It's like a blind turn on a highway: You can't see what's coming, so you don't really know how to prepare.
Piper Perabo
BlindYouKnowPrepareSeeTurn
Turn where we may, within, around, the voice of great events is proclaiming to us, Reform, that you may preserve!
Thomas Babington Macaulay
GreatVoiceYouEventsTurnWithin
I call my life a beautiful mess and organised chaos. It's just always been like that. My entire life things have been attracted to me and vice versa that turn into chaotic nightmares or I create the chaos myself.
Mindy McCready
LifeBeautifulMyselfMeChaosTurn
I often go into shops and ask them to turn the music down.
Julian Treasure
MusicDownGoAskTurnOften
I've had people turn up to book signings with knives, with guns.
Patricia Cornwell
PeopleBookTurnGunsUpKnives
We love fantasy novels in which the characters think that they're peasants but turn out to be princes and kings.
Matthew Tobin Anderson
LoveThinkKingsFantasyTurnOut
I would never call Jerusalem beautiful or comfortable or consoling. But there's something about it that you can't turn away from.
Pico Iyer
BeautifulYouComfortableNeverTurn
I did turn down 'The Virgin Suicides.' I talked to the producers about it, and I just honestly told them that I didn't get it. Is it supposed to be funny, is it a thriller, what is it?
Terry Zwigoff
FunnyDownTurnGetJustDid
What President Bush did in his doctrine of preemptive strike and in his war in Afghanistan and in Iraq was to turn even his allies in Europe negatively toward America.
Louis Farrakhan
WarAmericaStrikePresidentTurn
We must have the audacity to turn up the frequency of our truths.
Janet Mock
TurnUpMustAudacityFrequencyOur
I think there are narratives going on all the time that we think of as tangential - up until they turn out to be deciding factors in our lives.
Paolo Bacigalupi
TimeThinkTurnOutUpGoing
Eviction comes with a record. Just like a criminal record can hurt you in the jobs market, eviction can hurt you in the housing market. A lot of landlords turn folks away who have an eviction, and a lot of public housing authorities do the same.
Matthew Desmond
HurtYouSameHousingTurnMarket
The Arctic is a place that historically, during all preceding human history, has largely been an icy realm with an impact on ocean currents. That, in turn, influences the temperature of the planet. The Arctic is now vulnerable because of the excess carbon dioxide in the atmosphere, with a rate of melting that is stunning.
Sylvia Earle
HistoryOceanImpactPlaceNowTurn
I had panels - roundtables in the district - and the stories that were told are really difficult to accept. People who have diabetes who can't get insurance because of a preexisting condition; others who were laid off and the have no place to turn.
Sander Levin
PeopleInsurancePlaceDiabetesTurn
It's always unfortunate when a reporter is sent behind bars for failing to turn over sources. There's no way to say what the long-term outcome will be.
Judy Woodruff
SayWillWayAlwaysOverTurn
We want to turn our inventory faster than our people.
James Sinegal
PeopleWantTurnInventoryFaster
I was in bands, but they were punk bands, and you plug in the guitars, you turn them up really loud, you've got four or five other people on stage with you, you've got some protection from when they throw lighters. You can always hide behind the lead singer or the bass player.
Oscar Isaac
PeopleYouHideStageTurnSinger
Rock evolved out of rebellion, so when you turn on the Billboard Awards or something like the Grammys, and there's no rock on there, that's a good sign - because that means that rock is not welcome inside of a pop format.
Ann Wilson
GoodWelcomeYouRockAwardsTurn
I have only read very classic traditional English ghost stories, other than Henry James, who wrote some magnificent short ones as well as the longer 'Turn of the Screw.' He, Dickens, and M.R. James are my influences.
Susan Hill
ShortClassicTurnGhostEnglish
It would be a travesty, in my opinion, to treat those who violated our laws to get here much better than those who have patiently waited their turn to come to the United States the right way.
Raul Labrador
OpinionTreatBetterWayRightTurn
I not only wanted to write when I was 7 and 8, but I sent stuff out when I was 7 and 8. I sent it out... and I couldn't believe that they would turn down my poems about faithful dogs.
Judith Viorst
BelieveDownWriteFaithfulTurn
It is time we in Scotland put England in its proper place and instead of our leaning on England and taking inspiration from her, we should lean and turn to Europe, for it is there our future prosperity lies.
Hugh MacDiarmid
FutureTimePlaceProsperityTurn
Men must turn square corners when they deal with the Government.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
MenGovernmentTurnSquareDeal
I used to hear a lot that all I could do was hit a serve, I couldn't volley, I can't hit a backhand, I don't return well, and then people would turn round and tell me I'm underachieving.
Andy Roddick
PeopleMeTurnTellReturnServe
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