Throwing Quotes
699 quotes by 607 authors
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You can't imagine what satisfaction can be gotten from throwing a pie into someone's face.
— Emma Thompson
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One of my most productive days was throwing away 1,000 lines of code.
— Ken Thompson
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The biggest thrill a ballplayer can have is when your son takes after you. That happened when my Bobby was in his championship Little League…
— Bob Uecker
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I grew up listening to Queen. They were no stranger to throwing in the unexpected and something a little more dramatic.
— Carrie Underwood
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All records are riddles, and whatever you may want people to think it's about, it may just be throwing them off. And you don't want…
— Tom Waits
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For me, I skate as masculine as I can. I'm not a big strong guy. I'm not interested in fighting or throwing punches or balling…
— Johnny Weir
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I actually think that the economy has got some positives. It's got the market. It's got consumer confidence and it's got banks throwing - I…
— Jack Welch
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Celebrate your child's achievement, then rotate it when the next mini-masterpiece comes along. Then chuck the old picture. Don't worry that you're throwing away a…
— Niecy Nash
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Since the advent of the Internet - more recently compounded by blogging - everyone can be a published voice. Any cowardly, anonymous anger-monger can have…
— Lynda Resnick
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Civilization, in fact, grows more maudlin and hysterical; especially under democracy it tends to degenerate into a mere combat of crazes; the whole aim of…
— H. L. Mencken
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Everyone is guilty at one time or another of throwing out questions that beg to be ignored, but mothers seem to have a market on…
— Erma Bombeck
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It's the arrangement of events which makes the stories. It's throwing away, compressing, underlining. Hindsight can give structure to anything, but you have to be…
— Carol Shields
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I am unarmed. But Butler here, my ...ah...butler, has a Sig Saucer in his shoulder holster, two shrike-throwing knives in his boots, aderringer two-shot up…
— Eoin Colfer
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Anything we need to know, we can learn it from a book. Reading, careful study, a little practice, and we’re throwing knives expertly, overhauling engines,…
— Richard Bach
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Humility is throwing oneself away in complete concentration on something or someone else.
— Madeleine L'Engle
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Although I was able to maintain a pleasant expression, I was mentally throwing up in her face.
— Augusten Burroughs
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Here I should like to remark, for the sake of princes and princesses in general, that it is a low and contemptible thing to refuse…
— George MacDonald
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I DON'T CARE!" Harry yelled at them, snatching up a lunascope and throwing it into the fireplace. "I'VE HAD ENOUGH, I'VE SEEN ENOUGH, I WANT…
— Joanne Kathleen Rowling
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And before me was the great raw bulge and bulk of my American continent; somewhat far across, gloomy, crazy New York was throwing up its…
— Jack Kerouac
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Women are so useless and unimaginative, aren't they? All they ever think of planting in the dirt is the seed of something beautiful or edible.…
— Kurt Vonnegut
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