#spin

Looking back, I still can't believe how unprofessional the news media was. So much spin, so few hard facts. All those digestible sound bites from an army of 'experts' all contradicting one another, all trying to seem more 'shocking' and 'in-depth' than the last one. It was all so confusing, nobody seemed to know what to do. ↗

— Max Brooks

#media #news #spin #media

When Maimonides says that the Messiah will come but that 'he may tarry,' we see the origin of every Jewish shrug from Spinoza to Woody Allen. ↗

— Christopher Hitchens

#irony #judaism #maimonides #messiah #woody-allen

Spinster: a woman who wants to be free from a man’s bondage, so she goes to work for an employer and remains unburdened by someone willing to pay her mortgage. By virtue of not wading into the gene pool, she never has children who might betray her to a nursing home – her neighbors find some excuse to do that. ↗

— Bauvard

#humor #single #spinster #funny

Talking, talking. Spinning a web of words, pale walls of dreams, between myself and all I see. ↗

— John Gardner

#dreams #i #i see #myself #pale

Remember how you used to be able to feel your bed breathing and the walls spinning when you were a kid? ↗

— Lynda Barry

#bed #breathing #feel #how #kid

There are five known gyres spinning around in our world's oceans. A gyre is a slowly moving spiral of currents created by a high pressure system of air currents. A spinning soup, so to speak, is made of what exists in the water. And in this case, the gyres are spinning with millions of tons of our discarded and forgotten about plastic waste! ↗

— Brandon Boyd

#air #around #case #created #currents

That is the thing I'm most grateful for in this industry to be able to spin in those different mediums, with television, film and the stage - at this stage of the game. ↗

— Blair Underwood

#different #film #game #grateful #i

The media are obsessed with spin doctors and with portraying them as a bad thing, yet seem addicted to our medicine. ↗

— Alastair Campbell

#bad #bad thing #doctors #media #medicine

Your work is to keep cranking the flywheel that turns the gears that spin the belt in the engine of belief that keeps you and your desk in midair. ↗

— Annie Dillard

#belt #cranking #desk #engine #gears

Moving between the legs of tables and of chairs, rising or falling, grasping at kisses and toys, advancing boldly, sudden to take alarm, retreating to the corner of arm and knee, eager to be reassured, taking pleasure in the fragrant brilliance of the Christmas tree. ↗

— T. S. Eliot

#alarm #arm #between #boldly #brilliance