Every age sort of has its own history. History is really the stories that we retell to ourselves to make them relevant to every age. So we put our own values and our own spin on it.
For as long as the world spins and the earth is green with new wood, she will lie in this box and not in my arms.
She lost herself in the kiss, moving her body against his, her excitement rising, the tension inside her spinning tighter and tighter.
Amazing, really, to think of what a man could achieve with the simple ability to put pen to paper and spin a decent yarn.
There's a part of me that thinks perhaps we go on existing in a place even after we've left it.
Literature can remind us that not all life is already written down: there are still so many stories to be told.
We stumble on, thinks Jaslyn, bring a little noise into the silence, find in others the ongoing of ourselves. It is almost enough.
People are good or half good or a quarter good, and it changes all the time- but even on the best day nobody's perfect.
My head spins as I glance away, refusing to get sucked back into his gaze when so much is at risk.
She realized with a sort of depressed relief that she had no close friend to call, to tell them not to worry about her.
The world is thinning and the earth...it's still spinning my world is thinning and it’s all because of one person I’m missing.
I spin worlds where we could be together. I dream you. For me, imagination and desire are very close.
I have vertigo. Vertigo makes it feel like the floor is pitching up and down. Things seem to be spinning. It's like standing on the deck of a ship in really high seas.
...they needed someone to explain, to spin, the parts of the tale that couldn't be suppressed. Someone reputable and educated. Someone brilliant yet absolutely committed to the faith. Someone like my father.
There's a way in which these guys all think absolutely media, day and night. Access is what it's all about, so they spin 24 hours a day and that's a problem.
The Gulf of Mexico, they believe, is a huge asteroid. That was an impact zone, you know that? Yeah, for that big a thing to actually hit our globe, it would have had to adjusted the spin, the axis.
I can see now that a concept or even a feeling makes no sense unless out of our substance we spin around it a web of references, of relationships, of values.
A sense of electrical current was part of my own experience of being manic. The sensation that my mind was spinning and overheating would sometimes build to a sensation like an electrical short - a burst of light, a melting, or dissipating - and I'd ...
I'm learning to hunt with rifles, because if you think about it, hunting gets you the healthiest meat - organic, free-range food. It's a totally yuppie spin on what I thought was kind of a redneck occupation.
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, dem...
I realized early on, maybe better than some of my competitors did, that a textile business can run only if you have scale. I decided to horizontally and vertically integrate, adding everything from spinning, dyeing, weaving, and stitching to processi...
