Quotes About Spinning

#1. There is another way of disqualifying the metaphysicians ... Judge them by their works. What have they done for mankind beyond the spinning of airy fancies and the mistaking of their own shadows for gods?

Jack London

#2. Reading an endless litany of study after study-one article found this, and another experiment found this, and another study found this-is like watching laundry spinning in a dryer, except that something good eventually comes out of a dryer!

Paul J. Silvia

#3. After all, spinning is its own reward. There wouldn't be carousels if it weren't so.

Adam Gopnik

#4. When you are very old, and sit in the candle - light at evening spinning by the fire, you will say, as you murmur my verses, a wonder in your eyes, 'Ronsard sang of me in the days when I was fair.

Pierre De Ronsard

#5. That's when I heard the sounds of a certified genius spinning around in circles like a dog chasing its tail.

Ally Carter

#6. Ari stood up to greet them, and Crawford went back to his grumpy bastard therapy, which some people confused with spinning.

Amy Lane

#7. There are times when friendship feels like running down a hill together as fast as you can, jumping over things, spinning around, and you don't care where you're going, and you don't care where you've come from, because all that matters is speed, and the hands holding your hands.

M T Anderson

#8. The Founding Fathers are always spinning in their graves over something, as is Ronald Reagan, or FDR. Edward R. Murrow is a perennial grave spinner in the news business (though in fact, Murrow was cremated).

Mark Leibovich

#9. And Tiffany knew that if a witch started thinking of anyone as "just" anything, that would be the first step on a well-worn path that could lead to, oh, to poisoned apples, spinning wheels, and a too-small stove ... and to pain, and terror, and horror and the darkness.

Terry Pratchett

#10. The future is always a bit wobbly. Any little thing, like the fall of a snowflake or the dropping of the wrong kind of spoon, can send it spinning off along a new path. Or perhaps not.

Terry Pratchett

#11. There is something about spending Christmas alone, naked, sitting by the Christmas tree gripping a shotgun, that lets you know your life is spinning dangerously outta control.

Nikki Sixx

#12. My heart is drawn backwards and forwards between the spinning wheel and books.

Mahatma Gandhi

#13. My priority is my son and my husband, and I have a lot of spinning plates, so I try to make sure they're not one of them.

Sherri Shepherd

#14. The genesis of my coat, made from fine wool, spinning backwards through the looms, onto the body of a lamb, a black sheep a bit apart from the flock, grazing on the side of a hill. A lamb opening its eyes to the clouds that resemble for a moment the woolly backs of his own kind.

Patti Smith

#15. Boo, Forever Spinning like a ghost on the bottom of a top, I'm haunted by all the space that I will live without you.

Richard Brautigan

#16. A moment later I am moving through space. Spinning. Twirling. Dancing.
In the light.

Robyn Bavati

#17. This is the lament of older women, and ultimately of all old people - that you become invisible. It is especially hard for women, though, whose entire lives have been spent spinning around the idea that if no one is staring at you, you've somehow failed.

Jessi Klein

#18. To be a rebel is not to be a revolutionary. It is more often by a way of spinning one's wheels deeper in sand.

Kate Millett

#19. they "come to the business of life & the application of knowledge they find that they are inferior - & all their studies have not given them that practical good sense & mother wisdom & wit which grew up with our grandmothers at the spinning wheel,

Megan Marshall

#20. The restoration of spinning to its central place in India's peaceful campaign for deliverance from the imperial yoke gives her women a special status.

Mahatma Gandhi

#21. He floated into the air high above the sleeping forest, his green hat spinning a few feet above his head. In his hand was the open suitcase and out of it spilled a whole sky of stars.

Jandy Nelson

#22. Oh, it was almost too much to bear! And everything was going on as before - the dancers were spinning around, the boys who couldn't get partners were hanging about the pavilion, canoodling couples were sitting out on the rocks - nobody seemed to realize what a stupendous thing had happened.

L.M. Montgomery

#23. Calmly spinning, I scan as far away as I can see. The last rays of the day's sun warm my back and my stare locks onto my own shadow. I follow the lines of my body on the stone in front of me, spreading my arms as wings, and bathe in the beauty of existence.

Dean Potter

#24. He will use the word "love", and the world will not stop spinning but go right on in its courses, like the river, like the bees, like everything.

Sue Monk Kidd

#25. I want to set the record straight."
"The record's never straight, you idiot! Haven't you ever read 1984? They rewrite the record anytime it doesn't suit them. You're spinning your wheels and exposing your bare fanny for nothing.

David Eddings

#26. For most people, home we represented by four walls and a roof. Not for Noa. She preferred a motherboard to a mother, a keyboard to house keys. Nothing was more comforting than the hum of a spinning hard drive.

Michelle Gagnon

#27. I walked back past the stable and carriage house. The path took me cross the whole map of the world I knew. I hadn't yet seen the spinning globe in the house that showed the rest of it.

Sue Monk Kidd

#28. A knife slash with a sharp blade almost never caused pain unless delivered with force. As the skin parted, there was only a stinging sensation. Spinning,

David Morrell

#29. Laughter! I remember laughter. I did laughter a lot, he thought. These colours spinning around them are matching their mirth, changing from moment to moment, flaring out as they run and throw and catch. There are silver joy-waves rippling about them

Esme Ellis

#30. TIME
Time
goes round and round
the spinning clock,
until the fateful day
time
folds it's tired hands
and
stops.

Carolee Dean

#31. We try to live mindfully, being reverent in every aspect of our lives. We try to live like every minute is worship. Whether I'm spinning wool into yarn, or whether I'm selling cheese, the idea is to do it for God's glory rather than my own.

Rachel Bauer

#32. I watched the spinning stars, grateful, sad and proud, as only a man who has outlived his destiny and realizes he might yet forge himself another, can be.

Roger Zelazny

#33. I crave to die with my hand at the spinning wheel.

Mahatma Gandhi

#34. For writing a first draft requires from the writer a peculiar internal state which ordinary life does not induce.
... how to set yourself spinning?

Annie Dillard

#35. People don't change. The world carries on spinning inexorably around but people don't spin with it. They dig their heels into the shifting sand and cling on for dear life.

Tamar Cohen

#36. My mind stopped spinning as I was enveloped in waves of pleasure. Through half-open eyes, I saw fragments of the ancient room, the stone walls, the enormous wooden beams. I smelled history and ancient ground, war, and turmoil and worship.

Giselle Fox

#37. Farmers scrape a living out of that cold earth, planting on sheltered slopes facing south, combing the yama for fleece, carding and spinning and weaving the prime wool, selling pelts to the carpet-factories.

Anonymous

#38. Never forget that the universe is a single living organism possessed of one substance and one soul, holding all things suspended in a single consciousness and creating all things with a single purpose that they might work together spinning and weaving and knotting whatever comes to pass.

Marcus Aurelius

#39. I'm from the Midwest, and guys like me don't go on diets. We don't do well on spinning classes.

Michael Moore

#40. Joan of Arc was born 600 years ago. Six centuries is a long time to continue to mark the birth of a girl who, according to her family and friends, knew little more than spinning and watching over her father's flocks.

Kathryn Harrison

#41. I was spinning - from the kiss, the alcohol or the lack of air, I wasn't sure, but I knew I needed to pull away if only just to breath.

Melissa Aragon

#42. I'm a closet Catholic. I love the iconography of the saints. There was a point in my life when I was going to convert to Catholicism, but I didn't want my grandmother spinning around in her grave like a rotisserie chicken.

Lynda Resnick

#43. Nobody can survive alone, in this world. People have bonds, and sometimes those bonds are broken. And then, that person goes spinning off and connects with someone else.

Glen Mazzara

#44. The rolls of music that she herself had thrown into the trash with the pretext that they had rotted from dampness kept spinning and playing in her memory.

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

#45. That's the trouble with a story spinner. You never know what's real and what's made up. Even when they are telling the truth, they can't stop themselves from spinning it into something better; something prettier, with more of a pattern to it.

Philip Reeve

#46. Do you still believe that if you truly want something enough it can happen? I ask. I think of all the times I wanted to stop the world from spinning, all the times I wanted to go back and start over again. All the things I've wanted to undo or take back. Did I not want them enough?

Carrie Ryan

#47. For your mind, emotions and physical body to be working together in total harmony, the chakras need to be spinning at the correct frequency.

Stephen Richards

#48. The tree of life knows that, whatever happens, the warm music spinning around it will never stop. However much death may come, however much blood may flow, the music will dance men and women as long as the air breaths them and the land plows and loves them.

Eduardo Galeano

#49. It was during George W. Bush's presidency that Iran mastered the nuclear fuel cycle, that they built covert facilities, that they stocked them with centrifuges, that they were spinning merrily away toward getting a nuclear-weapons program.

Hillary Clinton

#50. If hand-spinning is an effective method of making India self-supporting, it must be made part of the franchise.

Mahatma Gandhi

#51. Rebus drank his coffee and felt his head spin. He was feeling like the detective in a cheap thriller, and wished that he could turn to the last page and stop all his confusion, all the death and the madness and the spinning in his ears.

Ian Rankin

#52. Cooper was halfway out of his chair with realizing he'd moved, his body on full combat alert. His mind spinning,

Marcus Sakey

#53. Gail had a baby named Ned who was four months old, and a new look of baffled hurt, a left-behind sadness, like she saw that the great world kept spinning onward and away while she'd overnight become glued to her spot.

Daniel Woodrell

#54. His dark hair looked like it had been teased by the spinning blades of a turbo prop, his black on black ensemble looked like it had walked out of the local "Depressed Teens Shop Here" store, and his flanking goons were dressed to match."
(on Obsidian Chylde)

J.R. O'Bryant

#55. I try to point my finger,/ but the wind keeps// spinning me around

Daniel Johnston

#56. The merry-go-round is spinning too fast. I want to get off. I want to close my eyes, or just blink.

Laurie Halse Anderson

#57. One idea I explore in my stand-up show is whether, if you try looking at the universe rationally and avoid coping mechanisms like mysticism or religion, you can still be happy knowing you are going to die after a brief time on this spinning ball.

Robin Ince

#58. The death of anti-gay hate speech is no doubt being hastened by the head-spinning speed with which gays as a group - to say nothing of gay marriage - are becoming an unremarkable and even quite traditional parts of American life.

Jeffrey Kluger

#59. Hand-spinning is designed to put millions of rupees in the hands of the poor villagers.

Mahatma Gandhi

#60. To believe in luck, you must believe that the universe is a roulette wheel and that instead of paying out to us what we have earned, it pays out only what it wishes. But it is not a spinning wheel of chance, it is a work of art, complete and framed by eternity.

Dean Koontz

#61. Just a threat of a boycott has got the Russians spinning.

Keith Olbermann

#62. Bread has been made (indifferent) from potatoes;
And galvanism has set some corpses grinning,
But has not answer'd like the apparatus
Of the Humane Society's beginning,
By which men are unsuffocated gratis:
What wondrous new machines have late been spinning.

Lord Byron

#63. Today's college students demand a self-segregating "safe space". Rosa Parks spinning in her grave.

A.E. Samaan

#64. Drug addicts are so funny that way. Just spinning around, lost in their own little world. Doing so much, accomplishing so little. How sad.

James St. James

#65. I've read somewhere in a book when something happens that is unbearable to you, sometimes, time stops. Like your inner clock just stops working, even if the world keeps spinning you will stand still for the rest of your life.

Katja Michael

#66. Cranks live by theory, not by pure desire. They want votes, peace, nuts, liberty, and spinning-looms not because they love these things, as a child loves jam, but because they think they ought to have them. That is one element which makes the crank.

Rose Macaulay

#67. The language of art is powerful to those who understand it, and puzzling to those who do not. What we do know is that here was the modern human mind at work, spinning symbolism and abstraction in a way that only Homo sapiens is capable of doing.

Richard Leakey

#68. Every flower seems to burn by itself, softly, purely in the misty beds; and how she loved the grey-white moths spinning in and out, over the cherry pie, over the evening primroses!

Virginia Woolf

#69. If she were meeting him for the first time and he looked at her like that, she would be spinning on her heel and on the run before you could say Kentucky Derby.

Thea Harrison

#70. Do you ever wish that sometimes the world would just stop spinning for a few hours to give you a chance to catch up?

Chloe Neill

#71. Greek loom weight showing an owl spinning wool. The

Elizabeth Wayland Barber

#72. I know that spinning sets me in a trance; it soothes me and charges my batteries at the same time. When times are tough I sit down to spin during the news-broadcasts, with therapeutic results.

Elizabeth Zimmermann

#73. The sensation of writing a book is the sensation of spinning, blinded by love and daring. It is the sensation of a stunt pilot's turning barrel rolls, or an inchworm's blind rearing from a stem in search of a route. At its worst, it feels like alligator wrestling, at the level of the sentence.

Annie Dillard

#74. For her, life was as cold as an attic with a window looking to the north, and ennui, like a spider, was silently spinning its shadowy web in every cranny of her heart.

Gustave Flaubert

#75. Digital organizations today have to strike the right balance of being transactional to keep spinning and being transformational to make a leap.

Pearl Zhu

#76. I work out six days a week. I do pilates, Bikram yoga and spinning. Every once in awhile, I'll throw weights in. I like to get some kind of cardio in every day, even if it's just hiking.

Sprague Grayden

#77. As long as the world is turning and spinning, we're gonna be dizzy and we're gonna make mistakes.

Mel Brooks

#78. Since I've known you, you've been spinning and spinning and spinning into all these various personas, and none of this self-exploration and experimentation has given you a sense of peace. I've known you for six years, intimately for four, and I still have no idea who I'm in love with.

Megan McCafferty

#79. Life is simple:
We lose and regain; and the wheel keeps spinning and the wheel keeps spinning.

Kristian Goldmund Aumann

#80. I think I probably tend to make life hard for myself by taking on too many things. I call it plate spinning.

Rory Bremner

#81. The tricky thing about abusive relationships is that they are never constant hell. You need the good times to clutch onto so you'll tolerate the bad. Those good times are what keep the wheel spinning.

Maggie Young

#82. Abruptness is an eloquence in parting, when spinning out the time is but the weaving of new sorrow.

John Suckling

#83. When the world seems to be spinning out of control I choose:
faith over fear;
action over paralysis;
focus over distraction;
reflection over reaction;
to stay grounded rather than getting swooped up in the chaos.

Charles F. Glassman

#84. She is off the heart's map and her compass is spinning.

Mark Haddon

#85. Peace is not a state - it is a choice, and you have to remake it every day. It's possible to get a sort of stability, a habit of peace, but it's like an egg balanced, spinning, on its point: lose your momentum, and your equilibrium is gone, too.

Nick Harkaway

#86. That's the thing about best friends. That's what they do. They keep you from spinning off the edge.

Lauren Oliver

#87. Since I was a child, I've liked telling stories. Maybe because my father's a director, I grew up loving stories. I'm not good at spinning them at a dinner table because I do go on a bit, but I love writing them, and directing is just a way of editing the story.

Mary Stuart Masterson

#88. When it comes to spinning stories, no one can do it with a straighter face than a cop. "I'm on my way.

Stephen King

#89. Take my dream,
sew it, wear it,
a dress.
You made yesterday
sleep in my hands,
leading me around,
spinning me like a moan
in the sun's carts,
a seagull soaring,
launched from my eyes.

Adonis

#90. A congeries of motives prevents us from blowing up our spinning mills and reviving the distaff. Gandhi had a try at this sort of revolution: he was as simple-minded as a child trying to empty the sea on to the sand with the aid of a tea-cup.

Antoine De Saint-Exupery

#91. Look at these worlds spinning out of nothingness. That is within your power.

Rumi

#92. We're going to win this war, you know, now that our army's together. But the world doesn't care who wins. It'll go on spinning, no matter how many people are slaughtered." After a moment, he added. "I almost wish it wouldn't, if we aren't allowed to go on spinning with it.

Kristin Cashore

#93. The spinning wheel and the spinning wheel alone will solve, if anything will solve, the problem of the deepening poverty of India.

Mahatma Gandhi

#94. I have pinned my faith to the spinning wheel. On it, I believe, the salvation of this country depends.

Mahatma Gandhi

#95. I do body conditioning, spinning and yoga. On the treadmill, I'll do intervals of running flat and then on incline. I'll do that for an hour.

Fleur East

#96. We can learn a lesson from the butterfly beginning it's life crawling along the ground, then spinning a cocoon, patiently waiting until the day it will fly.

Heather Wolf

#97. The giant neon spinning discs are a reminder of the huge role that Sam Sniderman and his store played in the cultural life of Toronto and I believe they should be preserved and remounted in the interests of our city's heritage.

Gordon Lightfoot

#98. At night, she slipped into the shelter of the boy's arms as they stood together on deck, picking out constellations from the vast spill of stars: the Hunter, the Scholar, the Three Foolish Sons, the bright spokes of the Spinning Wheel, the Southern Palace with its six crooked spires.

Leigh Bardugo

#99. For an hour every day, I did something. I was on the elliptical or the treadmill, and if someone asked me to go to a class - whether it was spinning, boxing, yoga, you name it - I went. By the end of the month, I felt so good, I just kept going. I didn't want to lose my momentum.

Molly Sims

#100. There he lay spooked, a spinning wheel in a celestial bowling alley.

Meg Rosoff