Spinning My Wheels Quotes

#1. It seems to me that the older I get, the more running around I do with less satisfaction, just spinning my wheels.

Paul Newman

#2. 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

#3. Nothing can so quickly put the masses on their legs as the spinning wheel and all it means.

Mahatma Gandhi

#4. When the wheel was accepted as part of the national flag, it was surely implied that the spinning wheel would hum in every household.

Mahatma Gandhi

#5. The study of Indian economics is the study of the spinning wheel.

Mahatma Gandhi

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

Mahatma Gandhi

#7. I am a poor mendicant. My earthly possessions consist of six spinning wheels, prison dishes, a can of goat's milk, six homespun loincloths and towels and my reputation, which cannot be worth much.

Mahatma Gandhi

#8. Hunger is the argument that is driving India to the spinning wheel.

Mahatma Gandhi

#9. The spinning wheel is a symbol of nonviolence for me.

Mahatma Gandhi

#10. The socialism that India can assimilate is the socialism of the spinning wheel.

Mahatma Gandhi

#11. 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

#12. In business, I believe that if you focus only on the journey, you'll miss the whole point of the enterprise. There has to be a goal, an end game of some kind; otherwise, you're just spinning your wheels. Yes, the journey is important, but the destination is important, too.

Ivanka Trump

#13. 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

#14. Can we imagine a different world? I can. That's a world where work is rational, it's in the common good, and we're actually producing real things rather than spinning our wheels in dreams of consumer heaven.

Bill Ayers

#15. The spinning wheel is not meant to oust a single man or woman from his or her occupation.

Mahatma Gandhi

#16. Restore the spinning wheel to its place and you will solve the problem of poverty.

Mahatma Gandhi

#17. India as a nation can live and die only for the spinning wheel.

Mahatma Gandhi

#18. I find it inspiring and I always think when I'm working on something new, whether it's a new kind of character or a new kind of story or new kind of camera, it gets my creative wheels spinning.

Nicolas Cage

#19. Many times busyness is often mistakenly equated with productivity. But those words are not synonymous. Just because we're spinning our wheels, rushing from one commitment to the next, doesn't necessarily mean that we are doing anything worthwhile.

Crystal Paine

#20. We're far from having too much horsepower ... my definition of too much horsepower is when all four wheels are spinning in every gear.

Mark Donohue

#21. The call of the spinning wheel is the noblest of all. Because it is the call of love. And love is Swaraj.

Mahatma Gandhi

#22. If you will express the requisite purity of character in action, you cannot do it better than through the spinning wheel.

Mahatma Gandhi

#23. My Swaraj takes note of bhangis, dheds, dublas and the weakest of the weak, and except the spinning wheel I know no other thing which befriends all these.

Mahatma Gandhi

#24. The spinning wheel is itself an exquisite piece of machinery. My head daily bows in reverence to its unknown inventor.

Mahatma Gandhi

#25. I shook my head, and his eyes traveled up my wall to the ceiling. I could almost see the wheels spinning inside his head. "What are you up to?" I asked, narrowing my eyes.

"I'm trying to think of another bet.

Jamie McGuire

#26. Leisure is gone,
gone where the spinning-wheels are gone, and the pack-horses, and the slow wagons, and the peddlers, who brought bargains to the door on sunny afternoons.

George Eliot

#27. The music of the spinning wheel will be as balm to your soul.

Mahatma Gandhi

#28. The spinning wheel is the auspicious symbol of sharir yajna, body labour.

Mahatma Gandhi

#29. I finally understood why so much monkey business happened in the backs of buses. Put us in close proximity, with wheels spinning under us, and nothing to do but wait, we're going to start thinking of lovely uses for our bodies. I don't care who you are.

Laura Anderson Kurk

#30. The wheels are spinning in my head all the time.

Justin Berfield

#31. The spinning wheel means national consciousness and a contribution by every individual to a definite constructive national work.

Mahatma Gandhi

#32. A plea for the spinning wheel is a plea for recognizing the dignity of labour.

Mahatma Gandhi

#33. The yajna of our age and for us is the spinning wheel.

Mahatma Gandhi

#34. Every woman will tell the curious that with the disappearance of the spinning wheel vanished India's happiness and prosperity.

Mahatma Gandhi

#35. If Gandhism means simply mechanically turning the spinning wheel, it deserves to be destroyed.

Mahatma Gandhi

#36. Without proper, careful organisation of the spinning wheel and khaddar, there is absolutely no civil disobedience.

Mahatma Gandhi

#37. So round and round you go, spinning mental wheels and nowhere finding anyplace to get traction. What the hell ... is it?

Robert M. Pirsig

#38. The spinning wheel for us is the foundation for all public corporate life.

Mahatma Gandhi

#39. The spinning wheel is the one thing to which all must turn to in the Indian clime for the transition stage at any rate and the vast majority must for all time.

Mahatma Gandhi

#40. Make me, o lord, thy spinning wheel complete, thy holy word thy distaff make for me.

Edward Taylor