Throwing Quotes - Page 21

• But I can't and don't ever want to write bell-yanking confetti-tossing hat-throwing poems.

  Andrew Motion

  Writing, Hats, Bells

  "Ode to a right royal charmer". Interview With Euan Ferguson, www.theguardian.com. July 23, 2000.

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• Once you've learned to study in a bathing suit on the grass with muscled men throwing frisbees over your head, you can accomplish almost anything.

  Susan Rice

  Men, Over You, Suits

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• My friend, there is nothing so sexy as a woman who is angry. Perhaps when she is even throwing things.

  Marat Safin

  Sexy, My Friends, Angry

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• The transition from tenseness, self-responsibility, and worry, to equanimity, receptivity, and peace, is the most wonderful of all those shiftings of inner equilibrium, those changes of personal centre of energy, which I have analyzed so often; and the chief wonder of it is that it so often comes about, not by doing, but by simply relaxing and throwing the burden down.

  William James

  Responsibility, Self, Worry

  "The Varieties of Religious Experience: A Study in Human Nature". Book by William James, 1902.

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• I bet on the game of baseball and I bet on my team, even the mistakes I made, I have to take a different look at someone betting against their own team... that's throwing the game.

  Pete Rose

  Baseball, Mistake, Team

  "Pete Rose Answers Viewer Questions". Online Q & A, abcnews.go.com. January 12.

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• Those who think they can revive the stinking corpse of the usurping and fake Israeli regime by throwing a birthday party are seriously mistaken. Today the reason for the Zionist regime's existence is questioned, and this regime is on its way to annihilation.

  Mahmoud Ahmadinejad

  Party, Thinking, Fake

  "Report: Ahmadinejad Calls Israel a 'Stinking Corpse' on its 60th Birthday". www.foxnews.com. May 08, 2008.

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• No more bare bodies in film scenes for me. For my children's sake, I must stop. The other kids at school keep throwing it up to my children, and they are not kind.

  Ellen Barkin

  Children, School, Kids

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I learned that the Holy Water better be fresh, that I need practice throwing the spheres, and that someone has to watch my back so asshats don't steal my demons.

  Jana Oliver

  Practice, Water, Watches

  Jana Oliver (2013). “Demon Trappers 1-3: Forsaken, Forbidden, Forgiven”, p.123, Pan Macmillan

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• In karate, hitting, thrusting, and kicking are not the only methods, throwing techniques and pressure against joints are included … all these techniques should be studied referring to basic kata

  Gichin Funakoshi

  Technique, Kicking, Hitting

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• Throwing stones is the birthright and duty of anyone subject to foreign rule. Throwing stones is an action as well as a metaphor of resistance.

  Amira Hass

  Throwing Stones, Resistance, Action

  "Israeli Journalist Amira Hass on Palestinian Resistance, 'Peace Talks' and U.S. Role in Region". Interview with Amy Goodman, www.democracynow.org. April 10, 2013.

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• But in some ways I think it's braver to do it like this. And, to an extent, you know what? The worst that can happen is that everyone says, 'Well, that was dreadful, she should have stuck to writing for kids' and I can take that. So, yeah, I'll put it out there, and if everyone says, 'Well, that's shockingly bad – back to wizards with you', then obviously I won't be throwing a party. But I will live. I will live.

  J. K. Rowling

  Party, Kids, Writing

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• Revision means throwing out the boring crap and making what’s left sound natural.

  Laurie Halse Anderson

  Mean, Sound, Revision

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• I'm throwing myself back in because I like being married. I don't want to end this whole fabulous journey alone. I want someone by my side who I love and who loves me. I've finally found somebody who's up to the task of being my wife, because I'm very high maintenance.

  Neil Diamond

  Journey, Wife, Tasks

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• Everywhere you go, mother nature's throwing some curve-ball at you.

  Joe Teti

  Mother, Curves, Survival

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• Pushing a company agenda on social media is like throwing water balloons at a porcupine.

  Erik Qualman

  Media, Water, Pushing

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• Business isn't some disembodied bloodless enterprise. Profit is fine - a sign that the customer honors the value of what we do. But "enterprise" ( a lovely word ) is about heart. About beauty. It's about art. About people throwing themselves on the line. It's about passion and the selfless pursuit of an ideal.

  Tom Peters

  Art, Passion, Creativity

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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 OUT, I WANT IT TO END, I DON'T CARE ANYMORE!

  J. K. Rowling

  Pain, Care, Want

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• Holding on to anger is like grasping a hot coal with the intent of throwing it at someone else; you are the one who gets burned. A good friend who points out mistakes and imperfections and rebukes evil is to be respected as if he reveals a secret of hidden treasure.

  Gautama Buddha

  Buddhist, Mistake, Good Friend

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• There are no rules in writing. There are useful principles. Throw them away when they're not useful. But always know what you're throwing away.

  Will Shetterly

  Writing, Principles, Knows

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• When overpowering authority or leadership intervenes in a team, it can affect the team by (1) throwing the team off track, (2) decreasing the motivation of the team, (3) reducing the commitment of the team members, and (4) causing more problems than solutions.

  J. Richard Hackman

  Teamwork, Motivation, Commitment

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• If you're out there stressing on your pro day, then you're not going to perform well, so I plan on having a little fun. Play a little music while we're out there throwing the football, have everybody tapping their toes and bobbing their head and just go out there and make the most of the experience.

  Robert Griffin III

  Football, Fun, Stress

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• Stop throwing us all together like some sort of Puerto Ricaminican Tex-Mex buffet.

  Al Madrigal

  Together, Buffets

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• The belief that security can be obtained by throwing a small state to the wolves is a fatal delusion.

  Winston Churchill

  Belief, States, Delusion

  Winston Churchill (1986). “The Gathering Storm”, p.273, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• There are no accidents, only nature throwing her weight around. Even the bomb merely releases energy that nature has put there. Nuclear war would be just a spark in the grandeur of space. Nor can radiation alter nature: she will absorb it all. After the bomb, nature will pick up the cards we have spilled, shuffle them, and begin her game again.

  Camille Paglia

  Nature, War, Loss

  Camille Paglia (1990). “Sexual Personae”, p.57, Yale University Press

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• You can't break a bad habit by throwing it out the window. You've got to walk it slowly down the stairs.

  Mark Twain

  Window, Habit, Break

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