I started being a songwriter pretending I could do it, and it turned out I could.

You heard on all sides that the brightest Jewish children were turned down if the examining officers did not like the turn of their noses.

Tony Blair has turned his back on the principles he claimed he believed in before he stood shoulder-to-shoulder with George W. Bush. He was an entirely different kind of leader.

The war in Iraq, clearly has not turned out in the way that was hoped.

I turned down the first script offered to me, and the second. I lay on my back one day under an umbrella, in the garden, reading the third, and wondered why I had turned down...

Money commands everything because that’s our interpretation of capitalism… what kind of world is that? It’s a very uncomfortable interpretation of a human being. We have been turned into robots.

I always did think that when I turned 40, I’d start coming into my own.

Around the time I turned 30, I wanted to publish a novel.

I’ve never turned down an autograph request. I’ve never not taken a picture with someone.

I have a scar on my right arm from my ex-husband. He was cooking and he had a hot pot and he turned around and went right into my arm.

I had a bad stutter when I was really young. I couldn’t get a sentence out. Like, ‘D-d-d-d-d-d-d-d-ad.’ And that turned into a mumble.

I have turned down so many endorsements. My phone never stops ringing.

Then I just moved into being a DJ when that turned into the hottest thing.

Well, after the divorce, I went home and turned all the lights on!

I have turned down a lot of garbage lately.

I stopped abruptly and turned on them, arms gesturing wildly. “Shut up!

I had turned my anxiety into my profession.

Here is the story of how I died. I wish it were a glamorous story; sadly, there was little glamour in my death. The end for everyone is much the same, sad, lonely, and cold....

My life has gotten so much better since I turned 40.

My first offer was when I was 12, and it was for a soap opera. And I turned it down because I knew that I was an unformed actor, and I didn’t want to develop...

I think people took Grenada for what it turned out to be, which was a very specific incident and from which one couldn’t necessarily make a lot of generalizations.

I am turned into a sort of machine for observing facts and grinding out conclusions.

I play every show like it’s my last. Fortunately, that’s never turned out to be the case.

Today, the tide has turned, we are destroying them.

I never regretted what I turned down.

I’ve turned down projects based on raunchiness before.

The more competitive value of the dollar turned around the trade deficit.

I had just turned 10-years-old when the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor and plunged America into World War II.

My mother turned into a professional widow. She couldn’t understand why I wanted to be an engineer; she thought I should be a chicken farmer.

I’ve turned into one of those people who go jogging in parks that I used to hate.

I always thought I’d write when I retired – when I turned 65.

If a guy treats me respectfully and the waiter demeaningly, I’m turned off.

Quickly, after I landed in England, I found out ways to get scholarships. England turned out to be a very encouraging place for me.

I’m trying to look at my blessings and how amazingly well against all odds things have turned out for me.

When I turned to writing fantasy, and writing for young people, it was joyous. It was like discovering an underground lake of ideas that went on forever.

The soprano turned out to sound to me like the right hand on the piano.