Quotes About Spin

You've never seen anyone shoot it like me. It comes off the left side. I don't know. I don't know. It still spins the right way.

Spin doctors in every era have known that perception is infinitely more potent than mere fact.

In post-Vietnam, post-Watergate America, skeptical voters demand full disclosure of everything from candidates' finances to their medical records, and spin-savvy accounts of backstage machinations dominate political coverage.

One more spin around the sun... Ain't nuthin' changed. Still got trouble on my mind. Still got suckas that need to get dealt with... Still in mortal combat with the wicked....

I realized that the ball is turning more in leg-spin, which would make things difficult for the batsmen, so this made me enjoy bowling leg-spin more.

You could go out on a Sunday spin in Carrick-on-Suir, and it's a small town, but you could have 80 riders. That wouldn't even be everyone, in the group. It's just such a good environment to bring guys through, the support and the experience.

Time is so strange, and life is twice as strange. The cogs miss, the wheels turn, and lives interlace too early or too late. I lived too long, that much is certain. And you were born either too early or too late. It was a terrible bit of timing. But perhaps I am being punished for being a silly girl. Anyway, the next spin around, wheels might function right again.

Gardening is the handiest excuse for being a philosopher. Nobody guesses, nobody accuses, nobody knows, but there you are, Plato in the peonies, Socrates force-growing his own hem-lock. A man toting a sack of blood manure across his lawn is kin to Atlas letting the world spin easy on his shoulder.

It was only the first stage, that was all. It was only the first knot in the snare, the first flick of the hook; the first hint of the spin in the arrow. The first letting of blood not his own.

The party blundered helplessly across the sky like a man leaning against an unexpectedly open door. It spun and wobbled on its hover jets. It tried to right itself and wronged itself instead.

This was my number 17 on the roulette wheel.

And when it eats—what a wild mess—when it gathers a tangle of bloodworms into its mouth, you will understand how a galaxy first learns to spin in the dark, and how it begins to grow and grow.

The pink ball is a bit different. I don't think it moves as much through the air.

Men have the illusion of having a duty to make the world spin properly, which is precisely what makes it wobble.

I wish the dryer were running, because man, I could use a good...tumble dry."-Eve Rosser

Nature was not satisfied by a simple point charge but required a charge with spin.

It is part of politics to make things look better than they really are. What is a spin doctor but a serial euphemiser?

Spin is overrated. It is strategy, not spin, that wins elections.

Such was the mistrust of the official line, so heavy was the spin, that with any new piece of information you learned to do a kind of mental arithmetic whereby you divided the information given by the speaker's rank, multiplied by his or her time in-country, and subtracted based on the number of miles the speaker was distant from the fighting. From The Big Suck: Notes from the Jarhead Underground

Against spin, my god, he is really a murderer

The government could take away all the drugs in the world and people would spin around on their lawns until they fell down and saw God.

Politics is the art of saying well that which may or may not be true.

If you take an Oriental person and spin him around several times, does he become disoriented?

The political spin in Washington is revolting, just revolting. It's a callous political game.