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I have a movie coming out called Spun, which will be at the Toronto Film Fest. -- Eric Roberts
In '75, the year both A Chorus Line and Chicago hit Broadway, my head spun around and I became the ultimate theater queen for life. -- Michael Musto
The two-piece ball I switched to spun too much. One shot would go the distance I thought it should, then the next one would fall short, and then the next one would go long. -- Payne Stewart
Poetry comes fine-spun from a mind at peace. -- Ovid
The most exquisite folly is made of wisdom spun too fine. -- Benjamin Franklin
Man is an animal suspended in webs of significance he himself has spun. -- Clifford Geertz
It is sweet to feel by what fine spun threads our affections are drawn together. -- Laurence Sterne
According to science, the universe began as a swirl of gas that, as it cooled, spun off the Ten Commandments. -- Robert Breault
It was like a bird of rarest-spun heaven metal or like silvery wine flowing in a spaceship, gravity all nonsense now. -- Anthony Burgess
No man, even though he be Shakespeare, can write perfectly when his web is woven of threads that have been spun in many lands. -- William Butler Yeats
Do we make ourselves into what we become or is it built into our genes, into the fate spun for us by whatever shapes events? -- Joseph Bruchac
When the world careens out of control, we can rest in the fact that God spun this world with a simple word. Matter from emptiness. Beauty from void. Community from chaos. -- Mary E. DeMuth
For this our task hath Fate spun without fail to last for ever sure, that we on man weighed down with deeds of hate should follow till the earth his life immure. Nor when he dies can he boast of being truly free. -- Aeschylus
Believing, with Max Weber, that man is an animal suspended in webs of significance he himself has spun, I take culture to be those webs, and the analysis of it to be therefore not an experimental science in search of law but an interpretive one in search of meaning. -- Clifford Geertz
Only the Earth can become the central axis around which world peace can be spun, for no religion is more compelling, no single nation larger, and no peoples older than the Earth itself. For that to happen, the collective human consciousness must expand enough so that our highest identification is as Earth-Humans. -- Ilchi Lee
Karrin Murphy led the charge, and Sanya and I tried to keep up. She went through that sea of foes like a little speedboat, her enemies spun and tossed and turned and disoriented in her wake. Sanya and I hacked our way through stunned foes, pushing and chopping with unsophisticated brutality-and that big Russian lunatic just kept laughing the whole time. -- Jim Butcher
Science was tearing through the 'fine-spun ecclesiastical cobwebs' to behold a new cosmos, in which our Earth is merely an 'eccentric speck' - a world of evolution 'and unchanging causation'. It invited new ways of thinking. It demanded a new rationale for belief. With science's truths the only accessible ones, 'blind faith' was no longer admirable but 'the one unpardonable sin'. -- Adrian Desmond
American liberty is being destroyed by Marxist doctrines that explain society in terms of hegemonic and oppressed groups - whether classes, races or genders - fighting for suzerainty. In these societies spun out of Marxist theorizing, good will does not exist, only the material interests of warring groups. Morality resides in the oppressed, but if the oppressed succeed in becoming hegemonic, their claim to moral supremacy evaporates. -- Paul Craig Roberts
A poem is a spider web Spun with words of wonder, Woven lace held in place By whispers made of thunder. -- Charles Ghigna
The web of influence which News Corporation spun in Britain, which effectively bent politicians, police and many others in public life to its will, amounted to a shadow state. -- Thomas Watson, Jr.
If journalism is the first draft of history, then talk radio provides an early glimpse into how the meaning of political events will be spun for ideological and partisan purposes. -- Jackson Katz
I want to write about people I love, and put them into a fictional world spun out of my own mind, not the world we actually have, because the world we actually have does not meet my standards. -- Philip K. Dick
The senior thesis of Hillary D. Rodham, Wellesley College class of 1969, has been speculated about, spun, analyzed, debated, criticized and defended. But rarely has it been read, because for the eight years of Bill Clinton's presidency it was locked away. -- Bill Dedman
I heard this massive thud. I spun around, and there Keith was, on the ground. He'd cut his gums up on impact, he was very bloody, and clutching his head. I think it was a kind of wake-up call for him. -- Ron Wood
History does not repeat itself. Nor does it unfold in cycles. The real future is contingent, rich beyond imagining, a perennial gobsmack, tragic and glorious in equal measure; the pundits' future, spun of 'conventional wisdom,' is only a sucker punch to that common-sense fact. -- Rick Perlstein
I was born full grown in the middle of a hurricane and an earthquake on 10 September 1954, 12.52 P.M. When I found out that I had missed lunch, I gave such a shout that the Earth stopped and spun backwards two days. That's why I celebrate my birthday on 8 September. -- Jon Scieszka
I think Canadians are tired of politicians that are spun and scripted within an inch of their life, people who are too afraid of what a focus group might say about one comment or a political opponent might try to twist out of context, to actually say much of anything at all. -- Justin Trudeau
I once called a guy into his own office and spun around in his own chair to greet him. That kind of thing may be why I quit, before I got into serious trouble. I would smile and the person would get so upset. But you do a thousand of those things, and it makes you weird. -- Al Madrigal
There is nothing so absurd as knowledge spun too fine. -- Benjamin Franklin
Love only what befalls you and is spun for you by fate. -- Marcus Aurelius
Life is but a web spun of ghosts and dreams and illusions. -- Robert E. Howard
At daybreak Morn shall come to meIn raiment of the white winds spun. -- Madison Cawein
If the poet spun for half an hour daily, his poetry would gain in richness. -- Mahatma Gandhi
Once spun,The silken thread of all our aspirationsRemains intact,It can never be broken. -- Scott Hastie
That which will not be spun, let it not come betweene the spindle and the distaffe. -- George Herbert
We did Twitter, and Twitter grew so fast, and in 2006 we spun it out into Twitter, Inc. -- Biz Stone
(Those women whom the distaff no longer claims nor spun cloth) driven made, mad, mad by Bacchus. -- Hilda Doolittle
UNMARKED is both gorgeous and hideous. A frightening and disturbing tale spun with great beauty. Absolutely riveting. -- Jonathan Maberry
My mind spun like the flywheel on an antique John Deere, merry-go-round during second-grade recess, hard spun roulette wheel." -- Dennis Vickers
I'm behind you." I spun to see Derek. "I can't win," he said. "You're as skittish as a kitten. -- Kelley Armstrong
To a thrifty theologian, bent on redemption with economy, there are few points of ethics too fine-spun for splitting. -- Ellen Glasgow
And telling a story, I suppose, is like winding a skein of spun yarn- you sometimes lose track of the beginning. -- Edith Pattou
The gossamer web of life, spun on the loom of sunlight from the breath of an infant Earth, is nature's crowning achievement on this planet. -- Preston Cloud
The cold stars spun to the ancient rhythm, the august march of an everlasting symphony. They are old, the stars, and their memory is long. -- Rick Yancey
It now seemed to me that all my other guesses had been only self-pleasing dreams spun out of my wishes, but now I was awake. -- C. S. Lewis
Coming to the Bible through commentaries is much like looking at a landscape through garret windows, over which generations of unmolested spiders have spun their webs. -- Henry Ward Beecher
Though Diogenes lived in a tub, there might be, for aught I know, as much pride under his rags, as in the fine-spun garments of the divine Plato. -- Jonathan Swift
Brigan spun around to face the man, swearing with as much as exasperation and fury as Fire had ever heard anyone swear. The man scuttled away in alarm. -- Kristin Cashore
(Nykyrian spun about at the sound, his blaster leveling at the body in the doorway.) Whoa. Friend! (He tapped his chest twice.) Really good guy. "?Member me? (Syn) -- Sherrilyn Kenyon
Time is an illusion, only the keepers of the illusion are real, and the reality they have spun, keeps us, until we set upon the path of the dream. -- Tom Althouse
Contemporary feminism cut itself off from history and bankrupted itself when it spun its puerile, paranoid fantasy of male oppressors and female sex-object victims. Woman is the dominant sex. -- Camille Paglia
It sometimes takes a while for executives to figure out that the reporters they think of as little bugs to be squashed or spun can be more powerful than they are. -- Jonathan Alter
But before he could either comfort me or commit further acts of violence upon my person, I spun away from him and made my drama queen moment complete by running away. -- Rachel Hawkins
Noâ? Daniel cried â?? No, no, noâ? Luceâ??s heart ached as he tore at his hair, spun in circle and let his wings bloom out to their full size. -- Lauren Kate
You can be a great DJ and still be not very good at DJ Hero. And vice-versa: You can have never spun in your life on real turntables and be fine on DJ Hero. -- DJ Shadow
Suicide is a confession of failure. And like divorce, it is shrouded in excuses and rationalizations spun endlessly to disguise the simple fact that all one's energy, passion, appetite and ambition have been aborted. -- A. Alvarez
Mia,' she whispered. I turned around. 'What?' I whispered back.She smiled at me a little. 'LEEERRROOOY JEEENNKKIINNNSS!' she shouted, then spun around and ran toward the Z's in the lighting section. -- John Green
So coming back from a journey, or after an illness, before habits had spun themselves across the surface, one felt that same unreality, which was so startling; felt something emerge. Life was most vivid then. -- Virginia Woolf

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