Throwing Quotes - Page 15

• Here's the general theory: To clarify, add detail. Imagine that. To clarify, add detail. And clutter and overload are not an attribute of information, they are failures of design. If the information is in chaos, don't start throwing out information, instead fix the design.

  Edward Tufte

  Design, Details, Add

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• So, I understand when they make a mistake and everyone at home is throwing their shoe at the television set.

  Vanna White

  Mistake, Home, Shoes

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• We're doing Circle of Snakes, we open up with Skin Carver and we are throwing in Skull Forest later on.

  Glenn Danzig

  Snakes, Circles, Skulls

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• Maybe tomorrow is counting on me
  To learn my lessons today
  I'll start by taking a step at a time
  And stop throwing my blessings away
  I'll get myself up and I'll brush myself off
  And take back some of the pride that I've lost
  'Cause you can't always keep your feet on the ground
  I guess we all learn the hard way and we all fall down

  Bekka Bramlett

  Song, Fall, Pride

  Song: We All Fall Down

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• Mirrors should reflect a little before throwing back images.

  Jean Cocteau

  Funny, Humor, Mirrors

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• Of course, the age-old tradition that a star must appear even if he or she is practically dying is an excellent one, but it can be carried too far. I one played a performance of The Knight of the Burning Pestle with a temperature of 103 and gave sixteen members of the company mumps, thereby closing the play and throwing everybody out of work. There may be a moral lurking somewhere in this, but I cannot for the life of me discover what it is.

  Noel Coward

  Stars, Knights, Play

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• The logic is often far-fetched - how does medical marijuana affect interstate commerce? - and some conservatives would like judges to start throwing out federal laws wholesale on commerce clause grounds. The court once again said no thanks.

  Michael Kinsley

  Marijuana, Law, Judging

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• I used to tell Jackie (Robinson) sometimes when they were throwing at him, 'Jackie, they aren't throwing at you because you are black. They are throwing at you because they don't like you.

  Pee Wee Reese

  Sports, Marijuana, Black

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• Well time has a way of throwing it all in your face. The past, she is haunted, the future is laced.

  Gregory Alan Isakov

  Past, Way, Faces

  Song: Big Black Car

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• No outdoor sports can be more elegant than throwing stones at autocracy; no melees can be more exciting than those in cyberspace.

  Ai Weiwei

  Sports, Cyberspace, Throwing Stones

  Ai Weiwei Twitter feed: @AiWW, March 10, 2010.

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• There are no outdoor sports as graceful as throwing stones at a dictatorship.

  Ai Weiwei

  Sports, Throwing Stones, Dictatorship

  "Acclaimed Ai Weiwei Doc Hits Theaters; China Braces Itself" by Anthony Kaufman, www.indiewire.com. July 26, 2012.

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• This killing of Israel athletes is an act of war. And if there's one place that war doesn't belong, it's here. 1200 years. From 776 B.C. to 393 A.D., your fellow Olympians laid down their arms to take part in these games. They understood there was more honor in out running a man than in killing him. I hope the competition will resume, and if it does, you must not think that running or throwing or jumping is frivelous. The games were once your fellow Olympians answer to war – competition, not conquest. Now, they must be your answer.

  Bill Bowerman

  Running, War, Athlete

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• There's only one cure for what's wrong with all of us pitchers, and that's to take a year off. Then, after you've gone a year without throwing, quit altogether.

  Jim Palmer

  Years, Gone, Quitting

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• When you give in to aversion and anger, it’s as though, having decided to kill someone by throwing him into a river, you wrap your arms around his neck, jump into the water with him, and you both drown. In destroying your enemy, you destroy yourself as well.

  Chagdud Tulku Rinpoche

  Rivers, Giving, Water

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• Like some cult religion that barely survives, there has always been at least one but rarely more than five or six devotees throwing the knuckleball in the big leagues . . . Not only can't pitchers control it, hitters can't hit it, catchers can't catch it, coaches can't coach it and most pitchers can't learn it. The perfect pitch.

  Ron Luciano

  League, Perfect, Knuckleballs

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• You can easily tell when someone has been hit by a spear. he turns a deep shade of bitter. David never got hit. Gradually, he learned a very well-kept secret...
  One, never learn anything about the fashionable, easily mastered art of spear throwing. Two, stay out of the company of all spear throwers. And three, keep your mouth tightly closed.
  In this way, spears will never touch you, even when they pierce your heart.

  Gene Edwards

  Art, Two, Secret

  "A Tale of Three Kings". Book by Gene Edwards, 1980.

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• Oh, but Paris isn’t for changing planes, it’s… it’s for changing your outlook, for… for throwing open the windows and letting in… letting in la vie en rose.

  Sabrina

  Paris, Rose, Window

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• Meditation means this opening out of the soul to the Divine and letting the Divine shine in without obstruction from the personal self. Therefore it means renunciation. It means throwing away everything that one has, and waiting empty for the light to come in.

  Annie Besant

  Mean, Light, Self

  Annie Besant (1894). “The Building of the Kosmos and Other Lectures”

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• I prefer to sing in the shower 'cause the acoustics are really, really good, I mean, when you're singing against the tile walls then you really hear yourself, hear your voice, you know, throwing itself back at you.

  Thia Megia

  Wall, Mean, Voice

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• Throwing a knuckleball for a strike is like throwing a butterfly with hiccups across the street into your neighbor's mailbox.

  Willie Stargell

  Butterfly, Knuckleballs, Hiccups

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• It’s hard to throw away history. It was like you were throwing away a part of yourself.

  Jenny Han

  Like You, Throwing Away, Hard

  Jenny Han (2009). “The Summer I Turned Pretty”, p.186, Simon and Schuster

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• People say they throwing a bboy jam but it is really a bboy competition, there's a difference! Call it the correct thing, please!

  Skeme

  Differences, People, Competition

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• I've had pretty good success with Stan (Musial) by throwing him my best pitch and backing up third.

  Carl Erskine

  Good Success, Backing Up, Thirds

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• You know you’re writing well when you're throwing good stuff into the wastebasket.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Writing, Stuff, Wells

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• And turns out, it's not Republicans throwing granny off a cliff... It's the Fed!?

  Neil Cavuto

  Cliffs, Republican, Feds

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