Spiral Quotes

139 Spiral quotes by 123 unique authors

The spiral in a snail's shell is the same mathematically as the spiral in the Milky Way galaxy, and it's also the same mathematically as… — Joseph Gordon-Levitt
I worked with my coach to develop some new spiral variations to make my program more interesting. Each one is different and you'll have to… — Sasha Cohen
Modern man must descend the spiral of his own absurdity to the lowest point; only then can he look beyond it. It is obviously impossible… — Vaclav Havel
A circle is the reflection of eternity. It has no beginning and it has no end - and if you put several circles over each… — Maynard James Keenan
Could I use some butter and cheese and eggs in my cooking without going down some kind of hippie shame spiral? Yes. Of course I… — Gwyneth Paltrow
As I went through 'This Progress,' one of two performance pieces by Tino Sehgal that transform Frank Lloyd Wright's emptied-out spiral into a dreamy Socratic-purgatorial… — Jerry Saltz
Fear stifles our thinking and actions. It creates indecisiveness that results in stagnation. I have known talented people who procrastinate indefinitely rather than risk failure.… — Charles Stanley
I love the French detective series 'Spiral.' It's quite brutal to watch, but I'm already hooked. — Robert Winston
To be fair, Republicans are not blameless. The deficit began to spiral out of control on President Bush's watch. — Rob Woodall
When someone is denying what they are, then that's when things start to spiral down. — will.i.am
I have an addictive personality. Boarding school merely sent me more quickly on the downward spiral that dominated my childhood. — Marcus Brigstocke
The nature of the labyrinth, I scribbled into my spiral notebook, and the way out of it. This teacher rocked. I hated discussion classes. I… — John Green
What is art but the life upon the larger scale, the higher. When, graduating up in a spiral line of still expanding and ascending gyres,… — Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Far out in the uncharted backwaters of the unfashionable end of the western spiral arm of the Galaxy lies a small unregarded yellow sun. Orbiting… — Douglas Adams
I do think that women could make politics irrelevant; by a kind of spontaneous cooperative action the like of which we have never seen; which… — Germaine Greer
Is it not certain that the Creator yawns in earthquake and thunder and other popular displays, but toils in rounding the delicate spiral of a… — William Butler Yeats
We are not going in circles, we are going upwards. The path is a spiral; we have already climbed many steps. — Hermann Hesse
…It’s like a spiral: They keep making everything more basic so it will appeal to everyone. And gradually, everyone gets used to everything being basic,… — Matthew Tobin Anderson
To think bad thoughts is really the easiest thing in the world. If you leave your mind to itself it will spiral down into ever… — James Clavell
But the economic meltdown should have undone, once and for all, the idea of poverty as a personal shortcoming or dysfunctional state of mind. The… — Barbara Ehrenreich
Never worry alone. When anxiety grabs my mind, it is self-perpetuating. Worrisome thoughts reproduce faster than rabbits, so one of the most powerful ways to… — John Ortberg
Hush little owl, You're with Twi. I got the moves to get you by. Big bad crows. St. Aggie's scamps Ain't got nothin to show… — Kathryn Lasky
The spiral is a spiritualized circle. In the spiral form, the circle, uncoiled, has ceased to be vicious; it has been set free. — Vladimir Nabokov
Human knowledge is not (or does not follow) a straight line, but a curve, which endlessly approximates a series of circles, a spiral. Any fragment,… — Vladimir Lenin
His way had therefore come full circle, or rather had taken the form of an ellipse or a spiral, following as ever no straight unbroken… — Hermann Hesse

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