Quotes About Spinning

Final cause is cause based on purpose or design: a wheel is round because that shape makes transportation possible. Physical cause is mechanical: the earth is round because gravity pulls a spinning fluid into a spheroid. The distinction is not always so obvious. A drinking glass is round because that is the most comfortable shape to hold or drink from. A drinking glass is round because that is the shape naturally assumed by spun pottery or blown glass.

In 'The One Who Falls,' three women and three men, in everyday clothes, negotiate each other while moving, often in unison, on a giant spinning tile.

The restoration of spinning to its central place in India's peaceful campaign for deliverance from the imperial yoke gives her women a special status.

one must take into account the shocking fact that we live on a world that spins. After considering this truth, nothing should come as a surprise.

The only thing that had ever done me any good in my father's house was thinking: Novik, Naomi. Spinning Silver: A Novel (p. 196). Random House Publishing Group. Kindle Edition.

The universe isn't a spinning wheel. It is a cloud of bees flying and veering round. Thank goodness for that, for we were getting drunk on the spinning wheel.

Nature isn't still. Nature is spinning at a thousand miles an hour, just like the rest of us. It's winds and floods and rain and quakes. A huge part of human history is about us just trying to survive the speed of nature.

And now I was seeing that there was something really cool about that family. All of them. They were just...real. And who were we? There was something spinning wickedly out of control inside this house. It was like seeing inside the Baker's world had opened up windows into our own, and the view was not a pretty one. Where had all this stuff come from? And why hadn't I ever seen it before.

Clarimonde sitzt am Fenster und spinnt. Fäden, lange, dünne, unendlich feine Fäden. Sie macht ein Gewebe daraus, ich weiß nicht, was es werden soll. Und ich kann nicht begreifen, wie sie dies Netz machen kann, ohne immer wieder die zarten Fäden zu verwirren und zu zerreißen. Es sind wunderliche Muster in ihrer feinen Arbeit, Fabeltiere und merkwürdige Fratzen.

So suppose Azalea finds the sugar teeth after all," said Bramble, taking Azalea by the shoulders and spinning her. Azalea rolled her eyes but obliged, and let her feet turn beneath her. A lsight push, and Azalea spun to Delphinium. "She breaks them," said Delphinium, catching Azalea and pushing her to Hollyhock in a spin, a ball with skirts. "Snap!" said Hollyhock. Azalea flinched. Hollyhock fumbled to spin her to Bramble again. "And in a burst of fireworks, he emerges from the passage! Burst!

for everybody must now 'move in a circle', - to the prevalence of which rotatory motion, is perhaps to be attributed the giddiness and false steps of many.

It's not magic! It's physics. The speed of the turn is what keeps you upright. It's like a spinning top.

Love makes the world go round, but sometimes you spin so much you end up dizzy.

Going out and being nice to the world at large doesn't make me feel good, so I replace that with things, with technology that does get me excited and does get my brain spinning, until one day it stops spinning, and then you can bury me.

His mind was spinning endless threads of conjecture that snarled constantly around his ignorance.

The yajna of our age and for us is the spinning wheel.

I have called spinning the yajna of this age of India.

My head was spinning but I made myself go to sleep by imagining that I was not a real person at all but the song in the throat of a sparrow.

The signs that the world is spinning out of kilter are increasingly difficult to misinterpret. The question is how to convince enough people to join a critical mass of urgent opinion, in the U.S. and the rest of the world.

Not the kind of wheel you fall asleep at.

Look, I really hate it when people say this sort of things... Do you know who I am? He lean a little closer and whisperer something. ALERT it cried, head spinning from side to side . EMERGENCY! IT IS THE DOC-TOR!

This is potentially key, I'm saying. This may be just the sort of regional politico-sexual contrast the swanky East-Coast magazine is keen for... They might ought to try just climbing on and spinning and ignoring assholes and saying Fuck 'em. That's pretty much all you can do with assholes. This could be integral.

on the lawn one late summer day, her pale hair tangled because she'd cry if anyone tried to brush it, spinning around and around until she got so dizzy she fell in a pile of bare feet and dandelions and sundress.

Each person seemed to have a destination, but Val was a piece of driftwood, spinning down a river, not even sure in what direction she was moving. But she knew how to make herself spin faster.