Top 133 Spin Quotes

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

I reached Delhi a few days early for the shooting of Gandhi, to prepare myself for the role by learning to spin the charkha, speak English correctly and take elocution lessons.

One needs to have variations. You won’t survive if you don’t have one – especially playing in India, as they are good players of spin.

Anything that’s outdoorsy and fun, like hiking, biking, running, paddleboarding, swimming in the ocean… and then I’ll mix in Pilates, yoga, spin, ballet.

President Obama has tried to spin the paltry new job creation numbers as ‘a step in the right direction.’ But, clearly, the small growth in jobs isn’t even keeping up with population growth, much less returning the workforce to a healthy level.

There’s a way that you can throw negativity out there that seems rebellious. But I’ve always taken pleasure in a different kind of rebellion, which is putting a positive spin on everything, trying to enjoy myself at all times.

My serve can get better, for sure. It’s not just about serving bombs, but positioning, variation in speed, in spin.

I had a paint pony called Half-Pint, and I rode her in Madison Square Garden, and that was my first big show. But my first real pony was this red pony called Chantal. He was absolutely amazing. He was a great pony, except he did spin me off a couple of times! I would blink, and then I would be on the floor.

You can spin stories out of the ways people understand and misunderstand each other.

I do my workouts in the morning, and often I’ll take someone from my team. The person I’m meeting with can pick the class, whether it’s a spin or barre class, or going for a power walk. It’s hard to run and talk – I haven’t mastered that yet.

Fast bowling is an art, like spin bowling.

I got to watch my heroes meet him and saw how they reacted, whether it was Joe Strummer or Tom Waits. It was peculiar. I’m so stoked to meet Tom Waits, and he’s so nervous to meet my dad. It’s a head spin.

A little acting debut in Spin City, with Michael J. Fox, which opened up a whole new door for me.

You know the circus performer who spins the plates in the air you know, and he’ll spin six or seven plates in the air? Acting sometimes is kind of that guy spinning all those plates in the air but in your head and in your body.

I write in coffee shops, libraries, parks, museums. I get antsy and then get on my bike and go someplace else, letting the ideas spin around in my head as I dodge taxis.

No idea should be discarded completely, but – as one might imagine – it does take a degree of ingenuity to find a new spin on something as hackneyed as the ‘Adam and Eve’ story. But if you think you’ve got the chops for it, there’s no reason not to try.

That’s always been the driving force on the show, we’re the ones who should be getting put in bad situations not the other people, they’re more like witnesses. That’s really like the big spin that we thought was good.

‘Bring Me The Head of The Taskmaster’ is a unique chance for one person to prove they are the ultimate Tasker. This interactive book is more than just a spin off, it provides a unique ‘Taskmaster’ experience into which you can dive and then swim around in search of treasure.

I find that it’s nice to work with somebody and spin off on someone else’s feelings. You get a little jaded by yourself.

It appears to me that almost any man may like the spider spin from his own inwards his own airy citadel.

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

I think it’s really tough being in Donald Trump’s shoes, when you’ve got the media looking to put the worst possible spin to everything that you say.

I was witness to a beautiful relationship between cricketer Anil Kumble and a boy suffering from muscular dystrophy. Moved, I wrote ‘Spin’ – a small film about a cricketer and a spastic boy. But I couldn’t find backing.

I’ve had people ask me whether I’m concerned about wearing makeup into a match, for example. One year, an on-court commentator asked one of the girls to twirl after the match. Surely, he’s not going to go up to a man to ask, ‘Can you do a spin for us?’

Firstly the cars aren’t too complicated. They have no traction control, for example, which means you can spin if you try too hard and damage your tires if you’re not careful with your driving style.

There are only so many stories in the world… Duplication of plots is bound to happen because most writers have read very extensively in their genre and have become aware they are adding an extra layer to the meta-narrative, finding a new spin on the original.

Spin is a tricky thing. When you’re trying to avoid it – say, on a tee shot, where sidespin puts you in the trees – it’s easy to make it happen.

The journey of Robert the Bruce became my journey because the moral of that story – as every schoolchild is taught in Scotland – is he went into this cave and watched a spider trying to spin its web and it kept failing several times, and then it finally succeeded.

It’s awesome to see other games picking up on battle royale, adding their unique spin to it, and advancing the state of the industry.

I do spin class at 7 A.M.

I generally have been a good player of spin.

Spin rate itself doesn’t make a pitch harder to hit. It just makes it further from what the hitters are used to seeing. It takes a pitch further away from average.

I’m a huge tennis fan, so the game I play the most is ‘Top Spin.’ You really have to know how to play tennis to get good at this game – whether you want to hit a forehand or a backhand, when’s the best time to hit a slice – it’s so real.

Once I have a hook I think has potential – enough to spin out more than a hundred thousand words, then I start turning my attention to characters. Who are these people? Why did this thing happen to them? But the hook always comes first.

If you’re not vulnerable, and you’re too headstrong and clear about the path you want to take, it won’t help you grow. Vulnerability doesn’t have to be a negative thing. If you take the right spin on it, it can be extremely positive.

The old model for India was to be self-sufficient. It was the ideal India became independent with, that you spin your own thread, make your own clothes.

A man of great memory without learning hath a rock and a spindle and no staff to spin.

‘Bring Me The Head of The Taskmaster’ is a unique chance for one person to prove they are the ultimate Tasker. This interactive book is more than just a spin off, it provides a unique ‘Taskmaster’ experience into which you can dive and then swim around in search of treasure.

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.

Firstly the cars aren’t too complicated. They have no traction control, for example, which means you can spin if you try too hard and damage your tires if you’re not careful with your driving style.

For me the trickiest thing is figuring out the spin and loft.

The way that Dickens structured his books has a form that we most readily recognize now from, say, the great T.V. series, like ‘The Wire’ or ‘The Sopranos.’ There’s one central plot line, but then from that spin off all kinds of subplots.

I try to put a positive spin on things.

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

My breakdancing crew used to go to the mall and squat a piece of cardboard there; we had our jam box, and I’d spin on my head and make about forty bucks a day, which was pretty good back then. I was only 14 years old, so I would chase the girls around the mall and eat some pizza and have some change left over.

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, democracy, whatever.

Anything that’s outdoorsy and fun, like hiking, biking, running, paddleboarding, swimming in the ocean… and then I’ll mix in Pilates, yoga, spin, ballet.

When I wrote ‘Noughts and Crosses’, I was halfway through it when I realised this was very like ‘Romeo and Juliet’… as long as you make it your own, and put your own spin on it, I think it’s brilliant to use other great work to find your own voice.

I’m a work in progress. I’ve started doing spin classes, which always clears my head.

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.

To apply spin with security, you must learn to make a snug bridge with your forefinger looped over the cue. When you hit the cueball, follow straight through; don’t let your cue rise in the air after impact.

For some reason, I find jogging incredibly boring, but yoga is the only thing I’ve been able to consistently do over the years. I think it’s because it also is sort of a mental exercise and calms you and refocuses you. So I find that that’s great, and sometimes someone will drag me to a spin class or on a hike.

I just kind of talk about what’s happening in my life and it’s kind of like a therapy session. Usually something good comes out of that. Or sometimes other writers will come to me with ideas and then I’ll put my own spin on it. It’s usually really collaborative and open and it’s very therapeutic for me as well.

I try to do a variety of physical activities. I spin, take classes at Barry’s Boot Camp, go to the gym, use home DVD’s of ChaLEAN Extreme workouts, which I think are brilliant, and I run around after my three girls. Also, let’s be honest. The amount of laundry I do is an exercise in and of itself!

I maintain by going to spin four or five days a week. I love that I can get a solid butt-kicking in 40 minutes. I also strength train two or three times a week.

Nothing is worse than washing a head of lettuce or greens, then trying to blot the water with paper towels. A salad spinner lets you rinse, then spin all the water off completely. Plus, it’s fun to use.

My serve can get better, for sure. It’s not just about serving bombs, but positioning, variation in speed, in spin.

I have had moments where I’ve felt like, ‘I’m going to feel a little guilty if I don’t put the baby down for her nap today, but I really need to go to that spin class. And that’s good for my health and my mental well-being, so I think the nanny can put her down for her nap, and I’m going to be OK with that.’

Too many people don’t look at things objectively and try to see the facts; they instead look at them through their partisan lenses and try to figure out how to twist or spin them to fit their own ‘side.’

It is always challenging bowling abroad – you don’t get much spin, bounce. You do get bounce, but you don’t get sideways spin. It is always drifting kind of spin you get.

What I’m very upset about is the attempt to dictate to museums what they show, and the statements made by politicians in Washington that have curtailed the freedom of the National Endowment for the Arts. The attention to those issues is deflected by the spin of my supposedly having trivialized the Holocaust.

I wrote a song called ‘Four Times A Lady’ for Destiny’s Child, and it was perfect. But then I had to spin it back and change all the lyrics to a guy’s point of view cos I thought the track was too good to give away, heh heh. It’s Craig David now.

When I first signed to RCA, I was sort of excited and shocked that it was happening. But over the next couple of years, it really started to feel like that game you play when you’re a little kid – the one where you put your nose on a bat and then spin around and try to walk.

I work with structure, but I go outside the box and give it my own spin. I adore the challenge of creating truly modern clothes – where a woman’s personality and sense of style are realized.

Rhe language of politics is experienced by most as spin with the assumption of dishonesty.

News, after all, is a spin of words and pictures. It’s a kind of music. There are beats in a newscast, a newspaper story. Ed Murrow sounded like Ed Murrow. Huntley and Brinkley sounded different. Anderson Cooper, different still.

The truth is that we’re not remaking Sam Peckinpah’s ‘Straw Dogs,’ we’re making ‘Straw Dogs.’ We’re taking this story, and we’re putting our own spin on it. The mere fact that I have James Marsden in it is an indication that it’s a very different film than the one that had Dustin Hoffman in it.

I was obsessed with ‘Top Spin’ for some reason, and I wanted to be the best in the game. I think at one time on Xbox Live I was ranked about 60th. I just couldn’t put that one down.

Fast bowling is an art, like spin bowling.

To be sure, administrations since Ronald Reagan had gone out of their way to massage and ‘spin’ news to the president’s advantage, while the media did its best to un-spin it.

My buddy tells me a lot of interesting stories about what goes on in prison – it just makes my head spin about what they deal with on a day-to-day basis.

I met the guys through a friend of a friend, and their former drummer had quit. I wasn’t too familiar with the Chili Peppers before that, so I joined at the end of 88′ and we finished recording Mother’s Milk at the end of 89′, next thing I know I’m in Spin with a sock.

Who’s not played spin the bottle? But I never done the kiss version. I always wanted to, but I never did. We did the truth or dare one instead.

I know how easy it is for one to stay well within moral, ethical, and legal bounds through the skillful use of words – and to thereby spin, sidestep, circumvent, or bend a truth completely out of shape. To that extent, we are all liars on numerous occasions.

I generally have been a good player of spin.

I have different hats; I’m a mother, I’m a woman, I’m a human being, I’m an artist and hopefully I’m an advocate. All of those plates are things I spin all the time.

With the spin bowling, it’s about landing the ball in the right area enough, trying to build enough pressure, not let the batters get away.

In ramp skating, there’s this guy Alex Perelson who’s really coming into his own and doing some amazing new stuff we haven’t seen before. Just different types of spin.

If you do an outside spin with the ball, it’s more difficult to control it, so I try to pass it in a way that allows them to take the ball quicker in their path. That way, they may have more of an advantage to score or create themselves.

‘Press Your Luck’ was probably the most exciting because of the unpredictability of the game and how I won on one of the three days on the very last spin against all odds. It was one of those great unpredictable game show moments.

The good kind of spin – backspin – comes from hitting the ball cleanly, then making a divot after impact.

To portray an iconic character has been brilliant in itself, and to be able to do that on a show like ‘Once Upon a Time’ enhances that because the show puts a spin on characters and makes them very different and puts core values that are very different that aren’t in the original fairy tales a lot of people relate to.

I felt that ‘Deep Space’ was the way to do a spin off series of an existing franchise where you really are doing a very different show. It’s a different format. It’s a different feeling.

In fact, as a spin bowler, you have to work on the batsman over after over.

Some running backs do different things to get away. My move is to spin.

I really never thought I was that good at film. And honestly still don’t. My strength is language. My background is monologues and a certain kind of Brechtian spin on theater.

If I can go every day of the week, that’s great and I’ll do it. Usually I can’t, so it’s about 4 or 5 times a week that I’ll go to the gym. I just do cardio and make sure I tone. I love spin class and yoga and I work a lot on my legs and my abs and my arms.

Scientifically speaking, if I say something, or it gets misquoted, or people put a spin on it… I mean, are you interested, really, in what people are saying?

You know the circus performer who spins the plates in the air you know, and he’ll spin six or seven plates in the air? Acting sometimes is kind of that guy spinning all those plates in the air but in your head and in your body.

‘Let the Great World Spin’ at the end talks a lot about connections and light and possibility and the fact that the world doesn’t end. Even in the darkest times, we have to go on.

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.

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.

This is bad for policy-making – if you cover up the problems, how can you solve them? It also corrodes public trust. Government must be much more honest about the challenges facing the country, if we are to begin to tackle them. Short-term spin must give way to proper long-term strategic thinking.

I know my body’s limits. I’ve never enjoyed Spin classes, where they’re like, ‘Push it further!’ I’m like, ‘No. If I pull something, I can’t work tomorrow.’ That’s why I gave up Bikram yoga.

Conditions dictate how much fast bowling you face compared to how much spin you face.

I bet on everything. Everything. It’s just like, ‘I bet you I can spin my chair longer.’ Everything, I say ‘I bet you.’ I love to win.

Questlove redefined what a band can be, and Paul Shaffer and Max Weinberg really put their own spin on it. I bow down to these people. All of them.

We’re sort of putting a slightly different spin on Steve Rogers. He’s a guy that wants to serve his country, but he’s not a flag-waver. We’re reinterpreting, sort of, what the comic book version of Steve Rogers was.

The media loves negative spin.

I’ve heard everything that anybody can make up or spin, and I know how to cut right through and get to the heart of any issue.

I like to dress pretty basic during the day, but with a sophisticated bohemian spin, and sometimes a little rock chic. At night I like to go glamorous.

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

With any cover, I like to choose songs that affected me strongly already. So it’s tough sometimes to take a song that you love so much and put your own spin on it because you get such a strong feeling from the original.

To apply spin with security, you must learn to make a snug bridge with your forefinger looped over the cue. When you hit the cueball, follow straight through; don’t let your cue rise in the air after impact.

In skating there’s always another jump or another spin variation or another thing to learn, and that’s what I liked about it.

The spot paintings and spin paintings were trying to find mechanical ways to make paintings.

There aren’t that many people that cover my music. It’s kind of hard to cover. Everybody always has their own spin. The only guy who didn’t, I think, was Seal. It just sounded like a bad version of ‘Fly Like an Eagle.’

What’s different now is that while political leaders used to give talking points to talk radio, now talk-radio hosts are giving talking points to political leaders. It’s all part of the suffocating spin cycle we’re in. In media, politics and publishing, the conventional wisdom is to play to this base.

I’ve turned from an ordinary Australian housewife into a gigastar, icon, talk-show host, swami, spin doctor… and now I’m a style guru!

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

I’ll bike up the mountain, or I’ll do Pilates or spin.

Sob, heavy world Sob as you spin, Mantled in mist Remote from the happy.

The only description for Nolan in the script was that he’s a very bad dresser. I put on a red windbreaker and every other ugly, ill-fitting thing I could dig out. He was potentially written as a clean-cut nerd, but I wanted a darker spin.

I work with structure, but I go outside the box and give it my own spin. I adore the challenge of creating truly modern clothes – where a woman’s personality and sense of style are realized.

I’ve always been a fan of science fiction films, and I’ve never been able to put my particular spin on it.

Literature is an easier way to study acting, because then you can take any kind of spin.

With any cover, I like to choose songs that affected me strongly already. So it’s tough sometimes to take a song that you love so much and put your own spin on it because you get such a strong feeling from the original.

We live – on a spinning planet in a world of spin.

The classical art of spin bowling, how you should bowl in Test match cricket, is disappearing.

For me the trickiest thing is figuring out the spin and loft.

I was never a big networker, but I was a spin doctor, all those shock shows, that’s how I got my first backers. But fashion’s a scary industry to be in, especially if you’ve not grown up with it.

Politics is not a laboratory experiment where you can control everything. You have to take calls even when you feel that matters may spin out of your hand.

Art is not boosterism, it’s not propaganda, and it’s not spin, but that’s not something that art does, and nor has it historically ever done it.

I struggle with the idea of comparing people’s work and art. The notion of giving awards or putting a competitive spin on something that is a relative art form is sort of odd to me.

I feel that Babymetal, it’s one of my duties to pass down to future generations just how amazing metal music is, and hopefully they can put their own spin on what metal music is to them.

We live – on a spinning planet in a world of spin.

I was not a gigantic fan of ‘The A-Team’ as a kid. I was a huge ‘Miami Vice’ fan. So for me, not necessarily to say that I put a ‘Miami Vice’ish spin on ‘The A-Team,’ but for me, what I was most intrigued by was this notion of these four guys, these four kind of special operators.

We cannot allow voters to fall for the spin that a vote to leave is the only way to deal with concerns about immigration. We can do far more to address both the level and impact of immigration while remaining in the E.U.

Every meal is so important and colours the rest of your day – my whole day can go into a spin if I make the wrong choice at lunchtime!

You can spin stories out of the ways people understand and misunderstand each other.

If I can take something terrible and try and put a positive spin on it, or, or, you know, inspire somebody else that might be going through the same thing, that’s a good thing.

The political spin in Washington is revolting, just revolting. It’s a callous political game.

When a person makes a decision, people will always want a reason they understand, so they’ll put a negative spin on things.