Spun Quotes

• 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

  Believe, Hero, Animal

  Clifford Geertz (1973). “The Interpretation of Cultures: Selected Essays”, p.5, Basic Books

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• Man is an animal suspended in webs of significance he himself has spun.

  Clifford Geertz

  Men, Animal, Significance

  Clifford Geertz (1973). “The Interpretation of Cultures: Selected Essays”, p.5, Basic Books

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• It was like a bird of rarest-spun heaven metal or like silvery wine flowing in a spaceship, gravity all nonsense now.

  Anthony Burgess

  Wine, Orange, Bird

  Stanley Kubrick, Anthony Burgess (1972). “A clockwork orange”, HarperCollins Publishers

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• A poem is a spider web
  Spun with words of wonder,
  Woven lace held in place
  By whispers made of thunder.

  Charles Ghigna

  Woven, Spiders, Lace

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• The most exquisite folly is made of wisdom spun too fine.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Wise, Wisdom, Made

  Benjamin Franklin (1998). “Benjamin Franklin Wit and Wisdom”, p.24, Peter Pauper Press, Inc.

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• 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

  Long Distance Relationship, Sports, Fall

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• 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

  Queens, Years, Chicago

  Broadway World Interview, www.broadwayworld.com. July 25, 2003.

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• I have a movie coming out called Spun, which will be at the Toronto Film Fest.

  Eric Roberts

  Toronto, Film, Coming Out

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• My blood rose, mixing with my lingering fear of the unknown to drive her to a fever pitch. Her lips touched my lower neck and vertigo spun the room, burning tracings of desire to settle deep and low in me. I exhaled into the promise of more to come, calling it to me. I breathed it in like smoke, the rising passion starting a feeling of abandonment inside. I didn’t care anymore if it was right or wrong. It just was.

  Kim Harrison

  Passion, Blood, Rose

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• Bass! How low can you go?
  Death row...what a brother know.
  Once again, back is the incredible,
  The rhyme animal, the uncannable "D!"
  Public Enemy Number One.
  Five-O said, "Freeze!" and I got numb.
  Can I tell 'em that I really never had a gun?
  But it's the wax that the Terminator X spun.

  Chuck D

  Brother, Rap, Animal

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• That which will not be spun, let it not come betweene the spindle and the distaffe.

  George Herbert

  George Herbert (1874). “The Complete Works of George Herbert: Prose”, p.348

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• I fell into that kiss like Alice into Wonderland, headfirst and flailing, heart pounding the whole time. The world spun around me and still I fell, and I only crashed down to earth again when someone called my name.

  Rachel Vincent

  Heart, Kissing, Names

  Rachel Vincent (2011). “If I Die”, p.206, Harlequin

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• 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

  Sea, Laughing, Enemy

  Jim Butcher (2010). “Changes: A Novel of the Dresden Files”, p.324, Penguin

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• According to science, the universe began as a swirl of gas that, as it cooled, spun off the Ten Commandments.

  Robert Breault

  Religion, Swirls, Gas

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• 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

  Simple, Community, World

  Mary E DeMuth (2012). “Everything: What You Give and What You Gain to Become Like Jesus”, p.5, Thomas Nelson

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• The trombones crunched redgold under my bed, and behind my gulliver the trumpets three-wise silverflamed, and there by the door the timps rolling through my guts and out again crunched like candy thunder. Oh, it was wonder of wonders. And then, a bird of like rarest spun heavenmetal, or like silvery wine flowing in a spaceship, gravity all nonsense now, came the violin solo above all the other strings, and those strings were like a cage of silk around my bed. Then flute and oboe bored, like worms of like platinum, into the thick thick toffee gold and silver. I was in such bliss, my brothers.

  Anthony Burgess

  Wise, Brother, Wine

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• 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. Okay, so I should revise my standards; I'm out of step. I should yield to reality. I have never yielded to reality. That's what SF is all about. If you wish to yield to reality, go read Philip Roth; read the New York literary establishment mainstream bestselling writers

  Philip K. Dick

  New York, Writing, Reality

  Philip K. Dick (2007). “Vintage PKD”, p.126, Vintage

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• Imagination transforms one substance into another. It changes what is into what might be, what was into what might have been. Straw becomes gold, gold straw, and neither is more real nor, I submit, more precious than the other. Pebbles turn into luminous pearls and pearls into little gray rocks, both solid and beautiful, both essential. Human beings take shape from clay, angels' wings are spun out of water, fire gives rise to the long tongues of demons, love emerges out of thin air, and the basic elements reconstitute themselves again and again.

  Steve Rasnic Tem

  Beautiful, Real, Angel

  Steve Rasnic Tem, Melanie Tem (2008). “The Man on the Ceiling”, Wizards of the Coast Discoveries

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• Poetry comes fine-spun from a mind at peace.

  Ovid

  Poetry, Mind, Fine

  Ovid (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ovid (Illustrated)”, p.1299, Delphi Classics

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• At daybreak Morn shall come to meIn raiment of the white winds spun.

  Madison Cawein

  Wind, White, Daybreak

  Madison Julius Cawein, “Quiet”

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• Now there are three guys who directed "Twilight" films that had a gross of a gazillion dollars. All those "Hunger Games" guys, the "Divergent" guys. All those people. When they are looking for the next big director, they see they have a track record. So there's 20 people that spun off of "Twilight" that have more qualifications than any woman.

  Catherine Hardwicke

  Twilight, Games, People

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• I was working with these very long-chain ... extended-chain polymers, where you had a lot of benzene rings in them. ... Transforming a polymer solution from a liquid to a fiber requires a process called spinning. ... We spun it and it spun beautifully. It [Kevlar] was very strong and very stiff-unlike anything we had made before. I knew that I had made a discovery. I didn't shout "Eureka!" but I was very excited, as was the whole laboratory excited, and management was excited, because we were looking for something new. Something different. And this was it.

  Stephanie Kwolek

  Strong, Science, Discovery

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• There is nothing so absurd as knowledge spun too fine.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Knowledge, Absurd, Fine

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• There are clearly times when quieting down and bringing our energy back into ourselves is a step toward inner peace.
  
  Yet the most powerful life is not one in which we bring ourselves back to our center when we have spun away from it, but rather one in which we seek to live from that center at all times.

  Marianne Williamson

  Powerful, Inner Peace, Energy

  Marianne Williamson (2004). “Everyday Grace: Having Hope, Finding Forgiveness, and Making Miracles”, p.51, Penguin

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• Love only what befalls you and is spun for you by fate.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Love, Fate

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