Turns Quotes

I'd love to be the first one to say this, but it automatically turns into - we all have those responsibilities that we ignore because we don't feel like they're ours.

I've never been able to arouse any interest in myself for digitally produced sound, and so the computer turns me off.

That folk music led to learning to play, and making things up led to what turns out to be the most lucrative part of the music business - writing, because you get paid every time that song gets played.

I have never seen a bad television program, because I refuse to. God gave me a mind, and a wrist that turns things off.

It turns out I'm not very good at working with a traditional boss.

People are what you make them. A scornful look turns into a complete fool a man of average intelligence. A contemptuous indifference turns into an enemy a woman who, well treated, might have been an angel.

I take in a lot of stuff from real life, movies, television, news and it all gets mixed in my head and somehow turns into a story idea.

One secret of leadership is that the mind of a leader never turns off. Leaders even when they are sightseers or spectators, are active; not passive observers.

I was at a party, and some squiggly looking dude with a bow tie came up and said, 'How'd you like to be on TV?' Turns out he was the programming guy at the Food Network. They had me come into the office, and I did a 'Ready, Set, Cook' with Emeril Lagasse, I believe.

There's a moment in every book when the book turns and it surprises me.

I think we're in the beginning of a bull market. When a bull market begins, nine months later the economy turns around.

I love big budgeted, epic rock landscapes. That's what turns me on.

If I have a thousand ideas and only one turns out to be good, I am satisfied.

Evil always turns up in this world through some genius or other.

But whatever the ramifications, whatever turns the path takes, the beginning is always there, in a particular moment, a particular point of access.

A voice expressing emotion in a musical way moves on. It's like the finale of the movie 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968) - the world turns in on itself, as a universe unto itself, in the shape of one human being.

It turns out that all Netflix streaming peak on Saturday night can fit inside a single fiber optic, which is the size of one human hair.

Fires can't be made with dead embers, nor can enthusiasm be stirred by spiritless men. Enthusiasm in our daily work lightens effort and turns even labor into pleasant tasks.

We weren't treated as prima-donnas. We had to roll up our sleeves and graft with the groundsman. Kids don't have to do anymore. That makes you appreciate things when it turns in your favour and you become a successful professional.

I'm looking forward to free skiing the most. Just groomers, big wide groomers making nice big turns.

Vice Is like a fury to the vicious mind, And turns delight itself to punishment.

What if God exists except it turns out he doesn't really like people very much?

For me, the work begins with a rough cut of the film. I can't do much with the script. I've tried to write music to a script prior to seeing the film, but I've found it turns out to be a waste of time.

First of all, my persuasion is what really breeds violence is political differences. But because religion serves as the soul of community, it gets drawn into the fracas and turns up the heat.

LIfe has got all those twists and turns. You've got to hold on tight and off you go.

Where every something, being blent together turns to a wild of nothing.

A father is always making his baby into a little woman. And when she is a woman he turns her back again.

Good writers define reality; bad ones merely restate it. A good writer turns fact into truth; a bad writer will, more often than not, accomplish the opposite.

You spend a good piece of your life gripping a baseball and in the end it turns out that it was the other way around all the time.

Nowadays three witty turns of phrase and a lie make a writer.