Spinning

Let anyone try to cut a thought across the middle and get a look at its section, and he will see how difficult the introspective observation. . . . is. The rush of the thought is always so headlong that it almost always brings us up at the conclusion before we can arrest it. [Introspective analysis] is in fact like seizing a spinning top to catch its motion, or trying to turn up the gas quickly enough to see how the darkness looks.
~ William James

As long as the world is turning and spinning, we're gonna be dizzy and we're gonna make mistakes.
~ Mel Brooks

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.
~ Graham Nash

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

Talking, talking. Spinning a web of words, pale walls of dreams, between myself and all I see.
~ John Gardner

We are reinventing the world. We've set the ball spinning with little concern for where and how it's going to stop.
~ Daniel Keys Moran