Spinning Quotes
287 quotes by 263 authors
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Remember how you used to be able to feel your bed breathing and the walls spinning when you were a kid?
— Lynda Barry
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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…
— Brandon Boyd
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As long as the world is turning and spinning, we're gonna be dizzy and we're gonna make mistakes.
— Mel Brooks
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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
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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
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How wide are the horizons of the spinning earth! The moonlight leads the tides and the sun's light will not be confined within the net…
— Hsu Yun
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You cannot imagine the craving for rest that I feel-a hunger and thirst. For six long days, since my work was done, my mind has…
— H.G. Wells
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Bringing together disparate personalities to form a team is like a jigsaw puzzle. You have to ask yourself: what is the whole picture here? We…
— Pat Summitt
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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…
— Mahatma Gandhi
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Her silent course advance With inoffensive pace, that spinning sleeps On her soft axle.
— John Milton
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Other countries drink to get drunk, and this is accepted by everyone; in France, drunkenness is a consequence, never an intention. A drink is felt…
— Roland Barthes
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Just a threat of a boycott has got the Russians spinning.
— Keith Olbermann
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Whatever may happen to you was prepared for you from all eternity; and the implication of causes was from eternity spinning the thread of your…
— Marcus Aurelius
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If you want to photograph a man spinning, give some thought to why he spins. Understanding for a photographer is as important as the equipment…
— Margaret Bourke-White
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[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…
— Samuel Crompton
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If you eat chicken, maybe you're on one level. If you wear a mink coat, maybe you're on another level. But if you wear cosmetics,…
— Woody Harrelson
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For an hour every day, I did something. I was on the elliptical or the treadmill, and if someone asked me to go to a…
— Molly Sims
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I think a rotisserie is like a really morbid ferris wheel for chickens. It’s a strange piece of machinery . . . We will take…
— Mitch Hedberg
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When I first broke into the acting industry, I taught spinning classes to support myself.
— Stephen Amell
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He lit a cigarette and handed it to me. I inhaled. Coughed. Wheezed. Gasped for breath. Coughed again. Considered vomiting. Grabbed the swinging bench, head…
— John Green
Who Wrote These Spinning Quotes
263 authors contributed a total of 287 Spinning Quotes, led by these top contributors: