Top 100 Turned Out Quotes
#1. I never met Barry Crump, but I was in an audience once for a play once. There was a drunken man at the back of the auditorium that was shouting during a performance of a one man play, and it turned out later on that was Barry Crump and he was in a state of inebriation.
Sam Neill
#2. Only the great generalizations survive. The sharp words of the Declaration of Independence, lampooned then and since as 'glittering generalities,' have turned out blazing ubiquities that will burn forever and ever.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#3. This was one of the secret jokes about marriage. People turned out to be exactly the opposite of how they'd seemed at first; they then went on changing randomly, as though enacting a hypothesis of unceasing chaos.
Anjali Joseph
#4. He begins to notice that he has been turned out of the silent company of the trees, the animals, the stars, and the unconscious life.
Erich Maria Remarque
#5. I was trying to land an 18-year-old strapping first baseman from Blanco, Texas, population 200. His name was Willie Upshaw. It turned out there were only three scouts who knew about Willie - Dave Yocum and I working for the Yankees, and Al LaMacchia from the Atlanta Braves.
Pat Gillick
#6. Team, it turned out that Michael Dell wasn't perfect at predicting the future. Based on today's stock market close, Apple is worth more than Dell. Stocks go up and down and things may be different tomorrow but I thought it was worth a moment of reflection today.
Steve Jobs
#7. It turned out that while you were searching for the meaning of life, you missed the experience of being alive.
Ruth A. Baer
#8. Sugar got her beauty from her mama, was Theo's first impression, but this woman did not strike him as having a heart of gold. She looked rich and mean, the opposite of his own mother, and he felt proud that Sugar had turned out the way she had despite that.
Sarah-Kate Lynch
#9. It turned out that the country was helpless in the face of a new reality.
Andrzej Wajda
#10. My dad and I are best friends. He's pretty much responsible for the way I turned out. He would provide a little artistic inspiration here and there in the form of a guitar, stuff like that.
Trent Reznor
#11. I stayed there only a week before I ran away. That was the first of many times I would run from a foster home. It was, after all, a foster home, and I did not belong there. It turned out that I did not belong anywhere.
Waln K. Brown
#12. We have a tremendous personal responsibility for the way our life has turned out, and an equally important role of steering it into the future. Although we constantly make decisions, we're not always mindful of their far-reaching consequences.
Timber Hawkeye
#13. This is a tough business for anyone, especially if you start out young. I feel really lucky about the way things have turned out.
Tempestt Bledsoe
#14. We went to the moon to have fun, but the moon turned out to completely suck.
M T Anderson
#15. I skated like it's a sport, went for everthing and just gave it my best shot. It turned out freat. I had nothing to lose. You might be the best in your heart, but not in other people's sight.
Michelle Kwan
#16. I don't feel beholden to follow the real world at all. The important thing is to know WHY things turned out the way they did. You need to understand the reasons for events, or at least be able to make reasonable guesses about them.
Patrick Rothfuss
#17. Manufactured
synthetic
even virtual, if that is what you turned out to be
I would love you.
Sharon Shinn
#18. If it turned out Brandon Stark also likes to dress up as Strwberry Shortcake while playing croquet with his miniture pony collection, I totally wouldn't be surprised anymore.
Meg Cabot
#19. Jenna Malone was a very important piece of how the film [The Neon Demon] turned out.
Nicolas Winding Refn
#20. After all, I wasn't a bad person. I was just doing my best in what had turned out to be a fairly imperfect life.
Lucy Robinson
#21. For me, Shambhala, you see, turned out to be not a goal but an absence. Not the discovery of a place but the act of leaving the futureless place where I was. And in the process I arrived at Constantinople.
Thomas Pynchon
#22. I remember when I was in the sixth grade, my friends used to come over and we would give each other blindfolded makeovers, which turned out interestingly to say the least!
Bethany Mota
#23. Since much of American taxes prior to 1763 went to support the local clergy, one humorist suggested the opportunity to vote on that. If the minister was turned out, he could open a tavern and preach to his customers if he served them liquor.
Colin G. Calloway
#24. I'm very proud of what Harry Truman turned out to be in office and the record he made. Certainly I think he'll go down in history as one of the greats, because of his conscience, his determination to stick with what he knew was right.
Walter Cronkite
#25. It seems as if nature, in regarding the geologic night behind her, when, in five or six millenniums, she had turned out five or six men, as Homer, Phidias, Menu, and Columbus, was no wise discontented with the result. These samples attested the virtue of the tree.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#26. To have a second movie that you're proud of and that actually turned out the way you wanted, shot by shot, I realize I'm probably going to be able to do this for a little while for my living.
J. C. Chandor
#27. This isn't some backwards planet," he interrupted. "We have all the latest reconstructive nanotechnology available. If you turned out to be a really nice person, we could fix all of your physical flaws.
Jim Proctor
#28. Well, then, I must say that I do not like him at all. Though it has turned out so well for us, I do not like him at all. As it happens, there is no great harm done, because I do not think Isabella has any heart to lose. But, suppose he had made her very much in love with him?
Jane Austen
#29. And I'm a believer that you take a negative and turn it into a positive, and as it turned out, it was one of the best things that ever happened to me. And so I do appreciate the Ranger staff and the Ranger organization for giving me that opportunity.
Nolan Ryan
#30. Just when you arrive at the apex of your skills, it's time to retire. But as it turned out, I decided that since it was the thing that I felt I did best, I owed it to all that be to pursue it.
Twyla Tharp
#31. A friend suggested that I get a job at a children's book store so I could meet kids and read books, and that turned out to be the single best bit of advice I've ever gotten.
Brian Selznick
#32. By the end of the war there was nothing about men and women that surprised him. Nothing about anything really. The whole edifice of civilization turned out to be constructed from an unstable mix of quicksand and imagination.
Kate Atkinson
#33. My look is a cocktail. I'm not as nicely turned out as the french, but I don't care like the English.
Jane Birkin
#34. Atheism, I began to realize, rested on a less-than-satisfactory evidential basis. The arguments that had once seemed bold, decisive, and conclusive increasingly turned out to be circular, tentative, and uncertain.
Alister E. McGrath
#35. Regrets are idle; yet history is one long regret. Everything might have turned out so differently.
Charles Dudley Warner
#36. It was a relief to inhabit someone else's life for a while, to get her personal issues for a brief respite. In a play, she knew exactly how all her character's problems would be resolved. No matter how the cast performed, the end turned out the same. No questions, no worries, no unknowns.
Alexandra Robbins
#37. I didn't know it at the time, but Hitch didn't want to talk to me - he hated meeting with people he might have to reject. As it turned out, someone, maybe his agent, insisted that he interview me.
Joseph Stefano
#38. Every week Republicans are excited about a new candidate because the one they liked last week turned out to be a moron.
Andy Borowitz
#39. He led me out of that tangle of alleys in another direction, it seems, for when we sighted a lamp-post we were in a half-familiar street with monotonous rows of mingled tenement blocks and old houses. Charter Street, it turned out to be, but I was too flustered to notice just where we hit
H.P. Lovecraft
#40. I've been a hip hop head forever. So when it turned out that we were gonna start getting celebrity guests for every show, I wanted rap guys from the get-go.
Andy Milonakis
#41. Your life has turned out the way it has for a reason. And now, you need to unearth that purpose and use it for your own good and the greater good.
Joanne Guidoccio
#42. Nick turned out to be a shy boy, uncertain in groups and in new situations, but also very brave, determined to overcome his fear. - Will, as a parent describing his son
Lisa Goldstein
#43. My father..." He paused painfully, his voice unsteady. "...thought he was drinking the nectar of the gods, but it turned out to be poison. He learned that men don't need gods after all; it's the gods who need men. That's what killed my father.
Gen LaGreca
#44. He was a perfect husband: he never picked up anything from the floor, or turned out a light, or closed a door.
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
#45. I'm really disappointed about how you've turned out, shouted Mum like Beth was a slightly burnt biscuit.
Karen Foxlee
#46. It turned out that, like Satan, cancer had many names.
Khaled Hosseini
#47. Being happy or unhappy - is that really the most important thing? Knowing the truth would be a different kind of happiness - a more satisfying kind, I think, even if it turned out to be a sad kind.
Ira Levin
#48. Much of what I stumbled into by following my curiosity and intuition turned out to be priceless later on.
Steve Jobs
#49. As a little kid, Peter had figured that once you reached a certain age, somebody just handed you all the knowledge you'd need in order to be an adult. But it turned out that wasn't how it worked.
Tommy Wallach
#51. Because what if I got to know you and you turned out to be just like they said? What if you weren't the person I hoped you were?
That, more than anything, would have hurt the most.
Jay Asher
#52. It turned out that the buckyball, the soccer ball, was something of a Rosetta stone of an infinite new class of molecules.
Richard Smalley
#53. I hate how we never get out chance to see how things could've turned out. I hate how I know I'm not over you yet I pretend to be.
Drake
#54. In Texas a high school student was arrested for bringing what authorities thought was a bomb to school but turned out to be a clock. Now the kid is in bigger trouble for carrying a device that could bring Texas into the future.
Conan O'Brien
#56. The most reliable predictor of whether students liked a course, it turned out, was their answer to the question 'Did the professor respect you?
Kwame Anthony Appiah
#57. Alas, the world turned out so very different from the noble battleground she had led me to expect. The stakes were puny, the people gray and gutless; my Amazon arts were futile here.
Anne Fortier
#58. There are some who think that the government is limited in how many corruption cases it can bring against Wall Street, because juries can't understand the complexity of the financial schemes involved. But in 'U.S.A. v. Carollo,' that turned out not to be true.
Matt Taibbi
#59. There are always things you wish you could've done better, and there are always things that you wish would've turned out a different way in terms of storyline, which you're not in charge of.
Robert Kazinsky
#60. No one had any idea, it turned out. None of the older Symphony members knew much about science, which was frankly maddening given how much time these people had had to look things up on the Internet before the world ended.
Emily St. John Mandel
#61. Take what happened to me in Bali. I planned on going to Ubud, then met a man on an airplane who told me it was too touristy. He gave me an address on the other side of the island, which turned out to be a palace where I lived for four years.
Rita Gelman
#62. The war in Iraq, clearly has not turned out in the way that was hoped.
William Hague
#63. In Leon's account of his life, no-one was mean-spirited, no-one schemed or lied or betrayed; everyone was celebrated at least in some degree ... Leon turned out to be a spineless, grinning idiot.
Ian McEwan
#64. I have never concealed the fact that I regarded him as my master ... The quality that had enchanted me in his imaginative works turned out to be the quality of the real universe, the divine, magical, terrifying and ecstatic reality in which we all live.
C.S. Lewis
#66. When I came back, I wasn't looking past this year. This is a bonus for me. I just wish it would have turned out a little better, but we all don't get what we want all the time.
Vinny Testaverde
#67. I believe more and more that God must not be judged on this earth. It is one of His sketches that has turned out badly.
Vincent Van Gogh
#68. Martha Washington. I think she's done herself a disservice in history with a little cap, you know? She looks like a namby-pamby little grandmotherly type, but she turned out to be a very strong woman.
Cokie Roberts
#69. I was pretty much seen as a basketball player coming out of high school. Football was my second love, but luckily, I turned out to be pretty good. Something just drew me to football; besides, I ended up being too short for my position in basketball.
Justin Tuck
#70. As it turned out, growing up was just as she'd feared. One day when your alarm clock rang, you got up and realized you had someone else's thoughts in your head ... or may be just your old ones, minus the hope.
Jodi Picoult
#71. In 'Lucy in the Sky With Diamonds' I was visualizing Alice in Wonderland, an image of this female who would come and save me - a girl with kaleidoscope eyes who would be the real love of my life. Lucy turned out to be Yoko.
John Lennon
#72. It was amazing how often kind-looking people turned out to be crazy. He wondered gravely whether things had reached such bad state that only crazy people attempted commonplace acts of kindness, that the crazy and the kind were one and the same.
Don DeLillo
#73. When I and the other young artists were working in comics, our work carried with it a particularly American slant. After all, we were Americans drawing and writing about things that touched us. As it turned out, the early work was, you might say, a comic book version of Jazz.
Joe Simon
#74. I used to want you so bad, I'm so through with that because honestly you turned out to be the best thing I never had!
Beyonce Knowles
#75. I did a film about the Zodiac Killer. It turned out well.
Robin Tunney
#76. One of the things I've really realized over the past number of years is that you can't plan - you really don't know what's going to happen. All the plans I made for myself all turned out really differently in the end, so I just go with it.
Lights
#77. I was so anxious about what kind of kiss it would be-because my friends back home described so many types-and it turned out to be the beautiful kind. You didn't shove your tongue down my throat. You didn't grab my butt. We just held our lips together ... and kissed.
Jay Asher
#78. I will always miss the person I
thought U are. But not the selfish,
unkind, insensitive and heartless
person U turned out to be.
Lily Amis
#79. Sometimes I would write while inspired and sometimes I would write through sheer force of will, and in revision the writing that I thought was "dead" very frequently turned out to be better because it was more free of ego.
Jesse Michaels
#80. Maybe he was what Lucian would have turned out to be if the old sheriff hadn't have lived in such interesting times. A couple of years in a Japanese prison camp might be just what Turk needed. But I didn't have a bridge over the river Kwai for him to build so we had to settle for Powder Junction.
Craig Johnson
#81. You know I was curious - I was interested in all kinds of mystery or deeper meanings in the paintings because I myself have not analyzed why they have turned out like this or like that.
H.R. Giger
#82. I would love to do a Bond song, and I could have done a Bond song: I was offered a Bond theme, but I turned it down because I didn't like the song. But as it turned out, I was right anyway because the song was the only Bond theme that never became a hit, so I'm glad I wasn't associated with that!
Bonnie Tyler
#83. I'd love to have been born into a wealthy family. I might have turned out even more marvellous than I am now ...
John Lydon
#84. It should have been the epiphany of the sixties. Instead it turned out to be its requiem,
David Winner
#85. I can honestly say that probably 95% of the things I was afraid of, it turned out I had no reason to be. So drop fear by the wayside. Just ... let it go. Then make way for a surprising tomorrow.
Neale Donald Walsch
#86. They'd used sex instead of communication in the past, and it had turned out disastrously.
Miranda Liasson
#87. I attempted to fish in Scotland and I managed to hook a dog. It was a horrible moment but the dog turned out to be fine.
Emily Blunt
#88. [I]t wasn't so much the mistakes that people made but how flexible they were in their aftermath that made all the difference in how their lives turned out.
Naomi Jackson
#89. I finally felt myself lifted definitively away on the winds of adventure toward worlds I envisaged would be stranger than they were, into situations I imagined would be much more normal than they turned out to be.
Ernesto Che Guevara
#90. Americans claimed to be following a higher law, even when this higher law only turned out to be a personal preference.
Mark A. Noll
#91. It turned out I had always been a smoker. I just hadn't had any cigarettes.
Augusten Burroughs
#92. Well, I woke up one morning around Christmas, went as far as the shops, and when I got to the corner I felt this violent pain in me left leg. I mentioned it to my daughter and she took me instantly to the hospital. It turned out it was vasculitis. In other words, you can have your leg off.
Beryl Bainbridge
#93. It turned out in the long run that Lincoln's credit and the popular confidence that supported it were as valuable both to his creditors and himself as if the sums which stood over his signature had been gold coin in a solvent bank.
John George Nicolay
#94. Never mind that the story had turned out to be lies and foolishness - there was always folks stupid enough to say, Where there's smoke there's fire, when the saying should have been, Where there's scandalous lies there's always malicious believers and spreaders-around, regardless of evidence.
Orson Scott Card
#95. I didn't have many friends; I might not have had any friends. But it all turned out good in the end, because when you aren't popular and you don't have a social life, it gives you more time to focus on your future.
Madonna Ciccone
#96. Money, iit turned out, was exactly like sex, you thought of nothing else if you didn't have it and thought of otherthings if you did.
James Baldwin
#97. I guess somethings turned out too sad even to be explained with a bases-loaded strikeout.
Ava Dellaira
#98. If we had been less reliant on technology and the security that we enjoy in being divorced from what we used to know, maybe things would have turned out differently.
Heather Donahue
#99. The thing was, though, Ian was one of those rare guys who wanted the one person in the world who fit him like a glove, and that person, it turned out, was me. So, yes, Ian was still technically bi, but was exclusively now Miro-sexual and wasn't interested in trying the buffet.
Mary Calmes
#100. It was that juxtaposition of how it used to be with how it had turned out that made L.A. so interesting and so sad a place, I thought.
Robert B. Parker
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