Throwing Quotes - Page 7

• 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 grew up listening to Queen. They were no stranger to throwing in the unexpected and something a little more dramatic.

  Carrie Underwood

  Queens, Listening, Littles

  "Carrie Underwood interview: 'I'm influenced by My Chemical Romance'". Interview with Lewis Corner, www.digitalspy.com. April 26, 2012.

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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 aren't afraid of throwing yourself in the path of danger, but you're terrified of letting anyone in.

  Richelle Mead

  Path, Danger, Terrified

  Richelle Mead (2013). “Vampire Academy: The Complete Collection”, p.512, Penguin

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• I am one of the sort that lives by throwing stones at other people's glass houses, but I never mean to put up one for them to stone.

  Harriet Beecher Stowe

  Mean, Glasses, People

  Harriet Beecher Stowe, Harriet Beecher STOWE (2016). “Collected Works (Complete and Illustrated Editions: Uncle Tom's Cabin, Queer Little Folks, The Chimney-Corner, ...)”, p.167, Harriet Beecher Stowe

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• The Destiny of Man is to unite, not to divide. If you keep on dividing you end up as a collection of monkeys throwing nuts at each other out of separate trees.

  T. H. White

  Destiny, Men, Nuts

  T. H. White (2011). “The Once and Future King”, p.203, Penguin

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• For thousands of years, you humans have been throwing in everything as you come across--hopes, dreams, wishes that never came true. Irresponsible waste management, if you ask me.

  Rick Riordan

  Dream, Years, Wish

  Rick Riordan (2006). “The lightning thief”

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• For she was a child, throwing bread to the ducks, between her parents who stood by the lake, holding her life in her arms which, as she neared them, grew larger and larger in her arms, until it became a whole life, a complete life, which she put down by them and said, "This is what I have made of it! This!" And what had she made of it? What, indeed?

  Virginia Woolf

  Children, Lakes, Ducks

  Virginia Woolf (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Virginia Woolf (Illustrated)”, p.878, Delphi Classics

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• Good God, Dev. Have you completely lost your mind? Don’t tease the psychotic tiger. He’s getting all angry and frothing at the mouth. Someone’s going to think he’s rabid. (Serre) Yeah, but teasing him is like throwing meat at Kyle. It’s highly entertaining. (Dev)

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Thinking, Mind, Meat

  Sherrilyn Kenyon (2005). “Unleash the Night”, p.52, Farrar, Straus, and Giroux

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• Most men don't seem to get that telling a pissed-off woman to calm down is like throwing gunpowder on a fire.” ~ Liberty Jones

  Lisa Kleypas

  Men, Fire, Liberty

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• Oh, I never kid about Artemis. I promised her I’d sit here and do nothing, so here I am doing nothing. Much like a really tall, bored guard dog. Personally, I’d rather be throwing myself onto an electric fence- be about the same, I think. (Acheron)

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Dog, Kids, Thinking

  Sherrilyn Kenyon (2007). “Devil May Cry: A Dark-Hunter Novel”, p.327, Macmillan

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• You know, one of these days, I'm acctually going to take offense if people keep throwing out these slurs. And then things are going to get rather ugly. When we Skandians do take offense, we do it with a battleax.

  John Flanagan

  People, Ugly, These Days

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• And I could see this boy doing his homework and thinking about my sister naked. And I could see them holding hands at football games that they do not watch. And I could see this boy throwing up in the bushes at a party house. And I could see my sister putting up with it. And I felt very bad for both of them.

  Stephen Chbosky

  Football, Party, Boys

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• Apparently, dancing for him and throwing herself at him weren't enough. Apparently, she had to nearly commit murder to arouse him enough to attack her.

  Gena Showalter

  Dancing, Murder, Enough

  Gena Showalter (2016). “The Darkest Kiss”, p.53, HQN Books

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• what was fang going to do BLOG about max throwing herself into space so she wouldn't have to kiss him again? NO instead he smashed his fist against the cave wall then grimaced at the pain and stupidity seeing his bloodied knuckles

  James Patterson

  Wall, Pain, Kissing

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• In giving you are throwing a bridge across the chasm of your solitude.

  Antoine de Saint-Exupery

  Bridges, Giving, Solitude

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• We are about to change history, said Saphira. We’re throwing ourselves off a cliff without knowing how deep the water below is. Ah, but what a glorious flight! (Eragon to Saphira)

  Christopher Paolini

  Knowing, Water, Cliffs

  Christopher Paolini (2014). “The Inheritance Cycle Complete Collection: Eragon, Eldest, Brisingr, Inheritance”, p.680, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• Most of Set’s forces were running towards our boat, screaming and throwing rocks (which tended to fall down and hit them, but no one says demons are bright).

  Rick Riordan

  Running, Fall, Rocks

  Rick Riordan (2010). “The Kane Chronicles, The, Book One: Red Pyramid”, Hyperion

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• A freedom which is interested only in denying freedom must be denied. And it is not true that the recognition of the freedom of others limits my own freedom: to be free is not to have the power to do anything you like; it is to be able to surpass the given toward an open future; the existence of others as a freedom defines my situation and is even the condition of my own freedom. I am oppressed if I am thrown into prison, but not if I am kept from throwing my neighbor into prison.

  Simone de Beauvoir

  Able, Limits, Recognition

  Simone de Beauvoir (1948). “The Ethics of Ambiguity”

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• This life is filled with threats and danger, David. We face those that we have to face, and there will be times when we must make the choice to act for the greater good, even at risk to ourselves, but we do not lay down our lives needlessly. Each of us has only one life to live, and one life to give. There is no glory in throwing it away where there is no hope.

  John Connolly

  Giving, Choices, Risk

  John Connolly (2006). “The Book of Lost Things: A Novel”, p.175, Simon and Schuster

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• It baffles me that people think that obliterating the past will save them from its consequences, as if throwing away the empty cake plate would help you lose weight.

  Timothy B. Tyson

  Past, Thinking, Cake

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• Now there’s a sight you don’t see every day, huh? Two punked-out Goths throwing a Christmas party for sick children. (Doctor)

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Children, Party, Doctors

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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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