Spin Quotes

Spin Quotes by Ravichandran Ashwin, David Gemmell, Chad Smith, Craig David, Pete Burns, Liev Schreiber and many others.

I did give leg-spin a try as well. I used to play a lot of under-arm cricket in the streets of Chennai. I can spin the legbreak a mile. But when I tried it, a lot of people discouraged me saying it was very difficult.
Our modern world, though infinitely more complex than that of ancient Greece, is also far more superficial. Where the Greeks offered simple psychological training, we live in an age of style and spin in which perceptions of good and evil slither and shift with the political view of the moment.
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.
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.
How did I write ‘Spin Me?’ I listened to Luther Vandross’s ‘I Wanted Your Love.’
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.
Let the great world spin for ever down the ringing grooves of change.
Now he must not go the wrong way round the circuit, and unless he can spin himself stationary through 360 degrees I fail to see how he can avoid doing so.
For me the trickiest thing is figuring out the spin and loft.
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 developed the Clock Theory to help me time records; you know, spin the record back two revolutions or whatever and then play the break, spin the other one back two, play, like that.
I remain terrified of the capacity of the media, the capacity of spin doctors, here and abroad, particularly the United States media, to perpetuate false lies, perpetuate lies.
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!
Sometimes I loved the disruptive student in class who livened up lectures with wisecracks – it put a spin on things, added flavor, made me laugh. Other times, I wished the heckler would just shut up so I could learn something.
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.
We live – on a spinning planet in a world of spin.
I love taking my bike for a spin during my free time.
When a person makes a decision, people will always want a reason they understand, so they’ll put a negative spin on things.
Once I have a hook I think has potentialenough 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.
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.
‘Spin City’ was a really wonderful time for me. I made friends for life on that show. I made friends with Richard Kind, Michael Boatman, Barry Bostwick, Sandy Chaplin. We’re all close. It was a really wonderful time.
The U.S. invaded the wrong country, destroying an odious government that was not responsible for 9/11. I don’t know how you recover from invading the wrong country, no matter how you spin it.
Well, I’ve always prefered playing spin off the back foot because, to my mind, it takes short leg and silly point out of the equation.
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 gene ‘klotho’ was named after the Greek Fate purported to spin the thread of life, because it contributes to longevity.
The spot paintings and spin paintings were trying to find mechanical ways to make paintings.
I’m a work in progress. I’ve started doing spin classes, which always clears my head.
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.
The good kind of spin – backspin – comes from hitting the ball cleanly, then making a divot after impact.
My serve can get better, for sure. It’s not just about serving bombs, but positioning, variation in speed, in spin.
I really don’t have a lot of interest in national politics, and it’s because I’m a skeptic. I think you can accomplish a lot more locally. I don’t want to spin the wheels and not get anything done.
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.
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.
Donald Trump, in my judgment, would make a perilous world even more dangerous. I worry that his tendency to lash out and his ill-informed comments would cause dangerous events to escalate and possibly spin out of control at a time when our world is beset with conflicts.
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.
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.
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.
We should stop selecting leaders from a subset of Oxbridge egomaniacs with a humanities degree and a spell as spin doctor.
Conditions dictate how much fast bowling you face compared to how much spin you face.
‘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.
I love to do Pilates, Bar Method, and spin. I’m addicted.
If you think the Obama White House and Ben Rhodes lying to the American people about Iran – and laughing about it – was bad, just wait until Hillary Clinton‘s spin doctors get hold of the media.
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 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.
I feel like my comedy voice is to take the news and everything that’s happening and put a funny spin on it or to pick out the things I find funny about it.
Directing is mystifying. It’s a long, long, skid on an icy road, and you do the best you can trying to stay on the road… If you’re still here when you come out of the spin, it’s a relief. But you’ve got to have the terror if you’re going to do anything worthwhile.
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.
Sob, heavy world Sob as you spin, Mantled in mist Remote from the happy.
I love the way managers and coaches can spin people signing a new contract into telling us it’s a transfer, ‘these are our transfers.’
I generally have been a good player of spin.
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.
I always go for ‘SPIN’ magazine because I’m such a music buff.
I think Augusta will be a really good course for me because I hit the ball very high, and I’ll be able to hit some shorter irons into those firm and fast greens, so having maximum spin won’t hurt.
A man of great memory without learning hath a rock and a spindle and no staff to spin.
Certain people in politics and the press felt there was a political spin to ‘Cardiac Arrest,’ but there was no political agenda to what I was doing.
It appears to me that almost any man may like the spider spin from his own inwards his own airy citadel.
Some of the most fun I’ve ever had has been filming ‘Bert the Conqueror.’ As a stand-up comedian, I love putting this humorous spin on travel, and I get the added bonus of using all these wild adventures in my act.
I have found great power in taking my ‘difference‘ out for a spin in a very public way. And usually, the worst, most personally embarrassing thing you imagine in your mind is often not anywhere near as bad in real life.
Sandy Koufax is a great teacher. He just talks about competitiveness and being aggressive – about stride length, power, how to spin the breaking ball. The way he explains pitching is simple, which is something you don’t see a lot.
When you have an audience standing and screaming the entire way through the short program and cheering every element you do, whether it’s footwork, or spin, or a jump, to have that kind of emotion coming at you from every direction in the building, it’s the most amazing sensation you can get as a sportsman.
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.
We’re adding a billion people every decade. We’re just spin doctors. Whatever we do is supposedly great, and yet it’s always at the expense of diversity and nature. We’re like elephants. The ecology of the elephant is more similar to human than any other.
I grip very close to the butt of the racket. This allows me to get a lot of wrist action to create more spin and whip.
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.
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.
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.
In my comedy, I’m not always trying to say something, but when I’m playing a creepy dude, you’re laughing because you know that creepy dude. You’ve heard that dude say something awful, and I’m just putting a little creative spin on it.
A little acting debut in Spin City, with Michael J. Fox, which opened up a whole new door for me.
There’s absolutely nothing irrational about me; insane, yes, irrational, no. But my dumbest fear would be spinning in the magic tea cups. Who the hell wants to pay to spin around like a bent yoyo for laughs?
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.
When you’re actually president, the spin matters a lot less.
In my fairly disorganized life, yellow stickies are too easily lost, and as for software, I try to avoid using my computer as much more than a typewriter and a post office. I rely on my lifelong habit of daydreaming to spin my stories.
Public policy is designed by spin doctors who aim to keep our heads below the water. The public good is not a consideration, and their self-serving agendas prevail over common sense.
Literature is an easier way to study acting, because then you can take any kind of 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.
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.
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!
We live – on a spinning planet in a world of spin.
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 want to connect all these musical worlds together. We just improvise; we know straight away if its going to work or not. They’re not covers – I hate the word cover. We do a transcription: mix it up, put our own spin on it. I think people will be surprised how powerful our show is.
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.
I won’t go up in a plane, but if a play crashes, I’ll jump into the next one that comes along and take it up for a spin.
Paul Muni
I generally have been a good player of spin.
It is part of politics to make things look better than they really are. What is a spin doctor but a serial euphemiser?
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.
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.
You can spin stories out of the ways people understand and misunderstand each other.
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.
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.
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.
You can get a good handle on a company‘s culture before you even get inside the building. For example, when companies say, ‘We value our employees‘ but have reserved parking spots, a private cafeteria, and over-the-top offices for the executives, that tells you more than any PR spin.
Being nice can be funny. A lot of my jokes are like, ‘Let me take a bad situation and try to put the best spin on it.’
‘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 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.
I do spin class at 7 A.M.
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 think the combo of spin and yoga is a yin and yang thing. It’s very important to have balance. I like to bring energy to yoga, and spinning gets you very connected to your core.
Most of ‘Let the Great World Spin’ is centered on the day in 1974 when Philippe Petit walked on a tightrope between the two towers of the World Trade Center, creating an astonishing spectacle that intersects with the lives of many of the novel‘s multiple protagonists.
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.
Spin is ‘something is beautiful because we say it’s beautiful.’
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.
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.
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.
Each black hole spins on its axis like the Earth spins. That spin creates two vortexes of twisting space, somewhat like vortexes in a bathtub or a whirlpool.
A man of great memory without learning hath a rock and a spindle and no staff to 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.
Small samples in the centrifuge will spin at varying rates to create synthetic gravity, like the gravity of Mars or the gravity of the moon, and measure how the specimens respond within the centrifuge.
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.
Obama and his staff’s sheer disrespect for the presidency is probably causing the Gipper to spin in his grave.
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.
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.
That’s the thing with ‘Lost’: you can put a spin on so many things.
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.
You can spin stories out of the ways people understand and misunderstand each other.
We each have our own style but yeah, when you boil it down like there are certain things that human beings just are predisposed to laugh at and we’re just kind of all putting our own spin on it.
When you spin a globe and point to a city and actually go to that city, you build an allowance of missed opportunities on the back end.
I have never really gotten to write Catwoman. She’s one of the few iconic females at DC, along with Supergirl, that I haven’t really gotten to take out for a spin.
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.
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 grew up in an era where the perfect drive was a line drive, with quite a bit more spin.
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.
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.
Healthy debate has been replaced by automatic sensors that eliminate the need for actual talking during a filibuster – a la ‘Mr. Smith Goes to Washington.’ Robust debate is necessary in a democratic society. Instead, our discourse has been relegated to media spin by expert entertainers.
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.
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.
Players who win on a clay surface are those who can control the ball, playing steadily and accurately from the back-court, keeping the ball in play and moving it around with changes of speed and spin, and resisting the temptation to over-hit.
In fact, as a spin bowler, you have to work on the batsman over after over.
It appears to me that almost any man may like the spider spin from his own inwards his own airy citadel.
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.
People ask how I can be a conservative and still want higher taxes. It makes my head spin, and I guess it shows how old I am. But I thought that conservatives were supposed to like balanced budgets. I thought it was the conservative position to not leave heavy indebtedness to our grandchildren.
I experimented with every kind of class possible – yoga, spin, Pilates, rowing – but it was all haphazard, cobbled together by trial and error.
Trump wants to repeal birthright citizenship for children of illegal aliens, so Fox has joined conventional liberal opinion in opposing it. Welcome to Fox’s My Spin Zone.
I realized the world spins without me having to spin it.
Every audition is different, but I get incredibly nervous and insecure and worked up for however long I have to prep – that’s when I get to spin. But you’re not allowed to spin once you enter the room. Doubt really can’t enter the room when you’re auditioning – unless it’s part of the character.
People ask how I can be a conservative and still want higher taxes. It makes my head spin, and I guess it shows how old I am. But I thought that conservatives were supposed to like balanced budgets. I thought it was the conservative position to not leave heavy indebtedness to our grandchildren.
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.
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.
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.
Fast bowling is an art, like spin bowling.
Ordinary photons do have spin, they have a notion of helicity so they spin around their direction on motion.
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.
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.
I try to put a positive spin on things.
When you’re actually president, the spin matters a lot less.
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.
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.
People shouldn’t look at me and think life is one big piece of glamour. That’s the marketing, the spin. Life is challenging. But I have courage, strength, and enough good health to see the positive.
A little acting debut in Spin City, with Michael J. Fox, which opened up a whole new door for me.
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.
The media loves negative spin.
I love to do spin classes, go for a hike, box, or do hot yoga.
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 realized the world spins without me having to spin it.
The spin overwhelms the substance. That’s very clearly what happened.
Joseph C. Wilson
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.
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.
You could go out on a Sunday spin in Carrick-on-Suir, and it’s a small town, but you could have 80 riders. That wouldn’t even be everyone, in the group. It’s just such a good environment to bring guys through, the support and the experience.
One mistake with beginners in writing is, that they think it important to spin out something long. It is a great deal better not to write more than a page or two, unless you have something to say, and can write it correctly.
I’m really looking at questions of power, navigation, and spin. Then I am also looking for real-world stories that give me greater insight into smart and new ways of thinking.
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.
Fans booing when a ball was passed backwards used to spin me out. Theyd rather cheer a right winger, running 100mph down the flank and then crossing into the stand. Thats no good.
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.
I try to put a positive spin on things.
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.
The principal reason for the universe‘s poker face is that its constituents are far away. Stars careen through space, and galaxies spin at speeds thousands of times faster than a jet plane. But given their distance, you’d need the patience of Job to notice much change in their appearance or position.
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.
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.’
Sometimes you have to stutter step; sometimes you have to spin inside. You have to run some games.
I developed the Clock Theory to help me time records; you know, spin the record back two revolutions or whatever and then play the break, spin the other one back two, play, like that.
Fast bowling is an art, like spin bowling.
New terms used like, ‘overseas contingency operation‘ instead of the word ‘war‘ – that reflects a worldview that is out of touch with the enemy that we face. We can’t spin our way out of this threat.
I like to think about stringing songs together like a string of pearls, or a string of beads, but ultimately it has to be stuff that really works with the band, and gives a spin to the older material.
‘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.
Players who win on a clay surface are those who can control the ball, playing steadily and accurately from the back-court, keeping the ball in play and moving it around with changes of speed and spin, and resisting the temptation to over-hit.
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.
Perhaps the greatest challenge for the resolution of a systemic global bank is the possibility that public or private actors in different countries might take local actions that would cause the overall resolution to spin out of control.