Quotes of: Turning Keyword

I prefer drawing the things I've written to handing them off to another artist. Turns out I'm a huge control freak - and because I write in thumbnails, the art is already happening by the time I start writing!

Raina Telgemeier

It's too simplistic to advance the notion of the autonomy of art as a reason for turning away from the public. You can have autonomy and simultaneously have connections with the social and political world.

Thom Mayne

Problems are like your own shadow. If you look at them you will miss the sunshine. So.. Turn back.. towards the light.. and go on.

10 Alone

Question for your life: If Ted Kennedy made it to heaven, do you think he’s pleased with the fact that Jesus can turn water into wine?

$3.33

...after rare beef and wine, when the lobes turn red, was the time to ask favours or tell bad news.

The Art of Eating: 50th Anniversary Edition

Governments will rise, and governments will fall, and man will do evil to man, and all we can do is turn our hearts to good.

Among the Enemy

[...] The negative turned positive, black misery sublimated into heightened consciousness, suffering into solidarity!

The Aquariums of Pyongyang: Ten Years in the North Korean Gulag

I was the one with the open wound, and the river waters turned red when I bathed in them. My sadness is greater than the heavens.

The Angel of Galilea

What's the big fucking deal? Lots of amazing people have committed suicide, and they turned out alright.

The Asylum for Wayward Victorian Girls

He liked the mere act of reading, the magic of turning scratches on a page into words inside his head.

An Abundance of Katherines

Spiders don't chew. They send a special liquid into their prey. The prey's insides turn to mush. Then the spider sucks up its tasty lunch!

Arachnids

I am terrified by this dark thing That sleeps in me; All day I feel its soft, feathery turnings, its malignity.

Ariel

The night! When the outside world is hiding in darkness, you have to turn on the light within in order to see where you put your steps.

Hiding the Moon

What’s wrong with turning back the clock if the clock is wrong? We need not be slaves to our technologies

How to Watch TV News

Divination is turning out to be much more trouble than I could have foreseen, never having studied the subject myself.

Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince

Pity me that the heart is slow to learn What the swift mind beholds at every turn.

The Harp-Weaver and Other Poems

The solution to our human frailty is not to try harder, but to turn Godward.

Hunger No More: A 1-Year Devotional Journey Through the Psalms

There’s no such thing as probability," she says, slowly, with minimal movement of her jaw. "Things turn out the way they do.

The Human Script

She'd been in love with the man, and love is a scary thing. If not reciprocated, it can turn a person into a monster.

The Handbook for Lightning Strike Survivors

Knowledge was like candy: you never turned it down, especially if you didn't have to work too hard to get it.

House of Dark Shadows

You couldn't be satisfied with being an amateur asshole, could you, Jimbo! You had to go and turn pro on me!

Heaven, Texas