#turned

If you read a book that's fiction and you get caught in the characters and the plot, and swept away, really, by the fiction of it - by the non-reality - you sometimes wind up changing your reality as well. Often, when the last page is turned, it will haunt you. ↗

— Jodi Picoult

#book #caught #changing #characters #fiction

The big new development in my life is, when I turned 80, I decided I no longer have to do four pages a day. For me, it's like retiring. ↗

— Frederik Pohl

#day #decided #development #four #i

Someday when peace has returned to this odd world I want to come to London again and stand on a certain balcony on a moonlit night and look down upon the peaceful silver curve of the Thames with its dark bridges. ↗

— Ernie Pyle

#balcony #bridges #certain #come #curve

The Pleasure Seekers eventually turned into Cradle, when we started writing our own material. My younger sister Nancy was brought in as singer and I kind of stepped aside as main lead singer and concentrated on my instrument. ↗

— Suzi Quatro

#brought #concentrated #cradle #eventually #i

I went to art school for fine art and then I started doing performance art, and then I started making fun of performance art, and it turned into comedy. ↗

— Mary Lynn Rajskub

#art school #comedy #doing #fine #fine art

He had written my mother once that he wanted her to be the first thing he saw every morning and the last thing he ever saw. And that's how it turned out. ↗

— Ron Reagan

#ever #every #first #first thing #had

A lot of women are turned off by the physical appearance of some of the first feminists. ↗

— Helen Reddy

#feminists #first #lot #off #physical

I had turned down other head chef jobs. I didn't want to take over someone else's cuisine. I wanted to start from scratch. ↗

— Rene Redzepi

#cuisine #down #else #had #head

When I turned 15, I left school having failed to make the minimum grade. With little direction I enlisted at the local culinary school. Here the academic demands were less rigorous. ↗

— Rene Redzepi

#culinary #culinary school #demands #direction #enlisted

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

— George Ade

#being #decided #down #had #numerous