Toss Quotes

• It is always with excitement that I wake up in the morning wondering what my intuition will toss up to me, like gifts from the sea. I work with it and rely on it. It's my partner.

  Jonas Salk

  Morning, Sea, Psychics

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• I never threw an illegal pitch. The trouble is, once in a while I toss one that ain't never been seen by this generation.

  Satchel Paige

  Funny, Softball, Baseball

  Quoted in Wash. Post, 10 June 1982

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• Have an anchor so that life doesn't toss you around.

  Debby Ryan

  Anchors

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• The hallmark of a great captain is the ability to win the toss, at the right time.

  Richie Benaud

  Sports, Winning, Captains

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

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• Its a toss-up when you decide to leave the beaten track. Many are called, few are chosen.

  W. Somerset Maugham

  Track, Chosen, Beaten

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• You are the person who has to decide. Whether you'll do it or toss it aside.

  Edgar Guest

  Persons

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• Whilst breezy waves toss up their silvery spray.

  Thomas Hood

  Ocean, Wave, Breezy

  Thomas Hood (2016). “Delphi Complete Poetical Works of Thomas Hood (Illustrated)”, p.313, Delphi Classics

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• Now the great winds shoreward blow Now the salt tides seaward flow Now the wild white horses play Champ and chafe and toss in the spray.

  Matthew Arnold

  Horse, Blow, Wind

  'The Forsaken Merman' (1849) l. 4

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• Fortune can, for her pleasure, fools advance,
  And toss them on the wheels of Chance.

  Juvenal

  Fool, Wheels, Chance

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• The economic game is not supposed to be rigged like some shady ring toss on a carnival midway.

  Arianna Huffington

  Games, Literature, Shady

  "Pigs at the Trough". Book by Arianna Huffington, New York: Crown Publishers, 1st edition ed., 2003.

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• If you want to succeed in the world must make your own opportunities as you go on. The man who waits for some seventh wave to toss him on dry land will find that the seventh wave is a long time a coming. You can commit no greater folly than to sit by the roadside until someone comes along and invites you to ride with him to wealth or influence.

  John Bartholomew Gough

  Inspirational, Motivation, Opportunity

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• I draw the line in the dust and toss the gauntlet before the feet of tyranny, and I say segregation now, segregation tomorrow, segregation forever.

  George C. Wallace

  Dust, Tyrants, Feet

  First Inaugural Speech as Governor of Alabama, January 1963.

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• Jazz in itself is not struggling. That is, the music itself is not struggling... It's the attitude that's in trouble. My plays insist that we should not forget or toss away our history.

  August Wilson

  Attitude, Struggle, Play

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• There's nothing I hate more than nothing. Nothing keeps me up at night. I toss and turn over nothing. Nothing could cause a great big fight.

  Edie Brickell

  Hate, Fighting, Night

  "Song: Nothing (Album: Shooting Rubberbands At The Stars)". 1988.

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• I love fashion. What I love is the ability to express yourself, to be able to make a product and shoot an ad campaign that tosses you out into the world and lets you have a voice in contemporary culture, iconography. I felt a little bit neutered not having that voice.

  Tom Ford

  Fashion, Love Is, Voice

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• The Alexander Technique helped a long-standing back problem and to get a good night's sleep after many years of tossing and turning.

  Paul Newman

  Good Night, Healing, Sleep

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• He toss my salad like his name Romaine

  Nicki Minaj

  Names, Salad, Bragging

  Song: Anaconda 2.0, Album: The Pinkprint, 2014

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• Long Toss! Far and away themost important drill for strengthening my arm.

  Paul Quantrill

  Hands, Long, Important

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• Tosses her head and flips her hair, she got a whole bunch of nothing in there.

  Frank Zappa

  Art, Media, Hair

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• I don't emphasize the whatevs. I say it as if it's truly a toss-away word.

  Eugene Mirman

  Ifs

  "A Guide To Mustering 'The Will To Whatevs'". "All Things Considered" with Robert Smith, www.npr.org. March 1, 2009.

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• If he who has little wit needs a master to inform his stupidity, he who has much frequently needs ten to keep in check his worldly wisdom, which might otherwise, like a high-mettled charger, toss him to the ground.

  Christian Scriver

  Stupidity, Needs, Littles

  Christian Scriver (1857). “Gotthold's Emblems: or Invisible things understood by things that are made. Tr. by R. Menzies”, p.147

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• It only takes 140 characters to toss ones character out the window.

  LZ Granderson

  Character, Window, 140 Character

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• When you take the bull by the horns...what happens is a toss-up.

  William Pett Ridge

  Bulls, Horns, Happens

  William Pett Ridge (1912). “Love at Paddington”

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• I have no sex appeal. If my husband didn't toss and turn, we'd never have had any kids.

  Joan Rivers

  Sex, Husband, Memorable

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

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• John Kerry says that he wants to debate President Bush once a month until the election. This could be a risky move for Senator Kerry. If Bush doesn't show up for the debates, John Kerry may end up debating an empty chair. And that could be pretty much a toss up as to which one has the better personality.

  Jay Leno

  Moving, Personality, President

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