Top 100 Turned On Sayings
#1. I'm not turned on, so put away that meat you're selling.
Fiona Apple
#2. Three minutes, so I turned on the radio and of course it was a Tom Petty song - is there ever a time you turn on the radio and don't hear a Tom Petty song? -
Gillian Flynn
#3. When you can, avoid sitting, or even open up a direct attack. Set your phone or watch timer to go off every hour so that you get up out of your chair, mobilize for a minute or two, and then (if you have to go back to sitting) sit down with your butt and stomach muscles turned on and engaged.
Kelly Starrett
#4. Classically posh girls like Victoria Hervey are now trying to be Hollywood girls. Hollywood girls are trying to be posh girls. Everything is all mixed up, turned on its head.
Trinny Woodall
#5. And for the record, there are plenty of women I haven't slept with." Several sets of eyes turned on him in disbelief. Geez.
Jennifer L. Armentrout
#6. Avantika : I know you love me. Yes, you try to get me naked half of the time, but i love you for that too. you are my boyfriend and it's always great to have a boyfriend who gets turned on by a mere touch. Makes life a lot easier.
Durjoy Datta
#7. Is this the baby?" I said.
Ma turned on me again.
"What do you think it is?" she said. "A midget that can't talk?
George Saunders
#8. After lunch we went into the garden for coffee and I turned on the Surgeon-General with his graphics, percentages etc. of sick and wounded to entertain the Premier.
Douglas Haig, 1st Earl Haig
#9. Alpha men are very turned on by the alpha woman, really high chemistry, really fun to work with, probably really fun to have affairs with, but there's not sustainable harmony in that lack of complement. There can only be one person in the driver's seat.
Alanis Morissette
#10. All red and blue engines turned on. Yellow Car became a rocket and lifted off into space.
J.M.K. Walkow
#11. We were quiet on the car ride home. I turned on the radio and found a station playing "Hey Jude." It was true, I didn't want to make it bad. I wanted to take the sad song and make it better. It's just that I didn't know how.
Jonathan Safran Foer
#12. If your album sells, that's cool, more people find out about you, more people get turned on to what we're really about-which is a live rock and roll band.
Nikki Sixx
#13. I had the closest thing I have ever had to an out-of-body experience lying in bed one morning. I turned on the 'Today' programme and item four on the news was: 'The shadow chancellor has ruled himself out of the leadership.' I lay there thinking that's interesting, then I realised it was me.
George Osborne
#14. In a world that has REALLY been turned on its head, truth is a moment of falsehood.
Guy Debord
#15. When Alani started to speak, Jackson held up a finger. In the past five minutes, he'd had more mood swings than a menopausal woman. First turned-on, then territorial, bored, aggressive and now on alert.
Lori Foster
#16. I'm not built for a high-maintenance lover. I've always been the brat in a relationship. Now the tables have been turned on me, and I'm not handling it well." "Corey,
Darien Cox
#17. Whole batteries of genes are turned on and off during fly development, and this
pattern of gene activity serves to demarcate the different regions of the fly.
Neil Shubin
#18. I was raped: I said no and he wouldn't stop. I also had a scar on my back and blood coming out of my ass. To some that's just rough sex. Some would read that sentence and be turned on by that: the 51st Shade of Gay.
Kevin Sessums
#19. For perhaps most Americans, TV is an apppliance, not to be used selectively but to be turned on - there's always something to watch.
Pauline Kael
#20. I know when I was growing up in New York, whenever I turned on the television, I never saw a face that looked like me. Whenever there was an Asian person on television, it would be a huge event, me calling to my older sister 'There's an Asian person on television!' It was unheard of back then.
Yunjin Kim
#22. The sun burned every day. It burned Time. The world rushed in a circle and turned on its axis and time was busy burning the years and the people anyway.
Ray Bradbury
#23. I wish it was that easy to get turned on for me - at this point, I need a bottle of Belevere and a fighterjet.
Chelsea Handler
#24. Most of us will get turned on at night by the very same things that we will demonstrate against during the day - the erotic mind is not very politically correct.
Esther Perel
#25. I think Romney's talking himself out of the election, to be honest. I was wondering what was gonna happen when the Republican power structure turned the money on, and then they turned on the money and nothing happened.
Lupe Fiasco
#26. [Marriage] is the merciless revealer, the great white searchlight turned on the darkest places of human nature.
Katherine Anne Porter
#27. I wanted to get away from him before he led me into talking, before he made me feel angry, or grieved, or jealous all over again. I did not want to feel anything for him, not desire, not resentment. I wanted to be cold to him, so I turned on my heel and started to walk away.
Philippa Gregory
#28. I stumbled into this business, I didn't train for it. I yelled 'Action!' on my first two movies before the camera was turned on.
John Hughes
#30. the man with one hand turned on an enormous radio and tuned it to a mastermix station where the songs are not sung so much as bleated. Bleated and repeated.
David Sedaris
#31. I have to get the whole sense of the guy for me to be turned on by him, for me to actually like him. I like someone that has motivation and is really dedicated to something.
Natalie Martinez
#32. Knowledge is a strong stream of water turned on us through a hose. It disturbs our roots
O. Henry
#33. I didn't get turned on, I just got turned.
I wasn't as aroused as I was concerned.
Slug
#34. And then the searchlight which had been turned on the world was turned off again and never for one moment since has there been any light that's stronger than this-kitchen-candle ...
Tennessee Williams
#35. We know specific genes are turned on in specific cells, but we don't know to what extent this happens.
Walter Gilbert
#36. Regardless of how pretty a woman is, looks alone will not sustain his respect. Appearance may pull him in, but it is your independence that will keep him turned on.
Sherry Argov
#37. I've never seen anyone cry like this. Quiet but gushing, a faucet behind his eyes mysteriously turned on.
Gayle Forman
#38. I am deeply moved when I write. I get turned on by it. I've never used any drugs for stimulation. I don't use words loosely. When I'm working and the right word comes, there is an answering resonance within me. There is also a hardness of intention that goes with it. There is no idleness in it.
Saul Bellow
#39. It's a good thing, right, when an author gets turned on by the dirty scenes they write?!
Martha Sweeney
#40. Once desire was turned on, combustion gave it a life of its own. Once it was turned on it became a raging wildfire, uncontrollable and uncontainable, the type of conflagration that had to be allowed to burn itself out.
Eric Jerome Dickey
#41. I looked at this tiny, perfect creature and it was as though a light switch had been turned on. A great rush of love flooded out of me.
Madeleine L'Engle
#42. And it is not in any of our interests to have the balance of power turned on its head like this. An overly mighty French king is no improvement over an overly mighty English one.
Sharon Kay Penman
#43. I've got a lot of other people who do a lot of things for me, so I've gotten to a part in my career where I'm doing a lot of talks because I want to get kids turned on. I want to see these kids, these geeky nerdy kids, go out there and do something.
Temple Grandin
#44. He turned on to the track and wondered why no birds were singing. The only sound he could hear was the buzz and rattle of a drill, which he assumed to be the farmer doing something to a fence. It was, in fact, a woodpecker whose presence would have thrilled him had he known what it was.
Ruth Rendell
#45. From the base of the South Pass, a twisty road leads up the Rocky Mountains. It's a well-earned name, because the steep slopes are covered in giant rocks split open and turned on edge every which way, like God started a quarry and got distracted
Rae Carson
#46. She sagged against the wall, finding it hard to breathe. It wasn't from fear. Gods, she hadn't been that turned on in years. If that was her punishment, she was going to be lippy a little more often
Lia Davis
#47. I don't bite, Lucy.
She wanted him to. She wanted him to bite and suck and nibble and have his wicked way with her. She had a feeling he did things to a girl that made her body so turned on it took hours to turn off.
Robin Bielman
#48. Hey, would you look at that shit?"
I turned on my heel. The patrons who'd fled at the first hint of trouble had come back and were enjoying the spectacle.
"Clear out!" I barked.
They paid me no mind. Asshole innocent bystanders.
Ilona Andrews
#49. I tried to commit suicide one day. It was a very Woody Allen-type suicide. I turned on the gas and left all the windows open.
Elton John
#50. I feel my life is so scattered right now. Like it's all these small pieces of paper and someone's turned on the fan.
John Green
#51. The cold war was an aberration. Note how quickly the Europeans turned on America once 400 hostile divisions were no longer on their borders.
Bill Vaughan
#52. When men have money and power they get turned on, sexually. They get horny as hell. Can't imagine why, though.
Penelope Spheeris
#53. I've never seen a more exquisite sight than you when you're all turned on, darlin'. You know that?
L. H. Cosway
#54. Working with children is a whole other ball game. They're like little animals. You have to keep the camera turned on them all the time. Sometimes it takes a 41-minute take to get one sentence out in a believable way.
Vera Farmiga
#55. [ ... ] Lilith turned on me with the same fury I had watched her unleash on that fat bastard on the TV and I seriously feared for my balls.
Tabitha McGowan
#56. But perhaps Kira Dallaire wasn't exactly what she seemed to be. I sat down at my desk and turned on my computer to google her. One good turn deserved another.
Mia Sheridan
#57. Music has brought me some of the highest moments of my life. I don't even hear the music. I don't even hear the notes. I'm not aware that someone has turned on a tape machine - I'm in another world.
Jane Seymour
#58. It's not spandex, it's a Kevlar blend." His voice lowered to a growly whisper. "I'm so turned on right now.
Penny Reid
#59. The weapon of memory, turned on the self, is an apocalyptic sword.
Josephine Hart
#60. Harmony turned on whatever Dragons use for afterburners and swooped down.
Bryan Fields
#61. I bought a new Japanese car, I turned on the radio ... I don't understand a word they're saying.
Rodney Dangerfield
#62. He turned on his heel and began down the hall, then called back, "And we'll need to chat about your running off campus and into the arms of shifters without so much as a telephone call."
Sometimes, he was so predictable.
Chloe Neill
#63. To me, the black black woman is our essential mother, the blacker she is the more us she is and to see the hatred that is turned on her is enough to make me despair, almost entirely, of our future as a people.
Alice Walker
#64. Sometimes you could take comfort in a lie. You could nurture it and hold it close to your heart. Right up until it turned on you.
Skye Warren
#65. Well, I'm still not keeping the watch." I turned on my heel to leave.
"You don't like it?" Carter's eyes flashed hurt for a moment.
"It's not that." My voice softened. "It's beautiful Carter. Stunning. But why did you send it?"
"It reminded me of you. Delicate, beautiful, bright.
Adriane Leigh
#67. You asked me 'Why you?' And I'm telling you, I've never been more intrigued, more confused, more frustrated or more turned on by any girl. In my life. It certainly hasn't been a classic boy-meets-girl love story, but here we are.
Kate Sterritt
#68. An idea is a light turned on in a man's soul. Comic-strip artists are in the habit of representing it by means of a light bulb flashing on, above the head of a character who has suddenly grasped an idea. In simple, primitive terms, this is an appropriate symbol.
Ayn Rand
#69. Jace snorted so loudly that she turned on him with a frown. He wiggled his mud-caked fingers at her. His nails were black crescents. Filthy inside and out.
Cassandra Clare
#70. Sarah turned on her, and shook her head. "You may keep them. And if it is possible with so small a sum of money, I suggest you purchase some instrument of torture. I am sure Mrs. Fairly will be pleased to help you use it upon all those wretched enough to come under your power.
John Fowles
#71. We are meant to discover our authentic nature-the state of being in which we are inspired by ourselves, turned on, lit up, and excited about who we are.
Debbie Ford
#72. My dear," he sighed when the lights were turned on and they both looked older, "it's been a mistake, our having a family and writing histories and getting middle-aged. We should have been picturesquely shipwrecked together when we were young.
Willa Cather
#73. Not again, Nix. I'll give my life to keep you safe." He stepped into his bathroom, undressed, and turned on the cold water. "The next time we meet, I'll make you mine. That's a promise.
Lia Davis
#74. Bad enough that getting turned on when he had nothing more than a bath towel to hide it would make the condition kind of hard to miss, but getting turned on in front of his ex-fiancee was akin to smearing honey on his junk and walking into grizzly territory.
Heidi Betts
#75. I turned on VH1 this morning just to get a little warm-up before I came over here, and I think it's just terrific. There's so much great stuff: diverse and wonderful music, good performances, great looking girls, great videos, the whole thing.
Debbie Harry
#76. I like spending time with healthy people whose brains are turned on.
Dave Asprey
#77. I never heard such drivel in my life," said Evangeline Fairfield.
It was the most injudicious remark she'd ever made. Arethusa turned on her like a wounded tigress.
Madam, I write such drivel!
Alisa Craig
#78. Around 14, I was turned on to Shania, Reba, Merle Haggard, Garth Brooks, Trisha Yearwood ... and I've followed it ever since.
Laura Bell Bundy
#79. But suppose we take the noun 'truth': here is a case where the disagreements between different theorists have largely turned on whether they interpreted this as a name of a substance, of a quality, or of a relation.
J.L. Austin
#80. Even the slash fiction, that's a great way to learn to work. No one really does three-act structure, but just trying to put words that make somebody else turned on, that's going to teach you more about writing than any writing college you can go to.
Steven Moffat
#81. Forget being turned on. This man, this kiss, encompassed everything she ever wanted.
Robin Bielman
#82. The purple, formalized, iridescent, gelatinous bladder of a Portuguese man-of-war was floating close beside the boat. It turned on its side and then righted itself. It floated cheerfully as a bubble with its long deadly purple filaments trailing a yard behind in the water.
Ernest Hemingway,
#83. If you were just a regular person, you turned on the TV, and you saw Eric Cantor talking, I would say - and I'm fine with gay people, that's all right - but my gaydar is 60-70 percent. But he's not, I think, so I don't know. Again, I couldn't care less. I'm accepting.
Brian Schweitzer
#84. But mostly I was turned on. And curious. And bored with the Naughty Rabbit. Bring on the Naughty Cop. "Charlie." I set my beer bottle down and got on my hands and knees. "Show me.
Melanie Harlow
#85. I saw a guy being really abusive to his girlfriend. She was asking people to help, but no one would. When he grabbed her, I tried to separate them, but he turned on me. I punched him and knocked him down. It wasn't a scandal; I was just doing what anybody should.
Timothy Hutton
#86. Dear God, she was getting turned on in the middle of a roadside emergency. This had to stop.
Miranda Liasson
#87. I was sitting in my office when someone called to tell me two light planes had collided with the World Trade Centre. I turned on my television; before long, there was this procession of people of all kinds walking up the street. What I remember most was the silence of that crowd; there was no sound.
Tom Wolfe
#88. Few minutes later, when she momentarily forgot that the water was off
and turned on
the faucet, it ran beautifully.
Andrew had, once again, succeeded. He'd arrived unannounced like a knight on
his shiny
white horse to save the damsel in distress.
Damn him.
Bella Andre
#89. There are men, who can be turned on by a stiff breeze, but I cannot stop the wind, and it is wrong for a woman to be held responsible for a man's problems.
Emily Dixon
#90. No wonder you've turned on me so savagely. I suspect that you are using me as a scapegoat for your own feelings of guilt.
John Kennedy Toole
#91. The Lady with the Lamp, the Statue of Liberty, stands in New York Harbour. Her back is squarely turned on the USA. It's no wonder, considering what she would have to look upon. She would weep, if she had to face this way.
Claudia Jones
#92. With DNA, you have to be able to tell which genes are turned on or off. Current DNA sequencing cannot do that. The next generation of DNA sequencing needs to be able to do this. If somebody invents this, then we can start to very precisely identify cures for diseases.
Elon Musk
#93. A light turned on in a dark room is like receiving a message from God quickly, completely, and all at once.
David A. Bednar
#94. He was turned on because she was naked and pretty, not because she could kick his ass.
Sara King
#95. I scooted over, patting the bed next to me. "No such luck. And now you get to watch forty straight hours of Easton Heights with me!"
He turned on the first disk, shaking his head, then got onto the bed next to me. "Small price to pay for getting to hold your hand."
I wasn't cold anymore.
Kiersten White
#96. Bet you haven't had time to rub on the breast cream either." She turned on Roarke. "Some reason you can't slap some on your hands before you feel her up?" "I do try," he said, throwing Eve to the wolves without a qualm. "She's a difficult woman." "Let
J.D. Robb
#97. If security were all that mattered, computers would never be turned on, let alone hooked into a network with literally millions of potential intruders.
Dan Farmer
#98. Relationship Principle 9
Every guy knows he can find a girl who is simply satisfied with satisfying him. They are much more turned on by a woman who cares about her own pleasure as well.
Sherry Argov
#99. Walter turned on the radio: electric violins wailing, twisted romance, the four-square beat of heartbreak. Trite suffering, but suffering nonetheless. The entertainment business. What voyeurs we have all become.
Margaret Atwood
#100. I've reduced a lot of the stress in my life. I've gotten rid of a lot of things. The light was turned on and a lot of the cockroaches started spinning. I swept them out the door. And sometimes you just have to throw things out because they carry a certain energy.
Wesley Snipes
