Toss Quotes · Page 2

Images are the currency of our age, but it's a toss-up whether live in a time of abundance or debasement.

— Douglas McCulloh

Ah! two desires toss about The poet's feverish blood; One drives him to the world without, And one to solitude.

— Matthew Arnold

I can't see why we can't toss in a Junior Walker or Wilson Pickett number in every once in a while.

— Jose Carreras

I never threw an illegal pitch. The trouble is, once in a while I toss one that ain't never been seen by…

— Satchel Paige

There's nothing I hate more than nothing. Nothing keeps me up at night. I toss and turn over nothing. Nothing could cause…

— Edie Brickell

Every tear is answered by a blossom, Every sigh with songs and laughter blent, April-blooms upon the breezes toss them. April knows…

— Sarah Chauncey Woolsey

I haven't slept properly for 12 years because of this bloody game. I don't think you do in a competitive game. You…

— Colin Montgomerie

I'll toss my coins in the fountain, Look for clovers in grassy lawns Search for shooting stars in the night Cross my…

— Tracy Chapman

All the children seem to be coming out quite intelligent, thank goodness. It would have been such a bore to be the…

— Dorothy L. Sayers

When you are more awake at nights, they'll toss and turn, they'll think more, they get frustrated. And when that starts to…

— Shelby Harris

I was the girl he had chosen to kiss. He wanted, somehow to set me free. He didn't want to burn my…

— Alice Sebold

Be careful what rubbish you toss in the tide. On outgoing billows it drifts from your sight, But back on the incoming…

— Ella Wheeler Wilcox

Lights come and go in the night sky. Men, troubled at last by the things they build, may toss in their sleep…

— Loren Eiseley

You used your power to toss one rock at me?" he exclaimed, an almost comic note of incredulity in his voice. "On…

— Richelle Mead

You switched the days," I said, dismayed. "You blew the tire. You..." I trailed off, probably because the next words out of…

— Ally Carter

If you are playing on a turning wicket, toss plays an important role. The team that wins the toss gets an opportunity…

— Kapil Dev

Iain Dowie famously coined the phrase 'bouncebackability' to describe Crystal Palace's ability to come from behind. But this is a typical manager's…

— Daniel Finkelstein

I got the breaks. Starting from nowhere in the corn belt, I helped edit a country weekly, then was jack-of-all-departments on an…

— George Ade

I'm often asked, "What is your favorite moment during the 30 years you hosted [The Tonight Show]?" I really don't have just…

— Johnny Carson

And so they parted, she to the east, and he to the west. The test they had agreed upon, however, was utterly…

— Haruki Murakami

What’s goin’ on?” I ask as I take a seat. “Obviously not this.” He tosses me my shirt from last night. “I…

— Simone Elkeles

If we really believe that animals have the same right to be free from pain and suffering at our hands, then, of…

— Bruce Friedrich

Above all, mine is a love story. Unlike most love stories, this one involves chance, gravity, a dash of head trauma. It…

— Gabrielle Zevin

I think the main thing is: Just do it. Plunge in! Being Canadian, I go swimming in icy cold lakes, and there…

— Margaret Atwood

Do we love watching things burn so much that our best and most valuable contribution is to help toss another match?

— Amber Naslund

good call. A second drag and your next stop's the wastepaper basket - and not to toss your kleenex, true.

— J.R. Ward

England a fortune-telling host, As num'rous as the stars, could boast; Matrons, who toss the cup, and see The grounds of Fate…

— Charles Churchill

She looked at him, watched hum toss the remote on the table and say," So maybe I'm going to handcuff myself to…

— Ally Carter

There's a very big part of me that just wants to take all of comics history and toss it on the bonfire.…

— Scott McCloud

I don't like to dump the dressing on top of the greens. Instead, I pour it against the side of the bowl…

— Bobby Flay

Ya know it was a toss-up whether I go in for diamonds or sing in the choir. The choir lost.

— Mae West

The right boys I always toss and the wrong ones I keep on top of me like paperweights.

— Daniel Handler

I have no sex appeal. If my husband didn't toss and turn, we'd never have had any kids.

— Joan Rivers

Donning a glove for a backyard toss, or watching a ball game, or just reflecting upon our baseball days, we are players…

— John Thorn

I know how the Academy Awards works: It's a card game, and I'm in the toss-up category.

— Tom Hanks

I'm glad that our God is not the guy with a pony-tail who wants to toss a frisbee with His saints.

— Eric Ludy

One cannot toss ambassadors back like bad fish," said Eugenides. "You treat them with care, or you'll find you've committed an act…

— Megan Whalen Turner

Wine sets even a thoughtful man to singing, or sets him into softly laughing, sets him to dancing. Sometimes it tosses out…

— Homer

It was simultaneously refreshing and a bit shocking to see how cavalierly most Aussies toss out slurs and insults about nonwhites.

— Jim Goad

Given a choice between their worldview and the facts, it's always interesting how many people toss the facts.

— Rebecca Solnit