#turned

After being Turned Down by numerous Publishers, he had decided to write for Posterity. ↗

— George Ade

#being #decided #down #had #numerous

And since I just turned 32, I'm thinking about getting married, having a family, and that's very difficult to do on the road as a correspondent. ↗

— Linda Vester

#correspondent #difficult #family #getting #getting married

I intended an Ode, And it turned to a Sonnet. ↗

— Austin Dobson

#intended #ode #sonnet #turned

There has been an awful lot of time and money spent looking at the president over the last four years The American people saw through those investigations. They voted for the president. And despite all of this time and attention, nothing has turned up because the president and the first lady did nothing wrong. ↗

— George Stephanopoulos

#american people #attention #awful #because #been

High school teachers who want to get reluctant readers turned around need to give the students some say in the reading list. Make it collaborative: The students will feel ownership, and everyone will dig in. ↗

— Dave Eggers

#collaborative #dig #everyone #feel #get

I suddenly saw that all the time it was not I who had been seeking God, but God who had been seeking me. I had made myself the centre of my own existence and had my back turned to God. ↗

— Bede Griffiths

#been #centre #existence #god #had

When I was younger and studying acting, I never ever saw myself in the sitcom world; it was drama that really turned me on and still does. ↗

— Matt LeBlanc

#does #drama #ever #i #me

See, I don't watch reality television anymore. I watched a little bit of it for awhile, but I found it turned my soul into a black sludge, and I just did not find it healthy or good for me at all, because I would watch it and be disgusted, disgusted. ↗

— Martha Plimpton

#awhile #because #bit #black #did

I turned down a scholarship to Yale. The problem with college is that there's a tendency to mistake preparation for productivity. You can prepare all you want, but if you never roll the dice you'll never be successful. ↗

— Shia LaBeouf

#dice #down #i #mistake #never

Cuba ought to be free and independent, and the government should be turned over to the Cuban people. ↗

— William McKinley

#cuban #cuban people #free #government #independent