Throwing Quotes - Page 9

• Nora: What are you planning? Patch: I wouldn't call this planning. I'd call this throwing a Hail Mary with seconds left on the clock.

  Becca Fitzpatrick

  Planning, Clock, Hail Mary

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• Ah, if I were dictator I'd have poets throwing bombs!

  Gregory Corso

  Bombs, Dictator, Poet

  Gregory Corso, Bill Morgan (2003). “An Accidental Autobiography: The Selected Letters of Gregory Corso”, p.5, New Directions Publishing

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• No, this is throwing up like coming off the tilt-a-whirl at age seven, like discovering that dead rat under the porch, like finding out someone you loved never loved you at all.

  Megan Abbott

  Age, Tilt, Rats

  Megan Abbott (2012). “Dare Me: A Novel”, p.149, Hachette UK

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• Here's the thing. I hate kids. Always have. I mean, I know the job of the race, biologically speaking, is to achieve immortality through reproduction, but the idea of getting impregnated and blowing up like a balloon as I serve as a carrier and service unit for this other person who will eventually burst out of me in the most terrifying way imaginable, then carry on using me one way or another for the rest of my life, is right up there with throwing myself off the top of a twenty-story building. If I have a biological clock, it is digital and does not tick.

  Isobelle Carmody

  Jobs, Hate, Mean

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• He is a man of the Night's Watch, She thought, as he sang about some stupid lady throwing herself off some stupid tower because her stupid prince was dead. The lady should go kill the ones who killed her prince. Arya Stark (page 514)

  George R. R. Martin

  Stupid, Night, Men

  George R. R. Martin (2011). “A Game of Thrones 4-Book Bundle: A Song of Ice and Fire Series: A Game of Thrones, A Clash of Kings, A Storm of Swords, and A Feast for Crows”, p.3184, Bantam

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• For a moment, they all stood staring at each other. Then Holly shattered the stillness by throwing herself at Angela. "God, Angie!" she exclaimed, arms locked around her neck. "What Happened?

  Sarah Rees Brennan

  Hollies, Arms, Necks

  Sarah Rees Brennan (2012). “Unspoken (The Lynburn Legacy Book 1)”, p.355, Random House Books for Young Readers

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• Since being involved in 'Strictly Come Dancing,' my life has changed completely. I can't walk down the street without women throwing themselves at me, I usually wouldn't mind, but they are of a certain age. Hopefully, after this series, they will bring their daughters!

  Anton du Beke

  Daughter, Mother, Dancing

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• Nico started to crawl away, groaning. Percy wanted him to move faster and groan less. He considered throwing his wonder bread at him.

  Rick Riordan

  Moving, Bread, Wonder

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• You're late." Kat said as soon as Hale put the phone to his ear. She wasn't the kind of girl to wait for hello. "What can I say? Macey McHenry has been throwing herself at me..." "See, that's the kind of thing that would make me jealous if she weren't way out of your league." "You know, if I had feelings, that might have hurt them.

  Ally Carter

  Girl, Hurt, Jealous

  "Double Crossed". Book by Ally Carter, January 22, 2013.

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• A certain feeling comes from throwing your good life away, and it is one part rapture.

  Barbara Kingsolver

  Good Life, Feelings, Certain

  Barbara Kingsolver (2012). “Flight Behaviour”, p.5, Faber & Faber

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• Your daughter is doing well here. I've been overseeing her training." Since when does "overseeing" include throwing knives at me and scolding me at every opportunity?

  Veronica Roth

  Daughter, Opportunity, Knives

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• If you become involved with me, you will be throwing yourself into the abyss.

  Franz Kafka

  Abyss, Involved, Ifs

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• What's a good investment? Go home from work early and spend the afternoon throwing a ball around with your son.

  Ben Stein

  Inspirational, Home, Parenting

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• The writing of a poem is like a child throwing stones into a mineshaft. You compose first, then you listen for the reverberation.

  James Fenton

  Children, Writing, Poetry

  The Independent on Sunday, June 24, 1990.

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• To throw bombs from an airplane will do as much damage as throwing bags of flour. It will be my pleasure to stand on the bridge of any ship while it is attacked by airplanes.

  Newton D. Baker

  Military, Airplane, Bridges

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• I think Virgin Blue is still a very promising and exciting business.
  Now, I know that's not a view that's widely held in the market but I think the market is simply throwing it into the too-hard basket at the present time because of the oil price events.
  But we think it is still a very exciting business.

  Chris Corrigan

  Inspirational, Business, Optimistic

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• It's no fun throwing fastballs to guys who can't hit them. The real challenge is getting them out on the stuff they can hit.

  Sam McDowell

  Baseball, Fun, Real

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• If you will take it into your mind to be sincere in throwing away your life for your master, you will not have the slightest fear or trembling even with the advent of innumerable impending calamities.

  Torii Mototada

  War, Mind, Advent

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• A little insomnia is not without its value in making us appreciate sleep, in throwing a ray of light upon that darkness.

  Marcel Proust

  Sleep, Insomnia, Light

  Marcel Proust (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Marcel Proust (Illustrated)”, p.2717, Delphi Classics

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• "I have seen those symptoms before," said Holmes, throwing his cigarette into the fire. "Oscillation upon the pavement always means an affaire de coeur."

  Arthur Conan Doyle

  Humorous, Mean, Sarcasm

  Arthur Conan Doyle (2013). “The Complete Sherlock Holmes”, p.195, Race Point Publishing

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• A strong woman is a woman at work, cleaning out the cesspool of the ages, and while she shovels, she talks about how she doesn't mind crying, it opens the ducts of the eyes, and throwing up develops the stomach muscles, and she goes on shoveling with tears in her nose.

  Marge Piercy

  Strong Women, Eye, Justice

  Marge Piercy (2013). “Moon Is Always Female”, p.76, Knopf

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• I don't think the discus will ever attract any interest until they let us start throwing them at one another.

  Al Oerter

  Inspirational, Funny, Sports

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• People understand contests. You take a bunch of kids throwing rocks at random and people look askance, but if you go and hold a rock-throwing contest - people understand that.

  Don Murray

  Sports, Kids, Rocks

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• This operation is not being planned with any alternatives. This operation is planned as a victory, and that's the way it's going to be. We're going down there, and we're throwing everything we have into it, and we're going to make it a success.

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  Ghetto, Sacrifice, Victory

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• I know you can be fined for throwing a club, but I want to know if you can get fined for throwing a caddie?

  Tommy Bolt

  Golf, Caddies, Clubs

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