Like a cyclone, imperialism spins across the globe; militarism crushes peoples and sucks their blood like a vampire.
'Having it all' is such an intimidating concept. Just when you think you have all those plates spinning perfectly... something changes. It is a constant balancing act.
Remember how you used to be able to feel your bed breathing and the walls spinning when you were a kid?
The simplest way to do something cool is the cross-turn. Like in the '80s - Michael Jackson did it. You jump and cross your legs together at the same time, and then spin out of it. That's it.
It's not magic! It's physics. The speed of the turn is what keeps you upright. It's like a spinning top.
Mankind is not special by virtue of our address in the universe, or what spins around us, or because life originated here. Slowly, but surely, we've been compelled to renounce the comfort of these beliefs.
I do a lot of working out, but I haven't been kicking for a while, so one time I was rehearsing a spinning roundhouse and darned near threw out my leg.
Robert Frobisher: This world spins from the same unseen forces that twist our hearts.
You're always going to have detractors, and you're always going to have people who love you, and that's how it's perfectly balanced and the world spins on.
Spin Me Round was number one all over the world, everywhere. It changed the face of pop music, no question. We took technology further than Trevor Horn.
In post-Vietnam, post-Watergate America, skeptical voters demand full disclosure of everything from candidates' finances to their medical records, and spin-savvy accounts of backstage machinations dominate political coverage.
Nick Fury: Until such time as the world ends, we will act as though it intends to spin on.
The media are obsessed with spin doctors and with portraying them as a bad thing, yet seem addicted to our medicine.
I train hard Monday to Friday. I'll do weights and cardio in the gym most mornings and do a spinning class, too.
I enjoy multi-tasking, so I want to do a lot of different things. I want to keep all the plates spinning.
You and those shot-glass eyes, deep swirling pools of 80-proof firewater, with the depth and profundity of Saturn’s spinning pulsars…
Goddammit! How does the world keep spinning with women on the planet?" Ian St. John in THE POMPEII SCROLL
My own work in spin glass and its consequences has formed some of the intellectual basis for these interests.
Barbed-Wire Salesman: I've never seen a man so broken up over a woman. What did he say her name was, Cara, Sara? Older Man on Train 2: Clara. Barbed-Wire Salesman: Clara! Clara Clayton: [Clara's eyes light up and she spins around in her seat] Excuse ...
But they were not friends. They were here to keep each other from spinning off alone into the dark matter of the universe.
A moment later I am moving through space. Spinning. Twirling. Dancing. In the light.
