Our live experiences, fixed in aphorisms, stiffen into cold epigrams. Our heart's blood, as we write it, turns to mere dull ink.
While I'm generally silent on the affairs of my biological mother, her recent tirade has taken a gross turn.
Something is happening to Britain and the British. Or has happened. We are said to be passing through a transition, or a turning point, or a transformation; nobody is quite sure which.
Anyone who has declared someone else to be an idiot, a bad apple, is annoyed when it turns out in the end that he isn't.
All I need is a sheet of paper and something to write with, and then I can turn the world upside down.
Never give anyone the advice to buy or sell shares, because the most benevolent price of advice can turn out badly.
Out of the past come the standards for judging the present; standards in turn to be shaped by the practice of present-day dramatists into broader standards for the next generation.
As that ripe summer turned to autumn, the sunlight cooled to a slantwise gleam, bronzing the beach grass and setting the beetle-bung trees afire.
The cooperation of NASCAR - or any other system, it turns out - persists only when everyone believes he has the opportunity to win.
The life of Shakespeare is a fine mystery and I tremble every day lest something turn up.
After all, you couldn't expect any man to turn away from a beautiful woman with her ass in the air.
No, as it turns out, I really like being congratulated on my weight loss. I like it so much, it's tragic.
If I start giving people what they like I'll turn into one of them and I don't want to be one of them I want to be one of me.
I've learned what it truly means to be Canadian and in turn I've been inspired to make a difference in the world, however small it's been.
Sometimes there’s no map when you go to new places, you have to make unexpected turns, but the beauty is these places are new.
If what you create seems to turn out much stranger than who you are as a person, it's probably because your heart is talking.
The healthy man does not torture others - generally it is the tortured who turn into torturers. Carl Jung Swiss psychologist (1875 - 1961)
The safest road to hell is the gradual one - the gentle slope, soft underfoot, without sudden turnings, without milestones, without signposts.
Turning 16 is kind of scary because when you're 16, you go from being a kid and then you can drive and are more of a young adult in a way.
As a kid, sometimes you have nobody to turn to. I could always go back to some of the sermons and talk to myself in a righteous manner and put that in a song.
I remember turning 'The Sopranos' on once and within two minutes nearly throwing a brick through the screen.
