Spinning Quotes

287 Spinning quotes by 250 unique authors

Why do cats sleep so much? Perhaps they've been trusted with some major cosmic task, an essential law of physics - such as: if there… — Kate Atkinson
Some dangers are so spectacular and so much beyond normal experience that the mind refuses to accept them as real, and watches the approach of… — Arthur C. Clarke
A billion stars go spinning through the night, / glittering above your head, / But in you is the presence that will be / when… — Rainer Maria Rilke
For the first time, I notice the lax skin at Mrs. Nightwing's jaw, the fine down that lies upon her cheek like the imprint of… — Libba Bray
A man walks down the street. It's a street in a strange world. Maybe it's the third world. Maybe it's his first time around. He… — Paul Simon
There are times when friendship feels like running down a hill together as fast as you can, jumping over things, spinning around, and you don't… — Matthew Tobin Anderson
And you're not leaving," she said. "Promise me." It was as if she had asked him to promise to keep breathing, to notice sunshine, to… — Sharon Shinn
There is something about spending Christmas alone, naked, sitting by the Christmas tree gripping a shotgun, that lets you know your life is spinning dangerously… — Nikki Sixx
We launch our souls from the cannons of art and discipline, and on any one night, hovering over the chimney tops of Europe, halfway to… — Mark Helprin
For writing a first draft requires from the writer a peculiar internal state which ordinary life does not induce. ... how to set yourself spinning? — Annie Dillard
For the first time driving that day I could feel the motion of the Earth. The Earth rushing through the emptiness of space. Spinning on… — Joyce Carol Oates
I have never been much of a patriot. My father would not have allowed such a thing while he lived, and his death insured that… — David Benioff
The world, the human world, is bound together not by protons and electrons, but by stories. Nothing has meaning in itself: all the objects in… — Brian Morton
I don’t know if you’ve ever felt like that. That you wanted to sleep for a thousand years. Or just not exist. Or just not… — Stephen Chbosky
To hang on from day to day and from week to week, spinning out a present that had no future, seemed an unconquerable instinct, just… — George Orwell
That's the trouble with a story spinner. You never know what's real and what's made up. Even when they are telling the truth, they can't… — Philip Reeve
The world had ended, so why had the battle not ceased, the castle fallen silent in horror, and every combatant laid down their arms? Harry's… — Joanne Kathleen Rowling
It was more work than it seemed, looking through a telescope, as the Earth was continually moving and you had to move along with it.… — Deb Caletti
I think the way I feel when I look at Evan comes from her. In pictures taken the day she married my dad, she was… — Elizabeth Scott
I don't think we have all the words in a single vocabulary to explain what we are or why we are. I don't think we… — Alexandra Fuller
But how much better, in any case, to wonder than not to wonder, to dance with astonishment and go spinning in praise, than not to… — Eudora Welty
One small changed family doesn't calculate into a world that has been spinning for a billion years. But one small change makes the world spin… — Mary E. Pearson
I feel like the world stopped. And I got off...and then it started spinning again, but too fast for me to hop back on. I… — Jacqueline Woodson
well, it sounds strange, but when i think of God, i think of a soft whirring noise - like a spinning ball of energy -… — Ellen Wittlinger
But family life sometimes had a vortex, like weather. It could be like a tornado in a quiet zigzag: get close enough and you might… — Lorrie Moore

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