From the outside, it looks like I’ve got my life sorted, but all too often I find myself awake at night, worrying about keeping all those spinning plates in the air.
One idea I explore in my stand-up show is whether, if you try looking at the universe rationally and avoid coping mechanisms like mysticism or religion, you can still be happy knowing you are going to die after a brief time on this spinning ball.
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.
Someone with a figure like Jennifer Aniston has a trainer, a cook spinning out some version of the latest diet, and probably a stop at the tanning salon.
I’ve never been a big fan of subtle art. I like art that gets deep into my head and starts my brain spinning with new ideas and inspiration and my whole body is full of energy.
Modern invention has banished the spinning wheel, and the same law of progress makes the woman of today a different woman from her grandmother.
The world doesn’t stop spinning for anybody.
People ask us a lot about the notion of spinning AWS off. We have no plans to do so. I will never say never, but there’s no compelling reason. Amazon has been so generous and gracious in aggressively funding AWS that there’s no reason to do it.
My music is like a spinning ball. It can turn in one direction, and then it comes back to origins.
The planet’s spinning a thousand miles an hour around this gigantic nuclear explosion while these people roll these machines with rubber tires over this hard surface that we’ve laid down over the planet so that we can easily move ourselves back and forth.
I can do back fists, spinning kicks. I have more options, and I can show the better striking.
The chance of messing up and falling significantly increases when you’re flipping through the air three times while spinning and trying to grab your skis.
It’s not magic! It’s physics. The speed of the turn is what keeps you upright. It’s like a spinning top.
We are reinventing the world. We’ve set the ball spinning with little concern for where and how it’s going to stop.
I actually love spinning for relaxation and to keep my body healthy, but besides that, I love exploring new restaurants.
We have to get out of this cultural mindset of putting badges on ourselves and playing the martyr spinning 1,000 plates. We need to be spinning six plates, and doing it well. Otherwise plates tumble and break.
If every human being disappeared off the face of the earth in an instant, the earth would still keep spinning and the planet would develop new life forms.
We have to get out of this cultural mindset of putting badges on ourselves and playing the martyr spinning 1,000 plates. We need to be spinning six plates, and doing it well. Otherwise plates tumble and break.
People ask us a lot about the notion of spinning AWS off. We have no plans to do so. I will never say never, but there’s no compelling reason. Amazon has been so generous and gracious in aggressively funding AWS that there’s no reason to do it.
In ‘The One Who Falls,’ three women and three men, in everyday clothes, negotiate each other while moving, often in unison, on a giant spinning tile.
Peace is not a state – it is a choice, and you have to remake it every day. It’s possible to get a sort of stability, a habit of peace, but it’s like an egg balanced, spinning, on its point: lose your momentum, and your equilibrium is gone, too.
Going out and being nice to the world at large doesn’t make me feel good, so I replace that with things, with technology that does get me excited and does get my brain spinning, until one day it stops spinning, and then you can bury 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.
Even if the world just keep spinning, I always got something to talk about because the world so crazy.
I don’t like giving names to generations. It’s like trying to read the song title on a record that’s spinning.
For an hour every day, I did something. I was on the elliptical or the treadmill, and if someone asked me to go to a class – whether it was spinning, boxing, yoga, you name it – I went. By the end of the month, I felt so good, I just kept going. I didn’t want to lose my momentum.
We live – on a spinning planet in a world of spin.
I’ve been lucky to work with people that I like most of the time. If I don’t like them, I’ll play head games with them to get their minds spinning.
Remember how you used to be able to feel your bed breathing and the walls spinning when you were a kid?
I love yoga, pilates, boxing, spinning, and weight lifting and tend to do a mix of them all.
I grew up in the ’70s, early ’80s as a kid, and when we first immigrated to this country I went to a 7-Eleven and for the first time in my life I saw… back in the day they had this little spinning comic book rack, and there were comic books and I was basically drawn to them.
I’ll catch a 25-yard pass and, typically, I’m spinning the ball and I’ll be looking at the fans to try and pump them up.
For ‘Death Car’ I had three vehicles for the leading lady, because you never know when something is going to go wrong. You can blow a tire or start spinning around and hit a lamppost.
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?
I have late onset ADHD. I take on too much and end up spinning plates, but it’s entertaining, and it helps you make quick connections if you’re a comedian, if you have a brain that can dance around too much.
I’m from the Midwest, and guys like me don’t go on diets. We don’t do well on spinning classes.
All my male friends are into fitness and though I go gymming and swimming, I find yoga and spinning at the gym very boring.
Talking, talking. Spinning a web of words, pale walls of dreams, between myself and all I see.
As long as the world is turning and spinning, we’re gonna be dizzy and we’re gonna make mistakes.
As long as the world keeps spinning, I’ll keep riffing.
In my better sense of mind, I know that I’m far from alone and far from the worst, and the earth keeps spinning. Everything keeps moving, with or without me.
If something bothers you, focus on the solution or the desired outcome, not the part that has you spinning out in the middle of the night.
I always dreamt of being a girl. One of my earliest memories is spinning around in my mom’s skirt trying to look like a ballerina.
I do plenty of workouts – HIIT, spinning classes, Pilates, yoga.
I am the man who stands on the stage spinning plates on the top of poles. Every now and then the PM gives me another plate and I have to keep that going as well.
I’ve reduced a lot of the stress in my life. I’ve gotten rid of a lot of things. The light was turned on and a lot of the cockroaches started spinning. I swept them out the door. And sometimes you just have to throw things out because they carry a certain energy.
I have late onset ADHD. I take on too much and end up spinning plates, but it’s entertaining, and it helps you make quick connections if you’re a comedian, if you have a brain that can dance around too much.
Spinning has been such an amazing part of my exercise. I love the music, the energy, and the sweat. It’s a tough class, which makes me feel like I’ve really accomplished something. It’s a great way to burn fat and lean out the body. An all-around win!
I try to get in one, one-hour spinning class per week.
Times might be tough, your head and thoughts might be spinning, but I find it’s physically impossible to do that spiral thing when your mind is focused on giving and creating opportunity.
I finished Edson Barboza in a d’arce choke. What else do you want? He’s very hard to take down. Spinning heel kicks, spinning kicks. I took some of his most powerful shots and I just kept coming forward. I’m the Boogeyman out there.
I walk into a kids’ store, and it’s amazing, the types of instruments – little squeaky things, rattling things, spinning tops.
A lot of problems get solved in those sort of in-between moments when your subconscious has been working on some problem. If you keep it spinning, you can fix ideas sometimes better than if you focus on them directly.
Bowling was my natural skill. I didn’t know how I was doing it, but I was spinning it miles and bamboozling people.
I love Pilates, yoga, and spinning.
I think, sometimes, when you get a part, you’re almost cooked. You’re ready to go, and you know that you can start spinning plates and put your stamp on things.
When I DJ, I got my own catalog to play in the club. I’m spinning my own records like it’s my own show.
I try to get in one, one-hour spinning class per week.
If we just sit and exist, and understand that, I think it will be helpful in a world that seems like a record that’s going faster and faster, we’re spinning off the edge of the universe.
