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Things don't turn up in this world until somebody turns them up. -- James A. Garfield
The conspicuously wealthy turn up urging the character building values of the privation of the poor. -- John Kenneth Galbraith
Being at the pinnacle of my career is not to turn up in some multiplex blockbuster. -- Kelly Reilly
Hard work spotlights the character of people: some turn up their sleeves, some turn up their noses, and some don't turn up at all. -- Sam Ewing
I think the most romantic thing you can do is just turn up. Turn up when it's difficult for you. Travel halfway around the world or just up the road. Whatever it is, just be there. -- James McAvoy
I am death, not taxes. I turn up only once. -- Terry Pratchett
When you do something exactly wrong, you always turn up something. -- Andy Warhol
If I turn up suicided in the morning, it was murder. -- Chuck Palahniuk
I suppose, to use our national motto, something will turn up. -- Benjamin Disraeli
If you wait for luck to turn up, life becomes very boring. -- Mikhail Tal
Money will always turn up when there is a potential for profit. -- James Cook
I've had people turn up to book signings with knives, with guns. -- Patricia Cornwell
What? Okay, back up. How in the hell do you 'turn up missing'? -- Kevin Hart
That Time could turn up his swift sandy glass, To untell the days. -- Thomas Heywood
Malice is of the boomerang character, and is apt to turn upon the projector. -- William Makepeace Thackeray
That's writing for you: when you make space for passion, it doesn't turn up. -- Rachel Cusk
I don't think there's anything more tiring ... than expecting people who don't turn up ... -- Elizabeth Goudge
I'm completely different from Pietersen. He would turn up to the opening of an envelope -- Andrew Flintoff
With a book, there's no volume to turn up. You're very naked with a book. -- Henry Rollins
The person who is waiting for something to turn up might start with Cosmic Ordering. -- Stephen Richards
I'd rather people turn up than not. And of course I'd rather have people be enthusiastic. -- Stella McCartney
Some people believe in God. I believe in music. Some people pray. I turn up the radio. -- Jared Leto
There is no such thing as "?too insane' unless others turn up dead due to your actions. -- Mahatma Gandhi
The life of Shakespeare is a fine mystery and I tremble every day lest something turn up. -- Charles Dickens
I'm not into that method acting thing. I just turn up, say my lines and go home. -- Marc Warren
Bishops move diagonally. That's why they often turn up where the kings don't expect them to be. -- Terry Pratchett
When the drink be too strong When the tree be way too strong Get faded, turn up, bruh. -- Tinashe
Let's turn to the West, Let's turn up the music, Let's hope it's always as good as this -- Chris Pureka
almost any object, including this book you hold, can turn up as Exhibit A in a murder trial. -- Tom Robbins
People are content to wait a long time for salvation, but prefer dinner to turn up inside an hour. -- Terry Pratchett
things cannot be expected to turn up of themselves. We must in a measure assist to turn them up -- Charles Dickens
Shall I turn up the light for you? No, give me deeper darkness. Money is not made in the light. -- George Bernard Shaw
Everything I turn up to, I think I'm going to enjoy. I never look back, so I don't have regrets. -- Kevin Keegan
At some stage in most people's lives, things turn upside down, and nothing is as you expected it to be. -- Susanne Bier
When I turn up at a trendy party, all the youngsters look like they could be my illegitimate love children. -- Laurence Llewelyn-Bowen
You try to stay within the rules for the sake of the game, but you can always turn up the intensity. -- Lawrence Taylor
I think books are like people, in the sense that they'll turn up in your life when you most need them. -- Emma Thompson
Although people rarely died playing Quidditch, referees had been known to vanish and turn up months later in the Sahara Desert. -- J. K. Rowling
The only thing I can do is wipe my arse, brush my teeth, turn up and do the best work I can. -- Tom Hardy
People say I slept with seven miss worlds, I didn't. It was only four, I didn't turn up for the other three -- George Best
The clever people at CERN are smashing particles together in the hope that Doctor Who will turn up and tell them to stop -- Ben Aaronovitch
Death is something you cannot escape, such as death, or a cheesecake that has curdled, both of which always turn up sooner later. -- Daniel Handler
In dreams, anything can be anything, and everybody can do. We can fly, we can turn upside down, we can transform into anything. -- Twyla Tharp
I guess I'm adaptable. You know, I turn up at work and [photographers] can kind of do what they want with me, really. -- Kate Moss
The power of a smile is such that even drawing a happy face on a piece of paper makes your lips turn up. -- Richelle E. Goodrich
I'm not good at just sitting around waiting for the phone to ring, hoping that the perfect role is going to turn up. -- Ed Speleers
That's something that tends to happen with new technologies generally: The most interesting applications turn up on a battlefield, or in a gallery. -- William Gibson
I don't talk to media or anyone before games. I just put my headphones on, turn up some hip-hop, and get in the zone. -- Kris Humphries
My responsibility as an artist is to turn up at the page or the piano or the microphone. The rest is up to God. -- Nick Cave
Take young researchers, put them together in virtual seclusion, give them an unprecedented degree of freedom and turn up the pressure by fostering competitiveness. -- James D. Watson
It probably goes without saying that I enjoy the potato pancakes, delicious hams and so forth that maddeningly turn up at this time of year. -- Fred Melamed
None of us has a girlfriend. But being in a band, you meet people everywhere you go. I know mine will turn up one day. -- Isaac Hanson
I've never run a company before, and I don't want to feel like a boss. I just want to turn up and do my work. -- Markus Persson
I think I'll just go down and have some pudding and wait for it all to turn up - it always does in the end. -- J. K. Rowling
It is stupid to tolerate Nikola; all Chekists have to be on alert to shoot anyone who doesn't turn up to work because of Nikola. -- Vladimir Lenin
Most people wait for the muse to turn up. That's terribly unreliable. I have to sit down and pursue the muse by attempting to work. -- Nick Cave
In our parts such characters sometimes turn up that, however many years ago you met them, you can never recall them without an inner trembling. -- Nikolai Leskov
Economists can certainly disappoint you. One said that the economy would turn up by the last quarter. Well, I'm down to mine and it hasn't. -- Robert Orben
I understand the intensity of the supporters. I wonder how they could turn up for work on Monday morning after we lost 5-1 to Manchester City. -- Alex Ferguson
The lesson of 'CSI' is: No matter what horrible things happen, nice policemen will turn up and fix everything and return it to the status quo. -- Warren Ellis
I turn up in Los Angeles every now and then, so I can get some big money films in order to finance my smaller money films. -- John Hurt
I got married the second time in the way that, when a murder is committed, crackpots turn up at the police station to confess the crime. -- Delmore Schwartz
The tricky or boastful gods of ancient myths and primitive folk tales are characters of the same kind that turn up in Faulkner or Tennessee Williams. -- Northrop Frye
Research material can turn up anywhere - in a dusty old letter in an archive, a journal or some old photographs you find in a charity shop. -- Sara Sheridan
We had 1 book, the phone book, I've read it, it wasn't a great read, lots of characters, and on the end loads of polish people turn up. -- Stephen K. Amos
Documentaries are unpredictable. You never know what will turn up, and the drama occurs in real time. But if you listen to people, a narrative always emerges. -- Cosima Spender
Just when exactly does the Millennium begin? Some say 1999, some say 2000, and some say 2001. You wait a thousand years for one, and three turn up at once. -- Rory Bremner
I'm not being offered a constant stream of wonderful parts with wonderful directors that would keep me away from the theatre. When they turn up, I do them. -- Ian Mckellen
All my mates are at university, and it's a life I haven't had a chance to enjoy, so it's great to turn up and sample a bit of it. -- Louis Tomlinson
If we weigh the significance of a book by the effect it has on its readers, then the great children's books suddenly turn up very high on the list. -- Laura Miller
I couldn't think of anything worse than going to a fancy dress party. So, if somebody invited me to one, I'd go as the Invisible Man and not turn up. -- David Morrissey
For a time I would feel I belonged still to a world of straightforward facts; but the feeling would not last long. Something would turn up to scare it away. -- Joseph Conrad
May not subterraneous fire be considered as the great plough (if I may be allowed the expression) which Nature makes use of to turn up the bowels of the earth~? -- William Dean Hamilton
Do you normally turn up in gentlemen's bedrooms in the middle of the night? If I'd known that, I would have campaigned harder to make sure Charlotte let you stay. -- Cassandra Clare
Looking back, my whole life seems so surreal. I didnt just turn up on the doorstep playing rugby; I had to go through a whole lot of things to get there. -- Jonah Lomu
Looking back, my whole life seems so surreal. I didn't just turn up on the doorstep playing rugby; I had to go through a whole lot of things to get there. -- Jonah Lomu
Historic Amsterdam, that old part you first see when you turn up at Centraal Station, may have its monuments, but it's also the most tawdry and overcrowded part of the city. -- David Hewson
A minister has to be able to read a clock. At noon, it's time to go home and turn up the pot roast and get the peas out of the freezer. -- Garrison Keillor
That I should turn up at the precise moment was one of those extraordinarily lucky breaks which we all need at some time or other during this life, but don't always get. -- Peter Cushing
The greenish sky glows up in misty reds, The purple shadows turn to brick and stone,The dreams wear thin, men turn upon their beds, And hear the milk-cart jangle by alone. -- Sara Teasdale
Revenge... is like a rolling stone, which, when a man hath forced up a hill, will return upon him with a greater violence, and break those bones whose sinews gave it motion. -- Jeremy Taylor
This is the worst thing about waiting for someone. You have to look good all the time because they could turn up at any minute and see you before you've seen them -- Mark Mason
There are certain expectations that are put on you as a child actor, but mainly it's just turn up and say your lines with a lot of energy and a cute smile. -- Naomie Harris
I think among the population at large, people are openly fascinated with crime and don't feel any shame over it. It's only the opinion-makers and the 'opinion elites' who turn up their noses. -- Bill James
Worrying gets you nowhere. If you turn up worrying about how you're going to perform, you've already lost. Train hard, turn up, run your best and the rest will take care of itself. -- Usain Bolt
When trying to remember my share in the glow of the eternal present, in the smile of God, I return to my childhood, too, for that is where the most significant discoveries turn up. -- Herman Hesse
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When trying to remember my share in the glow of the eternal present, in the smile of God, I return to my childhood, too, for that is where the most significant discoveries turn up. -- Herman Hesse
All you've got to do is turn up and have a few facial tics and be a lunatic and throw someone around the room or blow their brains out and people think it's good acting. -- Paddy Considine
I'm always struck by the kids who turn up in New York and LA, and places in between. Chicago. Wanting to do theater, wanting to do independent film. Wanting to break into television or radio. -- Frank Rich
Celebrity is a national drama whose characters' parts and plots are written by the tabloids, gossip columnists, websites and interactive buttons. The famous don't actually have to turn up to their own lives at all. -- A. A. Gill
I don't wait for inspiration. I'm not, in fact, quite sure what inspiration is, but I'm sure that if it is going to turn up, my having started work is the precondition of its arrival. -- Quentin Blake
If you're an English actor and turn up in America, they don't have an opinion about where you sit. They have no idea what auditions to send you to, so they send you to everything. -- Eddie Redmayne
I think the most romantic thing you can do is just turn up. Turn up when its difficult for you. Travel halfway around the world or just up the road. Whatever it is, just be there. -- James McAvoy
Never did we plan the morrow, for we had learned that in the wilderness some new and irresistible distraction is sure to turn up each day before breakfast. Like the river, we were free to wander. -- Aldo Leopold
The gym is somewhere you can go to just forget for an hour what you do for a living, what you are doing on a daily basis. You just turn up and get on with it. -- Luke Evans
In Australia, there just weren't strong roles for actors of colour. I was often being asked to turn up for commercials with a ghetto blaster on my shoulder. I thought, 'Are we in the '60s?' -- DeObia Oparei
I would say I'm an ironist not a satirist. All you do is you take existing tendencies and crank them up, just turn up the volume dial. Which is a technique of science fiction, apart from anything else. -- Martin Amis
He makes me laugh, Mick! He tended to turn up when we were having lunch and entertain us all. He bought an Enigma machine! I've never worked with a producer who was more famous than everyone put together. -- Saffron Burrows
I mean, I did a film, a musical of 'Scrooge', in '70, and the tricks were done by flat clothes and mirrors. I hope that the day will come when we don't have to turn up at all. -- Albert Finney
I do see a lot of my kids, but sometimes I feel as though we have snatched moments. I turn up half way through something, or I only see her at bedtime. I'd like there to be more." -- Steve McFadden
I do see a lot of my kids, but sometimes I feel as though we have snatched moments. I turn up half way through something, or I only see her at bedtime. I'd like there to be more. -- Steve McFadden
I have always found it an honor that people have wanted to buy my shirt and an honor that fans turn up to watch the team I am playing in. I have always found that a huge honor. -- David Beckham
So are you saying that somebody went to all the trouble to make you a crypt a thousand years ago on the off chance that you might turn up one day, walk in, and have a convenient heart attack? -- Garth Nix
Darwin's theory of evolution by natural selection is the only workable explanation that has ever been proposed for the remarkable fact of our own existence, indeed the existence of all life wherever it may turn up in the universe. -- John Maynard Smith
Poetry saves what is human in this world going gaudy & insane. In exploring small truths, something larger might turn up, adding dimension, insight, vision, recognition to our lives. We just might be more complete, more aware after a poem. -- Diane Glancy
I love finding myself in the most bizarre situations, drinking cobra's blood - really diverse stories. And yet, I will still turn up on location sometimes and be surprised by what I'm encountering or by how to do something. -- Phil Keoghan
Moral epochs have their course as well as the seasons. We can no more hold them fast than we can hold sun, moon, and stars. Our faults perpetually return upon us; and herein lies the subtlest difficulty of self-knowledge. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
You know, plenty of people headed off to Canada or America on the basis of government information, propaganda campaigns. Often you'd go off with a brochure in hand and you'd turn up and it wouldn't be like that at all. -- Emma Donoghue
I daydream about things I want to happen, but none of it is more complicated, most of the time, than just really hoping that the good parts and the well-written parts are the ones that turn up on my doorstep. -- Rebecca Hall
It's totally mistaken to suppose that an armed escort is going to give a journalist any protection - on the contrary, journalists who turn up surrounded by armed personnel are just turning themselves into targets and in even worse danger. -- Kate Adie
I could always sing, from a really young age, but my voice was really weird. I used to make my mum turn up the radio every day in our house. She was well into music so I got that from her. -- Ellie Goulding
Are you up to the challenge? Are you going to be a reproduction or an original? Will you strive to be innovative or imitative? Are you ready to take your turn on the page, turn up the heat, turn it on? -- Phil Cousineau
The word "missing" is particularly cruel, leaving as it does a ray of hope that the person will turn up safe and well, even in the most doomed circumstances. As days go by, it becomes increasingly unlikely and yet and yet ... -- Deborah Cavendish, Duchess of Devonshire
I started getting back into buying old analog gear while we were recording. Lots of old drum machines and synths. It wasn't a conscious thing. I didn't consider myself a collector, but boxes of vintage gear would turn up virtually every day. -- Martin Gore
It's fun, but the fun is where it always was. I mean, it's still fun to strap on my Les Paul in the basement and turn up the Marshall amp. I'm still 15. I still enjoy that as much as I ever did. -- Paul Westerberg
What I find really attractive is something that's going to be a little dangerous. Something that might get me into trouble; you know, you turn up in London and you've just rewritten Dickens. And, of course, then you think, 'What have I done? -- Peter Carey
It must be admitted that science has its castes. The man whose chief apparatus is the differential equation looks down upon one who uses a galvanometer, and he in turn upon those who putter about with sticky and smelly things in test tubes. -- Gilbert Newton Lewis
I'm not a fussy eater, but when I'm travelling, I try to stick to the same regime and just have my chicken and my mash and broccoli. Otherwise, you start eating all these funny delicacies, and it makes your tummy turn upside down. -- Ella Henderson
You can't turn up at college in stilettos and say you're gonna be a filmmaker. In the college, they were teaching me avant-garde filmmaking, where I had to make films that were, like, an hour long about nothing. I just refused to do it. -- M.I.A.

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