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Spin-offs were never really my thing. -- Danny Masterson
Spin is 'something is beautiful because we say it's beautiful.' -- Junot Diaz
Spin is overrated. It is strategy, not spin, that wins elections. -- Dick Morris
music / I let it wake me / take me / Spin me around and make me / Uh get down. -- Eloise Greenfield
A little acting debut in Spin City, with Michael J. Fox, which opened up a whole new door for me. -- Heidi Klum
If you answered, ''Spin the Bottle,'' then I frankly do not want to know any more about your childhood. -- Dave Barry
I love Goody's Spin Pins. They're super cheap and look like corkscrews. You just gather your hair and screw them into a bun. -- Christa Miller
Spin Me Round was number one all over the world, everywhere. It changed the face of pop music, no question. We took technology further than Trevor Horn. -- Pete Waterman
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Let the Great World Spin' at the end talks a lot about connections and light and possibility and the fact that the world doesn't end. Even in the darkest times, we have to go on. -- Colum McCann
Spin the parasol three times and repeat after me: I shield in the name of fashion. I accessorize for one and all. Pursuit of truth is my passion. This I vow by the great parasol. -- Gail Carriger
Lookit, I've done it their way this far and now it's my turn. I'm my own handler. Any questions? Ask me ... There's not going to be any more handler stories because I'm the handler ... I'm Doctor Spin. -- Dan Quayle
My father would lift me high. And dance with my mother and me and then. Spin me around til I fell asleep. Then up the stairs he would carry me and I knew for sure I was loved. -- Luther Vandross
Spin City' was a really wonderful time for me. I made friends for life on that show. I made friends with Richard Kind, Michael Boatman, Barry Bostwick, Sandy Chaplin. We're all close. It was a really wonderful time. -- Alan Ruck
I've grown up well, partly because there weren't great girls' literature - Nancy Drew, maybe - but there weren't things. So there was Huck Finn and "Spin And Marty." The boys characters were interesting and you lived through them when you're watching it. -- Meryl Streep
I'm not really caught up with celebrity women. I think a regular girl that goes to school or works at a Complex or Spin or Blender or whatever, one of those magazines. She'd probably be flyer to me than the person she's writing about. -- Wale
Spin-off technologies are changing the culture. Even if you don't become an engineer you could be a poet, a journalist, a lawyer, but you will be thinking innovation and your actions within society, who you vote for, what you value, all become a participant in an innovation economy. -- Neil deGrasse Tyson
Spin' is a polite word for deception. Spinners mislead by means that range from subtle omissions to outright lies. Spin paints a false picture of reality by bending facts, mischaracterizing the words of others, ignoring or denying crucial evidence, or just 'spinning a yarn' - by making things up. -- Kathleen Hall Jamieson
Fast bowling is an art, like spin bowling. -- Kapil Dev
Let the great world spin for ever down the ringing grooves of change. -- Alfred Lord Tennyson
You can spin stories out of the ways people understand and misunderstand each other. -- Ian Mcewan
Sob, heavy world Sob as you spin, Mantled in mist Remote from the happy. -- W. H. Auden
In fact, as a spin bowler, you have to work on the batsman over after over. -- Richie Benaud
The media are obsessed with spin doctors and with portraying them as a bad thing, yet seem addicted to our medicine. -- Alastair Campbell
It appears to me that almost any man may like the spider spin from his own inwards his own airy citadel. -- John Keats
In skating there's always another jump or another spin variation or another thing to learn, and that's what I liked about it. -- Gracie Gold
Imperfection clings to a person, and if they wait till they are brushed off entirely, they would spin for ever on their axis, advancing nowhere. -- Thomas Carlyle
Each black hole spins on its axis like the Earth spins. That spin creates two vortexes of twisting space, somewhat like vortexes in a bathtub or a whirlpool. -- Kip Thorne
I like to dress pretty basic during the day, but with a sophisticated bohemian spin, and sometimes a little rock chic. At night I like to go glamorous. -- Alessandra Ambrosio
In ramp skating, there's this guy Alex Perelson who's really coming into his own and doing some amazing new stuff we haven't seen before. Just different types of spin. -- Tony Hawk
Now he must not go the wrong way round the circuit, and unless he can spin himself stationary through 360 degrees I fail to see how he can avoid doing so. -- Murray Walker
It is always challenging bowling abroad - you don't get much spin, bounce. You do get bounce, but you don't get sideways spin. It is always drifting kind of spin you get. -- Harbhajan Singh
I have different hats; I'm a mother, I'm a woman, I'm a human being, I'm an artist and hopefully I'm an advocate. All of those plates are things I spin all the time. -- Annie Lennox
I felt that 'Deep Space' was the way to do a spin off series of an existing franchise where you really are doing a very different show. It's a different format. It's a different feeling. -- Ronald D. Moore
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There's absolutely nothing irrational about me; insane, yes, irrational, no. But my dumbest fear would be spinning in the magic tea cups. Who the hell wants to pay to spin around like a bent yoyo for laughs? -- Akshay Kumar
There's a way that you can throw negativity out there that seems rebellious. But I've always taken pleasure in a different kind of rebellion, which is putting a positive spin on everything, trying to enjoy myself at all times. -- Zac Efron
President Obama has tried to spin the paltry new job creation numbers as 'a step in the right direction.' But, clearly, the small growth in jobs isn't even keeping up with population growth, much less returning the workforce to a healthy level. -- Bob Beauprez
You know the circus performer who spins the plates in the air you know, and he'll spin six or seven plates in the air? Acting sometimes is kind of that guy spinning all those plates in the air but in your head and in your body. -- Philip Seymour Hoffman
What's different now is that while political leaders used to give talking points to talk radio, now talk-radio hosts are giving talking points to political leaders. It's all part of the suffocating spin cycle we're in. In media, politics and publishing, the conventional wisdom is to play to this base. -- John Avlon
Our modern world, though infinitely more complex than that of ancient Greece, is also far more superficial. Where the Greeks offered simple psychological training, we live in an age of style and spin in which perceptions of good and evil slither and shift with the political view of the moment. -- David Gemmell
I have that love for music, when you are finding either old gems that you never heard or newer stuff that perks your ear. It keeps you trying to look for new stuff to write about it. You don't spin your wheels. I take that same approach to music and books. -- Corey Taylor
The principal reason for the universe's poker face is that its constituents are far away. Stars careen through space, and galaxies spin at speeds thousands of times faster than a jet plane. But given their distance, you'd need the patience of Job to notice much change in their appearance or position. -- Seth Shostak
When you have an audience standing and screaming the entire way through the short program and cheering every element you do, whether it's footwork, or spin, or a jump, to have that kind of emotion coming at you from every direction in the building, it's the most amazing sensation you can get as a sportsman. -- Johnny Weir
The media loves negative spin. -- Chloe Sevigny
Eliminating spin improves transparency and trust. -- James Kerr
Everyone loves to hate a spin doctor. -- Kristin Scott Thomas
You are my centre when I spin away. -- Thom Yorke
Spiderlike, I spin mirrors, Loyal to my image. -- Sylvia Plath
Against spin, my god, he is really a murderer -- V. V. S. Laxman
The spin overwhelms the substance. That's very clearly what happened. -- Joseph C. Wilson
Sit and spin 'til you rot on the cosmic utensil. -- Frank Zappa
I'll paint you moments of gold, I'll spin you Valentine evenings... -- David Bowie
...life's big. If you can't fix it, give it a spin. -- Mark Z. Danielewski
At night, neurotics may toil not, but oh how they spin! -- Mignon McLaughlin
Conversationally, we were Fred and Ginger -- spin, slide, shuffle, bend. -- Marisa de los Santos
When I want a long ball, I spin my hips faster. -- Jack Nicklaus
The latest spin on the Marvel comic-book hero delivers the popcorn goods. -- Peter Travers
When the looms spin by themselves, we'll have no need for slaves. -- Aristotle
Language tethers us to the world; without it we spin like atoms. -- Penelope Lively
I always go for 'SPIN' magazine because I'm such a music buff. -- Reid Scott
I spin on the circle of wave upon wave of the sea. -- Pablo Neruda
Life's a wheel of fortune and it's my chance to spin it. -- Tupac Shakur
Can't reinvent the wheel. But you can put your own spin on it. -- Lauren Beukes
Round and round we spin, with feet of lead and wings of tin. -- Kurt Vonnegut
Say a prayer for the lost generation, who spin the wheel out of desperation. -- Robbie Robertson
The political spin in Washington is revolting, just revolting. Its a callous political game. -- Rob Bishop
The political spin in Washington is revolting, just revolting. It's a callous political game. -- Rob Bishop
The presence of excessive wealth puts an unnatural spin on the appreciation of art. -- Steve Martin
Truth is better for humanity than ignorance, lies, or spin. And it's more interesting. -- Steve Sailer
Women can spin very well, but they cannot write a good book of cookery. -- Samuel Johnson
We can't go back, thoughwe're apt to waver even as our wheels spin on. -- Brook Emery
Dance music makes us dance. Let us get off our couch and spin around! -- Yoko Ono
Wish I could spin my world into reverse just to have you back again -- David Guetta
Heaven gave to woman the peculiar grace To spin, to weep, and cully human race. -- Alexander Pope
Nature was not satisfied by a simple point charge but required a charge with spin. -- Sin-Itiro Tomonaga
Time is just a moment that we occupy in this brief spin around the planet. -- Ray Manzarek
I put a positive spin on a difficult childhood in my 10 essays. Available on Amazon.com. -- Helen Levin
Writing a children's book means you cannot spin out long narratives or have complex character development. -- Norman Macleod
If you take an Oriental person and spin him around several times, does he become disoriented? -- Steven Wright
In our rich consumers' civilization we spin cocoons around ourselves and get possessed by our possessions. -- Max Lerner
Each thread of life that you leave, will spin around your deeds and dictate your needs. -- Don McLean
Don't spin your wheels and stress. Take a deep breath, center yourself and make a plan. -- Douglas Adams
Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow; they toil not, neither do they spin. -- Matthew McConaughey
I wonder how it is that people's philosophies have come to spin faster than the changing seasons. -- Masanobu Fukuoka
To an honest judge, the alleged marriage between religion and science is a shallow, empty, spin-doctored sham. -- Richard Dawkins
I just hope you have as much fun letting it spin as I did putting it together. -- Lenny Kaye
The Fates but only spin the coarser clue; The finest of the wool is left for you. -- John Dryden
A turbo: exhaust gasses go into the turbocharger and spin it, witchcraft happens and you go faster. -- Jeremy Clarkson
Technically, you can't fault Jadeja. Seam or spin, fast or slow every goddamn thing is a problem. -- Geoffrey Boycott
Literature is an easier way to study acting, because then you can take any kind of spin. -- Shia LaBeouf
As our Governments spin, lie and lose their credibility, the electorate simply shrugs and looks the other way. -- John le Carre
To an honest judge, the alleged convergence between religion and science is a shallow, empty, hollow, spin-doctored sham. -- Richard Dawkins
Doubt is always accompanied by a pervasive cynicism that unconsciously puts a negative spin on whatever it touches. -- Adyashanti
It was great to watch her spin out of control because it makes the average person feel better. -- Curtis Jackson
NASA has spin-offs, and it's a huge and very impressive list, including accurate and affordable LASIK eye surgery. -- Neil deGrasse Tyson
A man of great memory without learning hath a rock and a spindle and no staff to spin. -- George Herbert
Opinions are 10 a penny. In the spin-driven, PR-controlled world of the 21st century, hard facts are rare indeed. -- David Hewson
The truth is, I just want do things that are original and throw an original spin on them. -- Kevin Costner
Who you going to tell when the repercussions spin, showing off your ass because you think it's a trend. -- Lauryn Hill
I believe that the yarn we spin is capable of mending the broken warp and woof of our life! -- Mahatma Gandhi
I think it's always important to put your own spin and bring your essence to whatever character you play. -- Yvette Gonzalez-Nacer
I like films that continue to spin your head in all sorts of different directions after you've seen them. -- Christopher Nolan
You live long enough in a world spinning on its axis, you learn to spin in the same direction. -- Robert Breault
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I spin worlds where we could be together. I dream you. For me, imagination and desire are very close. -- Jeanette Winterson
Some of these bulls are gonna' spin those cowboys so fast, they'll look like a frog in a blender. -- Wayne White
Anyone who has seen me spin that heavy, giant wheel on television knows that I'm not a steroid user. -- Pat Sajak
You blindfold yourself and spin around for 10 times and then open your eyes and try to chase it down. -- Ric Suggitt
Anyone who has seen me spin that heavy, giant wheel on television knows that I'm not a steroid user -- Pat Sajak
The good kind of spin - backspin - comes from hitting the ball cleanly, then making a divot after impact. -- Ernie Els
Part of the art of bowling spin is to make the batsman think something special is happening when it isn't. -- Shane Warne
For every minute that I spin, there is in me the consciousness that I am adding to the nation's wealth. -- Mahatma Gandhi
Actually, power is like money; neither good nor bad. Its negative or positive spin depends upon how we use it. -- Pat Heim
My serve can get better, for sure. It's not just about serving bombs, but positioning, variation in speed, in spin. -- Rafael Nadal
A story needs rhythm. Read it aloud to yourself. If it doesn't spin a bit of magic, it's missing something. -- Esther Freud
Not everyone understands how you can spin two lassos at the same time, one of hope and one of grief. -- Jodi Picoult
Ninety percent of the people in the world end up with the wrong person. And that's what makes the jukebox spin. -- Laurie Anderson
A stable mind is like the hub of a wheel. The world may spin around you, but the mind is steady. -- B.K.S. Iyengar
It's a lot easier, I think, to be an actor in a movie than to spin a joke on a sitcom. -- Nicole Sullivan

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