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Your hub screws are always turned off when you need them...

Your hub screws are always turned off when you need them to be turned to 4X4.

Quote by Edward A. Murphy about cars, need

I Should Say Snow the green turned to black the black to white I should say snow but the word is like blood: doesn't show unless there is a wound a wound in the middle of the silence I should say in the middle of the heart but the...

Quote by Stela Vinitchi Radulescu about poetry, magic, heart, blood, silence, word, music

Money, it turned out, was exactly like sex, you thought...

Money, it turned out, was exactly like sex, you thought of nothing else if you don't have it and thought of other things if you did.

Quote by James Baldwin about money, thinking, sex, nothing, things

A lot of the homelands turned out to be land where no water was readily available, no roads, no amenities. So you had your ceded lands of a couple million acres, and y Hawaiian homesteads of a couple hundred thousand acres.

Quote by Neil Abercrombie about couple, water

It is within the last quarter century or thirty years. And a lot of that law has turned out to be very, very protective of the press and the public's right to know.

Quote by Floyd Abrams about press, law, public, rightness

In the '70s, you were legally underage until you turned...

In the '70s, you were legally underage until you turned 21. And when you're 16, 21 seems so far away!

Quote by Victoria Abril

When I was 6, I held on to my mother's skirt, screaming...

When I was 6, I held on to my mother's skirt, screaming that I wanted to be a dancer. She enrolled me in an academy in Madrid when I turned 8.

Quote by Victoria Abril about mother

I've always turned to the media because one thing people...

I've always turned to the media because one thing people like that fear is exposure.

Quote by Kathy Acker about fear, things, people

In order to govern, the question is not to follow out a more or less valid theory but to build with whatever materials are at hand. The inevitable must be accepted and turned to advantage.

Quote by Napoleon Bonaparte about question, order

I have been able to make yearly predictions which turned...

I have been able to make yearly predictions which turned out to be 95 percent correct.

Quote by Taylor Caldwell

I have had four happy days in my life, and three of them...

I have had four happy days in my life, and three of them turned out to be illusions.

Quote by Taylor Caldwell about day, happiness, life

I wasn't involved, except to the degree that they sent me drafts of the script as the writer turned them in. They asked me at one point to write a memo about what I thought of it.

Quote by Michael Chabon about writers, thinking

As I became very defined in my personal politics, I...

As I became very defined in my personal politics, I turned down some films that I slightly regret now; I'm not going to say what they were.

Quote by Agatha Christie about film, politics, regret

Dealing with backstabbers, there was one thing I learned....

Dealing with backstabbers, there was one thing I learned. They're only powerful when you got your back turned.

Quote by Eminem about things

The more competitive value of the dollar turned around...

The more competitive value of the dollar turned around the trade deficit.

Quote by Martin Feldstein about commerce, value

You turned on the radio and heard all kinds of things.

You turned on the radio and heard all kinds of things.

Quote by Luc Ferrari about things

I'd turned out to be a skinny little kid. I still only weighed about nine pounds when I was 15, so I didn't live up to my father's expectations. He felt embarrassed by it, so it embarrassed me too.

Quote by Peter Fonda

In the '80s I went into rehab. Then I tore my knee skiing...

In the '80s I went into rehab. Then I tore my knee skiing and I was turned on to painkillers. And doctors give them out regularly.

Quote by Melanie Griffith

Prior to Saving Private Ryan I never worked with men. I was always working with some babe, and it was always about falling in love, and it just got turned around. I'm not looking for any particular kind of story. I wait until it comes across my desk.

Quote by Tom Hanks about man, love

I've turned down a lot of arena dates because I've done...

I've turned down a lot of arena dates because I've done the big-arena thing. Now, I want to do something where people can feel me and I can feel them.

Quote by Whitney Houston about things, people

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