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Quotes About Rotation

Life was a wheel, its only job was to turn, and it always came back to where it started.
~ Stephen King
Wheels keep on turning and turning and turning And nothing's disturbing the way they go around.
~ Edie Brickell
In the rotation of crops there was a recognized season for wild oats; but they were not sown more than once.
~ Edith Wharton
Musical beds is the faculty sport around here.
~ Edward Albee
Foucault's pendulum would
~ Anthony Doerr
The wheeling of the night on its silent trunnions.
~ Anthony Doerr
It's a real leveller, you know, to do theatre at least once every two years.
~ Brenda Blethyn
Tell me, Wittgenstein's asked a friend, why do people always say, it was natural for man to assume that the sun went round the earth rather than that the earth was rotating? His friend replied, Well, obviously because it just looks as though the Sun is going round the Earth. Wittgenstein replied, Well, what would it have looked like if it had looked as though the Earth was rotating?
~ Ludwig Wittgenstein
A right-hand glove could be put on the left hand if it could be turned round in four-dimensional space.
~ Ludwig Wittgenstein
Cambio de perfumes constantemente. Si he llevado uno tres meses, me obligo a dejarlo aun cuando todavía me guste seguir llevándolo; así, siempre que lo huelo de nuevo recuerdo aquellos tres meses. Nunca vuelvo a usarlo; se convierte en parte de mi colección permanente de olores.
~ Andy Warhol
Yes, there is a science to the aroma of sleeping women (AND TO THINK OF THE GIRLFRIEND i WAS TEMPTED TO BREAK UP WITH BECAUSE SHE SLEPT TOO MUCH) i now know, they nurtured her there: they slept in packs dreamt in cycles nursed her in shifts and became her on rotation.
~ Saul Williams
Yes, there is a science to the aroma of sleeping women (and to think of the girlfriend I was tempted to break up with because she slept too much) i now know, they NURTURED here there: they slept in packs dreamt in cycles nursed her in shifts and became her ON ROTATION
~ Saul Williams
The pulsar is like a lighthouse beam spinning at high speed. Every time it comes around to face us we see a flash. Its rotation can be very accurately monitored by timing observations of its periodic pulses. Twenty years of observations have shown that the pulsing of the binary pulsar is slowing at exactly the rate predicted if the system is losing energy by radiating gravitational waves at the rate predicted by Einstein's theory.
~ John D. Barrow
Just understand, whatever flies, it doesn't matter when, but that lands back.
~ Ehsan Sehgal
Magistrates rule by an established rotation; kings reign for life.
~ Aristotle
Sabrina ran for seven years with a different director every week.
~ Melissa Joan Hart
I long ago ran out of bookshelf space and so, like a museum with its art, simply rotate my books from the boxes to the shelves and back again.
~ Michael Dirda
I'm a guy that, when there's something rolling out there, the predetermined rotations might go right in the garbage can.
~ Nick Nurse
All inconveniences will be removed as you propound them. Up to this point, only the first and most general reasons have been mentioned which render it not entirely improbable that the daily rotation belongs to the earth rather than to the rest of the universe.
~ Galileo Galilei
He went up to the globe and gave it a spin. It emitted a faint creak and moved about one inch, bringing into his purview a daddy long legs which had died on it in latitude 44.
~ Galsworthy John
The window in which it's acceptable to listen to Ella Fitzgerald's 1960 record 'Ella Wishes You a Swinging Christmas' is short, so I keep it in heavy rotation throughout the festive season.
~ Sally Rooney
The Wheel of Fortune rotates, fickle as the moon. Soon those who were down will move upwards. And vice versa, of course
~ Margaret Atwood
People come and go all the time; the world has always been in movement.
~ V. S. Naipaul
Of course. We go around and around in this world, and here we go again.
~ Anne Tyler