Turning 70 was a real shock. I thought, 'I'm on the last lap now.'
Turning 50 changed me and I'm far more accepting of myself. I'm not thin, but I am a size 10. I go in at the middle and very much out at the bottom and top. And now I think, 'Well, that's how I am.'
Inspiration is some mysterious blessing which happens when the wheels are turning smoothly.
I have a hard time getting motivated to do something that seems like a career move. I've gotten into vague trouble with my agents for turning down work that I thought was exploitative.
When I heard The Beatles, that was my turning point. They were like my mentors. You know, the funny thing about that, when I heard 'I Wanna Hold Your Hand,' at first I said these guys are like a flash in the pan. But the second album, I had to take all that back. John Lennon - one of the greatest writers in the world.
The media's power is frail. Without the people's support, it can be shut off with the ease of turning a light switch.
At one point, my house was a school for autistic children. I opened up my doors to about 30 kids and their families at the time. I was turning into Mary Poppins because I had to do something for these kids who have nowhere to go. So my house was the school for two years.
The idea of turning an album into a living piece of art and adding new installations is really intriguing. It expands the journey.
I like writing about big turning points, where professional and personal lives coalesce, where the boundaries are coming down, and you're faced with a set of choices which will change life forever.
They were two and a half decades in which Brazil had no capacity to invest in infrastructure. Just to give you an idea, in 1989, we had in Brazil about 50,000 project-engineering businesses. When I took office, there were just 8,000. Universities were no longer turning out engineers.
I inherited the old family turkey farm, and I'm turning it into a fun place to go for my kids.
It's too simplistic to advance the notion of the autonomy of art as a reason for turning away from the public. You can have autonomy and simultaneously have connections with the social and political world.
It was a turning point in the sense that as a scene, we can up with a lot of new ideas.
What most of all hinders heavenly consolation is that you are too slow in turning yourself to prayer.
The death of JFK to the resignation of Richard Nixon marked a great turning point in American life.
At the time I made 'Safe,' I was really intrigued by the whole culture around AIDS, which was turning to people like Louise Hay and these other West Coast New Age thinkers.
I have been criticized and ridiculed for turning to astrology, but after a while, I reached the point where I didn't care.
The first thing I tried to do in the months after losing my mother was to write a poem. I found myself turning to poetry in the way so many people do - to make sense of losses. And I wrote pretty bad poems about it. But it did feel that the poem was the only place that could hold this grief.
Now that rock is turning 50, it's become classical in itself. It's interesting to see that development.
You see, revolution sounds like something that happens, like turning on the light switch, but actually it's moving a large obstacle, and a lot of folks' efforts to push it in one direction or the other have to combine.
Mother is the first word that occurs to politicians and columnists and popes when they raise the question, 'Why isn't life turning out the way we want it?'
I grew up very differently than a lot of other people in my hometown in Mississippi. But I can't imagine my life any other way. I flew home and surprised my best friend at his graduation, and I remember turning to my mom and saying, 'My graduation was so much cooler than this.' I had Melissa Joan Hart give my commencement speech.
In turning from the smaller instruments in frequent use to the larger and more important machines, the economy arising from the increase of velocity becomes more striking.
The problem with the future is that it keeps turning into the present.
My life is one long curve, full of turning points.
When I first got pregnant, I freaked out. Then I had to remind myself: I'm turning 30.
I enjoy speaking to other women about turning 50, and how we can enjoy it, and how we can explore it.
I was asked to do a test commercial shoot for an Apple product which didn't mean much to me at the time. Some music player that holds all your songs. Sounded cool to me and I never gave up an opportunity to work, especially with the possibility of it turning into a national commercial. Coolest job I did in that time.
We are taking challenges and turning them into opportunities by developing homegrown, local energy production to become independent from foreign sources.
I don't want to have to say, Honey, you know, could you turn off the sports channel because I'm not a big sports fan, and I don't love the television being on just for the sake of turning on. I'd like turning on for some thing specific.
A mathematician is a device for turning coffee into theorems.
What they are doing is taking something that otherwise creates pollution and turning it into something useful.
Stop turning to fad diets and use common sense.
I love turning my daughter on to old movies.
I have had a few turning points, the first day I entered a gymnastics school at age 6.
This, and this alone, is Christianity, a universal holiness in every part of life, a heavenly wisdom in all our actions, not conforming to the spirit and temper of the world but turning all worldly enjoyments into means of piety and devotion to God.