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“Talking, talking. Spinning a web of words, pale walls of dreams, between myself and all I see.”

Dream Talking Wall Pale Spinning Prison Walls City Walls Spinning Around Pale Skin Spinning Tops

Book:Grendel

Source: Grendel

“I walk into a kids' store, and it's amazing, the types of instruments - little squeaky things, rattling things, spinning tops.”

Littles Kids Walks Type Instruments Stores Spinning Spinning Around Spinning Tops

Author:Evelyn Glennie

“I feel like a spinning top or a DreidelThe spinning don't stop when you leave the cradleYou just slow downRound and around this world you goSpinning through the lives of the people you knowWe all slow down.”

People World Feels This World Slow Down Spinning Spinning Tops

Author:Don McLean

“Only the flowing water is pure and sweet. Only the spinning top and the moving bicycle do not fall over. Rest is not found in irregular and purposeless motion, nor is it stagnation; all real and firm rest is to be sought in harmonious action.”

Real Action Moving Fall Found Water Sweet Pure Firm Spinning Bicycle Harmonious Stagnation Flowing Water Spinning Tops

Author:Anna Brackett

“It's not magic! It's physics. The speed of the turn is what keeps you upright. It's like a spinning top.”

Turns Magic Dance Speed Physics Spinning Spinning Tops

Author:Deborah Bull

“What we choose to emphasize in this complex history will determine our lives. If we see only the worst, it destroys our capacity to do something. If we remember those times and places--and there are so many--where people have behaved magnificently, this gives us the energy to act, and at least the possibility of sending this spinning top of a world in a different direction.”

Source: A Power Governments Cannot Suppress