#turns

I wonder what it is that the people who criticize me for telling this story truly object to: is it that I have dared to tell the story? Or that the story turns out not to be the one they wanted to hear? ↗

— Joyce Maynard

#dared #hear #i #i wonder #me

Prayer is commission. Out of the quietness with God, power is generated that turns the spiritual machinery of the world. When you pray, you begin to feel the sense of being sent, that the divine compulsion is upon you. ↗

— E. Stanley Jones

#being #commission #compulsion #divine #feel

LIfe has got all those twists and turns. You've got to hold on tight and off you go. ↗

— Nicole Kidman

#got #hold #life #off #those

French is the language that turns dirt into romance. ↗

— Stephen King

#dirt #french #into #language #romance

Small miseries, like small debts, hit us in so many places, and meet us at so many turns and corners, that what they want in weight, they make up in number, and render it less hazardous to stand the fire of one cannon ball, than a volley composed of such a shower of bullets. ↗

— Rudyard Kipling

#bullets #cannon #composed #corners #debts

The trick is the paradox - turning your story inside out. Now if it is something that appears to be of total normality and then suddenly turns inside out and is a different thing all together then that's fun to write. ↗

— Nigel Kneale

#different #different thing #fun #inside #normality

You set up a story and it turns inside out and that is, for me, the most exciting sort of story to write. The viewer thinks it's going to be about something and it does the opposite. ↗

— Nigel Kneale

#does #exciting #going #inside #me

When something hasn't been around much for a while, and one example of it turns up and catches people's eyes, they go looking for more like it - until they get tired of it again. ↗

— Stanley Schmidt

#around #been #catches #example #eyes

In a city where you walk around, it's impossible to plan your day and your life as accidents will happen, you'll overhear things, bump into people, and take unexpected turns. ↗

— Jason Schwartzman

#around #bump #city #day #happen

Wherever a man turns he can find someone who needs him. ↗

— Albert Schweitzer

#him #man #needs #someone #turns