Quotes of: Turning Keyword

I didn't know it at the time, but Hitch didn't want to talk to me - he hated meeting with people he might have to reject. As it turned out, someone, maybe his agent, insisted that he interview me.

Joseph Stefano

As you know, the Australian Labour Party is committed to turning the country into a republic. We've not stipulated a timeline for doing that. We are sensitive to the other priorities we've got as a nation and in the world, but in time the country wil...

Kevin Rudd

At the turn of the 20th century, the disparity in literacy here in the U.S. largely came down to race. Nearly half of minorities at that time - 45 percent - were illiterate, while 94 percent of white citizens were literate.

Peter Diamandis

At the time, acid made me consider questions of reality, the difference, as someone said, between words and silence. It also brought back a lot of latent religious feelings in me that I had turned my back on.

Robert Stone

The thought for a long time was that banks needed to be too controlled, too regulated to be turned over to the Wild West of the Net. Then the credit meltdown hit, and we saw just how reckless these so-called safe and regulated institutions were.

Sarah Lacy

Most of the time, I get auditions for deaf characters where the scene has them communicating in really convoluted ways, like reading lips from across the room when the other person's back is turned or having other people parrot what they say.

Shoshannah Stern

Working with children is a whole other ball game. They're like little animals. You have to keep the camera turned on them all the time. Sometimes it takes a 41-minute take to get one sentence out in a believable way.

Vera Farmiga

When I came back, I wasn't looking past this year. This is a bonus for me. I just wish it would have turned out a little better, but we all don't get what we want all the time.

Vinny Testaverde

I had just turned 28 and sold my first book, a travel guide for vegetarians, but I'd tell people about the day job that I didn't care about instead - I placed banner advertisements on the web for a search engine company.

James Bernard Frost

Some scholars attribute the decline in nicknaming to the evolutionary process that turned folk heroes into entrepreneurs. The truth is: George Herman Ruth, the namely-est guy ever, exhausted our supply of hyperbole.

Jane Leavy

Fritz Wendel: Do you know what she has done to me? It's terrible! She has turned me into an honest man.

Cabaret

Roy Neary: Just close your eyes and hold your breath and everything will turn real pretty.

Close Encounters of the Third Kind

Ronnie Neary: Hey! This is not your toy to play with every time I turn around!

Close Encounters of the Third Kind

Lefty: I never hear from my boss until he dies, then my whole life gets turned upside down!

Donnie Brasco

Edith: Are these beds made out of bombs? Gru: Yes, but they are very old and highly unlikely to blow up. But try not to toss and turn. Edith: Cool!

Despicable Me

Professor Pacoli: [shocked after turning around and being surprised by one of the divine aliens] A-a-aa-a-a-are you German? [alien shakes its head]

The Fifth Element

Pvt. Dallas from Phoenix: [Forrest is watching "Gomer Pyle U.S.M.C."] Gump, how can you watch that stupid shit? Turn it off.

Forrest Gump

Miep Gies: But even an ordinary secretary or a housewife or a teenager can, within their own small ways, turn on a small light in a dark room.

Freedom Writers

Phil: So, did you sleep OK without me? You tossed and turned, didn't you? Rita: You're incredible. Phil: Who told you?

Groundhog Day

Union Captain at the Bridge: You'll all turn to dust,but one thing is sure, boys... Branston Bridge will stand unbroken.

The Good, the Bad and the Ugly

Scabior: [to a transfigured Harry] What happened to you ugly? [Harry and Fenrir Greyback turn to him] Scabior: [to Fenrir] No, not you.

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1