Mark Lanegan

I have to have animals. They really make life worth living, and my world actually revolves around them. They know exactly when it's time to get up, exactly when they're supposed to get their food, and they let you know. Mine are right there in my face, first thing every morning.

American Musician

Marcel Proust

In theory one is aware that the earth revolves, but in practice one does not perceive it, the ground upon which one treads seems not to move, and one can live undisturbed. So it is with Time in one's life.

French Author

Richard M. Nixon

Watergate had become the center of the media's universe, and during the remaining year of my presidency the media tried to force everything else to revolve around it.

American President

Rush Limbaugh

I don't have an ego that makes me believe the world revolves around me. I am not self-absorbed.

American Entertainer

James Patterson

My life revolves around my writing, my wife and my son.

American Author

Nikki Sixx

I love women. My life revolves around them.

Shania Twain

My life revolves around my child's routine.

Canadian Musician

Marcela Valladolid

American Chef

Willie Cauley-Stein

American Athlete

Sanjay Leela Bhansali

Indian Director

Used to describe celestial bodies like planets moving around a point in space.

Astronomical sense

'Revolve around' can mean that something is extremely focused on a particular person or thing.

Metaphoric use

Sometimes used to describe situations or patterns that keep repeating.

Figurative circle

Figuratively means to deeply consider an idea over time, not just a brief thought.

Intense consideration

Revolving a thought doesn't always lead to a solution; it involves processing.

Not always resolved

Often used to describe dance or skating, conveying elegance or fluid motion.

Graceful movement

Indicates purposeful motion in a performance or presentation, not random.

Controlled motion

Involves manual movement, such as turning a knob or steering wheel with hands.

Physical action

Refers to parts of a mechanism moving around a central axis by a force.

Mechanical context

 who've been studying motivation have given us this new approach. It's built much more around intrinsic motivation. Around the desire to do things because they matter, because we like it, they're interesting, or part of something important. And to my mind, that new operating system for our businesses revolves around three

The puzzle of motivation...

 started to think about rotating type revolving them against around their own axis is so they would be small object I wanted to be in make an opening that was objects but I didn't know the software well in mouse and it started to orbiting things around like a whole universe and it created this thing that I knew that

Designing for TED...

 or too obvious, or just plain dumb, try jotting it down, anyway. What's obvious to you may not be to the next person. And the opposite of the dumbest idea might just turn out to be the smartest. What about all that dumb stuff that happens in real life? Have you ever noticed how much comedy revolves around things

How to make your writing...

 without female reporters and editors on the ground, particularly one on female genital mutilation -- men would just not be allowed into those situations. This is an important point to consider, because much of our foreign policy now revolves around countries where the treatment of women is an issue,

Megan Kamerick: Women...

 much of the time, but we don't do the things that are necessary to make those things become reality. I worked on this for some 14 years, and I think it helped me become a better teacher. But it all revolved around that original definition of success. You know, a number of years ago,

The difference between...

 using the telescope to show that the earth was no longer the center of the universe, but was actually something that revolved around the sun, something bigger than itself. For some people, this shift in awareness is the most important

The future of...

 So as it revolves around our planet, the same side of the moon faces the Earth at all times. From the Earth's surface, we can observe eight distinct traditionally recognized stages of the moon's illumination, called lunar phases.

Moon 101 PIPE National...

 and physical influences of the sun end. Our solar system's particular configuration of planets and other celestial objects, all revolving around a life-giving star, make it a special place to call home.

Solar System 101 PIPE...

 People don't quite realize how slow. Sloths are obviously renowned for being slow. But when your life and your work kind of revolves around them, the slowness, it feels soul destroying.

Can Sloths Kill You? PIPE...

 Such as that sugar, built using raw sunlight and carbon converted in plant factories to become the energy that powers you and keeps the cycles revolving in your own life.