#spin

I don't like when people try to put a spin and have a second agenda to make a person look bad. ↗

— Robert Atkins

#bad #i #like #look #make

To my mind the defining characteristic of our era is spin, everything tailored to vanishing point by market research, brands and bands manufactured to precise specifications; we are so used to things transmuting into whatever we would like them to be that it comes as a profound outrage to encounter death, stubbornly unspinnable, only and immutably itself. ↗

— Tana French

#spin #death

In fact, as a spin bowler, you have to work on the batsman over after over. ↗

— Richie Benaud

#bowler #fact #in fact #over #spin

It's not magic! It's physics. The speed of the turn is what keeps you upright. It's like a spinning top. ↗

— Deborah Bull

#like #magic #physics #speed #spinning

Imperfection clings to a person, and if they wait till they are brushed off entirely, they would spin for ever on their axis, advancing nowhere. ↗

— Thomas Carlyle

#axis #brushed #clings #entirely #ever

You can free yourself from aging by reinterpreting your body and by grasping the link between belief and biology. ↗

— Deepak Chopra

#belief #between #biology #body #free

I like women who can throw a ball and laugh loud and have some spine, and I like men who don't mind cooking dinner. ↗

— Paula Cole

#cooking #dinner #i #laugh #like

I had that upbringing. Of watching 'Bonanza,' watching 'Hee Haw,' which both black and white would watch. I rode horses. I did gun spinning as a kid. I do these things. ↗

— Jamie Foxx

#black and white #both #did #gun #had

Memory depends very much on the perspicuity, regularity, and order of our thoughts. Many complain of the want of memory, when the defect is in the judgment; and others, by grasping at all, retain nothing. ↗

— Thomas Fuller

#defect #depends #grasping #judgment #many

All species capable of grasping this fact manage better in the struggle for existence than those which rely upon their own strength alone: the wolf, which hunts in a pack, has a greater chance of survival than the lion, which hunts alone. ↗

— Christian Lous Lange

#better #capable #chance #existence #fact