Spinning Quotes - Page 14

• I realized early on, maybe better than some of my competitors did, that a textile business can run only if you have scale. I decided to horizontally and vertically integrate, adding everything from spinning, dyeing, weaving, and stitching to processing and packing.

  Mian Muhammad Mansha

  Running, Textiles, Weaving

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• Many estates are spent in the getting, since women for tea forsake spinning and knitting, and men for punch forsake hewing and splitting.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Men, Knitting, Tea

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• When you're in a groove, you're not spinning your wheels; you're moving forward in a straight and narrow path without pauses or hitches.  You're unwavering, undeviating, and unparalleled in your purpose.  A groove is the best place in the world.  Because when you are in it, you have the freedom to explore, where everything you question leads you to new avenues and new routes.

  Twyla Tharp

  Moving, World, Path

  Twyla Tharp, Mark Reiter (2003). “The Creative Habit: Learn It and Use It for Life”, Simon and Schuster

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• I've never been a big fan of subtle art. I like art that gets deep into my head and starts my brain spinning with new ideas and inspiration and my whole body is full of energy.

  Jello Biafra

  Art, Inspiration, Ideas

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• A deeply felt novel . . . The Story of Forgetting offers us both solace and illumination. Stefan Merrill Block possesses a singular mix of imagination, compassion, and scientific understanding; he is equally gifted at spinning fantastic tales as he is at bringing genetic histories to vivid life.

  Sarah Shun-lien Bynum

  Block, Compassion, Illumination

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• The sensation of writing a book is the sensation of spinning, blinded by love and daring.

  Annie Dillard

  Book, Writing, Barrels

  Annie Dillard (2016). “The Abundance”, p.86, Canongate Books

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• Life is endless reality. There is reality after reality, spinning on endlessly into the cosmos, billions and billions of manifest universes. Underlying all of this is the unmanifest, the absolute reality.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Reality, Other Worlds

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• When the American people look at the political process play out, they hear all the spinning and all the doctrinaire language, and they still walk away with the belief that they're not being represented in Congress, that there's no trust in the executive branch.

  David Gregory

  Play, People, Political

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• The average daydream is about fourteen seconds long and we have about two thousand of them per day. In other words, we spend about half of our waking hours - one-third of our lives on earth - spinning fantasies.

  Jonathan Gottschall

  Average, Two, Long

  Jonathan Gottschall (2012). “The Storytelling Animal: How Stories Make Us Human”, p.11, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• The wheels are spinning in my head all the time.

  Justin Berfield

  Wheels

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I call it "pedal magic" and only those who ride know the utter ecstasy of bicycling. Pressing a pedal toward Earth gives flight to my fancy. Every rotation powers my traveling machine toward yet another date with destiny. The breeze clears my senses. The wind blows away my troubles. The sun shines upon my future. Spinning spokes create flashing metal upon an endless path-cycling feels like an infinite spiritual rush. It cleanses my mind. All my troubles fade into joy.

  Frosty Wooldridge

  Spiritual, Healing, Destiny

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• 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

  Science, Men, Machines

  Lord Byron (2013). “Don Juan”, p.32, Simon and Schuster

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• In the days when the spinning wheels hummed busily in the farmhouses--and even great ladies, clothed in silk and thread lace, had their toy spinning wheels of polished oak--there might be seen, in districts far away among the lanes, or deep in the bosom of the hills, certain palled undersized men who, by the side of the brawny country-folk, looked like the remnants of a disinherited race.

  George Eliot

  Country, Book, Men

  George Eliot (2005). “Four Novels of George Eliot”, p.1303, Wordsworth Editions

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• I don't dance, But here I am
  Spinning you around and around in circles
  It Ain't my style, but I don't care
  I'd do anything with you anywhere
  Yes, you got me in the palm of your hand
  Cause, I don't dance.

  Lee Brice

  Circles, Hands, Here I Am

  Song: I Don't Dance, 2014

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• 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

  Baby, Hurt, Sadness

  Daniel Woodrell (2012). “Winter's Bone”, p.25, Hachette UK

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

  John Suckling

  Sorrow, Weaving, Eloquence

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• I was working with these very long-chain ... extended-chain polymers, where you had a lot of benzene rings in them. ... Transforming a polymer solution from a liquid to a fiber requires a process called spinning. ... We spun it and it spun beautifully. It [Kevlar] was very strong and very stiff-unlike anything we had made before. I knew that I had made a discovery. I didn't shout "Eureka!" but I was very excited, as was the whole laboratory excited, and management was excited, because we were looking for something new. Something different. And this was it.

  Stephanie Kwolek

  Strong, Science, Discovery

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• At the age of five years to enter a spinning-cotton or other factory, and from that time forth to sit there daily, first ten, then twelve, and ultimately fourteen hours, performing the same mechanical labour, is to purchase dearly the satisfaction of drawing breath. But this is the fate of millions, and that of millions more is analogous to it.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Fate, Drawing, Years

  "The World as Will and Representation, Volume II (On the Vanity and Suffering of Life)". Book by Arthur Schopenhauer (1819), as translated by R. B. Haldane and J. Kemp in "The World as Will and Idea" (p. 389), 1886.

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• 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

  Horse, Doors, Sunny Afternoon

  GEORGE ELIOT (1860). “ADAM BEDE”, p.431

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• One sweet world Around this star is spinning One sweet world And in her breath I'm swimming And here we will rest in peace

  Dave Matthews

  Sweet, Rest In Peace, Stars

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• My head was spinning, I had never seen blood. Four years old, this don't feel like love.

  LL Cool J

  Reality, Blood, Years

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• I've reduced a lot of the stress in my life. I've gotten rid of a lot of things. The light was turned on and a lot of the cockroaches started spinning. I swept them out the door. And sometimes you just have to throw things out because they carry a certain energy.

  Wesley Snipes

  Stress, Light, Doors

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• 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

  Tree, Naked, Sitting

  Nikki Sixx (2008). “The Heroin Diaries: A Year in the Life of a Shattered Rock Star”, p.32, Simon and Schuster

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• I don’t know if you’ve ever felt like that. That you wanted to sleep for a thousand years. Or just not exist. Or just not be aware that you do exist. Or something like that. I think wanting that is very morbid, but I want it when I get like this. That’s why I’m trying not to think. I just want it all to stop spinning.

  Stephen Chbosky

  Sleep, Thinking, Years

  "The Perks of Being a Wallflower". Book by Stephen Chbosky, February 1, 1999.

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• A billion stars go spinning through the night, / glittering above your head, / But in you is the presence that will be / when all the stars are dead.

  Rainer Maria Rilke

  Stars, Night, Billions

  Rainer Maria Rilke, “Buddha In Glory”

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