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Quotes About Spinning

I know that spinning sets me in a trance; it soothes me and charges my batteries at the same time. When times are tough I sit down to spin during the news-broadcasts, with therapeutic results.
~ Elizabeth Zimmermann
Abruptness is an eloquence in parting, when spinning out the time is but the weaving of new sorrow.
~ John Suckling
The world is still spinning and so are we and so are you. When the spinning stops - that'll be the time to worry. Not before.
~ John Lennon
Could we go into your room? she asked. I knew it. I knew it, he said, spinning around and sliding quickly toward his door. It's finally happend, just like in dreams. An intelligent, beautiful woman is going to declare her undying affection
~ Arthur C. Clarke
Greek loom weight showing an owl spinning wool. The
~ Elizabeth Wayland Barber
It runs and spins and wags its little tail like a metronome that has lost its mind.
~ Ellis Weiner
I was introduced to spinning. It was so intense! It's the hardest workout you've ever done, and afterwards you feel amazing.
~ Scott Michael Foster
It is as though they stood in a spinning world.
~ Arthur Miller
I don't want to start thinking again. Not like I have this last week. I can't think again. Not ever again. I don't know if you've ever felt like that. That you wanted to sleep for a thousand years. Or just not exist. Or just not be aware that you do exist. Or something like that. I think wanting that is very morbid, but I want it when I get like this. That's why I'm trying not to think. I just want it all to stop spinning.
~ Stephen Chbosky
I see all this talent, all this... this energy and brightness and... potential. Yes. Potential. And I cannot for the life of me see how you can be content to live this tiny life. This life that will take place almost entirely within a five mile radius and contain nobody who will ever surprise you or push you or show you things that will leave your head spinning and unable to sleep at night.
~ Jojo Moyes
The key to excellent report writing' he said between chews, 'is to take every bit of passion out of it. Use an extra heaping portion of superflously extraneous tautological redundancies in order to make it mind-numbingly boring. So that when one's superior officers read it, they zone out and start skimming and maybe don't notice the fact that one has been spinning one's wheels since the body turned up and hasn't solved a goddamn thing.
~ Jonathan Kellerman
I didn't tell him that it was all stored as binary information on rapidly spinning shiny discs, partly because I'd have to look up the details myself, but mostly because by the time he'd understood the technology it would have been replaced by something else.
~ Ben Aaronovitch
Round and round and round we go and where we stop nobody knows.
~ Ben Aaronovitch
Your love is like a tidal wave, spinning over my head Drownin' me in your promises, better left unsaid
~ benatar pat ii
darkness turned to noon. Even with the nose cone of the Learjet pointed away from the blast, the flash blinded everyone inside. Diaz lost control of the aircraft. It pitched over into a screaming, spinning dive, hurtling earthward at over five hundred miles per hour. In the cabin, people slammed into each other in the terror of flashblindness. General Steyn screamed in pain. Hauer half-fell past Burton into the cockpit. "Straighten up!" he screamed.
~ Greg Iles
Peace is not a state - it is a choice, and you have to remake it every day. It's possible to get a sort of stability, a habit of peace, but it's like an egg balanced, spinning, on its point: lose your momentum, and your equilibrium is gone, too.
~ Nick Harkaway
Everyone knows what a time machine looks like: something like a steampunk sled with a red velvet chair, flashing lights, and a giant spinning wheel on the back. For those of a younger generation, a souped-up stainless-steel sports car is an acceptable substitute; our British readers might think of a 1950s-style London police box.76 Details of operation vary from model to model,
~ Sean Carroll
And She dances and spins toward darkness all dressed in autumn fire To descend to the time of shadow, and rest from the world's desire…
~ Shekhinah Mountainwater
The world of time, of space and condition, pleasure and pain, birth, growth, maturation, decay and death, spinning, spinning, spinning this world, always spinning.
~ Frederick Lenz
I know that your soul is on life support and that you feel lost and like you're completely spinning out of control, but you're finding yourself — here, tonight… even in this darkness.
~ Jennifer Elisabeth
The tree house started to spin. It spun faster and faster. Then everything was still. Absolutely still. (Magic Tree House Series)
~ Mary Pope Osborne
Normand. I can't stop thinking about Bradie and the danger he's in I say. Why? he asks matter of factly. He'll be back. The skeleton key starts spinning You said he'd be different! I say. He's been taken by agents. Of course that will alter him, he says. He'll be broken, I realize out loud. Broken things can often be fixed, Normand says. His words catch me off guard. I'm pretty sure he has no idea that hes said exactly the right thing. The skeleton key stops spinning and the gat pops open.
~ Steven Bereznai
And maybe when you are going for a walk and your head is spinning a cat will show up and if you pay attention to it then you will get a reminder for just fifteen seconds that the wonder of Being might make up for the ineradicable suffering that accompanies it. Pet a cat when you encounter one on the street.
~ Jordan B. Peterson
My darter ha' ate five, five pies to-day. My darter ha' ate five, five pies to-day." The king was coming down the street, and he heard her sing, but what she sang he couldn't hear, so he stopped and said: "What was that you were singing, my good woman?" The woman was ashamed to let him hear what her daughter had been doing, so she sang, instead of that: "My darter ha' spun five, five skeins to-day.
~ Joseph Jacobs