#urns

But whatever the ramifications, whatever turns the path takes, the beginning is always there, in a particular moment, a particular point of access. ↗

— Barry Unsworth

#always #beginning #moment #particular #path

Sugaring season is the season when you tap the trees for sugar that turns into maple syrup. I've married someone from Vermont, so it's an expression I kept hearing, and I'm like, 'What is that? That's just so beautiful.' I like the idea it's the very, very first murmurings of spring. ↗

— Beth Orton

#expression #first #hearing #i #idea

The great enemy of clear language is insincerity. When there is a gap between one's real and one's declared aims, one turns, as it were, instinctively to long words and exhausted idioms, like a cuttlefish squirting out ink. ↗

— George Orwell

#between #clear #declared #enemy #exhausted

The good Lord made us all out of iron. Then he turns up the heat to forge some of us into steel. ↗

— Marie Osmond

#good #good lord #heat #into #iron

If you hit a midget on the head with a stick, he turns into 40 gold coins. ↗

— Patton Oswalt

#gold #head #hit #into #midget

People say their weight is genetic. But it turns out that people who are overweight don't just have overweight kids. They also have overweight pets. That's not genetic. ↗

— Mehmet Oz

#genetic #just #kids #out #overweight

I have never seen a bad television program, because I refuse to. God gave me a mind, and a wrist that turns things off. ↗

— Jack Paar

#because #gave #god #i #me

There's a moment in every book when the book turns and it surprises me. ↗

— Chuck Palahniuk

#every #me #moment #surprises #turns

He that is giddy thinks the world turns round. ↗

— William Shakespeare

#round #thinks #turns #world

I think in my case, I had no choice but to have a good sense of humor. I grew up with my dad, Danny Thomas, and George Burns and Bob Hope and Milton Berle and Sid Caesar and all those guys were at our house all the time and telling jokes and making each other laugh. ↗

— Marlo Thomas

#bob #bob hope #burns #caesar #case