Grace Jones

The problem with the Dorises and the Nicki Minajes and Mileys is that they reach their goal very quickly. There is no long-term vision, and they forget that once you get into that whirlpool, then you have to fight the system that solidifies around you in order to keep being the outsider you claim you represent.

Model

Michio Kaku

In Einstein's equation, time is a river. It speeds up, meanders, and slows down. The new wrinkle is that it can have whirlpools and fork into two rivers. So, if the river of time can be bent into a pretzel, create whirlpools and fork into two rivers, then time travel cannot be ruled out.

American Physicist

Marilyn Ferguson

We are constantly nothing but a bunch of energy being processed. Into this whirlpool, the more complex the system, the more energy it requires to hold it together. Therefore, the more complex - the scientists call it 'coherent' - the more fluctuations are possible.

American Writer

Rory MacLean

Since the summer days of my Canadian childhood, I have loved to canoe across the dark mirror of northern lakes, paddling with an inside flick of the blade, leaving a trail of twisting whirlpools in my wake.

Canadian Historian

Garth Brooks

While I'm playing baseball, I'm still writing songs and having tapes sent to me. I'm sure I'll spend a lot of time in the whirlpool resting these tired bones, so I'll be thinking of music then.

American Singer

Kip Thorne

Each black hole spins on its axis like the Earth spins. That spin creates two vortexes of twisting space, somewhat like vortexes in a bathtub or a whirlpool.

We appear to have form, but we are like a whirlpool. We appear to have form, but we are just whirling electrons.

Donald Glover

I felt like high school for me was like a big whirlpool of me trying to figure out what was OK for me to do.

American Musician

Jimmy Iovine

I make my world chaotic. It's like a whirlpool.

American Producer

Used to describe a powerful circular current of water, often hazardous.

Natural Phenomenon

Can refer to small water movements in a sink or bath, not just big ones in nature.

Not Always Large

Use 'whirlpool' in the literal sense when discussing actual movements in water.

Literal Use

Used to describe situations that are disorienting or difficult to escape.

Metaphorical Use

Represents being overwhelmed by emotions or events, like being unable to find a way out.

Emotional Turbulence

While it often has negative connotations, it can also refer to any chaotic state.

Not Always Negative

 suggested the stars were suns that likely had their own planets and that the universe was infinite. This idea didn't go over well. Bruno was burned at the stake for his radical suggestion. Centuries later, the philosopher Rene Descartes proposed that the universe was a series of whirlpools,

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 Of all the spectacles mankind has viewed through a telescope, there are few lovelier than a spiral galaxy. Majestic whirlpools of stars, they rotate in a stately and predictable dance. The fact that we see many billions of them in our telescopes tells us they are both common and stable.

Dark matter: How does it...

 I get really excited about are these structures that are ejected from the body of the animal these are called vortex rings how many of you have flushed a toilet basically if you just take that whirlpool of fluid you take the the starting end and the finishing ending

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 best known for his world map, also created a map of the never-before-seen North Pole that was published in 1595. Mercator speculated that the North Pole prominently featured the “Rupes Nigra,” a giant magnetic rock surrounded by a whirlpool

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 and suffocated by these raging emotional waters, craving to cleanse my soul, trying to emerge on a firm footing one more time, to keep on fighting and flourishing just as you taught me. Your encouraging whispers in my whirlpool of despair,

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 a giant whirlpool in the middle of the ocean. Our eel, let's call it Eli, would begin as one of ten to twenty million tiny eggs, carried by a female eel, hatching into a transparent leaf-shaped thing that looks nothing like an adult eel.

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 the ether. But we find real matter comforting only because we've evolved to survive in Middle World, where matter is a useful fiction. A whirlpool, for Steve Grand, is a thing with just as much reality as a rock.

Why the universe seems...

 getting pulled back into a whirlpool feels like someone just reach ups and grabs onto the back ear boat and is pulling me backwards down into the water all of a sudden everything around you

Sea Kayaking: A...

 important he is what we turns out he's in business with whirlpool with Mercedes with Philips and a number of the companies and especially with the coca-cola

Justice for Martine Vik...

 into millions of pieces whirlpools of small metallic bluefish Barracuda gliding like silver submarines occasionally alone predatory shark

Whirlpool

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