He flung off his hat and threw it down on the desk, a roar…

I'm the candidate who forgot to take off her hat before she threw it in the ring.

— Gracie Allen

“they were beginning to stream across like strings of jewels flung from another planet”

— Alexander Key

I am to be broken. I am to be derided all my life. I am to be cast up and down among these men…

— Virginia Woolf

“...all the thousands of God's children who have flung themselves, stupid and glorious, over and over, into the best and worst of things, loving…

— Stacia M. Brown

He judged the instant and let go; he flung himself loose into the stars.

— Annie Dillard

“He had been suddenly jerked from the heart of civilization and flung into the heart of things primordial.”

— Jack London

“So I put my shoulder against the door, which was too little for me anyway, said a hearty fuck your mother to the element…

— Danielle Bennett

I flung my tongue round like a cat-o'-nine-tails so that my pleasant peaceful infant room became little less than a German concentration camp as…

— Sylvia Ashton-Warner

“The world turned and flung me.”

— David Iserson

Ignorant men do not know what good they hold in their hands until they've flung it away.

— Sophocles

“Just as I was flung over the threshold, I embraced Grigoire the Swiss Fiancé in a rugger grip, determined that smug cockatoo was coming…

— David Mitchell

“Time slid from under me in drifts like ice skids on the highway, punctuated by sudden sharp flashes where my wheels caught and I…

— Donna Tartt

“Suddenly the door opened and in stomped a giant reeking of the river, and before anyone knew what was happening, he had grabbed a…

— Bohumil Hrabal

“there's no beauty without poignancy and there's no poignancy without the feeling that it's going, men, names, books, houses--bound for dust--mortal--" a small boy…

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

“Open here I flung the shutter, when, with many a flirt and flutter, In there stepped a stately Raven of the saintly days of…

— Edgar Allan Poe