#spin

If we just sit and exist, and understand that, I think it will be helpful in a world that seems like a record that's going faster and faster, we're spinning off the edge of the universe. ↗

— Martin Scorsese

#exist #faster #going #helpful #i

At home I've got 1,500 cook books and the spines have all gone, the pages are all torn - it's chaos. ↗

— Heston Blumenthal

#chaos #cook #gone #got #home

Let the great world spin for ever down the ringing grooves of change. ↗

— Alfred Lord Tennyson

#down #ever #great #grooves #ringing

The media loves negative spin. ↗

— Chloe Sevigny

#media #negative #spin

I was about 12 years old and I was sitting watching the television and it was some kind of talent show, you know, and on marches this monkey, this ape, in a pair of red-checked trousers with a little matching jacket holding a ukelele and it started jigging around playing it, and it was looking straight into the camera, straight at me, and I remember thinking, that's it, that'll be me, you know, that'll be me. ↗

— Nick Cave

#nick-cave #spin-magazine #television #music

I've reduced a lot of the stress in my life. I've gotten rid of a lot of things. The light was turned on and a lot of the cockroaches started spinning. I swept them out the door. And sometimes you just have to throw things out because they carry a certain energy. ↗

— Wesley Snipes

#carry #certain #cockroaches #door #energy

I now understood the secret of music and knew what makes it so infinitely superior to all the other arts: its incorporeality. Once it has left an instrument it becomes its own master, a free and independent creature of sound, weightless, incorporeal and perfectly in tune with the universe. ↗

— Walter Moers

#the-city-of-dreaming-books #walter-moers #art

Part of the art of bowling spin is to make the batsman think something special is happening when it isn't. ↗

— Shane Warne

#cricket #deception #spin-bowling #sport #art

You said you survived, Anna, but you didn't. You triumphed. Everything about you is a testament to courage and strength." When she stared at him, obviously stunned, he smiled a little. "You didn't get either from a social worker or a counselor. They just helped you figure out how to use it. I figure you got it from your mother. She must have been a hell of a woman." "She was," Anna murmured, near tears again. "So are you. ↗

— Nora Roberts

#cameron-quinn #courage

No one who writes a good book is really dead. ↗

— Walter Moers

#the-city-of-dreaming-books #walter-moers #zamonia #dreams