Into Quotes
#1. I turned into Little Red Riding Hood. I made a cake, packed it up and went through the forest until I met the wolves. That's something the story got wrong, wolves don't travel solo, they hunt in packs.
Louise Welsh
#2. When one heated exchange (in English) led a commenter to write "Go fuck yourself!" in Lojban, it turned into a lengthy discussion of why he hadn't said what he meant to say, and what the proper Lojban expression for the sentiment might be.
Arika Okrent
#3. Television is full of fictional and real violence that's turned into entertainment.
Bill James
#4. We no longer sing and dance. We don't know how to. Instead, we watch other people sing and dance on the television screen. Christmas, which was once a festival of active enjoyment, has turned into a binge of purely passive pleasures.
Tom Hodgkinson
#5. The United States' gasoline industry, as Hurricanes Katrina and Rita demonstrated, is remarkably fragile. And the process of how oil is pumped from the ground, turned into gasoline and distributed to consumers is complicated.
Gary Miller
#6. The British cook, for her iniquities, is a foolish woman who should be turned into a pillar of salt which she never knows how to use.
Oscar Wilde
#7. Decay and disfavor came together as other parts of the coast were developed, and the canals became weed-clogged ditches breeding mosquitoes, and the hotels were turned into third-rate apartments.
Edward Bunker
#8. Gradually, subtly, without anyone completely understanding the full implications of what was happening, what had been the essence of moral relations turned into the means for every sort of dishonest stratagem.
David Graeber
#9. Where was that fragile, golden-fair Dresden doll I used to be? Gone.
Gone like porcelain turned into steel-made into someone who would
always get what she wanted, no matter who or what stood in her way.
V.C. Andrews
#10. When we do not understand something, a common reaction is to fear it. In government, this is the usual, and encouraged, reaction. The reaction to the gig economy has been no different, and this growing fear has unfortunately turned into a legislative bloodbath.
John McAfee
#11. Idols tend to be good things that you have turned into god things, which therefore become bad things
Mark Driscoll
#13. I've turned into a technological wizard. I can send emails now, which for me is unbelievable. They don't make any sense, but I can send them. I call it e-mithering.
Mark Lawrenson
#14. When once enthusiasm has been turned into ridicule, everything is undone except money and power.
Madame De Stael
#15. We loved cars until the '70s or so. Then they became appliances. They turned into motorized cup holders. Most of it has to do with urban sprawl. What began as pleasure ends up in necessity, as so many things do.
P. J. O'Rourke
#16. You cannot reduce the situation to worm jokes, Will. This is Gabriel and Gideon's father we're discussing."
"We're not just discussing him; we're chasing him through an ornamental sculpture garden because he's turned into a worm.
Cassandra Clare
#17. My sister." Lanthe rolled her eyes. "For someone so cool, she's turned into a mother hen. Weird.
Kresley Cole
#18. There is something so ludicrous in promises of good or threats of evil a great way off as to render the whole subject with which they are connected easily turned into ridicule.
Abraham Lincoln
#19. We had one of those Friday dates that turned into an entire weekend, and by the end of it, I loved him so much my larynx ached. Vulnerable love, incorrigible love. Love in which he was both the nausea and the sodium bicarbonate.
Kathleen Rooney
#20. For twenty-seven years I was witness to the spiritual deterioration of my own father, watching day after day how everything human in him left him and how gradually he turned into a grim monument to his own self ...
Svetlana Alliluyeva
#21. After half an hour the drug hit me like a sensuous tidal wave. I turned into a tactile temptress and wanted to stroke the whole world. It gave me untold confidence.
Boy George
#22. Money commands everything because that's our interpretation of capitalism ... what kind of world is that? It's a very uncomfortable interpretation of a human being. We have been turned into robots.
Muhammad Yunus
#23. The principle of my school is quite different. In the other schools, techniques are displayed like merchandise adorned with colors and flowers, so they can be turned into a way of making a living, which is not the true way.
Miyamoto Musashi
#24. He grinned at me again, and the butterflies in my stomach turned into dragons and laid waste to my innards.
T.J. Klune
#25. Decoration Day is the most beautiful of our national holidays ... The grim cannon have turned into palm branches, and the shell and shrapnel into peach blossoms.
Thomas Bailey Aldrich
#26. Let grammar, punctuation, and spelling into your life! Even the most energetic and wonderful mess has to be turned into sentences.
Terry Pratchett
#27. As universities have turned into businesses, so students have turned into consumers.
Kenan Malik
#28. And she nodded and she nodded and she nodded until she was sobbing and she wasn't sure when the nodding turned into sobbing but it had and she'd buried her face into The Mother's neck and The Mother rubbed her back, her palm up and down and up and down.
Ainslie Hogarth
#29. When he saw the vista of the street reflected in the mirror in which he was looking, he was terror stricken. He had the impression that the whole view had turned into eyes that reproached him.
Kobo Abe
#30. Proverb: The caterpillar thought the world was ending, then it turned into a butterfly,
Marian Phair
#31. What happened to fantasy for me is what also happened to rock and roll. It found a common denominator for making maximum money. As a result, it lost its tensions, its anger, its edginess and turned into one big cup of cocoa.
Michael Moorcock
#32. We [ with Italo Calvino] had a great relationship. I don't think it's a coincidence that his only daughter's name is Giovanna. I loved his book dedications to me: "To Giovanna Cau, another book that won't be turned into a movie."
Giovanna Cau
#33. About eighty thousand people were killed in Hiroshima and more than two thirds of the buildings were destroyed because 0.7 gram of uranium-235 was turned into pure energy. A dollar bill weighs more than that.
Eric Schlosser
#35. The word Universe is made up of two Latin words- uni (meaning "one") and versus (meaning "turned into"). It literally means "one turned into.
Chris Prentiss
#36. Do you love me?"
I nodded like a kid that wanted ice cream. "Yes."
"Like love me so much that you wouldn't be able to kill me if I turned into a zombie?
Penelope Douglas
#37. There's this funny thing with pilots that you have to sign the contract to do the whole job before you're even offered the part. And they make about a million pilots a year, but hardly any of them get turned into series.
Eve Best
#38. The world turned into a big black hole while my daughter was on the verge of life and death.
Ziauddin Yousafzai
#39. A woman ran at our car screaming, a few of the shadow people chasing her, but before I could even touch the brake she must have changed her mind, because she had already turned into a shadow person herself. It's like, ugh, run from the shadow people or become one. Make up your mind, lady!
Joseph Fink
#40. Christine Bass was my high school music teacher. She took a program on its last legs and within a few years turned into one of the best programs in the country. Our high school dominated national choir competitions all through her 20-plus year tenure.
Aaron Lazar
#41. The Romans weren't trying to kill all the Jews, but they did destroy Jewish resistance to Roman rule. Jerusalem was turned into a Roman army camp, and it was a total devastation.
Elaine Pagels
#42. No erotic work of art is filth if it is artistically significant; it is only turned into filth through the beholder if he is filthy.
Egon Schiele
#43. They passed out of the shade beneath the eaves and flew into sunglare and silence and it was an action she only partly saw, elusive and mutely beautiful, the birds so sunstruck they were consumed by light, disembodied, turned into something sheer and fleet and scatter-bright.
Don DeLillo
#44. Clearly, the Iranians are well aware that Teheran would be turned into a field of glass and sand if they ever stepped toward open war with Israel or Saudi Arabia.
Mike Barnicle
#45. Just before reaching the station, he turned into a bar
Haruki Murakami
#46. I'll show you that I'm master.'
- How will you do that? Zeus has set me free. Do you really suppose that he would allow his own son to be turned into a slave? You're master of my carcass, take that.
Epictetus
#47. I have so much hate that it has turned into love.
Margaret Cho
#48. You run a grave risk, my boy," said the magician, "of being turned into a piece of bread, and toasted.
T.H. White
#49. I had to admit, my little Accord hadn't looked all that great next to the Benzes and Rolls in that garage to begin with, but now that it'd been turned into a mobile tribute to the artistic rendering of Lil' Loco, it stuck out like a Cracker Jack ring in a a Tiffany display.
Marcia Clark
#50. Over in the refrigerated section hang lies told so long ago and so often that they turned into the truth and get taught in history books.
Catherynne M Valente
#51. I turned into a workaholic to the point of where my health was in jeopardy.
Tab Hunter
#52. She felt nervy as all her excitements turned into weaknesses
Munia Khan
#53. Being turned into a lizard can really mess up your day.
Rick Riordan
#54. The USA has turned into a great country to study corporate government corruption.
Steven Magee
#55. His one big plan, oceanography, had gone sour on him; and then his plan turned into keeping his eyes open until something better came along.
Rainbow Rowell
#56. When he felt his heart hurt he turned into something stronger than a little boy, and he grew up this way. A heart that flashed from heart to stone, heart to stone.
Alice Sebold
#57. Later the island was turned into a leper colony, a lunatic asylum, and a naval base. The government had only recently turned the island back into a prison.
Nelson Mandela
#58. Even though I resigned as Papandreou's adviser early in 2006 and turned into his government's staunchest critic during his mishandling of the post-2009 Greek implosion, my public interventions in the debate on Greece and Europe have carried no whiff of Marxism.
Yanis Varoufakis
#59. The dark fever I'd caught that first night I'd set foot in Dublin had turned into a fever of a different kind: a bloodfever - as in I wanted blood, spilled for my sister.
Karen Marie Moning
#60. Consider how wool is turned into an elegantly designed carpet by coming into contact with an intelligent person.
Rumi
#61. Claire, I'm sorry. I know now that I did everything wrong with you. By loving you so much, I turned into everything you'd ever feared. I wanted to take all your pain away, and instead I only gave you more. I drove you away and I know you will never trust me. You will always think that I'm like him.
Sydney Landon
#63. He had figured out that thoughts exist in silence and have no colour or sound or shape until they are turned into words. Spoken words exist in the mind first and then go to the voice and sit temporarily inside ears, and if words are conveyed through sign language, they exist in the motion of hands.
Rita Leganski
#64. Theo Fitzgerald," she said, still trying to shake off the night's uninvited visitor. "I mean, really!" The shake turned into yet another shiver, the sort usually inspired by a particularly wicked mouthful of very rich, supersmooth, utterly sinful ice cream.
Sarah-Kate Lynch
#65. The ethics of plagiarism have turned into the narcissism of small differences: because journalism cannot own up to its heavily derivative nature, it must enforce originality on the level of the sentence.
Malcolm Gladwell
#66. Things seemed to consist not of wood and stone but of some grandiose and infinitely tender immorality that, the moment it came in contact with him, turned into a deep moral shock.
Robert Musil
#67. Something is very wrong. What began as a passing fascination with the book has turned into something darker,
Erika Swyler
#68. Woodstock was the antithesis of what the music industry turned into. And if anyone tries to tie another Woodstock festival to an obnoxious sponsor, I'll be out protesting again.
Michael Wadleigh
#69. The moral high ground to which I aspired had turned into a slippery slope.
Alfred Alcorn
#70. Orioles fought with tigers, blue jays battled against angels, bear cubs warred with giants, and none of it made any sense. A baseball player was a man, and yet once he joined a team he was turned into an animal, a mutant being, or a spirit who lived in heaven next to God. According
Paul Auster
#71. Imagine how you'd feel if your whole life turned into a job you couldn't stand.
Chuck Palahniuk
#73. Was there a plan here, apart from 'let's all go to the meadow and get turned into confetti by the sheep'?
Seanan McGuire
#74. Manhood is melted into courtesies, valor into compliment, and men are only turned into tongue, and trim ones, too.
William Shakespeare
#75. As I got older, it turned into hardcore punk. I started getting into more aggressive music.
David Pajo
#76. Rom. 7:10, that the law is turned into a source of ruin for us, not because it is evil but because we are wicked. Therefore,
John Calvin
#77. Facts can be turned into art if one is artful enough.
Paul Simon
#78. Somehow it felt like everything was missing, and asphalt and the bridge and railway line. He came to the end of the road and then everything turned into nothingness. It's over. How he just hated that word.
Jo Nesbo
#79. I never pulled a loaded pistol on anybody, but it got around that I did. It got turned into lore. It's a myth. There's so much bad gun stuff.
Barry Hannah
#80. In that moment, I could not write anything about flowers because I myself had turned into a flower, I myself had a stem and a lymph.
Alda Merini
#81. Wait a minute, hold on ... The dude dies, and the girl cries so hard that she gets turned into a fountain?
Caroline Goode
#82. Children are holy and pure. Even those of bandits and crocodiles belong among the angels ... They must not be turned into a plaything of one's mood, first to be tenderly kissed, then rabidly stomped at.
Anton Chekhov
#83. I just think that I screwed up what could have turned into a more significant relationship, or at least a lasting friendship.
Emily Giffin
#84. I know that a lot of people take inspiration from the fact that I was just a common man with no film background who turned into a star.
Uday Kiran
#85. Do you know my biggest regret?" She asks. "That you turned into this bright, beautiful, fascinating person ... and I can't take credit for any of it.
Stephanie Perkins
#86. Half the reason I turned into a writer is you didn't have to show up anywhere. You could work naked.
Jerry Stahl
#87. LOL has turned into something you type when you have nothing better to add into a conversation.
Richard Harris
#88. Sugar is celebratory. Sugar is something that we used to enjoy. Now, it basically has coated our tongues. It's turned into a diet staple, and it's killing us.
Robert Lustig
#89. We're going balls to the wall, guys. Our sneak-and-peak just turned into a hostage rescue.
Melissa Cutler
#90. Somehow over the years people have gotten the impression that Wal-Mart was ... just this great idea that turned into an overnight success. But ... it was an outgrowth of everything we'd been doing since [1945] ... And like most overnight successes, it was about twenty years in the making.
James C. Collins
#91. Canada has a passive-aggressive culture, with a lot of sarcasm and righteousness. That went with my weird messianic complex. The ego is a fascinating monster. I was taught from a young age that I had to serve, so that turned into me thinking I had to save the planet.
Alanis Morissette
#92. Religions were never meant to be followed but thought for. It turned nasty when was turned into human ego, blasted straight out of furnace of hatred for fellow being.
Kunal Narayan Uniyal
#93. I think you can fairly say I spawned or laid an egg that has turned into a lifestyle industry.
Martha Stewart
#94. The sign of a good marriage is that everything is debatable and challenged; nothing is turned into law or policy. The rules, if any, are known only to the two players, who seek no public trophies.
Carolyn Heilbrun
#95. I really didn't care if he turned into a big wolf - he was still Jacob.
Stephenie Meyer
#96. Before and during the first phase of the war his administration repeatedly maligned the UN but now, that Iraq has turned into a quagmire, it is asking the UN for help.
Peter Schuyler
#97. When chefs like Wolfgang Puck became household names, that became a compelling reason for an intelligent young person to go into the cooking profession. There have been no waiters who have turned into household names. The service and hospitality aspects have clearly lagged behind the kitchen.
Danny Meyer
#98. I'm talking about the kind of indignity that changes you as a person, makes you withdraw, hide from the world because suddenly it's turned into something frightening - full of dark corners and monsters.
S. Walden
#99. Everyone wanted to see [him] fall so they could devour his remains. As is usually the case, the army of sycophants had turned into a horde of hungry hyenas
Carlos Ruiz Zafon
#100. In 'The Big Chill,' those characters are in middle age, thinking, 'Oh, God, I've turned into my parents. I've failed.' And in 'Beside Still Waters,' we're showing the struggles of people who actually want to be like their parents and feel they can't live up to their heights.
Chris Lowell
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