Spun Quotes

• Believing, with Max Weber, that man is an animal suspended in webs of significance he himself has spun, I take culture to be those webs, and the analysis of it to be therefore not an experimental science in search of law but an interpretive one in search of meaning.

  Clifford Geertz

  Believe, Hero, Animal

  Clifford Geertz (1973). “The Interpretation of Cultures: Selected Essays”, p.5, Basic Books

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• Man is an animal suspended in webs of significance he himself has spun.

  Clifford Geertz

  Men, Animal, Significance

  Clifford Geertz (1973). “The Interpretation of Cultures: Selected Essays”, p.5, Basic Books

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

  Anthony Burgess

  Wine, Orange, Bird

  Stanley Kubrick, Anthony Burgess (1972). “A clockwork orange”, HarperCollins Publishers

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

  Charles Ghigna

  Woven, Spiders, Lace

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• The two-piece ball I switched to spun too much. One shot would go the distance I thought it should, then the next one would fall short, and then the next one would go long.

  Payne Stewart

  Long Distance Relationship, Sports, Fall

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• The most exquisite folly is made of wisdom spun too fine.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Wise, Wisdom, Made

  Benjamin Franklin (1998). “Benjamin Franklin Wit and Wisdom”, p.24, Peter Pauper Press, Inc.

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

  Eric Roberts

  Toronto, Film, Coming Out

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• In '75, the year both A Chorus Line and Chicago hit Broadway, my head spun around and I became the ultimate theater queen for life.

  Michael Musto

  Queens, Years, Chicago

  Broadway World Interview, www.broadwayworld.com. July 25, 2003.

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• My blood rose, mixing with my lingering fear of the unknown to drive her to a fever pitch. Her lips touched my lower neck and vertigo spun the room, burning tracings of desire to settle deep and low in me. I exhaled into the promise of more to come, calling it to me. I breathed it in like smoke, the rising passion starting a feeling of abandonment inside. I didn’t care anymore if it was right or wrong. It just was.

  Kim Harrison

  Passion, Blood, Rose

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• Bass! How low can you go?
  Death row...what a brother know.
  Once again, back is the incredible,
  The rhyme animal, the uncannable "D!"
  Public Enemy Number One.
  Five-O said, "Freeze!" and I got numb.
  Can I tell 'em that I really never had a gun?
  But it's the wax that the Terminator X spun.

  Chuck D

  Brother, Rap, Animal

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

  George Herbert

  George Herbert (1874). “The Complete Works of George Herbert: Prose”, p.348

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• 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

  Heart, Kissing, Names

  Rachel Vincent (2011). “If I Die”, p.206, Harlequin

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• Karrin Murphy led the charge, and Sanya and I tried to keep up. She went through that sea of foes like a little speedboat, her enemies spun and tossed and turned and disoriented in her wake. Sanya and I hacked our way through stunned foes, pushing and chopping with unsophisticated brutality-and that big Russian lunatic just kept laughing the whole time.

  Jim Butcher

  Sea, Laughing, Enemy

  Jim Butcher (2010). “Changes: A Novel of the Dresden Files”, p.324, Penguin

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• There is a kind of silver spiderweb that's spun around the world, and the strands of that web are certain loves and certain understandings. And if we follow those, and if we walk those strands, we're going to meet others at the intersections who have been walking the same way across this web. And when we meet, there's a kind of "I know who you are."

  Richard Bach

  Understanding, World, Way

  Interview with Michael Peter Langevin, www.inner-growth.info.

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

  Ellen Glasgow

  Redemption, Ethics, Economy

  Ellen Anderson Gholson Glasgow (1938). “Works”

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• 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

  Powerful, Thinking, Littles

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• The public discourse on global warming has little in common with the standards of scientific discourse. Rather, it is part of political discourse where comments are made to secure the political base and frighten the opposition rather than to illuminate issues. In political discourse, information is to be 'spun' to reinforce pre-existing beliefs, and to discourage opposition.

  Richard Lindzen

  Issues, Political, Littles

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• 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

  Grief, Blessing, Two

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• 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

  Nature, Web Of Life, Achievement

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• a novel is not born of a single idea. The stories I've tried to write from one idea, no matter how terrific an idea, have sputtered out and died by chapter three. For me, novels have invariably come from a complex of ideas that in the beginning seemed to bear no relation to each other, but in the unconscious began mysteriously to merge and grow. Ideas for a novel are like the strong guy lines of a spider web. Without them the silken web cannot be spun.

  Katherine Paterson

  Strong, Writing, Ideas

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• Upon this gifted age, in its dark hour falls 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

  Educational, Lying, Fall

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• Coming to the Bible through commentaries is much like looking at a landscape through garret windows, over which generations of unmolested spiders have spun their webs.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Bible, Biblical, Spiders

  Henry Ward Beecher (1858). “Life Thoughts”, p.8

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• A good simulation, be it a religious myth or scientific theory, gives us a sense of mastery over experience. To represent something symbolically, as we do when we speak or write, is somehow to capture it, thus making it one's own. But with this appropriation comes the realization that we have denied the immediacy of reality and that in creating a substitute we have but spun another thread in the web of our grand illusion.

  Heinz Pagels

  Religious, Writing, Science

  1988 The Dreams of Reason.

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• Man cannot call the brimming instant back;
  Time's an affair of instants spun to days;
  If man must make an instant gold, or black,
  Let him, he may; but Time must go his ways.
  Life may be duller for an instant's blaze.
  Life's an affair of instants spun to years,
  Instants are only cause of all these tears.

  John Masefield

  Life, Men, Years

  John Masefield (1978). “Selected poems”, Not Avail

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• When was the last time someone read aloud to you? Probably when you were a child, and if you think back, you'll remember how safe you felt, tucked under the covers, or curled in someone's arms, as a story was spun around you like a web.

  Jodi Picoult

  Children, Thinking, Stories

  Jodi Picoult (2013). “The Storyteller”, p.428, Simon and Schuster

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