#spin

If every human being disappeared off the face of the earth in an instant, the earth would still keep spinning and the planet would develop new life forms. ↗

— Graham Nash

#develop #disappeared #earth #every #face

When I want a long ball, I spin my hips faster. ↗

— Jack Nicklaus

#faster #hips #i #long #spin

New terms used like, 'overseas contingency operation' instead of the word 'war' - that reflects a worldview that is out of touch with the enemy that we face. We can't spin our way out of this threat. ↗

— Sarah Palin

#enemy #face #instead #like #new

My tides were fluctuating, too - back and forth, back and forth - sometimes so fast they seemed to be spinning. They call this 'rapid cycling.' It's a marvel that a person can appear to be standing still when the mood tides are sloshing back and forth, sometimes sweeping in both directions at once. They call that a 'mixed state.' ↗

— Jane Pauley

#back #both #call #cycling #directions

Ordinary photons do have spin, they have a notion of helicity so they spin around their direction on motion. ↗

— Roger Penrose

#direction #motion #notion #ordinary #spin

I know how easy it is for one to stay well within moral, ethical, and legal bounds through the skillful use of words - and to thereby spin, sidestep, circumvent, or bend a truth completely out of shape. To that extent, we are all liars on numerous occasions. ↗

— Sidney Poitier

#bounds #completely #easy #ethical #extent

Wherefore the mere practical architect is not able to assign sufficient reasons for the forms he adopts; and the theoretic architect also fails, grasping the shadow instead of the substance. ↗

— Marcus V. Pollio

#also #architect #assign #fails #forms

And when they do spin out of control there are important ramifications that affect America, not just its direct national interest but its broader interests as a nation which has thought of itself as a beacon to other nations, of freedom, liberty, democracy, whatever. ↗

— John Pomfret

#america #beacon #broader #control #democracy

Nothing scares me, because I used to think I was indestructible. Now I know I'm indestructible, not to mention my spine is indestructible. It's all titanium. ↗

— Jason Priestley

#i #indestructible #know #me #mention

Never eat spinach just before going on the air. ↗

— Dan Rather

#before #eat #going #just #never