Top 100 You Turn Quotes
#1. The tree leaves rustled like that noise e-books make when you turn the page.
Daniel Nayeri
#2. If you miss someone too much you turn into them ... though it doesn't seem to work for the Christian Church.
Robyn Hitchcock
#3. The future comes quickly. Before you know it, you turn around and it's tomorrow.
Pia Zadora
#4. Let The Rock understand this, he beats your ass in cage match last week and now your the number 1 contender? Well The Rock knows exactly why that is; you've got a three foot nose you turn it sideways and stick it straight up Vince's ass!
Dwayne Johnson
#5. I don't think there's ever a point when you turn to yourself and go, 'Yes, I've made a success of this career path.' You never feel like you've done your best work. You always think you could be better.
Dominic Cooper
#6. That's life. Whichever way you turn, fate sticks out a foot to trip you.
Martin Goldsmith
#7. You know that you have fully experienced love when you turn into love - that is the spiritual goal of life.
Deepak Chopra
#8. If you don't know a light bulb is a three-way light bulb, it messes with your head. You reach to turn it off, and it just gets brighter! That's the exact opposite of what I wanted you to do! So you turn the switch again, and it gets brighter once more! I will break you, light bulb!
Mitch Hedberg
#9. Charmed is fun and light, one of those shows that let you turn your brain off for an hour.
Shannen Doherty
#10. He did not seek to efface pain in forgetfulness, he sought to elevate it and to dignify it with hope. He would say, "Be careful how you turn to the dead. Don't think of the rotting. Hold your gaze and you will see the living light of your dearly loved departed up above in heaven.
Victor Hugo
#11. The kids you turn your backs on when you take away their stories are the ones who lose, as well as you as a community of adults who may appear to fear their truths.
Chris Crutcher
#12. A study last year showed that the page you turn to first in the newspaper can be a predictor of how long you will live. No surprise, turning first to the Comics Pages prolongs your life.
Elayne Boosler
#13. One minute, he thought, you're allowed the illusion that things are pretty much the way they've always been and always will be. Next time you turn around, some pinhead rips the world out from under you, and the weirdness starts pouring in from every direction ...
Chet Williamson
#14. But there are forces that don't let you turn back and undo things, because to do so would be to deny what is already in motion, to unwrite and erase passages, to shorten the arc of a story you don't own.
Salvador Plascencia
#15. Every comedian has a moment in his life when he realizes he's a little bit different from everyone else. It's like being the only guy in a movie who sees the ghost. The ghost talks to you and you talk to him. Then you turn to your friend and say, Hey. Do you see that ghost? And he says, What ghost?
Chris Rock
#16. Am I being too critical? That's what happens when you feel shitty about yourself. You turn into a bitch.
Delia Ephron
#17. I think having a coach or an editor or whatever the novelist's producer is could help. If you finish a chapter and you turn it in to him, and he or she said, "That was pretty good, it might go better." Maybe that's what I'll try to find.
Craig Finn
#18. Happiness is a shadow.If you chase it,it moves further away.But if you turn to make others happy,it will follow you.Make other Happy and be Happy.- RVM
R.v.m.
#19. Summers past love company, seems every time you turn around there's more o' the bastards at your back.
Joe Abercrombie
#20. Life is like a novel. It's filled with suspense. You have no idea what is going to happen until you turn the page.
Sidney Sheldon
#21. If you're a pioneer and you come up with something that can change the world and you turn round and say 'I'm not going to share this idea with anyone,' then you only impact the few and not the many.
Cameron Sinclair
#22. Somewhere beyond the pain, you turn around and realize that life is beautiful.
T.L. Rese
#23. I like literature that you respond to in some way. You laugh, you cry, you turn the light on - that's great, it's eliciting a response by proxy.
Joanne Harris
#24. I think you must have your feelings under a very good control. You turn them about and face them the way you want them to be. I wish I could do that. What's the secret?
Winston Graham
#25. This wordly life is like a shadow. If you try to catch it, you will never be able to do so. If you turn your back towards it, it has no choice but to follow you.
Ibn Qayyim Al-Jawziyya
#26. You've got the shirt and the haircut and the sash and you know all the songs, but you're no urban guerrilla. You're an urban dreamer. You turn over rubbish bins and scrawl on walls in the name of The People, who'd clip you round the ear if they found you doing it. But you believe.
Terry Pratchett
#27. Wherever we've gone around the world, we've found quite significant gaps: the holy texts, no matter which one you turn to, has ambiguity in it around slavery. That, we knew, was being used as justification by slavers all over the world.
Andrew Forrest
#28. If you turn your back on these people, you yourself are an animal. You may be a well-dressed animal, but you are nevertheless an animal.
Ed Koch
#29. You turn your life into a work of art in order to redeem the ordinariness - a condition you are stuck with.
Robert Dessaix
#30. Ambition is something you turn into a plan to create an online personality, a brand, a network.
Cris Mazza
#31. Never let the evil people do to you turn you to monster. It can't be all that's left of you.
Darmie Orem
#32. It feels good. Kinda like when you have to shut your computer down, just sometimes when it goes crazy, you just shut it down and when you turn it on, it's okay again. That's what meditation is to me.
Ellen DeGeneres
#33. In a time like that, the past meets you wherever you turn. The days do not use their own hours and minutes, they find ones you have lived through with the person you are missing.
Ivan Doig
#34. If you turn to God once, He will turn to you a million times.
T. B. Joshua
#35. I've heard some tunes in recent years that were pretty close to that same idea. The idea was you turn on the radio and you want to hear some music and up comes a commercial.
Mose Allison
#36. If you're great, you can stay that way and people will believe in you, swear by you, turn the world upside down for you. But, if you're only partly great, or just a nobody, then what happens to you is lost. (Read by Henry Miller)
Henry Miller
#37. If you turn it over to the universe, you will be surprised and dazzled by what is delivered to you. This is where magic and miracles happen.
Joe Vitale
#38. Ok. You fuck me, then snub me. You love me, you hate me. You show me a sensitive side, then you turn into a total asshole. Is this a pretty accurate description of our relationship.
Chuck Palahniuk
#39. If you turn down work because you are frightened of getting typecast, you'll never do anything good.
Colin Baker
#40. If you turn the other cheek, you can be enslaved for 1,000 years.
Malcolm X
#41. My view is that you cannot close your mind and say I don't want to listen to this or that. Because if you can't appreciate the bad for being bad, you can't appreciate the good. If you turn a deaf ear to everything but one style, pretty soon it's not going to work out.
Billy Eckstine
#42. You turn up your music to hide the noise. Other people turn up their music to hide yours. You turn up yours again. Everyone buy s a bigger stereo system. This is the arms race of sound. You don't win with a lot of treble.
Chuck Palahniuk
#43. I'm hoping to find an advertisement for a job that entails worrying when removing your hand from your pockets because you always think that you are dropping something so you turn around and check the ground and shit but nothing, but maybe something, but always maybe something.
Sam Pink
#44. Whatever creature you turn into, whatever form you take, I won't let go of you.
Rosamund Hodge
#45. the perfect time is when you turn the present into what you want it to be
Anna Levine
#46. No man was ever ruined from without; the final ruin comes from within, when you turn hopeless and lose courage!
Amelia Barr
#47. Going out is the typical thing when you turn 18, but it's not really much fun when you have a recognisable face.
Maisie Williams
#48. When you turn an election into a three-ring circus, there's always a chance that the dancing bear will win.
Nancy Isenberg
#49. This is how God sees you when you turn to Him. When you accept the sacrifice of His Son, Jesus, you are cleansed, purified. You become His beautiful princess. Man looks on the outward appearance, but God looks at the heart.
MaryLu Tyndall
#50. A weapon kills people and makes people in cities dominated by fear. But if you turn it into an instrument, it's like social gold. It brings people together and you build trust.
Pedro Reyes
#51. You see but your shadow when you turn your back to the sun.
Kahlil Gibran
#52. You will see what you missed only if you turn around.
Han Soo Lee
#53. After you turn on, don't spend the rest of your life contemplating the inner wonders. Begin immediately expressing your revelation in acts of beauty.
Timothy Leary
#54. I love it when you have a lull in the day and you turn on the TV and a random movie is on that you either have never seen or haven't seen in years. Like 'Coming to America' or 'Misery' or 'Moonstruck.'
Morena Baccarin
#55. So why didn't you put up with it before? Why didn't you turn yourself in before I even knew you?
Liane Moriarty
#56. Material things are not helpful after a certain degree of saturation. So you turn to other products. I think that therapy is a product that can transform you. But why does it need to be packaged as a product? Why can't I work on myself with my friends and family?
Tino Sehgal
#57. You might be far from Allah, but, He is close to you! Turn to Him and you will find Him.
Suhaib Webb
#58. Time starts out as a notion. But after you turn fifty, time is not a notion anymore but a fact that you start feeling clearly, and in a way, it pushes you to become present in the present.
Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu
#59. How much can you change and get away with it, before you turn into someone else, before it's some kind of murder?
Richard Siken
#60. You turn the handle the way it goes, not the way it ought to go
Confucius
#61. If you turn a blind eye to fare evasion, if you accustom people to getting away with minor crime, you are making it more likely that they will go on to commit more serious crimes. That is why we have so much disorder in London. It is a disgrace.
Boris Johnson
#62. Nightly returning miracle, you turn to anarchy the strict rule of reason.
Nicola Lecca
#63. I think if you turn down the volume on the good comedy, you should not even know if it's a comedy or not. It should look like a drama.
Peter Billingsley
#64. When you turn your heart and your life over to Christ, when you accept Christ as the savior, it changes your heart.
George W. Bush
#65. I was in a job interview and I opened a book and started reading. Then I said to the guy 'Let me ask you a question. If you are in a spaceship that is traveling at the speed of light, and you turn on the headlights, does anything happen?' He said 'I don't know'. I said 'I don't want your job'.
Steven Wright
#66. When you turn around, you'll see something I bet you've never seen before. If it takes your breath away, then you'll fit in nicely. If you don't feel anything, then maybe you don't belong here.
Veronica Randolph Batterson
#67. Everywhere you turn you see Americans sacrifice their long-term interests for a short-term reward.
Michael Lewis
#68. We've been trained to spend money since we were born with all these commercials with toys and G.I. Joes and Transformers. But there's so many things in the supermarket, there's so many things on television that automatically, when you turn it on, are saying, 'Buy! Buy! Buy! Buy! Buy! Buy! Buy!'
Donald Faison
#69. Each time you turn your life issues over to God and allow Him to lead, you build trust in Him.
Elizabeth George
#70. You accept that the shadows on the wall are real, love. I have no idea how to make you turn around and see the light.
Marie Sexton
#71. When you turn your back on someone, they come running after you.
Robert Greene
#72. 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
#73. You have a dream 35 years ago - doesn't come to fruition, but you move on with life. But it's somewhere back there. Then you turn 60, and your mom just dies, and you're looking for something. And the dream comes waking out of your imagination.
Diana Nyad
#74. Television is really what we've been looking for all our lives ... [It's] perfect. You turn a few knobs and lean back and drain your mind of all thought. And there you are watching the bubbles in the primordial ooze.
Raymond Chandler
#75. I was always one of those people who would watch the Super Bowl as much for the sports as I did for the ads. I was always just sort of fascinated by the fact that when you turn on the TV, there was motion, there was moving pictures on it.
Andrew Ross Sorkin
#76. There are those who seem to feel they have no choice about being jerks in the present because they had a crappy childhood. Well, that's the definition of childhood; nobody gets out alive. You either get stronger from what you experience, or you turn it into a crutch, an excuse, a dodge.
J. Michael Straczynski
#77. You turned your guilt into resentment, because that seems easier to face. You won't move on until you turn it back into guilt, and then into forgiveness for yourself.
Charlie Jane Anders
#78. You turn the light on, you get all kinds of bugs.
Rob Bell
#79. Once you turn on the camera, making a movie is making a movie. I don't care if it's $9 million dollars or $50 million dollars. You have bigger toys, bigger set, actors who are better paid, but once you turn on the camera, it's director and performance, and I don't find a big difference.
Peter Landesman
#80. Life resembles Gobelin tapestry; you do not see the canvass on the right side; but when you turn it, the threads are visible.
Madame De Stael
#81. Searching for companies is like looking for grubs under rocks: if you turn over 10 rocks you'll likely find one grub; if you turn over 20 rocks you'll find two.
Peter Lynch
#82. Wherever you turn your eye - except in science - an Oxford man is at the top of the tree.
Cecil Rhodes
#83. If you turn into a hideous monster and I am sent to slay you, I will remember this and make it as painless as I can, out of respect for you.
Jim Butcher
#84. In my job, people tell you that all the time: 'This shoot was great. You look amazing.' But you never know what they say when you turn away.
Heidi Klum
#85. Mothers are only human, you turn it over to God and then you just wing it.
Jo-Ann Mapson
#86. I want to take my focus off myself and focus on God. It's like setting your spiritual compass so no matter which way you turn during the day, whatever comes up, then my thoughts go back to Him and whatever He said that morning.
Anne Graham Lotz
#87. My concept of an advice giver had been a therapist or a know-it-all, and then I realized nobody listens to the know-it-alls. You turn to the people you know, the friend who has been in the thick of it or messed up - and I'm that person for sure.
Cheryl Strayed
#88. Where'er you walk cool gales shall fan the glade, Trees where you sit shall crowd into a shade. Where'er you tread the blushing flowers shall rise, And all things flourish where you turn your eyes.
Alexander Pope
#89. Perfect purity is possible if you turn your life into a line of poetry written with a splash of blood.
Yukio Mishima
#90. You make all your mistakes with your own children so by the time your grandchildren arrive, you know how to get it right. Plus, once you turn fifty, you kind of stop giving a shit what others think.
Liz Fenton
#91. Love can make you turn on yourself, and it can do harmful things to you. It's a deep lesson in human psychology, as with many of the stories. Anyways, that's just an example of one of the most wicked women in the Nights.
Marina Warner
#92. People stop buying things, and that is how you turn a slowdown into a recession.
Janet Yellen
#93. Every time you turn on an electric light, you are making another brainless baby.
Helen Caldicott
#94. You turn me on." He cups my face, brushing my hair away from my eyes and a tear off my cheek."
"God, you turn me on. You're driving me crazy. I want you to need my hands on you. Do you?
Penelope Douglas
#95. 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
#96. Bottom line is, if you turn the ball over to a team that isn't as good, you then have brought them up to your level.
Terry Bradshaw
#97. The plateau? she silently demanded of Ty. Why did you turn her loose? She could lead
Elizabeth Lowell
#98. Where do you run when there is no escape? Where do you turn when the enemy within is as dangerous as the enemy unknown?
G.S. Jennsen
#99. Memories are dangerous things. You turn them over and over, until you know every touch and corner, but still you'll find an edge to cut you.
Mark Lawrence
#100. As much as I love to dive into the action early, I think the hero's journey is important - the idea that the reader needs to experience the protagonist's everyday life before you turn that world upside down.
Kami Garcia
