Throw Quotes

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A big leather-bound volume makes an ideal razorstrap. A thing book is useful to stick under a table with a broken caster to steady it.… — Mark Twain
If the reader prefers, this book may be regarded as fiction. But there is always the chance that such a book of fiction may throw… — Ernest Hemingway
There are few ways in which good people do more harm to those who take them seriously than to defend the gospel with arguments that… — Henry B. Eyring
Read, read, read. Read everything -- trash, classics, good and bad, and see how they do it. Just like a carpenter who works as an… — William Faulkner
When you understand, that what you're telling is just a story. It isn't happening anymore. When you realize the story you're telling is just words,… — Chuck Palahniuk
And Man created the plastic bag and the tin and aluminum can and the cellophane wrapper and the paper plate, and this was good because… — Art Buchwald
No one asks you to throw Mozart out of the window. Keep Mozart. Cherish him. Keep Moses too, and Buddha and Lao Tzu and Christ.… — Henry Miller
My interest is to point out to you that you can walk, and please throw away all those crutches. If you are really handicapped, I… — U.G. Krishnamurti
The way to read a fairy tale is to throw yourself in. — Wystan Hugh Auden
At all ages, if [fantasy and myth] is used well by the author and meets the right reader, it has the same power: to generalize… — C.S. Lewis
When it occurs to a man that nature does not regard him as important, and that she feels she would not maim the universe by… — Stephen Crane
I simply state that I'm a product of a versatile mind in a restless generation-with every reason to throw my mind and pen in with… — F. Scott Fitzgerald
Our wretched species is so made that those who walk on the well-trodden path always throw stones at those who are showing a new road. — Voltaire
Jemu watched his father disappear. He didn't throw the coconut and he didn't cry. Never again would he know love for another human being that… — Kiran Desai
I discovered later, and I'm still discovering right up to this moment, that is it only by living completely in this world that one learns… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Once I am dead, there will be no lack of pious hands to throw me over the railing; my grave will be the fathomless air;… — Jorge Luis Borges
And ask each passenger to tell his story, and if there is one of them all who has not cursed his existence many times, and… — Voltaire
There are some things, after all, that Sally Owens knows for certain: Always throw spilled salt over your left shoulder. Keep rosemary by your garden… — Alice Hoffman
A strong woman who recklessly throws away her strength, she is worse than a weak woman who has never had any strength to throw away. — Thomas Hardy
If you're ever in doubt, throw a pepper in the air. If it fails to come down, you have gone mad, so don't trust in… — Gregory Maguire

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