Spinning Quotes - Page 5

I still hear the world spinning.

Kamila Shamsie

World, Stills

Kamila Shamsie (2011). “Kartography”, p.5, A&C Black

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For far more marvelous is the truth than any artists of the past imagined it. Why do the poets of the present not speak of it? What men are poets who can speak of Jupiter if he were a man, but if he is an immense spinning sphere of methane and ammonia must be silent?

Richard P. Feynman

Artist, Past, Men

Richard P. Feynman, Robert B. Leighton, Matthew Sands (2015). “The Feynman Lectures on Physics, Vol. I: The New Millennium Edition: Mainly Mechanics, Radiation, and Heat”, p.119, Basic Books

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Someone with a figure like Jennifer Aniston has a trainer, a cook spinning out some version of the latest diet, and probably a stop at the tanning salon.

Amanda Peet

Tanning, Figures, Salons

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My tides were fluctuating, too - back and forth, back and forth - sometimes so fast they seemed to be spinning. They call this 'rapid cycling.' It's a marvel that a person can appear to be standing still when the mood tides are sloshing back and forth, sometimes sweeping in both directions at once. They call that a 'mixed state.'

Jane Pauley

Cycling, Tides, Sometimes

Jane Pauley (2004). “Skywriting: A Life Out of the Blue”, p.4, Random House

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

Michael Moore

Class, Guy, Midwest

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Writing is incidental to my primary objective, which is spinning a good yarn. I view myself as a storyteller more than a writer. The story - and hence the extensive research that goes into each one of my books - is much more important than the words that I use to narrate it.

Ashwin Sanghi

Book, Writing, Views

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I think the way I feel when I look at Evan comes from her. In pictures taken the day she married my dad, she was reckless, laughing, spinning around in circles. She looked like her whole world was him. She looked a kind of happy I can't even imagine. I don't want that. I don't want to be like that. I don' want to feel the way she did because I know what happens when you do. You love with your whole heart, with everything, and you wake up one morning and kiss someone good-bye the way you always do except you mean it as good-bye forever.

Elizabeth Scott

Morning, Dad, Taken

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I don't think we have all the words in a single vocabulary to explain what we are or why we are. I don't think we have the range of emotion to fully feel what someone else is feeling. I don't think any of us can sit in judgment of another human being. We're incomplete creatures, barely scraping by. Is it possible--from the perspective of this quickly spinning Earth and our speedy journey from crib to coffin--to know the difference between right, wrong, good, and evil? I don't know if it's even useful to try.

Alexandra Fuller

Journey, Thinking, Vocabulary

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But how much better, in any case, to wonder than not to wonder, to dance with astonishment and go spinning in praise, than not to know enough to dance or praise at all; to be blessed with more imagination than you might know at the given moment what to do with than to be cursed with too little to give you -- and other people -- any trouble.

Eudora Welty

Blessed, People, Giving

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One small changed family doesn't calculate into a world that has been spinning for a billion years. But one small change makes the world spin differently in a billion ways for one family.

Mary E. Pearson

Small Changes, Years, World

Mary E. Pearson (2009). “The Adoration of Jenna Fox”, p.256, Macmillan

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But family life sometimes had a vortex, like weather. It could be like a tornado in a quiet zigzag: get close enough and you might see within it a spinning eighteen-wheeler and a woman.

Lorrie Moore

Weather, Vortex, Might

Lorrie Moore (2009). “A Gate at the Stairs”, p.146, Vintage

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The heart's in it then, spinning dreams, and torment is on the way. The heart makes dreams seem like ideas.

Daniel Woodrell

Dream, Heart, Ideas

Daniel Woodrell (2012). “Winter's Bone”, p.32, Hachette UK

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

Ally Carter

Dog, Spinning Around, Circles

Ally Carter (2007). “I'd Tell You I Love You, But Then I'd Have to Kill You”, Hyperion

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The planet's spinning a thousand miles an hour around this gigantic nuclear explosion while these people roll these machines with rubber tires over this hard surface that we've laid down over the planet so that we can easily move ourselves back and forth.

Joe Rogan

Moving, People, Nuclear

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For relaxation, I like to figure skate. Being on the ice and spinning and jumping, I feel very close to nature. In particular, I feel very close to Newton's laws of motion. On the ice, you can experience Newton's laws of motion in their purest, most elegant form.

Michio Kaku

Jumping, Ice, Law

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If we just sit and exist, and understand that, I think it will be helpful in a world that seems like a record that's going faster and faster, we're spinning off the edge of the universe.

Martin Scorsese

Thinking, Records, World

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

Mahatma Gandhi

Hands, Wheels, Dies

Mahatma Gandhi (1967). “The Mind of Mahatma Gandhi”, p.423, Rajpal & Sons

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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

Swings, Hands, Rooms

Raymond Chandler (2002). “The Simple Art of Murder”, p.155, Vintage Crime/Black Lizard

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A spinning coin, still balanced on its rim, may fall in either direction.

Annie Proulx

Fall, Coins, May

Annie Proulx (2008). “The Shipping News: A Novel”, p.11, Simon and Schuster

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It's true: Everyone needs a reason to stay alive -- someone who justifies your existence. Someone who loves you. Not beyond all reason. Just loves you. Even just shows an interest. Even someone who doesn't exist, or isn't yours. No, no! They don't even have to love you! They just have to be there to love! Target for your arrows. Magnetic Pole to drag on your compass needle and stop it spinning and tell you where you're heading and...Someone to soak up all the yearning. That's what I think.

Geraldine McCaughrean

Love You, Thinking, Arrows

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In the 18th century, James Hargreaves invented the Spinning Jenny, and Richard Arkwright pioneered the water-propelled spinning frame which led to the mass production of cotton. This was truly revolutionary. The cotton manufacturers created a whole new class of people - the urban proletariat. The structure of society itself would never be the same.

A. N. Wilson

Class, People, Water

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Why do cats sleep so much? Perhaps they've been trusted with some major cosmic task, an essential law of physics - such as: if there are less than five million cats sleeping at any one time the world will stop spinning.

Kate Atkinson

Sleep, Cat, Thinking

"Human Croquet: A Novel".

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Some dangers are so spectacular and so much beyond normal experience that the mind refuses to accept them as real, and watches the approach of doom without any sense of apprehension. The man who looks at the onrushing tidal wave, the descending avalanche, or the spinning funnel of the tornado, yet makes no attempt to flee, is not necessarily paralyzed with fright or resigned to an unavoidable fate. He may simply be unable to believe that the message of his eyes concerns him personally. It is all happening to somebody else.

Arthur C. Clarke

Fear, Real, Believe

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I've been lucky to work with people that I like most of the time. If I don't like them, I'll play head games with them to get their minds spinning.

Vince Vaughn

Games, Play, People

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Inside him, twenty years dissolved and mixed into one complex, swirling whole. Everything that had accumulated over the years-- all he had seen, all the words he has spoken, all the values he had held-- all of it coalesced into one solid, thick pillar in his heart, the core of which was spinning like a potter's wheel. Wordlessly, Tengo observed the scene, as if watching the destruction and rebirth of a planet.

Haruki Murakami

Heart, Years, Twenties

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