Top Turns Quotes
We all want progress, but if you're on the wrong road, progress means doing an about-turn and walking back to the right road; in that case, the man who turns back soonest is the most progressive.
C. S. Lewis
Justice turns the scale, bringing to some learning through suffering.
Aeschylus
French is the language that turns dirt into romance.
Stephen King
The most pitiful among men is he who turns his dreams into silver and gold.
Kahlil Gibran
Fiction is a piece of truth that turns lies to meaning.
Dorothy Allison
Alanis Morissette 
Edward Witten 
Euripides 
Ferdinand Lassalle 
Albert Schweitzer 
Alexander Selkirk 
Melissa Auf der Maur All Turns Quotes
Generally my typical books have lots of twists and turns a big surprise ending and then usually another surprise at the end and ideally, as in Garden of Beasts, we get to the very end and we find at the last few pages that there's yet another surprise.
Jeffery Deaver 
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If it turns out to be a hit, well, good luck dealing with fame. And if it's not a hit and you can still survive and make music you believe in, well, then you're truly blessed. I think that's where we are now.
Edie Brickell
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Readers probably haven't heard much about it yet, but they will. Quantum technology turns ordinary reality upside down.
Michael Crichton
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Our live experiences, fixed in aphorisms, stiffen into cold epigrams. Our heart's blood, as we write it, turns to mere dull ink.
F. H. Bradley
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Eventually I did that, but it took a lot of twists and turns, and there were a year or two there where I was living with no money at all - no home, no car, no nothing. I was living in somebody's garage in Los Angeles at that point - for a year.
Renny Harlin
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Sometimes you trust someone who turns out not to be honest. There are a lot of things that happen in life that don't turn out the way you're given the impression that they will. And I think that's all kind of a con. But I think we've probably all been hurt.
Sigourney Weaver
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Stanley Kramer? Spencer Tracy? No one turns down being in a movie with them.
Phil Silvers
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Everything that Bush touches turns to manure in public policy.
Alec Baldwin
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Popular Turns Authors
Francois de La RochefoucauldFriedrich NietzscheWilliam ShakespeareLucius Annaeus SenecaBenjamin DisraeliThomas CarlyleDoug CouplandGeorge EliotWilliam HazlittAlbert CamusEric HofferThomas FullerKahlil GibranGeorge Orwell Aeschylus
Edmund BurkeOliver Wendell HolmesErma BombeckGeorg C. LichtenbergGroucho MarxJim CarreyAlbert Schweitzer Epictetus EuripidesBaltasar GracianW. C. FieldsFrank Lloyd WrightJames A. BaldwinDenis DiderotFriedrich Durrenmatt
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