I'm so fast that last night I turned off the light switch in my hotel room and was in bed before the room was dark.
Muhammad Ali

In order to govern, the question is not to follow out a more or less valid theory but to build with whatever materials are at hand. The inevitable must be accepted and turned to advantage.
Napoleon Bonaparte

I think the person who takes a job in order to live - that is to say, for the money - has turned himself into a slave.
Joseph Campbell

The reason so many people turned up at his funeral is that they wanted to make sure he was dead.
Samuel Goldwyn

For once you have tasted flight you will walk the earth with your eyes turned skywards, for there you have been and there you will long to return.
Leonardo da Vinci

The men who followed Him were unique in their generation. They turned the world upside down because their hearts had been turned right side up. The world has never been the same.
Billy Graham

A man who as a physical being is always turned toward the outside, thinking that his happiness lies outside him, finally turns inward and discovers that the source is within him.
Soren Kierkegaard

Money, it turned out, was exactly like sex, you thought of nothing else if you didn't have it and thought of other things if you did.
James A. Baldwin

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

My mother-in-law had a pain beneath her left breast. Turned out to be a trick knee.
Phyllis Diller

Yes, you can lose somebody overnight, yes, your whole life can be turned upside down. Life is short. It can come and go like a feather in the wind.
Shania Twain

To me, the black black woman is our essential mother, the blacker she is the more us she is and to see the hatred that is turned on her is enough to make me despair, almost entirely, of our future as a people.
Alice Walker

Dealing with backstabbers, there was one thing I learned. They're only powerful when you got your back turned.
Eminem

I turned down a movie this summer because it was nine weeks in Vancouver and my oldest daughter is 14. I've got four more summers with her. I'm not giving away nine weeks of her summer to go do a silly movie.
Jeff Foxworthy

Faith is an act of a finite being who is grasped by, and turned to, the infinite.
Paul Tillich

My parents didn't want to move to Florida, but they turned sixty and that's the law.
Jerry Seinfeld

I like a view but I like to sit with my back turned to it.
Gertrude Stein

I'm trying to keep a level head. You have to be careful out in the world. It's so easy to get turned.
Elvis Presley

I still believe the Lewinsky investigation was way off from the focus of what Whitewater was, which turned out to be nothing at the end of the process. And I think that there were people who were determined as political opponents to not allow his presidency to succeed.
Rahm Emanuel

One who never turned his back but marched breast forward, never doubted clouds would break, Never dreamed, though right were worsted, wrong would triumph, Held we fall to rise, are baffled to fight better, sleep to wake.
Robert Browning