I was a pitcher, shortstop and outfielder, and the Yankees tried to sign me out of high school as a first-round draft pick in 1981. I turned them down to go to college.
My parents didn't want to move to Florida, but they turned sixty and that's the law.
The invectives against capital in the hands of those who have it are double-faced, and when turned about are nothing but demands for capital in the hands of those who have it not, in order that they may do with it just what those who have it now are doing with it.
The fact that Stravinsky used the classics as a major influence is obvious. What is interesting is how he used them, how he turned Bach into Stravinsky.
Angry, and half in love with her, and tremendously sorry, I turned away.
We wanted the best, but it turned out as always
Like a fool, I fell in love with you, Turned my whole world upside down
Life turned out much better than I thought. I knew after a little while that I could act.
There was something appealing in thinking of a character with a secret life that her author knew nothing about. Slipping off while the author's back was turned, to find love in her own way. Showing up just in time to deliver the next bit of dialogue with an innocent face.
But think that we Are but turned aside to sleep.
'Dr. Quinn' came along when I turned 40, so my career actually peaked then.
When he turned to face her, the drawn look on his face was one of absolute agony as if Luce had just ripped his heart out
When men have money and power they get turned on, sexually. They get horny as hell. Can't imagine why, though.
And since I just turned 32, I'm thinking about getting married, having a family, and that's very difficult to do on the road as a correspondent.
I've been very lucky not to have turned down too many roles that I've later regretted.
Detroit turned out to be heaven, but it also turned out to be hell.
It was really like waking up one morning and going, Wow, I enjoy being with this person more than anybody else in my life, and it just turned out to be mutual.
Where the world comes in my way - and it comes in my way everywhere - I consume it to quiet the hunger of my egoism. For me you are nothing but - my food, even as I too am fed upon and turned to use by you. We have only one relation to each other, that of usableness, of utility, of use. We owe each other nothing, for what I seem to owe you I owe at most to myself. If I show you a cheery air in order to cheer you likewise, then your cheeriness is of consequence to me, and my air serves my wish; to a thousand others, whom I do not aim to cheer, I do not show it.
You can't, or you shouldn't, be nominated for an Oscar unless you've turned in a performance that's special.
As the organized Left gained cultural power, it turned into a monster that found perpetual victimhood, combined with thought and speech control, the most efficient way to hold on to that power. Suddenly it was the Left, the protector of liberty, that was setting rules about what could and could not be said or even thought.