Threw Quotes
657 quotes by 522 authors
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Modern man threw a brick through his own window in order to sell himself a burglar alarm.
— Allen Carr
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Though I knew so far as Anarchism was concerned I was backing a lost cause, it didn't seem to matter as every other cause had…
— Albert Meltzer
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I had this stereotypical view that black people apart from me probably threw stones and lived in huts.
— Trisha Goddard
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It has been the resolution of mankind in all ages of the world. No people, no age, ever threw away the fruits of past wisdom,…
— William Hazlitt
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Warren Moon and Doug Williams really didn't run that much. That's the negative stereotype when it comes to African-American quarterbacks, that most of us just…
— Robert Griffin III
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I was bought an electric guitar when I was 12, but my guitar teacher beat me up. I didn't like guitar lessons and I got…
— Simon Cowell
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Pain was something we were expected to endure. But I doubt very much if you would be entirely happy today if a doctor threw a…
— Roald Dahl
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I threw my cup away when I saw a child drinking from his hands at the trough.
— Diogenes
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F.D.R. achieved greatness not by means of imposing his temperament and intellect on the world but by reacting to what the world threw at him.
— Maureen Dowd
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Oh, I had an idea for a pilot of my own at the time, and then Carl sent me about eight scripts and simply I…
— Dick Van Dyke
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I wanted to be the next Dana Carvey. This was my ultimate goal. If I ever cut into a birthday cake and made a wish,…
— Jimmy Fallon
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Where the ball went was up to heaven. Sometimes I threw the ball clean up into the stands.
— Bob Feller
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How does an artist know when the line that he just painted is good or not good? That's the catch. De Kooning was the greatest…
— Philip Johnson
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And that's what's beautiful to me, is he did not become a victim of it, and he didn't become a statistic, he just kind of…
— Mary Stuart Masterson
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One night Roger was in a foul mood and he threw his entire bloody drumset across the stage. The thing only just missed me -…
— Freddie Mercury
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The clock talked loud. I threw it away, it scared me what it talked.
— Tillie Olsen
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If Obama fails to win reelection, let the blame be first laid at the door of Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi, who at a…
— Camille Paglia
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I never threw an illegal pitch. The trouble is, once in a while I toss one that ain't never been seen by this generation.
— Satchel Paige
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My grandmother raised five children during the Depression by herself. At 50, she threw her sewing machine into the back of a pickup truck and…
— Michelle Pfeiffer
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My Mom said she learned how to swim when someone took her out in the lake and threw her off the boat. I said, 'Mom,…
— Paula Poundstone
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