Toss Quotes - Page 7

• The school system is the homogenizing hopper into which we toss our integral tots for processing.

  Marshall McLuhan

  Freedom, School, Differences

  Marshall McLuhan, W. Terrence Gordon, Elena Lamberti, Dominique Scheffel-Dunand (2011). “The Gutenberg Galaxy: The Making of Typographic Man”, p.244, University of Toronto Press

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• Ignorance is a treasure of infinite price that most men squander, when they should cherish its least fragments; some ruin it by educating themselves, others, unable to so much as conceive of making use of it, let it waste away. Quite on the contrary, we should search for it assiduously in what we think we know best. Leaf through a dictionary or try to make one, and you will find that every word covers and masks a well so bottomless that the questions you toss into it arouse no more than an echo.

  Paul Valery

  Education, Ignorance, Men

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• If I could take your troubles
  I would toss them into the sea,
  But all these things I'm finding
  Are impossible for me.
  I cannot build a mountain
  Or catch a rainbow fair,
  But let me be what I know best,
  A friend that is always there.

  Khalil Gibran

  Sea, Rainbow, Poetry

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• It was never a policy of the Kent team that the pitch must be occupied all day after winning the toss.

  Frank Woolley

  Team, Winning, Winner

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• It is an old custom of these people to pick up a stone and toss it on the pile. Perhaps it is a symbolical lightening of the load they carry, perhaps a small offering to the gods of the trails.

  Louis L'Amour

  Journey, Hiking, Offering

  Louis L'Amour (2004). “The Lonesome Gods”, p.74, Bantam

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• There's a very big part of me that just wants to take all of comics history and toss it on the bonfire. I'd sort of like to get on to the future.

  Scott McCloud

  Want, Bigs, Bonfire

  Interview with Tasha Robinson, www.avclub.com. August 23, 2000.

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• Toss your dashed hopes not into a trash bin but into a drawer where you are likely to rummage some bright morning.

  Robert Breault

  Wise, Morning, Trash

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• England a fortune-telling host, As num'rous as the stars, could boast; Matrons, who toss the cup, and see The grounds of Fate in grounds of tea.

  Charles Churchill

  Stars, Fate, Tea

  Charles Churchill (1766). “Poems ...: In Two Volumes”, p.166

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• A pedestrian ought to be legally allowed to toss at least one hand grenade at a motorist every day.

  Brendan Behan

  Hands, Modern Life, Pedestrians

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• I don't like to dump the dressing on top of the greens. Instead, I pour it against the side of the bowl - using only enough to glaze the leaves - then toss.

  Bobby Flay

  Sides, Enough, Dump

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• After the Democrats shoved the 2700 pages of ObamaCare down our throats - and we did find out how expensive, controlling, and coercive the legislation was - a majority of Americans wanted the Supreme Court to toss it aside as unconstitutional.

  Bob Beauprez

  Obamacare, Majority, Pages

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• An honest politician has no goodies to toss around. This limits his effectiveness profoundly, because political power in India is dispersed throughout a multi-tiered federal structure; a local official who has not been paid off can sometimes stop a billion-dollar project.

  Aravind Adiga

  Effectiveness, Political, India

  "Indians' worst fear: the honest politician" by Aravind Adiga, www.theguardian.com. July 30, 2008.

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• The ability of Americans to toss off oppressive characters is the most rewarding aspect, to me, of U.S. history.

  Norman Corwin

  Character, Aspect, Ability

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• The serve, I think, is the most difficult, you know, in terms of coordination, because you got the two arms going, and you got to toss it up at the right time so.

  Roger Federer

  Thinking, Two, Arms

  "Talk Asia" with Anjali Rao, edition.cnn.com. December 6, 2007.

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• The hardest thing about being a full time chef is leaving my work behind when I go home at night. I'll toss and turn about a menu item or forget to order produce and wake up at 4 A.M. in a cold sweat over some artichokes.

  Alexandra Guarnaschelli

  Home, Night, Order

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• Reproductive choice is not some trendy item to toss or keep around the house. If you cannot get an education or a job, if you cannot choose what will or will not happen with your own body, then what freedom do you have?

  June Jordan

  Jobs, Choices, House

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• Given a choice between their worldview and the facts, it's always interesting how many people toss the facts.

  Rebecca Solnit

  People, Interesting, Choices

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• I'm not a collector. I toss things out all the time.

  Rachael Taylor

  Collectors

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Hey, man, I toss a stick for a living. Gotta spice up that deal, y'know. Gotta stand out.

  Breaux Greer

  Men, Hey, Spices

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• Man on the dubious waves of error toss'd.

  William Cowper

  Men, Errors, Dubious

  Cowper: Poetical Works Truth l. 1

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• Twere better to be born a stone Of ruder shape, and feeling none, Than with a tenderness like mine And sensibilities so fine! Ah, hapless wretch! condemn'd to dwell Forever in my native shell, Ordained to move when others please, Not for my own content or ease; But toss'd and buffeted about, Now in the water and now out.

  William Cowper

  Moving, Oysters, Water

  William Cowper, William Hayley, John William Cunningham (1854). “The Works of William Cowper: His Life, Letters, and Poems ; Now First Completed by the Introduction of Cowper's Private Correspondence”, p.617

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• . . . the solution is not to toss youthful offenders into jail or prisons. We long ago recognized alcoholism to be a disease, and abondoned efforts to treat alcoholics simply by locking them up.

  Tom McCall

  War, Jail, Long Ago

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• The right boys I always toss and the wrong ones I keep on top of me like paperweights.

  Daniel Handler

  Boys

  "Adverbs". Book by Daniel Handler, 2006.

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• My wife is very interested in fashion. I am absolutely not. I couldn't give a toss. Fashion is a perfectly valid thing to be interested in. I'm just not particularly interested in pop culture. I think I am more interested in things that have a settled permanence about them.

  Simon Winchester

  Fashion, Thinking, Giving

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• Ah! two desires toss about The poet's feverish blood; One drives him to the world without, And one to solitude.

  Matthew Arnold

  Blood, Two, Solitude

  'Stanzas in Memory of the Author of "Obermann", November 1849' l. 93

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