#turning point

I was with the U.N. Secretary-General Boutros Boutros-Ghali on the day that Srebrenica fell, which happened to be a huge historical turning point in the Bosnian war. ↗

— Michael Ignatieff

#day #fell #happened #historical #huge

The turning point really is just knowing you're an imbecile. ↗

— Warren Cuccurullo

#just #knowing #point #really #turning

Something is happening to Britain and the British. Or has happened. We are said to be passing through a transition, or a turning point, or a transformation; nobody is quite sure which. ↗

— Ferdinand Mount

#british #happened #happening #nobody #passing

The conception that, instead of this, contemporary society is at or near a turning point is very prominent in the views of a school of social scientists who, though they are still comparatively few, are getting more and more of a hearing. ↗

— Talcott Parsons

#conception #contemporary #contemporary society #few #getting

'Jaws' was the definitive filmmaking turning point for me. It came out in the summer of '75 and I saw it an obsessive 55 times. They even ran a very embarrassing article about me in the local paper, about the weird kid who's seen 'Jaws' 55 times. ↗

— Victor Salva

#article #came #definitive #embarrassing #even

It was a turning point in the sense that as a scene, we can up with a lot of new ideas. ↗

— Arto Lindsay

#lot #new #new ideas #point #scene

Mexican Shuffle was a turning point of the Brass. ↗

— Herb Alpert

#mexican #point #shuffle #turning #turning point

The turning point in the process of growing up is when you discover the core of strength within you that survives all hurt. ↗

— Max Lerner

#discover #growing #growing up #hurt #point

Putting a stamp on things just helps you say, 'Hey, yesterday I was there, and today I'm here.' It's another step forward, and it feels like another turning point and an unleashing of creativity, and now I'm going to start focusing on the show and the production, the fun stuff that comes with it. ↗

— Shania Twain

#comes #creativity #feels #focusing #forward

I know this sounds strange, but as a kid, I was really shy. Painfully shy. The turning point was freshman year, when I was the biggest geek alive. No one, I mean no one, even talked to me. ↗

— Jim Carrey

#biggest #even #freshman #freshman year #geek