Quotes of: Turning-point Keyword

In North Carolina, I stopped to gas up at a Humble Oil station, then walked around the corner to use the toilet. There were two doors and three signs. MEN was neatly stenciled over one door, LADIES over the other. The third sign was an arrow on a sti...

11/22/63

I return one last time to the places of death all around us, the places of slaughter to which, in a huge communal effort, we close our hearts. Each day a fresh holocaust, yet, as far as I can see, our moral being is untouched. We do not feel tainted....

The Lives of Animals

Everyone asks me how I got started into writing. I wish I had some cool story to tell, but the truth is pretty lame. My wife and I were having a drink on our back porch and I mentioned a concept I'd been mulling over. She suggested that I write it do...

Stormfront

I don't think I can give you an answer. Oh, I could give you Freudian reasons with fancy talk, and that would be right as far as it went. But what you want are the reasons for the reasons, and I'm not able to give you those. Not for the others, anywa...

One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest

The world is changing because we're changing it. And that makes me understand, at least, what kind of person I'd like to be. A person can seek ways, whether big or small, to heal the world. That, to me, is spirituality and one's 'soul.' Not some dise...

The View from Lazy Point: A Natural Year in an Unnatural World

Science has marched forward. But civilization’s values remain rooted in philosophies, religious traditions, and ethical frameworks devised many centuries ago. Even our economic system, capitalism, is half a millennium old. The first stock exchange ...

The View from Lazy Point: A Natural Year in an Unnatural World

Accept success as a good thing, and invite it into your life. Set today as the starting point for a new life. Every race starts at one point. Every building starts with one stone. Every great work, every dream, every great achievement starts somewher...

YES! TO SUCCESS

I’ve grown quite weary of the spunky heroines, brave rape victims, soul-searching fashionistas that stock so many books. I particularly mourn the lack of female villains — good, potent female villains. Not ill-tempered women who scheme about land...

Gillian Flynn

Economics Teacher: In 1930, the Republican-controlled House of Representatives, in an effort to alleviate the effects of the... Anyone? Anyone?... the Great Depression, passed the... Anyone? Anyone? The tariff bill? The Hawley-Smoot Tariff Act? Which...

Ferris Bueller's Day Off

Carl Fredricksen: [after his house hits a cliff and shatters a window] I am nobody's master, got it? I don't want you here [points his cane at Dug] Carl Fredricksen: and I don't want you here! [points it at Kevin] Carl Fredricksen: [addressing Russel...

Up

When we turn,is there something shoved inside of us or is it more that something inside of us has been released?

The Coldest Girl in Coldtown

Wheels turning, the motorcycle’s roar grows steady, which, too, is a form of silence.

Creatures of Light and Darkness

Sarah turned around and there standing just a few feet from her was the legend himself, and he was far from disappointing.

The Chapel

Do not, under any circumstances, put this book down and turn on the teevee. The teevee debilitates our culture.

Cunt: A Declaration of Independence

She may be an uggo, but that dress would turn anyone into a rock star.

The Collector

Hide from fate all you like,” Baba Yellowlegs said as they turned away. “But it shall soon find you!

Crown of Midnight

The world turns on our every action, and our every omission, whether we know it or not.

Cutting for Stone

I hate it when people make fun of me and it turns out they're right.

Dairy Queen

Baby, you’re so much of a woman, you turn me off when I hold you.

Dirty Secret

Sometimes God's sudden turn in your life feels like a detour, but in actuality it is the straightest way to your destiny!

Eve of Awakening

Brahma and Airavata Long ago in lands of golden sand Brahma turned to Saraswati and gently kissed her inked hand....

Enigmatic Evolution