Quotes About Spinning Tops

#1. If walking into the responsibility of caring for eighteen children was difficult, walking out on that responsibility was almost impossible. The children had become a constant presence, little spinning tops that splattered joy onto everyone they bumped into.

Conor Grennan

#2. I walk into a kids' store, and it's amazing, the types of instruments - little squeaky things, rattling things, spinning tops.

Evelyn Glennie

#3. If you retreat in response to desire rather than deprivation, the deprivation may never come.

Laurie A. Helgoe

#4. 'The Sound of Things Falling' may be a page turner, but it's also a deep meditation on fate and death. Even in translation, the superb quality of Vasquez's prose is evident, captured in Anne McLean's idiomatic English version. All the novel's characters are well imagined, original and rounded.

Edmund White

#5. We would eat chocolates and smoke cigarettes and read the Bible, which is the only way to do it, if you ask me. Don, the Bible is so good with chocolate. I always thought the Bible was more of a salad thing, you know, but it isn't. It is a chocolate thing. We

Donald Miller

#6. I mean, Dad's - you know, Dad's friendliest tone was a scream.

Terry Gross

#7. Rock music is quite big in India - but it mostly just replaces all the intricacies of Indian rhythms and Indian melody with lumpen rock drumming and power chords.

Jonny Greenwood

#8. The general advice is always be yourself, be yourself, which only makes sense if you haven't got an attitude problem.

Helen Oyeyemi