“There is a tendency to try to dumb everything down and turn everything into a one-paragraph press release or even less, just a slogan.” TryingTurnsDown AndPressesTendenciesReleaseDumbSlogansParagraphPress Release Author:Malcolm Turnbull
“Sometimes I'll be channel surfing or something, and I'll see a glimpse of something, and I'll quickly turn the sound down, and then what I look at, that's an interesting movie. But it's not me who made it. It's whoever that guy I was 10 years ago who made it.” YearsLooksMadeSometimesGuyTurnsSoundInterestingYears AgoDown AndMade ItGlimpseSurfingThat Guy Author:Andrew Niccol
“To make it more familiar to me, I ended up treating my swordplay scenes like choreography. So it was, 'One and two and three and four and five, and turn and step and down and up and lunge.” TwoTurnsThreeStepsFiveFourSceneDown AndFamiliarChoreography Author:Catherine Zeta-Jones
“I’ve always assumed that the abstract qualities of [my] photographs are obvious. For instance, I can turn them upside down and they’re still interesting to me as pictures. If you turn a picture that’s not well organized upside down, it won’t work.” IfsWellsStillsI CanTurnsInterestingQualityDown AndPhotographerPhotographObviousInstanceAbstractOrganizedUpside Down Author:William Eggleston
“Paradoxically, I have found peace because I have always been dissatisfied. My moments of depression and despair turn out to be renewals, new beginnings. If I were once to settle down and be satisfied with the surface of life, with its divisions and its cliches, it would be time to call in the undertaker... So, then, this dissatisfaction which sometimes used to worry me and has certainly, I know, worried others, has helped me in fact to move freely and even gaily with the stream of life.” IfsKnowsSometimesMomentsFactsWould BeMovingUsedTurnsFoundWorryDespairDown AndSurfaceSatisfiedWorriedSettlingStreamsDivisionNew BeginningsRenewalClicheDissatisfactionDissatisfiedSettling DownUndertaker Book:Choosing to Love the World: On Contemplation: Easyread Large Bold Edition Source: Choosing to Love the World: On Contemplation: Easyread Large Bold Edition
“My most enjoyable movie going experiences have always been going to a movie theater, sitting there and the lights go down and a film comes on the screen that you don't know everything about, and you don't know every plot turn and every character movement that's going to happen.” KnowsCharacterLightHappensFilmTurnsMovementSittingTheaterDown AndScreensPlotEnjoyableMovie Theater Author:Christopher Nolan
“Quite often I'll turn on the television and something like Sound of Music will be on or Victor/Victoria and I might watch a moment or two. But I don't actually sit down and say I'm going to watch one of my movies.” TwoMomentsMightTurnsSoundWatchesTelevisionDown AndTurn-onVictoriaSound Of Music Author:Julie Andrews
“Writing has always been my go-to form of expression. Whenever I was going through something as a kid, I would write it down and I would turn it into a poem.” WritingKidsFormTurnsExpressionDown And Author:Jhene Aiko
“Since the season ended, I've let things settle down, and I have to talk to the coaching staff and management. I really don't want to turn this into a big drama. So I plan on making a definite decision relatively quickly.” WantBigsTurnsSportsDecisionPlansDramaSeasonsDown AndManagementSettlingCoachingStaffDefiniteSettling DownCoaching Staff Author:Steve Yzerman
“You could be beaten down by anybody and by everybody and it doesn't matter what everybody else thinks it's how you see yourself and what your own dreams are. And, you know, anybody who started a business and build a business knows there's going to be lots of times when you feel beaten down and you need some motivation and that's when I turn to that book among others.” ThinkingKnowsNeedsFeelsBookMatterDreamMotivationTurnsDown AndBeaten Author:Mark Cuban
“Be a Gardener. Dig a ditch. Toil and sweat. And turn the earth upside down. And seek the deepness. And water plants in time. Continue this labor. And make sweet floods to run, and noble and abundant fruits to spring. Take this food and drink, and carry it to God as your true worship.” RunningEarthTurnsWaterSweetDrinkWorshipSpringLaborDown AndPlantFruitNobleSweatFloodToilGardenerUpside DownFood And DrinkTrue WorshipDeepness Author:Julian of Norwich
“In London I have been by turns poor and rich, hopeful and despondent, successful and down and out, utterly miserable and ecstatically, dizzily happy. I belong to London as each of us can belong to only one place on this earth. And, in the same way, London belongs to me.” WayHas BeensEarthTurnsPoorSuccessfulRichDown AndLondonMiserableHopefulDespondent Book:A Star Danced Source: A Star Danced
“First draft: let it run. Turn all the knobs up to 11. Second draft: hell. Cut it down and cut it into shape. Third draft: comb its nose and blow its hair. I usually find that most of the book will have handed itself to me on that first draft.” FirstsBookRunningTurnsHellCuttingHairShapesThirdsDown AndBlowNosesCombsKnobs Author:Terry Pratchett
“I don't think we should be engaged in nation-building. It's not our job to turn foreign nations into democratic utopias, to try to turn Iraq into Switzerland. It is the military's job to hunt down and kill our enemies, to kill ISIS before they murder American citizens and they wage jihad.” ThinkingShouldTryingJobsTurnsNationsEnemyMilitaryBuildingCitizensMurderDown AndDemocraticIraqEngagedHuntsIsisUtopiaAmerican CitizensJihadSwitzerlandNation Building Author:Ted Cruz
“Go on, now, go. Walk out the door. Just turn around now, 'cause you're not welcome anymore. Weren't you the one who tried to hurt me with 'goodbye?' Did you think I'd crumble? Did you think I'd lay down and die? I will survive.” ThinkingDiesTurnsCausesHurtWalksDoorsGoes OnDown AndLaysWelcomeGoodbyeHurt Me Author:Gloria Gaynor
“I'd asked girls out and they'd turn me down, and so finally it got to the place where you didn't want to be rejected. And so you just didn't ask.” WantTurnsGirlAsksSexDatingDown AndRejectionRejectedSeductionTurn Me Author:Bob Packwood