Turning One Sayings

#1. Two devils rose from the water, and flew off through the air, crying, 'Oh, oh, oh!' and turning one over another, in sportive mockery ...

Martin Luther

#2. Writing is turning one's worst moments into money.

J.P. Donleavy

#3. Turning one hundred was the worst birthday of my life. I wouldn't wish it on my worst enemy. Turning 101 was not so bad. Once you're past that century mark, it's just not as shocking.

Annie Elizabeth Delany

#4. An individual Christian may see fit to give up all sorts of things for special reasons - marriage, or meat, or beer, or the cinema; but the moment he starts saying the things are bad in themselves, or looking down his nose at other people who do use them, he has taken the wrong turning. One

C.S. Lewis

#5. Tut, man, one fire burns out another's burning; One pain is less'ned by another's anguish; Turn giddy, and be holp by backward turning; One desperate grief cures with another's languish.

William Shakespeare

#6. Turning one's back on stardom might be the highest form of common sense. One that I would aspire to be more complete with.

Sean Penn

#7. Writing: Turning one's worst moments into profit.

J.P. Donleavy

#8. Turning one's novel into a movie script is rather like making a series of sketches for a painting that has long ago been finished and framed.

Vladimir Nabokov

#9. Nothing in the world is worth turning one's back on what one loves.

Albert Camus

#10. In this chaotic world where everything is moving and turning, one's partner should be like the centre of a wheel which never moves and always remains still.

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#11. We are born for synergy, just like the feet, just like the hands, just like the eyes, just like the rows of upper and lower teeth. Working against each other is unnatural, and being annoyed and turning one's back is counterproductive.

Marcus Aurelius

#12. The other world is as to this like the east to the west. We cannot approach the one without turning away from the other.

Abdelkader El Djezairi

#13. Stevie Wonder doing [carpool karaoke] it was a massive turning point because he's Stevie Wonder. Like, there's no one else in the world who can go, I don't really want to do it. And you go oh, so it's good enough for Stevie Wonder but it's not good enough for you?

James Corden

#14. TOMORROW'S WILL

Silent world, I find myself,
Glad no one hears my thoughts.
In dark cocoon, I hibernate,
Yet spirit spills every thought.

A second chance to try again.
The risks I know too well.
Two sunsets turning into six-
Awaits tomorrow's will.

Giorge Leedy

#15. Well, have you ever thought of bathing?' I asked, turning away. 'No one wants to hire a wizard who smells worse than their outhouse. And who knows what creatures are living in that hair?

Alexandra Bracken

#16. I would not for a moment have you suppose that I am one of those idiots who scorns Science, merely because it is always twisting and turning, and sometimes shedding its skin, like the serpent that is [the doctors'] symbol.

Robertson Davies

#17. Still, all it really took was one alteration in my life, a change which appeared insignificant and unlikely at the time, nonetheless it has affected my outlook completely, turning it around the compass of my life.

Andrew James Pritchard

#18. If you try to get 1% better each day at your health, at your relationships and the way you treat people, at your creativity, and at turning despair into gratitude, then that 1% compounds into an amazing person. Do that 1%. Take one action. Even if the actions is for one minute. The 1/1/1 strategy.

James Altucher

#19. One of the characteristics of kitsch is precisely the neutralization of 'extreme situations', particularly death, by turning them into some sentimental idyll.

Saul Friedlander

#20. You're staring at me again," Ash murmured without turning his head, though one corner of his lips quirked up. His silver eyes danced mischievously. "Is it the uniform? Perhaps I should remove it it it's distracting."
"Behave, Ash." I wrinkled my nose at him, smiling.

Julie Kagawa

#21. My retirement is both voluntary and involuntary. One reason, and this is voluntary, is the impact of television. All old movies are turning up on television, and frankly, making pictures doesn't interest me anymore. Another reason is that the film industry is in a declining state.

Randolph Scott

#22. There is not identity, nor non-identity, or non-coincidence, there is inside and outside turning about one another.

Maurice Merleau Ponty

#23. One pierced moment whiter than the rest
-turning from the tremendous lie of sleep
i watch the roses of the day grow deep.

E. E. Cummings

#24. Wizard's Tenth Rule
Willfully turning aside from the truth is treason to one's self.

Terry Goodkind

#25. While I still do a lot of horror, it doesn't feel to me like I'm repeating myself. I like to stay interested. I'm kind of turning into one of those elder statesmen, like a Vincent Price or a Donald Pleasence. I like to think of myself alongside those guys.

Robert Englund

#26. Turning away, sobbing, I hide behind my hair, the kettle and coffee forgotten. It's too hard to talk about it. I can't talk about it. It's no one's business but mine. The trauma breathes in my blood, it feasts on my life, it gives me cold sweats and nightmares still.

Poppet

#27. My dad had a stroke. It's one of those life-changing events. It was right around the time I was turning 40. We were doing 'L.A. Law,' and I got this call that my dad was in Rome and had had a stroke. I want to stress that it wasn't a huge stroke, but it was enough to provide a serious wake-up call.

Corbin Bernsen

#28. That gate," said the under-gardener, turning with great deliberation towards the south, and embracing the whole of that part of England with one comprehensive sweep of his arm. "Curious,

Wilkie Collins

#29. Politics can be relatively fair in the breathing spaces of history; at its critical turning points there is no other rule possible than the old one, that the end justifies the means.

Arthur Koestler

#30. Actually, however, life begins less by reaching upward, than by turning upon itself. But what a marvelously insidious, subtle image of life a coiling vital principle would be! And how many dreams the leftward oriented shell, or one that did not conform to the rotation of its species, would inspire!

Gaston Bachelard

#31. I was turning into one of those ABC Afterschool Specials that we were forced to watch as kids.

Ashlan Thomas

#32. She knew happiness was only one side of the coin and the coin was forever turning . . . Thomasina had every reason to be happy, but instead she held her heart at the same level she had always held it, because she did not trust extremes of feeling.

Kathleen Winter

#33. When the dancer only moves in a straight line but still manages to travel from one side of the stage to the other with out turning, you know you are in a Mobius Strip club

Ade Bozzay

#34. But if you would know, I am turning aside soon. I am going to have a long talk with Bombadil: such a talk as I have not had in all my time. He is a moss-gatherer, and I have been a stone doomed to rolling. But my rolling days are ending, and now we shall have much to say to one another.

J.R.R. Tolkien

#35. Art is like turning corners, one never knows what is around the corner until one has made the turn.

Milton Avery

#36. Sydney to Grant: If I can forgive you for turning my life upside down, then can't you forgive me for one stupid moment of confusion?

Brynna Gabrielson

#37. But the mind, or the heart, she didn't know which one it was, but it was slower these days, not catching up, and she felt like a big, fat field mouse scrambling to get up on a ball that was right in front of her turning faster and faster, and she couldn't get her scratchy frantic limbs up onto it.

Elizabeth Strout

#38. I would give my left arm to fly in one of those aeroplanes ...

Joseph Boyden

#39. I vividly remember a conversation I had many years ago in 1974, which marked a turning point in my leadership journey. I was sitting at a Holiday Inn with my friend, Kurt Campmeyer, when he asked me if I had a personal growth plan. I didn't. In fact, I didn't even know you were supposed to have one.

John C. Maxwell

#40. Naming one thing after another cannot, logically, increase the chances of the new thing turning out like the old thing.

Ned Beauman

#41. Passion such as hers is all consent, asking little in return. I had merely to enter a room where she was to see her face take on that peaceful expression of one who is resting in bed. If I touched her, I had the impression that all the blood in her veins was turning to honey.

Marguerite Yourcenar

#42. I have become one of those brittle, busy people who emerge from suffering like a tornado, turning so fast that we do not even realize how much self-destruction we're causing. The

Jodi Picoult

#43. I have spent much of my life turning away from the scripts given to me, in China and in America; my refusal to be defined by the will of others is my one and only political statement.

Yiyun Li

#44. Jobs insisted that Apple focus on just two or three priorities at a time. "There is no one better at turning off the noise that is going on around him," Cook said. "That allows him to focus on a few things and say no to many things. Few people are really good at that.

Walter Isaacson

#45. No-one knows what I do in my private, spare time, so I don't see why anyone would assume I'm celibate or somehow turning into a Garboesque character.

George Harrison

#46. Imagine," she said, her face turning serious for a moment, "imagine if something happened to one of us and there was no Easter egg hunt next year, imagine if everything stopped being perfect - you would wish so hard that you'd taken part today . . .

Lisa Jewell

#47. NASA's been one of the most successful public investments in motivating students to do well and achieve all they can achieve, and it's sad that we are turning the program in a direction where it will reduce the amount of motivation it provides to young people.

Buzz Aldrin

#48. There comes a turning point in intense physical struggle where one abandons oneself to a profligate usage of strength and bodily resource, ignoring the costs until the struggle is over. Women find this point in childbirth; men in battle.

Diana Gabaldon

#49. Congratulations on turning 60
Now you can wear what you like
No one cares, and more particularly
You're fine telling 'em 'Take a hike'

John Walter Bratton

#50. It was turning out to be one of those days. The sort you got every day.

Terry Pratchett

#51. It hit her like a loved one turning his back while she was falling, like some great bond that wasn't simply taken away but never truly existed.

Hugh Howey

#52. Solving this issue is as easy as turning over one's hand!

Luo Guanzhong

#53. I haven't been thinking at all, not really, I've just been following the steps. The recipe.
& this is like turning a page in the cookbook & finding the next one blank.

Stephen King

#54. And his stomach growled in response. He felt a pang of something, deep inside, a hole he hadn't known existed, and he dropped the cloth, stepping away, turning back to the small living space. A home, that was what this was. Had he ever had one?

Alessandra Torre

#55. When the warden appeared outside their cell, he ogled Regin's bared midriff. Gross. Whenever men leered at her, Regin tended to leer back. She canted her head on the floor, turning it one way, then the other. I finally understand what a dickie-do is. Your gut does stick out more than your dickie do.

Kresley Cole

#56. I know nobody ever got over being afraid of the dark by never turning off the lights.

J.D. Ruskin

#57. When I remixed U2's "Even Better Than the Real Thing," that was a big moment and turning point for me. One of my remixes became "the big remix" for them and then I went on tour and was living on the road with them for six months.

Paul Oakenfold

#58. Monsters cannot be announced. One cannot say: 'Here are our monsters,' without immediately turning the monsters into pets.

Jacques Derrida

#59. I am one of those artists who knows where their money is. I pay my bills; I take care of my mama. I handle my business. I am a businessman. I go to meetings and take care of things, so it's a lot more than just partying and turning up.

Juicy J

#60. The principle of Yoga is the turning of one or of all powers of our human existence into a means of reaching divine Being.

Sri Aurobindo

#61. This was the cream of marriage, this nightly turning out of the day's pocketful of memories, this deft habitual sharing of two pairs of eyes, two pairs of ears. It gave you, in a sense, almost a double life: though never, on the other hand, quite a single one.

Jan Struther

#62. Impossible for anyone to conceive the torments of his nights in bed with his beloved one and estranged from her. That turning of backs, that cold space between their two unhappy bodies.

Elizabeth Von Arnim

#63. The wickedness of the church can be one thing and one only: turning the Good News of Jesus into the bad news of religion.

Robert Farrar Capon

#64. A prophet is one who sees what is happening and being done in the present that they can tell us what will happen to us if we do not change now, immediately, turning from our present course.

Megan McKenna

#65. The Marshall guitar amplifier doesn't just get louder when you turn it up. It distorts the sound to produce a whole range of new harmonics, effectively turning a plucked string instrument into a bowed one.

Brian Eno

#66. Explaining one's recent loss as more of a continuous journey rather than a dead end, giving one of the invaluable opportunity to gain strength and learn about oneself, and thereby turning this terribly tragic affair into something hugely positive.

Cecelia Ahern

#67. As with any turning point or instance when a new road is chosen and an old one forsaken, there are consequences.

Michael J. Fox

#68. By turning from the surface, one comes closer to the inner laws of matter, which are also the laws of the Spirit.

Piet Mondrian

#69. One of the turning points of my life was when I got my first bait-casting outfit.

Jimmy Carter

#70. Los Angeles is full of places to hide a body, but when the person inside the body doesn't love you, it's not an easy thing, turning that breathing person into a dead one.

Caroline Kepnes

#71. to secure as much of the advantages of centralised power and intelligence, as can be had without turning into governmental channels too great a proportion of the general activity, is one of the most difficult and complicated questions in the art of government.

John Stuart Mill

#72. I know one writer who has been subscribing authors without their permission and sending out what she thinks are helpful advice sheets, but they come off as if she's a know-it-all. She thinks she's marketing herself and her work. All she's really doing is turning readers off.

M.J. Rose

#73. But Nicholas had no room for practicality when there was fun to be had. There was no one as capable of taking a seemingly innocuous situation and turning it into a raving adventure.
Jane. What a boring, and obviously fake, name. This oughta be fun.

Sarah M. Cradit

#74. I hate most people. And I don't want to, it's an awful way to be. But the human race gives me no comfort. I find myself turning to books and films for comfort still. It's repulsive, because one's life consists of people, not things.

Morrissey

#75. Burning the napkin with that part of his story on it is one of the hardest things I've ever done. Like the books out at the Restoration site, like Grandfather's poem, Ky's story, bit by bit, is turning into ash and nothing.

Ally Condie

#76. Nothing in the world can be compared to the human face. It is a land one can never tire of exploring. There is no greater experience in a studio than to witness the expression of a sensitive face under the mysterious power of inspiration. To see it animated from inside, and turning into poetry.

Carl Theodor Dreyer

#77. I swear, sometimes it feels like there's this monkey in my head who runs around turning the dials and changing channels on me. One minute I'm sitting around eating chocolate chip cookies and then all of a sudden I'm thinking about bears.

Michael Thomas Ford

#78. But what after all is one night? A short space, especially when the darkness dims so soon, and so soon a bird sings, a cock crows, or a faint green quickens, like a turning leaf, in the hollow of the wave.

Virginia Woolf

#79. Turning Wearily, as one would turn to nod goodbye to Rochefoucauld, If the street were time and he as the end of the street.

T. S. Eliot

#80. It's worth turning up to an awards gig if you know you've won one but, since you never do know, it's not worth it.

Arthur Smith

#81. The caterpillar turns to liquid before turning into a butterfly. Liquid. Thus washing away any speck of his caterpillar self as he lies completely vulnerable to his environment in his chrysalis shell. One good solid gust of wind and the caterpillars boned.

The Hippie

#82. You think you're writing one historical novel and it turns into three, and I'm quite used to a short story turning into a novel - that's happened through my whole career.

Hilary Mantel

#83. One sacrificed for many. It's not pretty, I know, choosing who it'll be
turning the plan into people.

John Le Carre

#84. It's always described as melting, and I finally understood why. I thought my body was turning to liquid. I could feel my bones giving way, threatening to dissolve and leave me one big puddle of goo.

S. Walden

#85. There's only one ball game for any writer, and it's to keep you turning the pages. That's the whole ball game. That's what I have to do.

Mike Lupica

#86. She wouldn't be afraid of vampires as such: being rash and curious, she'd be the first into the forbidden crypt. But she wouldn't like the thought of Tin turning into one, or turning into anyone other than her idea of him. Meanwhile,

Margaret Atwood

#87. Food is one of life's greatest joys yet we've reached this really sad point where we're turning food into the enemy, and something to be afraid of

Jamie Oliver

#88. Wart draggled off to the tower room, where Merlyn was busy knitting himself a woollen night-cap for the winter. "I cast off two together at every other line," said the magician, "but for some reason it seems to end too sharply. Like an onion. It is the turning of the heel that does one, every time.

T.H. White

#89. I keep smiling, giving Ash a little wink before turning around. Daemon stood there with two cups, one eyebrow arched.
"Bad little Kitten," he murmured.
Grinning, I stretch up and kissed him.

Jennifer L. Armentrout

#90. There comes a day when you realise turning the page is the best feeling in the world, because you realise there's so much more to the book than the page you were stuck on.

Zayn Malik

#91. Sweet bleedin' Christ," Bones interrupted. "Try not to let this turn you into a Ghost Whisperer, hmm? Adopting Fabian is one thing, but we're
already turning away spooks by the dozen. If you want another pet, we'll get you more cats.

Jeaniene Frost

#92. One of the great joys of science has to be turning a thought that surfaced one night over a few beers into a full-blown project.

Joe Roman

#93. The one and only choice by which you can be converted is your choice to believe on the Lord Jesus Christ as your own personal Lord and Savior. The word "conversion" means simply "turning.

Billy Graham

#94. It is human nature to take the most magical of worlds for granted, turning each one into a blank canvas upon which to paint the lives of those who would live there. Only an outsider can see a world's wonders for what they truly are.

Neal Shusterman

#95. Gerald Ford, one of the most admirable presidents of our time, once observed that if Lincoln were alive today, he'd be turning over in his grave. With

David McCullough

#96. Daylight, full of small dancing particles and the one great turning, our souls are dancing with you, without feet, they dance. Can you see them when I whisper in your ear? All day and night, music, a quiet, bright reedsong. If it fades, we fade.

Rumi

#97. Why should I apologize for being a HACKER? Has anyone ever apologized for turning me into one?

Harsh Mohan

#98. 26To you first, God, having raised up His Servant Jesus, sent Him to bless you, in turning away every one of you from your iniquities.

Anonymous

#99. I always try to tell a good story, one with a compelling plot that will keep the pages turning. That is my first and primary goal. Sometimes I can tackle an issue-homelessness, tobacco litigation, insurance fraud, the death penalty-and wrap a good story around it.

John Grisham

#100. Professor Longbottom only assigned us to write about spynuswort because it's one of the three most useful plants in the magical world. If we were to write about every one of its uses, we'd be turning in encyclopedias, you silly boy.

G. Norman Lippert