#turns

If I have a thousand ideas and only one turns out to be good, I am satisfied. ↗

— Alfred Nobel

#good #i #i am #ideas #only

He that is giddy thinks the world turns round. ↗

— William Shakespeare

#round #thinks #turns #world

If I have to apply five turns to the screw each day for the happiness of Argentina, I will do it. ↗

— Evita Peron

#argentina #day #each #five #happiness

My mother would put me on a wooden box at the stove and tell me to call her if certain things would happen. Like if the steam turns blue, that is danger! ↗

— Paul Prudhomme

#box #call #certain #certain things #danger

The right moment wears a full head of hair: when it has been missed, you can't get it back; it's bald in the back of the head and never turns around. ↗

— Francois Rabelais

#back #bald #been #full #get

You can never properly predict the future as it really turns out. So you are doing something a little different when you write science fiction. You are trying to take a different perspective on now. ↗

— Kim Stanley Robinson

#different perspective #doing #fiction #future #little

French is the language that turns dirt into romance. ↗

— Stephen King

#dirt #french #into #language #romance

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

It is about this very abstract sense of displacement that he feels the moment he turns off the television. ↗

— Atom Egoyan

#abstract #displacement #feels #moment #off

The programme has ended, something has finished, and he has a sense of something having finished its course, and then all of a sudden he turns away and this other thing has just finished its course, this other person. ↗

— Atom Egoyan

#course #ended #finished #having #just