Spun Quotes

#1. Mia,' she whispered. I turned around. 'What?' I whispered back.
She smiled at me a little. 'LEEERRROOOY JEEENNKKIINNNSS!' she shouted, then spun around and ran toward the Z's in the lighting section.

John Green

#2. For this our task hath Fate spun without fail to last for ever sure, that we on man weighed down with deeds of hate should follow till the earth his life immure. Nor when he dies can he boast of being truly free.

Aeschylus

#3. Day after day, anxiety spun its web around my thoughts and spread to all corners of my heart.

Adeline Yen Mah

#4. If she'd spun on her heel and left the room, Jack would have laughed at her retreat. And if she'd stayed, staring him down and trying to shame him into leaving, they'd probably still be standing there.

Lorraine Heath

#5. To a thrifty theologian, bent on redemption with economy, there are few points of ethics too fine-spun for splitting.

Ellen Glasgow

#6. Suicide is a confession of failure. And like divorce, it is shrouded in excuses and rationalizations spun endlessly to disguise the simple fact that all one's energy, passion, appetite and ambition have been aborted.

Al Alvarez

#7. Love that only which happens to thee and is spun with the thread of thy destiny. For what is more suitable? In

Marcus Aurelius

#8. Before she knew what she was doing, she was storming after Kai. She grabbed his elbow and spun him back around to face her. Without hesitating, Cinder wrapped her arms around his neck and kissed him.

Marissa Meyer

#9. There had been a frozen mist here, and the trees were spun into feathers. Their fragile brilliance made me wonder why, into the spotlessness of Creation, God had seen fit to introduce soiling, twisting, rampaging, Man.

Maria McCann

#10. He spun around. She was leaning against the doorframe, like an attractive yawn on legs.

Neil Gaiman

#11. Their lives spun off the tilting world like thread off a spindle, breakfast time, suppertime, lilac time, apple time.

Marilynne Robinson

#12. I could write a thesis on the physiology of vision. But I had no way to look through the fabric of confabulation spun by a man with severe lung disease who was prescribed 'home oxygen', but gave a false address out of embarrassment because he had no 'home.'

Siddhartha Mukherjee

#13. I fell into that kiss like Alice into Wonderland, headfirst and flailing, heart pounding the whole time. The world spun around me and still I fell, and I only crashed down to earth again when someone called my name.

Rachel Vincent

#14. You were the centre of my universe. Everything else spun around you.

Rainbow Rowell

#15. At the far end of this infinite distance a coin is being spun which will come down heads or tails. How will you wager? Reason cannot make you choose either, reason cannot prove either wrong.

Blaise Pascal

#16. I cried and bit my fingers and drank wine I snuck from the Clairmont pantry. I spun violently into the sky, raging and banging stars from their moorings, swirling and vomiting. I

E. Lockhart

#17. Jumped and spun around. Man, my nightmares were making me jumpy. I hit the off button. It's time for school. Ugh. School was so my

Jessica Sorensen

#18. I don't keep things safe. I used to. Perhaps. I can't keep all the plates spinning. I drop some." ... "Well, that is always the risk, if you're a plate, isn't it? If you want to be spun, then you must accept the possibility of being broken.

Paul Cornell

#19. He snorted and hit me in the solar plexus. I bent over and took hold of the room with both hands and spun it. When I had it nicely spinning I gave it a full swing and hit myself on the back of the head with the floor.

Raymond Chandler

#20. There was movement on its broad shoulders, and Puck appeared, clinging to its back, a huge grin splitting his face. "All right," he announced grandly, as the troll jerked and spun around, trying in vain to reach him, "I claim this land for Spain." And

Julie Kagawa

#21. (Those women whom the distaff
no longer claims
nor spun cloth)
driven made,
mad,
mad
by Bacchus.

Hilda Doolittle

#22. Thus have the gods spun the thread for wretched mortals: that they live in grief while they themselves are without cares; for two jars stand on the floor of Zeus of the gifts which he gives, one of evils and another of blessings.

Homer

#23. Egwene didn't notice someone new entering the tent. Rand did, however, and he spun as the flaps parted and let in light. He frowned at the interloper.
His frown died as soon as he saw the person who entered.
Moiraine.

Robert Jordan

#24. Love is all about sacrifices - big and small ones. It's only when you know how much you could give up for somebody that you know what true love really is." The whirring fan spun above them,

Karen White

#25. A man must be able to affirm, I know for certain, that what I teach is the only Word of the high Majesty of God in heaven, his final conclusion and everlasting, unchangeable truth, and whatsoever concurs and agrees not with this doctrine, is altogether false, and spun by the devil.

Martin Luther

#26. Like immense time-binding discussions, genres allow ideas to be developed and traded, and for variations to be spun down through decades.

Gregory Benford

#27. The moth batted its wings angrily at him as it twisted and spun gracelessly in the green blades. For
Consort's sake, throw us a lifeline and stop lettin' death take me hand!

C. Kennedy

#28. Deception was an inherent trait of intelligent beings. Even his love, in her ample ardor, would weave him a guilty lie for his own good. And he treasured her just as well for those tales he was sure she'd already spun.

Darrell Drake

#29. Springing into the air, I spun and delivered a nasty I-hope-someone-sees-this spin kick.

Jennifer L. Armentrout

#30. was several yards away, Kate spun on her heel, lifting the gun upwards. She took a step back to lead him into the lamp glow that shone bright in a nearby window. If he would attack

Erica Monroe

#31. At that point, when she'd been staring down the account-whoring, turbo-bitch's face, she wouldn't have much cared if her head spun around and she'd yarked up pea soup at warp speed all over her. At least it would have matched Linda's new color ranking.

Dakota Cassidy

#32. History does not repeat itself. Nor does it unfold in cycles. The real future is contingent, rich beyond imagining, a perennial gobsmack, tragic and glorious in equal measure; the pundits' future, spun of 'conventional wisdom,' is only a sucker punch to that common-sense fact.

Rick Perlstein

#33. Consciousness amplifies the weak signals that, like cobwebs spun between trees, web Narratives together. Moreover, it amplifies them selectively and in that way creates feedback loops that steer the Narratives.

Neal Stephenson

#34. He pressed a kiss on her shoulder, enjoying the way she shivered. "What is it?"
There was a long pause, then a wobbly breath. "Why can't I resist you?"
"Because you don't want to."
Before she could reply, he spun her around and kissed her again.

Elle Kennedy

#35. My mind spun like the flywheel on an antique John Deere, merry-go-round during second-grade recess, hard spun roulette wheel.

Dennis Vickers

#36. Nothing makes sense anymore."
I start sweating.
"Everything spun out of control.

Jason Myers

#37. I have a movie coming out called Spun, which will be at the Toronto Film Fest.

Eric Roberts

#38. But history has been adapted here, re-spun to tell Jan's tale: the story of a boy caught up in a world of change and opportunity, trickery and wonder. A story inspired by a city and its legends.

Joanne Owen

#39. I think Canadians are tired of politicians that are spun and scripted within an inch of their life, people who are too afraid of what a focus group might say about one comment or a political opponent might try to twist out of context, to actually say much of anything at all.

Justin Trudeau

#40. The gossamer web of life, spun on the loom of sunlight from the breath of an infant Earth, is nature's crowning achievement on this planet.

Preston Cloud

#41. Poetry comes fine spun from a mind at peace.

Ovid

#42. He questioned with jealousy as he spun her around the

Melody Anne

#43. His view of the sky spun first left then right, as though the world were trying on strange new angles for his approval.

Scott Lynch

#44. Because people aren't interested in the truth, Dafar. They're interested in what keeps them safe. They're interested in being looked after. They're interested in a tale being spun.

Melina Marchetta

#45. Tai'shar Manetheren," he said softly. Nynaeve's mouth fell open, then curled into a tremulous smile. Sudden tears glistened in her eyes as she spun to face him, her face joyous. He smiled back at her, and there was nothing cold in his eyes. Elayne

Robert Jordan

#46. Hearsay cannot stand as valid testimony, and assumption spun from hearsay is a rope of sand.

Theodore Roscoe

#47. At playtime she twirled and spun across the playground so fast that none of the little boys in her class could catch her and they were all very cross.

Katharine Holabird

#48. The webs spun by our existence had gracefully overlapped and knotted until you could not have one without the other. We were infinitely intertwined.

Blakney Francis

#49. The web of influence which News Corporation spun in Britain, which effectively bent politicians, police and many others in public life to its will, amounted to a shadow state.

Thomas Watson Jr.

#50. Without you I wouldn't have been able to contain the hate. I would have used it against myself. You're the one who helped me control it. My mind spun out to other things. But it always came back to you.

David Levithan

#51. While he slept the world spun on, changed, situations altered and grew more complex, left him more inadequate to deal with them.

William Gay

#52. You were the centre of my universe and everything else spun around you.

Rainbow Rowell

#53. If journalism is the first draft of history, then talk radio provides an early glimpse into how the meaning of political events will be spun for ideological and partisan purposes.

Jackson Katz

#54. It was like a bird of rarest-spun heaven metal or like silvery wine flowing in a spaceship, gravity all nonsense now.

Anthony Burgess

#55. It spun end over end in a lazy arc. She caught it thoughtlessly, easily, ready to fight.

B.R. Sanders

#56. The general's daughter? We'd be fools not to. You talk about her as if she's made of spun glass. Know what I see? Steel.

Marie Rutkoski

#57. No" Daniel cried " No, no, no"
Luce's heart ached as he tore at his hair, spun in circle and let his wings bloom out to their full size.

Lauren Kate

#58. And the shower of roses spun around me, inviting me to take part in their ever-present waltz.

Gina Marinello-Sweeney

#59. Our moon was born too small to harbor life. It came from the collision of a Mars-sized world into the primordial Earth. From that colossal crunch spun a disk of rocks that condensed into a satellite.

Gregory Benford

#60. A well-spun tale can transport listeners away from their humdrum lives and return them with an enlarged sense of the world. (Peter Nimble)

Jonathan Auxier

#61. He could have anything in there," Gentry said, pausing to look down at the unconscious face. He spun on his heel and began his pacing again. "A world. Worlds. Any number of personality-constructs ...

William Gibson

#62. The heart is like an instrument whose strings Steal nobler music from Life's many frets: The golden threads are spun thro' Suffering's fire, Wherewith the marriage-robes for heaven are woven: And all the rarest hues of human life Take radiance, and are rainbow'd out in tears.

Gerald Massey

#63. For ages that stagger the imagination this earth spun hot and lifeless, and again for ages of equal vastness it held no life above the level of the animalculae in a drop of ditch-water. Not only is Space from the point of view of life and humanity empty, but Time is empty also.

H.G.Wells

#64. His first two months at Brakebills spun by, and soon red and gold leaves were scattering across the Sea, as if they were being pushed by invisible brooms - which possibly they were? - and the flanks of the slow-moving topiary beasts in the Maze showed streaks of color. Quentin

Lev Grossman

#65. You can see them every day - you can think you know them - and then you find out you hardly know them at all. I feel exhilarated, kind of like I'm being spun around a whirlpool, circling closer and closer around the same people and the same events but seeing things from different angles.

Lauren Oliver

#66. I'm behind you." I spun to see Derek. "I can't win," he said. "You're as skittish as a kitten.

Kelley Armstrong

#67. And quickly my mom put her arm around my shoulders and spun me back toward the car, walking quickly, and I was like, "Mom, what's wrong?" And she said, "We can't eavesdrop, Hazel.

John Green

#68. That which will not be spun, let it not come betweene the spindle and the distaffe.

George Herbert

#69. My heart had stopped as my world spun around me. I felt all the walls that had begun to crack and crumble slam right back into place as I looked into the eyes of the monster I knew was there all along.

Alicia Deters

#70. Below me, in spreading, concentric circles, like those a fish makes when it rises in still water, spun round the lower tiers; above me arched the black sky pierced by the gas jets of the stars.

Angela Carter

#71. There were parts of her spun from floss and held together with hope - and those bits were fragile indeed.

Tessa Dare

#72. Right now, though, the world spun on Kelly's cock. The sun rose and set around it, and I wanted it like I'd never known I could want anything.

Cara McKenna

#73. I spun violently into the sky, raging and banging stars from their moorings, swirling and vomiting.

E. Lockhart

#74. Brigan spun around to face the man, swearing with as much as exasperation and fury as Fire had ever heard anyone swear. The man scuttled away in alarm.

Kristin Cashore

#75. The spirits rose like an ether that spun an arabesque and touched down as gently as a benevolent mask.

Patti Smith

#76. A poem is a spider web
Spun with words of wonder,
Woven lace held in place
By whispers made of thunder.

Charles Ghigna

#77. Philomena spun a tale about a butterfly that turned back into a caterpillar - saying that the butterfly would rather live in the cocoon for years than fly under the sun for only a few short days.
"Butterflies don't last," said Philomena solemnly.

Anya Allyn

#78. How a city when spun
Away from the Sun
Reminds me of the Universe

Francis O'Neill

#79. Ancients pulled metals more precious than gold from the center of the earth - They spun into giant lacy wings that flew them to the stars and back
"Is that what you'd do with wings?"
She shook her head "No, I'd fly to the stars, but I'd never come back

Mary E. Pearson

#80. Sister Amelia spun, a whirling dervish in the service of the All-Mother, removing unnatural creatures from the lake.

Milton J. Davis

#81. It sometimes takes a while for executives to figure out that the reporters they think of as little bugs to be squashed or spun can be more powerful than they are.

Jonathan Alter

#82. She had been like a roller coaster aficionado for whom tame county fair roller coasters were as good as the ones that spun you upside down and dropped you so fast your eyes turned red. It was all just a ride.

Peter Straub

#83. Upon this gifted age, in its dark hour,
Rains from the sky a meteoric shower
Of facts ... they lie unquestioned, uncombined
Wisdom enough to leech us of our ill
Is daily spun, but there exists no loom
To weave it into fabric.

Edna St. Vincent Millay

#84. In heaven I will find you.
Among the pigeons and scraped bodies. The sky's spinning round and
round. Vultured color. Darkness throbbing. Like a child spun round
and round. It does not stop.

Rauan Klassnik

#85. But I thought about all the things that had to have spun into place in order for us to be alive and for us to be right there, right then. I thought about the few thing we thought we knew and the billions of things we couldn't know, all spinning, whirling our there somewhere.

Sharon Creech

#86. speckled spiders, indolent and fat with long security, swing idly to and fro in the vibration of the bells, and never loose their hold upon their thread-spun castles in the air,

Charles Dickens

#87. OH NO YOU DON'T, LADDIE!
Harry spun around. Professor Moody was limping down the marble staircase. His wand was out and it was pointing right at a pure white ferret, which was shivering on the stone-flagged floor, exactly where Malfoy had been standing.

J.K. Rowling

#88. Raj leaned over from the driver's seat to give her a quick, hard kiss. 'Don't think so hard sweetheart. I'm not dangerous.' He spun the wheel in a tight circle, taking them past the startled valets and out of the parking lot. 'Not to you anyway,' he muttered.

D.B. Reynolds

#89. It now seemed to me that all my other guesses had been only self-pleasing dreams spun out of my wishes, but now I was awake.

C.S. Lewis

#90. Once spun,
The silken thread of all our aspirations
Remains intact,
It can never be broken.

Scott Hastie

#91. Rock spun his captive around and nearly shit his own heart.

Julie Ann Walker

#92. And you have fixed my life - however short. You did not light me: I was always a mad comet; but you have fixed me. I spun round you a satellite for a month, but I shall swing out soon, a dark star in the orbit where you will blaze.

Wilfred Owen

#93. Like a small stone deflected off a larger one, my brother had spun off toward the Almighty, though to my mind the events of that morning could just as well have cast him the other way.

Mark Slouka

#94. And, together, the two soft forms, overlapping yet distinct, were like misty wings of silence, exquisitely-spun and spread full, surrounding our Lord in graceful symphony.

Gina Marinello-Sweeney

#95. The more my world spun, the more appealing he became. Don't get me wrong, I still hated him with a passion. His arrogance made me want to scream, but his ability to free me - if only temporarily - from my problems left me high. He was my drug.

Kody Keplinger

#96. Pfft." Dad turned to her. "What do you know about picking
husbands? Last time you tried that, you got stuck with me."
She smiled and hit his arm.
"You two are so gross, you ruin everything." I spun and headed
toward the door.

Kiera Cass

#97. Love ... was part imagination, its web spun as much in the dark lonely separated evenings of longing as in the shared times together.

Niall Williams

#98. At daybreak Morn shall come to meIn raiment of the white winds spun.

Madison Cawein

#99. The senior thesis of Hillary D. Rodham, Wellesley College class of 1969, has been speculated about, spun, analyzed, debated, criticized and defended. But rarely has it been read, because for the eight years of Bill Clinton's presidency it was locked away.

Bill Dedman

#100. And of what account was anybody's past, in the huge kaleidoscope where all the social atoms spun around on the same plane?

Edith Wharton