#turn

I spent most of the '60s, when I was starting to try to write novels, living and working in Greece and Turkey. These are countries where the ancient past is interfused with the daily present, and I remember being struck with wonder at the constant sense of continuity and connection, the reminders that lie in wait for you at every turn. ↗

— Barry Unsworth

#being #connection #constant #continuity #countries

Most of American life consists of driving somewhere and then returning home, wondering why the hell you went. ↗

— John Updike

#american life #consists #driving #hell #home

Culture is an instrument wielded by professors to manufacture professors, who when their turn comes will manufacture professors. ↗

— Simone Veil

#culture #instrument #manufacture #professors #their

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

#earth #eyes #flight #long #once

Here was a fragment of Goddess myth that, through all its permutations, had somehow escaped being turned on its head. It was the perfect springboard for the sort of novel I wanted to write. ↗

— Joan D. Vinge

#escaped #fragment #goddess #had #head

Time is flying never to return. ↗

— Virgil

#never #return #time

My father had a brilliant scholastic record in high school and was awarded a college scholarship. Unfortunately he had to turn it down so that he could continue to support his family. ↗

— Tony Visconti

#brilliant #college #continue #could #down

Since I turned 50, I've had the best year of my life and I now throw as much effort into the social side of my life as I do work - more so now than ever before. ↗

— Carol Vorderman

#best #effort #ever #had #i

There are no automatic links between poverty and terrorism. Among millions of poor people in the world, only a few turn to terrorism. ↗

— Gijs de Vries

#automatic #between #few #links #millions

The bulk of mankind have indeed, in all countries in their turn, been made the prey of ambition. ↗

— Mercy Otis Warren

#been #bulk #countries #indeed #made