Famous quotes containing the word spinning:
“I claim that in losing the spinning wheel we lost our left lung. We are, therefore, suffering from galloping consumption. The restoration of the wheel arrests the progress of the fell disease.”
—Mohandas K. Gandhi (18691948)
“The end of all stories, even if the writer forebears to mention it, is death, which is where time stops short. Sheherezade knew this, which is why she kept on spinning another story out of the bowels of the last one, never coming to a point where she could say: This is the end. Because it would have been.”
—Angela Carter (19401992)
“Reason is an exception in me, too, said Zarathustra: Chaos and necessity and spinning starsthat is also the rule in the wisest world.”
—Friedrich Nietzsche (18441900)
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