#turns

Your work is to keep cranking the flywheel that turns the gears that spin the belt in the engine of belief that keeps you and your desk in midair. ↗

— Annie Dillard

#belt #cranking #desk #engine #gears

There have been times I've finished a big job and thought, 'Great, a couple of weeks off.' But then a couple of weeks turns to three weeks and then after a month you're staring at the phone willing it to ring. ↗

— Johnny Vegas

#been #big #couple #finished #great

No, as it turns out, I really like being congratulated on my weight loss. I like it so much, it's tragic. ↗

— Carrie Fisher

#i #like #loss #much #out

I have a preponderance to look smug in photos; something to do with the way my mouth turns up at the corners. ↗

— Chris Ware

#i #look #mouth #photos #preponderance

Sometimes you trust someone who turns out not to be honest. There are a lot of things that happen in life that don't turn out the way you're given the impression that they will. And I think that's all kind of a con. But I think we've probably all been hurt. ↗

— Sigourney Weaver

#con #given #happen #honest #hurt

When you are down and out something always turns up - and it is usually the noses of your friends. ↗

— Orson Welles

#down #friends #noses #out #something

Well, some mathematics problems look simple, and you try them for a year or so, and then you try them for a hundred years, and it turns out that they're extremely hard to solve. ↗

— Andrew Wiles

#hard #hundred #look #mathematics #out

A society that thinks the choice between ways of living is just a choice between equally eligible "lifestyles" turns universities into academic cafeterias offering junk food for the mind. ↗

— George Will

#between #choice #eligible #equally #food

Now, one thing I tell everyone is learn about real estate. Repeat after me: real estate provides the highest returns, the greatest values and the least risk. ↗

— Armstrong Williams

#after #estate #everyone #greatest #highest

Okra is the closest thing to nylon I've ever eaten. It's like they bred cotton with a green bean. Okra, tastes like snot. The more you cook it, the more it turns into string. ↗

— Robin Williams

#bred #closest #closest thing #cook #cotton