Spinning Quotes - Page 12

• India as a nation can live and die only for the spinning wheel.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  India, Wheels, Dies

  Mahatma Gandhi (1951). “The Wit and Wisdom of Gandhi”

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• The cause of the spinning wheel is too great and too good to have to rest on mere hero-worship.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Hero, Causes, Wheels

  Mahatma Gandhi (1958). “Collected Works”

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• If we are true servants of the masses, we would take pride in spinning for their sake.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Pride, Sake, Mass

  Mahatma Gandhi (1974). “Collected Works”

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• Restore the spinning wheel to its place and you will solve the problem of poverty.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Poverty, Wheels, Problem

  Mahatma Gandhi (1967). “Collected Works”

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• Boycott brought about anyhow of British cloth cannot yield the same results as such boycott brought about by hand-spinning and khaddar.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Yield, Hands, Language

  Mahatma Gandhi (1967). “Collected Works”

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• Just as there are signs by which you can recognize violence with the naked eye, so is the spinning wheel to me a decisive sign of nonviolence.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Eye, Naked, Violence

  Mahatma Gandhi (1958). “Collected Works”

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• Nothing can so quickly put the masses on their legs as the spinning wheel and all it means.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Mean, Legs, Wheels

  Mahatma Gandhi (1967). “Collected Works”

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• The world of time, of space and condition, pleasure and pain, birth, growth, maturation, decay and death, spinning, spinning, spinning this world, always spinning.

  Frederick Lenz

  Pain, Buddhism, Space

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• It is technology. They all changed to a harder golf ball, so they gave up spinning on the greens. They all changed to longer drivers, bigger heads with hotter faces and lighter shafts. The problem is, the harder you hit it, the more control you lose.

  Tiger Woods

  Golf, Technology, Balls

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• I try to get in one, one-hour spinning class per week.

  Robert Herjavec

  Class, Trying, Week

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• I try to visualize geometric shapes and patterns slowly spinning and expanding into infinity.

  Martina McBride

  Geometric Shapes, Trying, Patterns

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• It is only comparatively primitive machinery that affords a stimulus, and there is already a faint period touch about Pacific 231 and Le Pas d'Acier. One feels...that Prokofieff should have written ballets about the spinning jenny and the Luddite riots; that Honegger should have been there to celebrate the opening of the Stockton and Darlington Railway and the death of Huskisson with a "Symphonie Triomphale et Funèbre".

  Constant Lambert

  Fun, Should Have, Jenny

  "Music, Ho!". Book by Constant Lambert, Hogarth Press edition, "Mechanical Romanticism", pp. 209-10, 1934.

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• Being a die-hard Knicks fan, I remember hunting down these orange-and-blue Nikes that they only released in England. And I used to hunt for sneakers when I DJ'd in Japan. But then Nike flooded the market with a head-spinning array of color combinations and it just didn't seem cool anymore.

  Mark Ronson

  Nike, Hunting, Blue

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• I'm not a very organized person for being uber work-obsessed. I struggle to keep it all organized because everything can become important and, when you have so many spinning plates, they sometimes can cancel each other out because you lose track of everything.

  Drew Barrymore

  Struggle, Spinning Plates, Uber

  "Drew Barrymore on her new gig, motherhood, and Adam Sandler". "Entertainment Weekly" Interview, www.cnn.com. January 09, 2014.

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• I have late onset ADHD. I take on too much and end up spinning plates, but its entertaining, and it helps you make quick connections if youre a comedian, if you have a brain that can dance around too much.

  Rory Bremner

  Spinning Plates, Comedian, Brain

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• One idea I explore in my stand-up show is whether, if you try looking at the universe rationally and avoid coping mechanisms like mysticism or religion, you can still be happy knowing you are going to die after a brief time on this spinning ball.

  Robin Ince

  Ideas, Coping Mechanisms, Knowing

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• Spinning yarns is a protection against the nuttiness... the greed, the hate all around us.

  John D. Voelker

  Hate, Yarn, Greed

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• Calmly spinning, I scan as far away as I can see. The last rays of the day's sun warm my back and my stare locks onto my own shadow. I follow the lines of my body on the stone in front of me, spreading my arms as wings, and bathe in the beauty of existence.

  Dean Potter

  Wings, Shadow, Lines

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• Philosophers have actually devoted themselves, in the main, neither to perceiving the world, nor to spinning webs of conceptual theory, but to interpreting the meaning of the civilizations which they have represented, and to attempting the interpretation of whatever minds in the universe, human or divine, they believed to be real.

  Josiah Royce

  Real, Philosophical, Civilization

  Josiah Royce, John Edwin Smith (1988). “Josiah Royce: Selected Writings”, p.311, Paulist Press

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• The end of all stories, even if the writer forebears to mention it, is death, which is where time stops short. Sheherezade knew this, which is why she kept on spinning another story out of the bowels of the last one, never coming to a point where she could say: "This is the end." Because it would have been.

  Angela Carter

  Death, Time, Fiction

  Angela Carter (1993). “Expletives Deleted: Selected Writings”, Vintage Books

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• The spinning wheel is not meant to oust a single man or woman from his or her occupation.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Men, Occupation, Wheels

  Rabindranath Tagore, Mahatma Gandhi (1945). “Tagore and Gandhi Argue”

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• The spinning wheel is as much a necessity of Indian life as air and water.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Air, Water, Wheels

  Mahatma Gandhi (1984). “The Quintessence of Gandhi in His Own Words”

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• Hunger is the argument that is driving India to the spinning wheel.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  India, Wheels, Driving

  Mahatma Gandhi (1994). “The Gandhi Reader: A Sourcebook of His Life and Writings”, p.229, Grove Press

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• whhheeeEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE! The scream of jet engines rises to a crescendo on the runways of the world. Every second, somewhere or other, a plane touches down, with a puff of smoke from scorched tyre rubber, or rises in the air, leaving a smear of black fumes dissolving in its wake. From space, the earth might look to a fanciful eye like a huge carousel, with planes instead of horses spinning round its circumference, up and down, up and down. Whhheeeeeeeeeee!

  David Lodge

  Horse, Eye, Space

  David Lodge (1984). “Small world: an academic romance”, Macmillan Pub Co

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• I run a solid 4-6 miles at a time, and over the last year two years I've gotten really into SoulCycle. It's sort of an evolved form of spinning.

  Gail Simmons

  Running, Years, Two

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