Turning Quotes

A love of books, of holding a book, turning its pages, looking at its pictures, and living its fascinating stories goes hand-in-hand with a love of learning. (Laura Welch Bush)
A mathematician is a machine for turning coffee into theorems. View quote
Paul Erdős
God may be in the details, but the goddess is in the questions. Once we begin to ask them, there's no turning back. View quote
Gloria Steinem
Habit is necessary; it is the habit of having habits, of turning a trail into a rut, that must be incessantly fought against if one is to remain alive. View quote
Edith Wharton
Poetry is not a turning loose of emotion, but an escape from emotion; it is not the expression of personality but an escape from personality. But, of course, only those who have personality and emotion know what it means to want to escape from these. View quote
T. S. Eliot
Religion is about turning untested belief into unshakable truth through the power of institutions and the passage of time. View quote
Richard Dawkins
In the best, the friendliest and simplest relations flattery or praise is necessary, just as grease is necessary to keep wheels turning. View quote
Leo Tolstoy
As long as the world is turning and spinning, we're gonna be dizzy and we're gonna make mistakes. View quote
Mel Brooks
You don't change the course of history by turning the faces of portraits to the wall. View quote
Jawaharlal Nehru
We grow tired of everything but turning others into ridicule, and congratulating ourselves on their defects. View quote
William Hazlitt
Writing is turning one's worst moments into money. (J. P. Donleavy)
No one can go on being a rebel too long without turning into an autocrat. View quote
Lawrence Durrell
Setting goals is the first step in turning the invisible into the visible. View quote
Anthony Robbins
Every friend of freedom must be as revolted as I am by the prospect of turning the United States into an armed camp, by the vision of jails filled with casual drug users and of an army of enforcers empowered to invade the liberty of citizens on slight evidence. View quote
Milton Friedman
I wouldn't mind turning into a vermilion goldfish. View quote
Henri Matisse
In computing, turning the obvious into the useful is a living definition of the word 'frustration'. View quote
Alan Perlis
Actually, after while, finding the ideas is the easy part. Sorting them through and turning them into stories, now, that's the hard work. View quote
Sarah Zettel
I don't deserve any credit for turning the other cheek as my tongue is always in it. View quote
Flannery O’Connor
Monsters cannot be announced. One cannot say: 'Here are our monsters,' without immediately turning the monsters into pets. View quote
Jacques Derrida
As turning the logs will make a dull fire burn, so changes of studies a dull brain. View quote
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
A boy can learn a lot from a dog: obedience, loyalty, and the importance of turning around three times before lying down. (Robert Benchley)
What is man, when you come to think upon him, but a minutely set, ingenious machine for turning, with infinite artfulness, the red wine of Shiraz into urine. View quote
Karen Blixen
The turning points of lives are not the great moments. The real crises are often concealed in occurrences so trivial in appearance that they pass unobserved. View quote
George Washington
Acting is standing up naked and turning around very slowly. View quote
Rosalind Russell
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. View quote
John Leguizamo