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Talking, talking. Spinning a web of words, pale walls of dreams, between myself and all I see. -- John Gardner
My advice is keep your lips away from the spinning things. -- Adam Savage
If Casey Stengel were alive today, he'd be spinning in his grave. -- Ralph Kiner
As long as the world is turning and spinning, we're gonna be dizzy and we're gonna make mistakes. -- Mel Brooks
Organic buildings are the strength and lightness of the spiders' spinning, buildings qualified by light, bred by native character to environment, married to the ground. -- Frank Lloyd Wright
If every human being disappeared off the face of the earth in an instant, the earth would still keep spinning and the planet would develop new life forms. -- Graham Nash
I try to become more humble and more myself with every year. There was a while when I got famous where I was so confused and my head was spinning. -- Mira Sorvino
I have vertigo. Vertigo makes it feel like the floor is pitching up and down. Things seem to be spinning. It's like standing on the deck of a ship in really high seas. -- Laura Hillenbrand
Down the mine I dreamed of cricket; I bowled imaginery balls in the dark; I sent the stumps spinning and heard them rattling in the tunnels. No mishap was going to stop me from bowling in the real game, especially this one. -- Harold Larwood
My heart's in really great shape thanks to spinning classes. -- Christine Lahti
All work, even cotton-spinning, is noble; work is alone noble. -- Thomas Carlyle
We come spinning out of nothingness, scattering stars like dust. -- Rumi
I tried spinning around in a chair to impress a girl. -- Ray Toro
We are spinning our own fates, good or evil, never to be undone. -- William James
When I first broke into the acting industry, I taught spinning classes to support myself. -- Stephen Amell
In spinning a robe of your own righteousness, before the sun goes down you will find it all unraveled. -- Curtis Hutson
It's not magic! It's physics. The speed of the turn is what keeps you upright. It's like a spinning top. -- Deborah Bull
Modern invention has banished the spinning wheel, and the same law of progress makes the woman of today a different woman from her grandmother. -- Susan B. Anthony
I watched the spinning stars, grateful, sad and proud, as only a man who has outlived his destiny and realizes he might yet forge himself another, can be. -- Roger Zelazny
In my better sense of mind, I know that Im far from alone and far from the worst, and the earth keeps spinning. Everything keeps moving, with or without me. -- Phil Anselmo
I claim that in losing the spinning wheel we lost our left lung. We are, therefore, suffering from galloping consumption. The restoration of the wheel arrests the progress of the fell disease. -- Mahatma Gandhi
The average daydream is about fourteen seconds long and we have about two thousand of them per day. In other words, we spend about half of our waking hours - one-third of our lives on earth - spinning fantasies. -- Jonathan Gottschall
The last best hope of earth, two trillion dollars in debt, is spinning out of control, and all we can do is stare at a flickering cathode-ray tube as Ollie answers questions on TV while the press, resolutely irrelevant as ever, asks politicians if they have committed adultery. From V-J Day 1945 to this has been, my fellow countrymen, a perfect nightmare. -- Gore Vidal
The moon is at her crystal window / Spinning and weaving ... -- Hilda Conkling
Spinning yarns is a protection against the nuttiness... the greed, the hate all around us. -- John D. Voelker
Boo, Forever Spinning like a ghost on the bottom of a top, I'm haunted by all the space that I will live without you. -- Richard Brautigan
I feel like a spinning top or a DreidelThe spinning don't stop when you leave the cradleYou just slow downRound and around this world you goSpinning through the lives of the people you knowWe all slow down. -- Don McLean
I don't dance, But here I am Spinning you around and around in circles It Ain't my style, but I don't care I'd do anything with you anywhere Yes, you got me in the palm of your hand Cause, I don't dance. -- Lee Brice
As if grabbed by strong arms that were not there, he felt himself being lifted. Raising skyward and spinning, he fought to regain orientation. The winds were holding him and carrying him higher. Spinning him sickeningly, senses askew, his focus was being lost. -- Stephen Craig
Spinning out of my neuromarketing work where, based on scanning the brains of 2,000 respondents' brains using fMRI, we learned that there's a huge correlation between religion and branding - and thus the way that brands intend to generate customer evangelism are to be constructed. -- Martin Lindstrom
Spinning has been such an amazing part of my exercise. I love the music, the energy, and the sweat. It's a tough class, which makes me feel like I've really accomplished something. It's a great way to burn fat and lean out the body. An all-around win! -- Alison Sweeney
[The original development of the Spinning Mule was a] continual endeavour to realise a more perfect principle of spinning; and though often baffled, I as often renewed the attempt, and at length succeeded to my utmost desire, at the expense of every shilling I had in the world. -- Samuel Crompton
I don't like giving names to generations. It's like trying to read the song title on a record that's spinning. -- Ian Williams
I've been lucky to work with people that I like most of the time. If I don't like them, I'll play head games with them to get their minds spinning. -- Vince Vaughn
In my better sense of mind, I know that I'm far from alone and far from the worst, and the earth keeps spinning. Everything keeps moving, with or without me. -- Phil Anselmo
I've never been a big fan of subtle art. I like art that gets deep into my head and starts my brain spinning with new ideas and inspiration and my whole body is full of energy. -- Jello Biafra
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
I realized early on, maybe better than some of my competitors did, that a textile business can run only if you have scale. I decided to horizontally and vertically integrate, adding everything from spinning, dyeing, weaving, and stitching to processing and packing. -- Mian Muhammad Mansha
If you're going to believe in God, if you're going to take that leap of faith, as I do, then the God that seems the most comprehensible to me would be the God who set us spinning and said 'Good luck.' -- Roger Rosenblatt
The planet's spinning a thousand miles an hour around this gigantic nuclear explosion while these people roll these machines with rubber tires over this hard surface that we've laid down over the planet so that we can easily move ourselves back and forth. -- Joe Rogan
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
For relaxation, I like to figure skate. Being on the ice and spinning and jumping, I feel very close to nature. In particular, I feel very close to Newton's laws of motion. On the ice, you can experience Newton's laws of motion in their purest, most elegant form. -- Michio Kaku
Skysurfing is skydiving with a board on the feet. You can imagine with this big surface of a skysurfing board, there is a lot of force, a lot of power. Of course, I can use this power, for example, for nice spinning - we call it 'helicopter moves.' -- Ueli Gegenschatz
I've reduced a lot of the stress in my life. I've gotten rid of a lot of things. The light was turned on and a lot of the cockroaches started spinning. I swept them out the door. And sometimes you just have to throw things out because they carry a certain energy. -- Wesley Snipes
Rip Rig & Panic was a milestone for me, and I've always been really thankful that I did that when I was 16. It saved me for when I suddenly became really successful later on. So even when my head's been spinning like a banshee, my feet still feel held down to the ground. -- Neneh Cherry
The sensation of writing a book is the sensation of spinning, blinded by love and daring. It is the sensation of a stunt pilot's turning barrel rolls, or an inchworm's blind rearing from a stem in search of a route. At its worst, it feels like alligator wrestling, at the level of the sentence. -- Annie Dillard
My tides were fluctuating, too - back and forth, back and forth - sometimes so fast they seemed to be spinning. They call this 'rapid cycling.' It's a marvel that a person can appear to be standing still when the mood tides are sloshing back and forth, sometimes sweeping in both directions at once. They call that a 'mixed state.' -- Jane Pauley
There are five known gyres spinning around in our world's oceans. A gyre is a slowly moving spiral of currents created by a high pressure system of air currents. A spinning soup, so to speak, is made of what exists in the water. And in this case, the gyres are spinning with millions of tons of our discarded and forgotten about plastic waste! -- Brandon Boyd
I am a collection of thoughts and memories and likes and dislikes. I am the things that have happened to me and the sum of everything I've ever done. I am the clothes I wear on my back. I am every place and every person and every object I have ever come across. I am a bag of bones stuck to a very large rock spinning a thousand miles an hour. -- Macaulay Culkin
I still hear the world spinning. -- Kamila Shamsie
I'd stop the world from spinning for you -- Sylvia Day
To conserve energy, her little planet stopped spinning. -- Haruki Murakami
The wheels are spinning in my head all the time. -- Justin Berfield
The spinning wheel is a symbol of nonviolence for me. -- Mahatma Gandhi
My head's a carousel of pictures and The spinning never stops. -- Conor Oberst
Just a threat of a boycott has got the Russians spinning. -- Keith Olbermann
I try to get in one, one-hour spinning class per week. -- Robert Herjavec
I have called spinning the yajna of this age of India. -- Mahatma Gandhi
I crave to die with my hand at the spinning wheel. -- Mahatma Gandhi
The study of Indian economics is the study of the spinning wheel. -- Mahatma Gandhi
The spinning wheel is the auspicious symbol of sharir yajna, body labour. -- Mahatma Gandhi
Hunger is the argument that is driving India to the spinning wheel. -- Mahatma Gandhi
The yajna of our age and for us is the spinning wheel. -- Mahatma Gandhi
The foundation of service and your real training lie in spinning khaddar. -- Mahatma Gandhi
The spinning wheel for us is the foundation for all public corporate life. -- Mahatma Gandhi
The socialism that India can assimilate is the socialism of the spinning wheel. -- Mahatma Gandhi
My heart is drawn backwards and forwards between the spinning wheel and books. -- Mahatma Gandhi
Look at these worlds spinning out of nothingness. That is within your power. -- Rumi
India as a nation can live and die only for the spinning wheel. -- Mahatma Gandhi
I claim that in losing the spinning wheel we lost our left lung. -- Mahatma Gandhi
The music of the spinning wheel will be as balm to your soul. -- Mahatma Gandhi
A spinning coin, still balanced on its rim, may fall in either direction. -- Annie Proulx
My heart is spinning. Love is a tornado. Will you be my Kansas? -- Jarod Kintz
Each one of us is a set of shifting molecules, spinning in ecstasy, -- Jim Jarmusch
If Gandhism means simply mechanically turning the spinning wheel, it deserves to be destroyed. -- Mahatma Gandhi
Her silent course advance With inoffensive pace, that spinning sleeps On her soft axle. -- John Milton
There were tiny stars behind my eyelids, a whole galaxy of tiny, spinning stars. -- Lucy Christopher
One hour spent in spinning should be an hour of self-development for the spinner. -- Mahatma Gandhi
I try to visualize geometric shapes and patterns slowly spinning and expanding into infinity. -- Martina McBride
If you look at ISIS, General MacArthur, and General Patton, they're spinning in their graves. -- Donald Trump
Hand-spinning is designed to put millions of rupees in the hands of the poor villagers. -- Mahatma Gandhi
The spinning wheel is as much a necessity of Indian life as air and water. -- Mahatma Gandhi
After all, spinning is its own reward. There wouldn't be carousels if it weren't so. -- Adam Gopnik
Restore the spinning wheel to its place and you will solve the problem of poverty. -- Mahatma Gandhi
A plea for the spinning wheel is a plea for recognizing the dignity of labour. -- Mahatma Gandhi
There is no better way of industrializing the villages of India than the spinning wheel. -- Mahatma Gandhi
Without proper, careful organisation of the spinning wheel and khaddar, there is absolutely no civil disobedience. -- Mahatma Gandhi
I do regard spinning and weaving as a necessary part of any national system of education. -- Mahatma Gandhi
Locke sank into a swoon; The Garden died; God took the spinning-jenny Out of his side. -- William Butler Yeats
The sensation of writing a book is the sensation of spinning, blinded by love and daring. -- Annie Dillard
They're feeding the people a line of bull, and they are spinning and people are dying. -- Ray Nagin
Make me, o lord, thy spinning wheel complete, thy holy word thy distaff make for me. -- Edward Taylor
I hang by a thread, but it is (if I may so speak) of Christ's spinning -- Samuel Rutherford
If we are true servants of the masses, we would take pride in spinning for their sake. -- Mahatma Gandhi
Reality had no gears, and you never knew what surprises would come spinning out of its chaos. -- Scott Westerfeld
My head was spinning, I had never seen blood. Four years old, this don't feel like love. -- LL Cool J
Boredom, that silent spider, was spinning its web in the darkness in every corner of her heart. -- Gustave Flaubert
If hand-spinning is an effective method of making India self-supporting, it must be made part of the franchise. -- Mahatma Gandhi
The spinning wheel is not meant to oust a single man or woman from his or her occupation. -- Mahatma Gandhi
Nothing can so quickly put the masses on their legs as the spinning wheel and all it means. -- Mahatma Gandhi
The spinning wheel means national consciousness and a contribution by every individual to a definite constructive national work. -- Mahatma Gandhi
Fortune's not content with knocking a man down; she sends him spinning head over heels, crash upon crash. -- Seneca the Younger
Abruptness is an eloquence in parting, when spinning out the time is but the weaving of new sorrow. -- John Suckling
That's the thing about best friends. That's what they do. They keep you from spinning off the edge. -- Lauren Oliver
Every woman will tell the curious that with the disappearance of the spinning wheel vanished India's happiness and prosperity. -- Mahatma Gandhi
I used to tell strange, wild, improbable tales akin to ghost stories, and discovered a taste for spinning yarns. -- Algernon Blackwood
New techniques - often spinning out of technology and lack of privacy has resulted in new manipulative communication formats. -- Martin Lindstrom
Einstein said that he never could understand it all, the planets spinning in space, the smile upon your face. -- James Taylor
There are a lot of different things that are spinning and connecting when your family sees what you do. -- Jake Gyllenhaal
You live long enough in a world spinning on its axis, you learn to spin in the same direction. -- Robert Breault
The cause of the spinning wheel is too great and too good to have to rest on mere hero-worship. -- Mahatma Gandhi
I have pinned my faith to the spinning wheel. On it, I believe, the salvation of this country depends. -- Mahatma Gandhi
I'm from the Midwest, and guys like me don't go on diets. We don't do well on spinning classes. -- Michael Moore
And all writing is creating or spinning dreams for other people so they won't have to bother doing it themselves. -- Beth Henley
The heart's in it then, spinning dreams, and torment is on the way. The heart makes dreams seem like ideas. -- Daniel Woodrell
All my life's a circle; But I can't tell you why; Season's spinning round again; The years keep rollin' by. -- Harry Chapin
That's when I heard the sounds of a certified genius spinning around in circles like a dog chasing its tail. -- Ally Carter
It is the peculiar nature of the world to go on spinning no matter what sort of heartbreak is happening. -- Sue Monk Kidd
The spinning wheel is itself an exquisite piece of machinery. My head daily bows in reverence to its unknown inventor. -- Mahatma Gandhi
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