#spin

One man's poison ivy is another man's spinach. ↗

My own work in spin glass and its consequences has formed some of the intellectual basis for these interests. ↗

#consequences #formed #glass #intellectual #interests

Modern invention has banished the spinning wheel, and the same law of progress makes the woman of today a different woman from her grandmother. ↗

— Susan B. Anthony

#different #grandmother #her #invention #law

Most shows, you really have to force it. And everybody's nervous, and the network is nervous, and they've all got their notepads out, and they're all going to give notes on what they think is funny, and everybody's trying to spin their jokes, and this was so - the script was so good that we didn't have to really do anything, and it made it so easy for us to do well. ↗

— Will Arnett

#easy #everybody #force #funny #give

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. ↗