Turn

Famous quotes containing the word turn:

“Capt. Rev. Samuel Clayton: Well, the prodigal brother. When d’you get back? I ain’t seen you since the surrender. Come to think of it, I didn’t see you at the surrender.
Ethan Edwards: Don’t believe in surrender. I still got my saber, Reverend. Didn’t turn it into no plowshare, neither.”
—Frank S. Nugent (1908–1965)

“I’d asked girls out and they’d turn me down, and so finally it got to the place where you didn’t want to be rejected. And so you just didn’t ask.”
—Robert Packwood (b. 1932)

“We are too civil to books. For a few golden sentences we will turn over and actually read a volume of four or five hundred pages.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)