Spinning Top Sayings

#1. The attempt at introspective analysis ... is in fact like seizing a spinning top to catch its motion, or trying to turn up the gas quickly enough to see the darkness.

William James

#2. He caught hold of Tom's leg - as well as he could, it was thick as a young tree-trunk - but he was sent spinning up into the top of some bushes, when Tom kicked the sparks up in Thorin's face.

J.R.R. Tolkien

#3. We are equally glad and surprised at Winston's return to office. It shows that he was built for success that he should have declined to withdraw and sulk over a superficial failure.

Shane Leslie

#4. I don't really see a conflict between the church and the movies, the sacred and the profane ... there are major differences, but I could also see great similarities ... Both are places for people to come together and share.

Martin Scorsese

#5. I try to be classic without being mumsy.

Jane Asher

#6. Out of my peripheral vision, I see Four shove the door open and walk out. Apparently this fight isn't interesting enough for him. Or maybe he's going to figure out why everything's spinning like a top, and I don't blame him; I want to know the answer too.

Veronica Roth

#7. The executions of agents, partisans, saboteurs, suspicious people, indulging in espionage and sabotage, and those who were of a detrimental effect to the German Army, were, in my opinion, completely in accordance with the Hague Convention.

Paul Blobel

#8. Alcohol was like a fun cousin I visited every once in a while but never planned a trip around.

Abby Fabiaschi

#9. I've been very competitive by nature from a young age, whether it was eating a bowl of pasta faster than somebody else, or always wanting to be the first one in line.

Maria Sharapova

#10. It's not magic! It's physics. The speed of the turn is what keeps you upright. It's like a spinning top.

Deborah Bull

#11. Ever since we discovered that Earth is round and turns like a mad spinning-top, we have understood that reality is not as it appears to us.

Carlo Rovelli

#12. I'm not unsympathetic. But do you like me? Because this being gay business doesn't mean you can just throw yourself at any guy and it'll be fine because he's not a girl. There are still people you like and people you don't.

Cassandra Clare

#13. Everything progresses in waves. The march of civilization, the progression of worlds, is in waves. All human activities likewise progress in waves - art, literature, science, religion.

Swami Vivekananda

#14. I thought I was stronger than a word, but I just discovered that having to say goodbye to you is by far the hardest thing I've ever had to do.

Colleen Hoover

#15. Structure is one of the things that I always hope will reveal itself to me.

Richard Russo

#16. Thanks to Karen Connelly who read earlier versions of this manuscript and to Ronald Hatch my editor and publisher.

Nancy Holmes

#17. Psychologically, the choice "to think or not" is the choice "to focus or not." Existentially, the choice "to focus or not" is the choice "to be conscious or not." Metaphysically, the choice "to be conscious or not" is the choice of life or death.

Ayn Rand

#18. 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

#19. I've learned that once children gain a sense of real possession, they share very naturally, freely, and spontaneously.

Stephen R. Covey

#20. Never repeat a rumor before you have verified it. And if it is true, hold your tongue all the more.

Selma Lagerlof

#21. Only the flowing water is pure and sweet. Only the spinning top and the moving bicycle do not fall over. Rest is not found in irregular and purposeless motion, nor is it stagnation; all real and firm rest is to be sought in harmonious action.

Anna Brackett

#22. Signs don't shout; they whisper.

A.D. Posey

#23. I feel like a spinning top or a DreidelThe spinning don't stop when you leave the cradleYou just slow downRound and around this world you goSpinning through the lives of the people you knowWe all slow down.

Don McLean