Turns

Famous quotes containing the word turns:

    Is there a bridle for this Proteus
    That turns and changes like his draughty seas?
    Or is there none, most popular of men,
    But when they mock us, that we mock again?
    William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)

    One of the annoying things about believing in free will and individual responsibility is the difficulty of finding somebody to blame your problems on. And when you do find somebody, it’s remarkable how often his picture turns up on your driver’s license.
    —P.J. (Patrick Jake)

    The great enemy of clear language is insincerity. When there is a gap between one’s real and one’s declared aims, one turns as it were instinctively to long words and exhausted idioms, like a cuttlefish squirting out ink.
    George Orwell (1903–1950)