Throes Quotes

44 Throes quotes by 43 unique authors

Speaking of Oscars, I would win overwhelmingly if the Academy gave an Oscar for faking orgasms. I have done some of my best acting convincing… — Marilyn Monroe
Jesus is apt to come, into the very midst of life at its most real and inescapable moments. Not in a blaze of unearthly light,… — Frederick Buechner
I have always found writing pleasant and don't understand what people mean by 'throes of creation.' — E. M. Forster
Writers that pretend to be in the throes of some kind of genius-demon, some kind of possessing spirit that refuses to let them engage with… — Matt Fraction
Socialism is undoubtedly in the throes of a crisis greater than at any time since 1917. The last half of 1989 saw the dramatic collapse… — Joe Slovo
Many years ago, in the throes of my struggles on the PGA Tour, I had difficulty even getting into pro-ams. I needed money, so I… — Gary McCord
And if I'm honest about it, I was obsessed with Nirvana and Pearl Jam. This is like '92, right in the throes of Soundgarden and… — St. Vincent
The pangs of pain, of failure, in this mortal lot, are the birth-throes of transition to better things. We are separated for a time by… — John Elof Boodin
[His mind] was like a volcano, full of fire and wealth, sometimes calm, often dazzling and playful, but ever threatening. It ran swift as the… — Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington
I felt a kind of numbness, an enervation, but more particularly an odd fragility - as if my body had actually become frail, hypersensitive and… — William Styron
It is life that fights and struggles and rages; life, that tears at you in its last agonizing throes to hold on, even if but… — Vera Nazarian
We are in the throes of a transition where every publication has to think of their digital strategy. — Bill Gates
TV networks are dying. The death throes of religion give us jihads. The death throes of television give us reality shows. — Penn Jillette
When you're in the throes of this romantic love, it's overwhelming - you're out of control, you're irrational, you're going to the gym at 6… — Helen Fisher
In this sense love is of a different order to any other phenomenon, for it may be both an event and a sign of that… — Clive Barker
Out of the way! We are in the throes of an exceptional emergency! This is no occassion for sport- there is lace at stake!" (Ms.… — Elizabeth Gaskell
Toska - noun /ËˆtÅ-skÉ™/ - Russian word roughly translated as sadness, melancholia, lugubriousness. "No single word in English renders all the shades of toska. At… — Vladimir Nabokov
Gwen smiled. "Hardly. Bedraggled is being in the full throes of nicotine withdrawal, and after a week on a bus with a group of senior… — Karen Marie Moning
Yes, but you are still only human.â€ I laughed, the sound of it drowned out by the crunch of rocks as the mountain continued to… — Jeaniene Frost
The lower you are, the higher your mind will want to soar. It was natural that, bereft and desperate as I was, in the throes… — Yann Martel

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