Turning Quotes

I always wished for this, but it's almost turning into more of a nightmare than a dream.

The Palestinian election is something that was really a turning point. It's a mandate for peace.

The Russians are turning east to the Chinese - to the Europeans' surprise. It always seemed to me that the relationship between Russia and China would shift from being based in Marx and Lenin to being based in oil and gas.

NASA is an engine of innovation and inspiration as well as the world's premier space exploration agency, and we are well served by politicians working to keep it that way, instead of turning it into a mere jobs program, or worse, cutting its budget.

It's almost charity work, what people have done, turning other people on to my music.

Women and birds are able to see without turning their heads, and that is indeed a necessary provision for they are both surrounded by enemies.

I was familiar with that and 'Rio Bravo.' 'Rio Bravo' was what John Carpenter did, that brilliant move of taking a western and turning it into an urban flick. And from there you got, you know, all the cop genre movies of the time.

I'm taking all the negatives in my life, and turning them into a positive.

From the moment I leave my house or my hotel room, the public owns me. The public made Alice Cooper and I can't imagine ever turning my back on my fans.

You just don't give up. There have been times when everything seemed to conspire against getting a book done or printed, and I would feel like turning my back on the whole thing. But I came back and persisted.

FDR created today's 30 percent coalition. Obama wants to finish the job by turning it into a permanent ruling majority. There's nothing new about the Obama Narrative. It is the FDR Narrative on steroids. It is intended to lead to greater statism and political gain.

I wanted to learn everything I could about what it takes to be a great chef. It was a turning point for me.

Museums are tombs, and it looks like everything is turning into a museum.

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.

The conception that, instead of this, contemporary society is at or near a turning point is very prominent in the views of a school of social scientists who, though they are still comparatively few, are getting more and more of a hearing.

Come on, come on! And there'll be no turning back! You were only killing time and it can kill you right back. Come on, come on! It's time to burn up the fuse. You got nothing to do and even less to lose.

I remember being on film sets when I was younger, and only men got to do the cool action movies. So I thought, 'Maybe I'll get to produce one day and get to do cool stuff too,' which is what happened when we did 'Charlie's Angels.' Starting my production company was a big turning point for me.

I wouldn't mind turning into a vermilion goldfish.

Behold a worthy sight, to which the God, turning his attention to his own work, may direct his gaze. Behold an equal thing, worthy of a God, a brave man matched in conflict with evil fortune.

The turning point really is just knowing you're an imbecile.

An inborn tendency toward science turning it into a lifelong commitment.

It's totally mistaken to suppose that an armed escort is going to give a journalist any protection - on the contrary, journalists who turn up surrounded by armed personnel are just turning themselves into targets and in even worse danger.

At 23 it was all about acting. Today it's getting my kids to school, making sure that they've done their homework. I'm in my fifties, and I'm turning into a square. I saw a kid walk into a restaurant the other day and his belt was below his backside. I would have turned him away.

God may be in the details, but the goddess is in the questions. Once we begin to ask them, there's no turning back.

There is nothing better than playing a bad girl for two months, then turning around and playing someone sweet. Films give you this opportunity.

We Abolition Women are turning the world upside down.

As I have been saying for more than a year now, turning this vital mission over to the Iraqi people as soon as possible should remain a topic of debate for Congress while relying on our military commanders to set up the timetable.

If you have nothing but love for your avocados, and you take joy in turning them into guacamole, all you need is someone to share it with.

Like every other girl in the world, my most embarrassing moment had to do with a guy completely turning me down. His loss!

Turning corporations loose and letting the profit motive run amok is not a prescription for a more livable world.