Spinning Quotes
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"This is the start, the beginning The prologue to the yarn that you're spinning A million synonyms will never get close to describe the feeling"
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I claim that in losing the spinning wheel we lost our left lung. We are, therefore, suffering from galloping consumption. The restoration of the wheel arrests the progress of the disease.
Mahatma Gandhi— Young India, 1927
Naked girls with the heads of Marx and Malraux prone and helpless in the glare of the headlights, tried to give them a little joie de vivre but maybe it didn’t take, their constant bickering and smallness, it’s like a stroke of lightning, the world reminds you of its power, tracheotomies right and left, I am spinning, my pretty child, don’t scratch, pick up your feet, the long nights, spent most of my time listening, this is a test of the system, this is only a test.
Donald Barthelme— “Aria”, conclusion
We are spinning our own fates , good or evil , and never to be undone. Every smallest stroke of virtue or of vice leaves its never so little scar. ... Nothing we ever do is, in strict scientific literalness, wiped out.
william james— Ch. 4 (The Principles of Psychology (1890))
Fluent in all the languages dead or living, the sun comes up with a word of worlds all spinning in a world of words.
— 1979 An Incorrigible Music,'A Balanced Bait in Handy Pellet Form'.
Shame of the versifying tribe! Your history whither are you spinning? Can you do nothing but describe?
thomas gray— 1750 A Long Story, l.17-20.
When we had given our bodies to the wind, And all the shadowy banks on either side Came sweeping through the darkness, spinning still The rapid line of motion, then at once Have I, reclining back upon my heels, Stopped short; yet still the solitary cliffs Wheeled by meeven as if the earth had rolled With visible motion her diurnal round!
william wordsworth— 1799 'Influence of Natural Objects', l.53-60 (published in The Friend 28 Dec1809).
While Jesus is saving, I'm spending all my daysin backgrounds and landscapes with the languages of saints.While people are spinning like toys on Christmas day,I'm inside a still life with the other absentee.
st. vincent— "Jesus Saves, I Spend" - (YouTube video - YouTube video)
The most sensible people to be met with in society are men of business and of the world, who argue from what they see and know, instead of spinning cobweb distinctions of what things ought to be.
william hazlitt— "On the Ignorance of the Learned"
It's a purging of sorts. Like, when you're all done doing your laundry and it's fresh and bright, but washing the clothes, you wouldn't want to get in while it's spinning around.
maynard james keenan— On why his band Tool is like a washing machine — reported in Jim Sullivan (July 4, 1997) "Lollapalooza Still Packs A Wallop", Boston Globe, p. D1.
It is only comparatively primitive machinery that affords a stimulus, and there is already a faint period touch about Pacific 231 and Le Pas d'Acier. One feels…that Prokofieff should have written ballets about the spinning jenny and the Luddite riots; that Honegger should have been there to celebrate the opening of the Stockton and Darlington Railway and the death of Huskisson with a "Symphonie Triomphale et Funèbre".
Constant Lambert— "Mechanical Romanticism", pp. 209-10.
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— Dreidel
They're feeding the people a line of bull, and they are spinning and people are dying.
ray nagin— Interview with New Orleans radio station WWL, September 1, 2005[1]
[Operation] Rockingham was spinning reports and emphasizing reports that showed non-compliance (by Iraq with UN inspections) and quashing those which showed compliance. It was cherry-picking intelligence.
scott ritter— Sunday Herald, 8 June 2003
I hang by a thread, but it is (if I may so speak) of Christ's spinning
samuel rutherford— Letter 56 to Lady Kenmure
[I]f one day I look out from my cabin's porch and see a row of windmills spinning in the distance, I won't curse them. I will praise them. It will mean we are finally getting somewhere.
david suzuki— ibid.
I saw them in the grocery store [...] sitting benignly in their spinning racks, their technicolor faces looked like a not very girl-friendly amalgam of muscles, testosterone and pulpy, bloody flesh.
amber benson— Introduction
All work, even cotton spinning, is noble; work is alone noble ... A life of ease is not for any man, nor for any god.
thomas carlyle— Bk. III, ch. 4.
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— "Pearls Are a Nuisance" (short story, 1939)
All my life's a circle; But I can't tell you why; Season's spinning round again; The years keep rollin' by.
harry chapin— Circle
Whenever you're called on to make up your mind, and you're hampered by not having any, the best way to solve the dilemma, you'll find, is simply by spinning a penny. No not so that chance shall decide the affair while you're passively standing there moping; but the moment the penny is up in the air, you suddenly know what you're hoping
piet hein— A Psychological Tip
Constantly regard the universe as one living being, having one substance and one soul; and observe how all things have reference to one perception, the perception of this one living being; and how all things act with one movement; and how all things are the cooperating causes of all things which exist; observe too the continuous spinning of the thread and the contexture of the web.
marcus aurelius— IV, 40. (Book IV)
I watched the spinning stars, grateful, sad and proud, as only a man who has outlived his destiny and realizes he might yet forge himself another, can be.
roger zelazny— Isle of the Dead (1969)
The trick in chasing destiny is to feel it as a rider, a rider on a spinning ball waiting for a rare chance in time. Those few moments of balance between darkness and light where the infinite is in motion and the motion is felt as a dance, as a solution that dissolves the question.
— Steve Cash "The Meq" (2005), p. 112.
All my life 's a circle; But I can't tell you why; Season's spinning round again; The years keep rollin' by.
— Harry Chapin in "Circle" on Sniper and Other Love Songs (1972).
Asked if in her youth she had learned any craft, she said yes, to sew and spin: and in sewing and spinning, she feared no woman in Rouen.
— Joan of Arc, Court record, (1429). Quoted in Wilfred Phillips Barrett, Thomas de Courcelles, Guillaume Manchon, Pierre Cauchon, Pierre Champion. The Trial of Jeanne D'Arc, Page 43, Gotham House. (1932)
However strange it seems, the Republican Party really is spinning off into a bizarro-cult who believe Barack Obama is a baby-killer plotting to build death panels for the grannies of America.
— Johann Hari, "The Republican Party Is Turning Into A Cult", The Huffington Post (18 August 2009)
I hang by a thread, but it is (if I may so speak) of Christ's spinning
— Letter 56 to Lady Kenmure
On the contrary, the invention of the cotton gin and mechanical spinning machines actually reinforced the archaic and brutal institutions of slavery in the Old South.
— Dr. Richard Barbrook, in Global Algorithm 1.5: Hypermedia Freedom, University of Westminster, London.
All work, even cotton spinning , is noble; work is alone noble.
— Thomas Carlyle, in CLEP Western Civilization II: The Best Test Preparation for the CLEP, Research & Education Association, 30 November 2005, p.33
