Churning Quotes:

I’m not going to start churning out what you expect. If you want me to be a manufactured act, you can f*** off.

- Lady Gaga

topic: Want, Churning, Ifs, If You Want Me

In order to reflect, think and plan, you must quiet yourself. You can't see your reflection in churning waters. Water must be still to see your reflection.

- Karen Hantze Susman

topic: Reflection, Thinking, Order, Churning

The churning of a human mind is unpredictable, as is the anatomy of the human heart.

- Rudy Rucker

source: "Turing & Burroughs". Book by Rudy Rucker, www.rudyrucker.com. 2012.

topic: Heart, Mind, Unpredictable, Churning

But how entirely I live in my imagination; how completely depend upon spurts of thought, coming as I walk, as I sit; things churning up in my mind and so making a perpetual pageant, which is to be my happiness.

- Virginia Woolf

source: Virginia Woolf (2003). “A Writer's Diary”, p.78, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

topic: Happy, Imagination, Mind, Churning, Pageant

Your imagination is the single most important asset you possess. Your imagination is your power to create mental pictures of things that don't exist yet and that you want to bring into being. Your imagination is what you use to shape your future. And so in your own way, you are a prophet. You generate countless predictions every day. Your imagination is the source,tirelessly churning out mental pictures of what you'll be doing in the future.

- Rob Brezsny

topic: Imagination, Important, Use, Churning

Nothing's ever the same," she said. "Be it a second later or a hundred years. It's always churning and roiling. And people change as much as oceans.

- Neil Gaiman

topic: Ocean, Years, People, Churning

In the beginning, in the time that was no time, nothing existed but the Womb. And the Womb was a limitless dark cauldron of all things in potential: a chaotic blood-soup of matter and energy, fluid as water yet mud-solid with salts of the earth; red-hot as fire yet restlessly churning and bubbling with all the winds. And the Womb was the Mother, before She took form and gave form to Existence. She was the Deep. . . .

- Barbara G. Walker

topic: Mother, Dark, Fire, Matter And Energy, Cauldrons

All of creation is alive and conscious, and all of creation deserves our burning, churning, yearning love. All of it. Not just the people and creatures and things that we personally find beautiful and helpful and interesting. But everything. All of creation.

- Rob Brezsny

topic: Beautiful, Nature, Interesting, Churning

Like a duck on the pond. On the surface everything looks calm, but beneath the water those little feet are churning a mile a minute.

- Gene Hackman

topic: Ducks, Feet, Water, Churning

My mind, I know, I can prove, hovers on hummingbird wings. It hovers and it churns. And when it's operating at full thrust, the churning does not stop. The machines do not rest, the systems rarely cool. And while I can forget anything of any importance--this is why people tell me secrets--my mind has an uncanny knack for organization when it comes to pain. Nothing tormenting is ever lost, never even diminished in color or intensity or quality of sound.

- Dave Eggers

topic: Pain, Color, Wings, Uncanny, Churning

What an anchor is to a ship, hope is to the soul. Both ships and souls are kept safe by a firm, secure anchor that keeps holding despite turbulent winds and churning tides.

- June Hunt

topic: Inspirational, Anchors, Wind, Churning

The biggest journalistic game-changer of our time has been the rise of social media and the overgrowth of faux news sources - league- and team-sponsored blogs, player tweets, fanboy sites, rumor mills - churning bits of information and speculation into a clattering fog storm. Who will cut through the drivel and whim-wham to tell us what's really going on?

- Robert Lipsyte

topic: Team, Cutting, Player, Journalistic, Churning

The vow of silence, that's the mind-blower. See, talking is what I do... i t's a real need with me, a craving, I'm like a word junkie. I never shut up. I talk to myself, I talk in my sleep. The idea of voluntarily turning off that tap, I can't imagine it It'd be like, I don't know, all the rivers in the world just slammed to a stop. No churning, no flowing, no white water, just stillness, crushing stillness. I don't think I could stand it, locked up like that in my own psyche. I'd collapse into myself, I'd implode

- Andrew Schneider

topic: Crush, Real, Sleep, White Water, Churning

It’s really hard to do nothing totally. Even just sitting here, like this, our bodies are churning, our minds are chattering. There’s a whole commotion going on inside us.

- Jerry Spinelli

source: Jerry Spinelli (2012). “The Stargirl Collection”, p.62, Knopf Books for Young Readers

topic: Mind, Sitting, Body, Churning, Stargirl

Have you ever had so much to say that your mouth closed up so tight, struggling to harness the nuclear force coalescing within your words?" -346

- Ellen Hopkins

topic: Struggle, Nuclear, Mouths, Churning

She remembered was hope was, and this was it. That inner churning that moves you forward, plows you through life the way the boats plowed the shiny water, the way the plane was plowing forward to a place new, and where she was needed.

- Elizabeth Strout

topic: Moving, Water, Plowing, Churning

You need to save some mental, physical, and emotional resources for enhancing your product after you ship. A revolution is a triathlon, not a hundred-yard dash-it requires long distance stamina and multiple skills such as creating, churning, and evangelizing.

- Guy Kawasaki

topic: Distance, Emotional, Skills, Churning, Triathlon

Great quotes make the light bulb go off in my mind. If you're like me, you'll jump at the chance to bypass all the churning and scoop the cream right off the top ~ that is what quotes are . . . the cream of our learning!

- Zig Ziglar

source: Zig Ziglar (2012). “Inspiration from the Top”, p.7, Thomas Nelson Inc

topic: Light, Mind, Bypass, Churning

Wind, weather, power, load - gradually these elements stop churning in my mind. It's less a decision of logic than a feeling, the kind of feeling that comes when you gauge the distance to be jumped between two stones across a brook. Something within you disengages itself from your body and travels ahead with your vision to make the test. You can feel it try the jump as you stand looking. Then uncertainty gives way to the conviction that it can or can't be done.

- Charles Lindbergh

topic: Distance, Wind, Weather, Churning

One reason I avoid the American TV talk show circuit, when I'm over there, is that the tabloids and the gossip mill are always churning with new, true, or untrue stories about new loves, old loves, pending marriages, divorces, trial separations, flings and affairs with people of every description. I'm not into any of that.

- George Harrison

source: Source: friarparksoulclub.tumblr.com

topic: Divorce, People, Gossip, Marriage Divorce, Old Love

Most business schools are geared toward churning out investment bankers and management consultants.

- Vivek Wadhwa

topic: School, Bankers, Management, Churning, Consultants

The propaganda machine keeps on churning out lies and deceit. And the obedient, unthinking, apathetic people in our society keep accepting it.

- Gary Yourofsky

source: Source: www.all-creatures.org

topic: Lying, People, Deceit, Apathetic, Churning

I feel it in me like a woman having a baby, all that life churning inside me. I feel it every day; it moves, stretches, yawns. It's getting ready to be born. It knows exactly what it is.

- Maurice Sendak

topic: Baby, Moving, Born, Churning

It is true that the top quintile is getting richer while the bottom is getting poorer, but the bottom is not the same people. There is, fortunately, a constant churning at the bottom as new immigrants move in and those who used to be on the bottom begin their long, thrilling upward climb to the American dream.

- Dick Morris

topic: Dream, Moving, Long, Churning

I gotta say, the Catholic Church has churned out a lot of great artists and directors and actors, so if that's all they do, that's fine by me. If they're good at churning out tortured artists, that's great!

- Paul Rust

topic: Artist, Catholic, Church, Churning, Tortured Artists

There is the churning and the boiling of the sea, and the foam on top of it and that is what man is, churning and foam together.

- Simone Schwarz-Bart

topic: Men, Sea, Together, Churning

It transmitted because on the campuses, Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee was recruiting, was organizing. Students for a Democratic Society was founded at Michigan just a couple years before I got there. So, there was a kind of a churning of political awareness. It was just beginning.

- Bill Ayers

source: Source: www.truth-out.org

topic: Couple, Years, Political, Democratic Society, Churning

I turned to the Partition experiences, which were churning in my mind. Then came my first novel Train to Pakistan.

- Khushwant Singh

source: Source: unforgettabletarun.blogspot.com

topic: Churning

I am prolific. Any rubbish I write gets published, so books keep churning out.

- Khushwant Singh

source: Source: unforgettabletarun.blogspot.com

topic: Churning

That's what I find with any good song, you just have to let it happen. Out of about twenty songs you might write, one of any significance. It might be thirty or forty, but I just keep churning them out and churning them out in hope that one of them will stick.

- Mick Ralphs

topic: Song, Writing, Might, Churning

When I hit my 20s, I took a chill pill and relaxed because throughout my teens I was churning out an album a year. It was a treadmill of work then recording, promoting and touring.

- Vanessa Mae

source: "Vanessa-Mae on the 12 year bitter feud with her mother" by Tom Bryant, www.mirror.co.uk. June 18, 2011.

topic: Years, Teens, Pills, Churning

All systems have failed me. In five minutes I'll be fine again for a while, but right now the inside of my head feels like Niagara Falls without the noise, just this mist and churning and no real sense of where earth ends and heaven begins.

- Douglas Coupland

topic: Real, Fall, Heaven, Churning, Niagara Falls

He could feel V's eyes sharpen, the vampire's fierce intellect churning over the situation. Among the brothers, Vishous had the most raw brainpower, but he paid for the privilage. Man, Wrath sure had his own demons, and they were no walk in the park, but he wouldn't have wanted Vishous's cross to bear. Seeing what had yet to come was a terrible burden. -Wrath's thoughts

- J.R. Ward

source: J.R. Ward (2005). “Dark Lover: A Novel of the Black Dagger Brotherhood”, p.125, Penguin

topic: Brother, Eye, Men, Walks In The Park, Churning

The average person can’t really trust anybody. They can’t trust a broker, because the broker is interested in churning commissions. They can’t trust a mutual fund, because the mutual fund is interested in gathering a lot of assets and keeping them. And now it’s even worse because even the most sophisticated people have no idea what’s going on.

- Seth Klarman

topic: Average, Ideas, People, Brokers, Churning

Two years after my mother died, my father fell in love with a glamorous blonde Ukrainian divorcée. He was eighty-four and she was thirty-six. She exploded into our lives like a fluffy pink grenade, churning up the murky water, bringing to the surface a sludge of sloughed-off memories, giving the family ghosts a kick up the backside.

- Marina Lewycka

source: "A Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian". Book by Marina Lewycka, March 31, 2005.

topic: Mother, Memories, Father, Grenade, Churning

Films and television and even comic books are churning out vast quantities of fictional narratives, and the public continues to swallow them up with great passion. That is because human beings need stories.

- Paul Auster

source: Paul Auster (2010). “Collected Prose: Autobiographical Writings, True Stories, Critical Essays, Prefaces, Collaborations with Artists, and Interviews”, p.460, Macmillan

topic: Book, Passion, Film And Television, Churning

If you do a job where someone tells you exactly what to do, they will find someone cheaper than you to do it. And yet our schools are churning out kids who are stuck looking for jobs where the boss tells them exactly what to do.

- Seth Godin

source: "Back to (the wrong) school". sethgodin.typepad.com. September 05, 2011.

topic: Jobs, School, Kids, Looking For A Job, Churning

The name Alaska is probably an abbreviation of Unalaska, derived from the original Aleut word agunalaksh, which means "the shores where the sea breaks its back." The war between water and land is never-ending. Waves shatter themselves in spent fury against the rocky bulwarks of the coast; giant tides eat away the sand beaches and alter the entire contour of an island overnight; williwaw winds pour down the side of a volcano like snow sliding off a roof, building to a hundred-mile velocity in a matter of minutes and churning the ocean into a maelstrom where the stoutest vessels founder.

- Corey Ford

source: Corey Ford (2003). “Where the Sea Breaks Its Back: The Epic Story - Georg Steller & the Russian Exploration of AK”, p.11, Graphic Arts Books

topic: Beach, War, Ocean, Abbreviations, Maelstrom

I also believe my home state is cursed by ignorance and poverty and racism, much of it deliberately inculcated to control a vulnerable electorate. And I believe many of the politicians in Louisiana are among the most stomach-churning examples of white trash and venality I have ever known. To me, the fact that large numbers of people find them humorously picaresque is mind numbing, on a level with telling fond tales of one's rapist.

- James Lee Burke

source: James Lee Burke (2013). “Creole Belle: A Dave Robicheaux Novel”, p.31, Simon and Schuster

topic: Believe, Home, Ignorance, Large Numbers, White Trash

I'm not a pop act, churning stuff out really quickly. I find the music that arises from that style of working is distracted, not particularly profound.

- Paloma Faith

topic: Profound, Style, Stuff, Churning

this is one of my absolute favourite quotes its from the evernight series (stargazer) charity to Balthazar You remind me of too much. you remind me of what it felt like to be alive, to think of sunlight as something you could enjoy instead of something you could bare, to breath and have it change you, refresh you, awaken you, instead of just churning on and on some old useless habit that taunts you with what you use to be, to sigh and feel relief, to cry and let your sadness pass, instead of having it all bottled up inside of you forever and ever until you don't know who you are any more.

- Claudia Gray

topic: Sadness, Thinking, Forever, Taunting, Churning

It was what accidental deaths did to people, made everybody's sea floor irregular and uneven, causing tidal currents to collide, surge upward, thereby resulting in small yet volatile eddies churning at everybody's surface. (In the more dangerous cases, it created a lasting whirlpool in which the strongest swimmers could drown.)

- Marisha Pessl

source: Marisha Pessl (2006). “Special Topics in Calamity Physics”, p.192, Penguin

topic: Sea, People, Swimmer, Whirlpools, Churning

What made you feel that stomach-churning agony for one person and not another? If Bridget were God, she would have made it against the law for you to feel that way about someone without them having to feel it for you right back.

- Ann Brashares

topic: Law, Agony, Way, Churning

No bird in a cage ever speaks. What is there to say? The sky is everywhere, churning above its head, blue and endless, calling out to it. But the caged bird can't answer anything except 'I cannot'.

- Sonya Hartnett

topic: Sky, Blue, Bird, Caged Birds, Churning

Meditation is basically the process of witnessing: looking from your centre all that is happening. Many things are happening on the outside - the noise of the train far away; something is happening in you body - your knees are hurting - right? Your mind is churning many thoughts, that 'What am I doing here?' Your heart is feeling many emotions, you have waited for this moment for so long. There is joy in the heart, a certain ecstasy, a mood, a receptivity. All those things have to be watched very minutely.

- Rajneesh

topic: Hurt, Heart, Long, Churning, Receptivity

America has tolerated inequality because people think they can get ahead. If you have immobility on top of inequality, then people are not going to be happy campers. If you're stuck on the bottom and there just isn't much churning in society and you're stuck there through your adulthood, that's not a nice life to look forward to.

- Thomas B. Edsall

topic: Nice, Thinking, America, Campers, Churning

Today, practically every country outside the West is undergoing an intellectual, political, and cultural churning, from China to Bolivia, Egypt to Indonesia, but we haven't really had, after the 1960s, a major oppositional culture in Western Europe and America. The Occupy movement was so startling and welcome partly because it was the first such eruption of mass protests in decades.

- Pankaj Mishra

topic: Country, America, Egypt, Occupy Movement, Western Europe