Turns Quotes - Page 32

• I always have a pad of paper and a pencil within reach, to catch on the wing this turn of phrase which strikes me as felicitous, that idea which I hope to be able to examine more closely in the light of day.

  Roger Martin

  Light, Wings, Ideas

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• The idea of Ghost Stories is how to turn something bad into something that gives you an uplift.

  Chris Martin

  Uplifting, Ghost Stories, Ideas

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• You ought to be able to grow up in a place and not have to get the hell out of it when you turn eighteen.

  Philipp Meyer

  Growing Up, Able, Hell

  Philipp Meyer (2009). “American Rust”, p.119, Simon and Schuster

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• It is always the young that make the change. You don't get these ideas when you're middle-aged. Young people have daring, creativity, imagination and personal computers. Above all, what you have as young people that's vitally needed to make social change, is impatience. You want it to happen now. There have to be enough people that say, ‘We want it now, in our lifetime.’ This is your moment. This is your opportunity. Be adventurists in the sense of being bold and daring. Be opportunists and seize this opportunity, this moment in history, to go out and save our country. It's your turn now.

  Abbie Hoffman

  Country, Creativity, Opportunity

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• And in another point of view, I think it is right that the address of a president should be on his own subject, and that different subjects should be thus brought in turn before the meetings.

  Arthur Cayley

  Thinking, Views, President

  Arthur Cayley, Andrew Russell Forsyth (1963). “The collected mathematical papers of Arthur Cayley”

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• Our God, who art our winged self, it is thy will in us that willeth.
  It is thy desire in us that desireth.
  It is thy urge in us that would turn our nights, which are thine, into days which are thine also.
  We cannot ask thee for aught, for thou knowest our needs before they are born in us:
  Thou art our need; and in giving us more of thyself thou givest us all.

  Khalil Gibran

  Art, Night, Self

  Khalil Gibran (2007). “Kahlil Gibran: Masterpieces”

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• I suppose really I was a wife, a mother and a business woman, and then suddenly catapulted into this kind of world of craziness where it’s… there’s good sides and there’s bad sides…I wouldn't kind of turn the clock back and take another direction.

  Lisa Vanderpump

  Mother, Wife, World

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• Fur used to turn heads, now it turns stomachs.

  Rue McClanahan

  Fur, Vegetarian, Vegan

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• One may prefer spring and summer to autumn and winter, but preference is hardly to the point. The earth turns, and we live in the grain of nature, turning with it.

  Robert Hass

  Summer, Spring, Winter

  Robert Hass (1984). “Twentieth century pleasures: prose on poetry”, Ecco Pr

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• We’ve been trained to prefer being right to learning something, to prefer passing the test to making a difference, and most of all, to prefer fitting in with the right people, the people with economic power. Now it’s your turn to stand up and stand out.

  Seth Godin

  Differences, People, Making A Difference

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• The tragedy in our colleges and seminaries right now is that we turn men out who know the word of God. That is never going to turn the world.
  The question is not whether they know the Word of God....
  The question is......Do they know the God of the Word?

  Leonard Ravenhill

  College, Men, Tragedy

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• Unable to love each other, the English turn naturally to dogs

  J. R. Ackerley

  Dog, Love Each Other, Unable To Love

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• Apple was very close to bankruptcy and to irrelevance [but] you learn a lot about life through death, and I learnt a lot about vital corporations by experiencing a non-vital corporation. You would have thought that, when what stands between you and bankruptcy is some money, your focus would be on making some money, but that was not [Steve Jobs’] preoccupation. His observation was that the products weren’t good enough and his resolve was, we need to make better products. That stood in stark contrast to the previous attempts to turn the company around.

  Jonathan Ive

  Jobs, Irrelevance, Apples

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• People are very surprised to hear me say that a lot of my values are Christian values. I think that's part of my shock. I just don't like the way that Christianity combined with the influence of television has bred a nation of weakness. (Christian television do get the facts wrong sometimes and the image they portray turns most people off.)

  Marilyn Manson

  Christian, Thinking, People

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• Sometimes hate is not enough to turn this all to ashes, together as one and against all others, break all of their wings to make sure it crashes.

  Marilyn Manson

  Hate, Wings, Together

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• We turn now over the debate of the proposed Islamic center and mosque near Ground Zero....The controversy has raised profound questions about religious tolerance and prejudice in the United States.

  Christiane Amanpour

  Religious, Zero, Islamic

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• Where does the hand become the wrist?
  where does the neck become the shoulder? The watershed
  and then the weight, whatever turns up and tips us over that
  razor's edge
  between something and nothing, between
  one and the other.

  Simon Armitage

  Hands, Doe, Weight

  Simon Armitage (2005). “The Shout: Selected Poems”, Houghton Mifflin

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• It seems I’m getting fresher everytime I turn around.

  Mac Miller

  Seems

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• Let's turn to the West, Let's turn up the music, Let's hope it's always as good as this

  Chris Pureka

  West

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• Science is like a love affair with nature; an elusive, tantalising mistress. It has all the turbulence, twists and turns of romantic love, but thats part of the game.

  Vilayanur S. Ramachandran

  Happiness, Romantic Love, Games

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• Acting is sort of an extension of childhood. You get to play all of these roles and have so much fun. Playing an athlete would be so cool. Or where you get to shoot guns, ride horses. I wouldn't turn down any of that.

  Jon Hamm

  Horse, Fun, Athlete

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• I reached the stage where I was afraid to wiggle my leg, but then I thought 'why shouldn't I?' It's what I do and now I know how to turn an audience on again.

  Steve Marriott

  Wigs, Legs, Stage

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• Love, sought as an escape from the burden of the self, turns rapidly into a captivity.

  Hugh MacLennan

  Self, Captivity, Burden

  Hugh MacLennan (1975). “The watch that ends the night: a novel”, Macmillan of Canada, 1975

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• When the leaves turn brown, I'll be wearing the batting crown

  Dave Parker

  Crowns, Brown, Batting

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• The fictive is an emormous territory it turns out, its boundaries vague, and there is little certainty about where it begins and ends.

  Siri Hustvedt

  Littles, Territory, Boundaries

  Siri Hustvedt (2011). “The Summer Without Men: A Novel”, p.87, Macmillan

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