Throwing Quotes - Page 6

• Rick: Can you swim? Evelyn: Well, of course I can swim if the occasion calls for it. Rick: [throwing her overboard] Trust me. It calls for it.

  Max Allan Collins

  Swim, Trust Me, Overboard

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• In his student days, he used to argue that if a woman has no other course open to her but starvation, prostitution, or throwing herself from a bridge, then surely the prostitute, who has shown the most tenacious instinct for self-preservation, should be considered stronger and saner than her frailer and no longer living sisters. One couldn't have it both ways, he'd pointed out: if women are seduced and abandoned they're supposed to go mad, but if they survive, and seduce in their turn, then they were mad to begin with.

  Margaret Atwood

  Self, Bridges, Mad

  Margaret Atwood (2011). “Alias Grace: A Novel”, Anchor

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• Hey Grover! Thorn's kidnapping us! He's a poisonous spike-throwing maniac! Help!

  Rick Riordan

  Hey, Helping, Grover

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• Please, if you would," the butler said, "no throwing the linens. Peaches, anyone?" -Fritz

  J.R. Ward

  Peaches, Butlers, Said

  J.R. Ward (2008). “The Black Dagger Brotherhood: An Insider's Guide”, p.95, Penguin

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• Throwing blondes at Locke Lamora was not unlike throwing lettuce at sharks.

  Scott Lynch

  Sharks, Lettuce, Locke Lamora

  Scott Lynch (2006). “The Lies of Locke Lamora”, p.65, Spectra

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• One day she's throwing a book at me. The next, we're making out behind the library.

  Richelle Mead

  Book, One Day, Library

  Richelle Mead (2013). “The Indigo Spell: A Bloodlines Novel”, p.190, Penguin

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• We all laced together—a brothel madam, an English professor, a mute cook, a quadroon cabbie, and me, the girl carrying a bucket of lies and throwing them like confetti.

  Ruta Sepetys

  Girl, Lying, Together

  Ruta Sepetys (2013). “Out of The Easy”, p.148, Penguin

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• Is she forever for you then? She's worth throwing it all away?" "She's it. No one else. She's all I'm ever going to want.

  Abbi Glines

  Forever, Want

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• Isn't is lovely to be all together again?" Raffin said, throwing one arm around Po and the other around Bann. -------- She wanted them near, even if they were subsumed by their own affairs, she needed them at sword practice in the morning, at dinner at night, moving and shifting around her, there and gone, back again, arguing, teasing, acting like people who knew who they were.

  Kristin Cashore

  Morning, Moving, Night

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• From Ronan's room, he heard Noah's laugh. He and Ronan were throwing various objects from the second-story window to the parking low below. There was a terrific crash. Ronan's voice rose, exasperated. "Not that one, Noah.

  Maggie Stiefvater

  Voice, Laughing, Rose

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• It's saying no. That's your first hint that something's alive. It says no. That's how you know a baby is starting to turn into a person. They run around saying no all day, throwing their aliveness at everything to see what it'll stick to. You can't say no if you don't have desires and opinions and wants of your own. You wouldn't even want to. No is the heart of thinking.

  Catherynne M. Valente

  Running, Baby, Heart

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• I look hot and, most of all, skinny. I love the day after throwing up. I felt like a feather.

  Chelsea Handler

  Funny, Humor, Hot

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• Don't take me for a fool!" Dee interrupted angrily, but then had to lean over the boat as another bout of nausea gripped him. Virginia grinned and winked at Josh. "It's hard to sound masterful when you're throwing up, isn't it?" "I hate you, Virginia Dare," Dee mumbled. "I know you don't really mean that," she said lightly. "I do," he croaked.

  Michael Scott

  Hate, Mean, Virginia

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• Yes, that man acted ugly," she told us in plain English. "But throwing more ugliness back at him ain't the answer.

  Lauren Myracle

  Men, Answers, Ugly

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• Can I ask why you’re throwing knives at cheese?’ ‘Caleb came by to discuss something,’ Tobias says, leaning his head against the wall as he looks at me. ‘And knife-throwing just came up somehow.’ ‘As it so often does,’ I say, a small smile inching across my face.

  Veronica Roth

  Wall, Knives, Doe

  Veronica Roth (2013). “Insurgent (Divergent Trilogy, Book 2)”, p.24, HarperCollins UK

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• We're throwing money down a rat hole drain of public education! We lead the world in public education spending. We lead the world in getting the least for it.

  Rush Limbaugh

  World, Rats, Holes

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• I was a little troublemaker. Always trying to get in trouble, always mischief, like throwing rocks at cars when I was younger, all that kind of stuff.

  Ryan Lochte

  Rocks, Always Trying, Car

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• I should have my own show by now. Yeah. How many damn sitcoms does Kelsey Grammer need? How many more stupid Housewives do they need throwing tables and limbs at each other. Yeah, I guess I need to take off my artificial leg and throw it at Vanderpump. I like doing live shows - it's just getting to them that's a hassle.Doing films is fun too ... a good film ... but there's a lot of waiting around.

  Judy Tenuta

  Fun, Stupid, Waiting Around

  Source: www.broadwayworld.com

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• You were the kind of kid who couldn't see the difference between throwing rocks at a cat and setting it on fire.

  Terry Pratchett

  Cat, Kids, Fire

  "Fictional character: Susan". "Terry Pratchett's Hogfather", www.imdb.com. 2006.

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• I'm interested in having fun with ideas, throwing them up in the air like confetti and then running under them.

  Ray Bradbury

  Running, Fun, Air

  Ray Bradbury, Sam Weller (2012). “Listen to the Echoes: The Ray Bradbury Interviews”, p.306, Melville House

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• If only Sam could have stayed just like the Dog, she thought. A comforting friend without the complication of romantic interest.There had to be something she could do to completely discourage him, short of throwing up, or making herself totally unattractive. "I'm thirty-five," she said at last.

  Garth Nix

  Dog, Comforting, Unattractive

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• He lifted his brows. "If I really thought it was the absolute best thing for our kids, you'd have had a battle on your hands. That was just a debate." "With chair-throwing." "Heated debate. Fights involve chair-breaking. Chair-throwing is just getting your attention.

  Kelley Armstrong

  Kids, Fighting, Hands

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• Some loves are like that. Your heart starts to feel like an overcrowded lifeboat. You throw your pride out to keep it afloat, & your self-respect & independence. After a while you start throwing people out - friends, everyone you know. & it's still not enough. The lifeboat is still sinking, & you know it's going to take you down with it. I've seen that happen to a lot of people. I think that's why I'm sick of love. - Karla

  Gregory David Roberts

  Heart, Pride, Thinking

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• Real mothers don't just listen with humble embarrassment to the elderly lady who offers unsolicited advice in the checkout line when a child is throwing a tantrum. We take the child, dump him in the lady's cart, and say, "Great. Maybe you can do a better job." Real mothers know that it's okay to eat cold pizza for breakfast. Real mothers admit it is easier to fail at this job than to succeed.

  Jodi Picoult

  Mother, Jobs, Children

  Jodi Picoult (2010). “House Rules: A Novel”, p.178, Simon and Schuster

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• Throwing down your staff may sound like a sign of surrender, but in Egyptian magic, it's bad news. It usually means, 'Hey, I'm going to summon a big nasty thing to kill you while I stand safely inside my circle and laugh'.

  Rick Riordan

  Mean, Circles, Laughing

  Rick Riordan (2011). “The Throne of Fire (The Kane Chronicles Book 2): The Throne of Fire”, p.131, Penguin UK

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