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“My first car, I got it in an auction at my temple. It was an '86 Volvo that I got for 500 bucks, and then wound up throwing $10,000 into the stereo system and put TVs in the foot rests. It was the most ridiculous Volvo you'd ever seen, but I had never had money before and I was out of my mind.”

Mind Firsts Feet Car Tvs Wounds Ridiculous Temples Throwing Bucks Of My Mind Auctions Volvo

Author:Shia LaBeouf

“We want you to sit down and leave your egos at home and let's get an understanding as to where all this is foolishness coming from. There are others who are putting things out there or throwing a stick and hiding their hand and keeping things built up in the media.”

Want Home Hands Understanding Media Ego Built Down And Sticks Hiding Throwing Foolishness

Author:Afrika Bambaataa

“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.”

World Spending Holes Throwing Rats Drains Public Education Education Spending

Author:Rush Limbaugh

“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.”

Trying Kind Littles Stuff Trouble Rocks Car Throwing Always Trying Mischief Troublemaker Trouble Maker Throwing Rocks

Author:Ryan Lochte

“Attend me, hold me in your muscular flowering arms, protect me from throwing any part of myself away.”

Arms Protect Throwing Flowering Hold Me

Book:A Burst of Light: and Other Essays

Source: A Burst of Light: and Other Essays

“It is impossible to talk or to write without apparently throwing oneself helplessly open.”

Writing Literature Impossible Oneself Throwing

Book:Pierre or The Ambiguities: Works of Melville

Source: Pierre or The Ambiguities: Works of Melville

“Women say they have sexual thoughts too. They have no idea. It's the difference between shooting a bullet and throwing it. If they knew what we were really thinking, they'd never stop slapping us.”

Ifs Thinking Ideas Differences Shooting No Idea Throwing Bullets Slapping Dodging Bullets

Author:Larry Miller

“I could run, but I was throwing 93 mph coming out of high school.”

Running School High School Throwing Coming Out Mph

Author:Shemar Moore

“If you guys are going to be throwing beer bottles at us, at least make sure they're full.”

Ifs Guy Beer Bottles Throwing

Author:Dave Mustaine

“How you recover from what life's throwing at you is what matters.”

Matter Throwing What Matters

Author:Joe Namath

“Hollywood is throwing action movies at me.”

Action Hollywood Throwing Action Movie

Author:Liam Neeson

“Cynicism is kind of like folding your arms and stepping back and commenting on things, like the old guys in 'The Muppets,' just throwing out comments all the time, whereas there are other people on the ground really trying to affect things and improve their lives and the lives of other people. I think it's noble and I think it's cool.”

People Thinking Trying Kind Guy Arms Noble Comment Throwing Cynicism Lives Of Others Folding Old Guys Muppet Stepping Back

Author:Josh Radnor

“I am a team player - and that is what you need to be an effective point guard. You gotta see the court, you gotta set up the play, and you gotta let others execute for the most part. I don't throw elbows for the sake of throwing elbows, but if somebody throws one at me and it's necessary to respond in kind, I suppose I can if I have to.”

Ifs Needs Kind I Can Play Player Team Court Sake Throwing Elbows Inspirational Team Team Player Point Guard

Author:Susan Rice

“I have become an adjective. There is something called a Rovian-style of campaigning and it's meant as an insult. One columnist said it consists mainly of throwing mud until it sticks. One prominent blogger described the elements of a textbook Rovian race as fear-based, smear-based and anything goes.”

Said Race Style Elements Sticks Insult Throwing Mud Textbooks Adjectives Prominent Bloggers Columnists Campaigning Anything Goes

Author:Karl Rove

“A politician should have three hats. One for throwing into the ring, one for talking through, and one for pulling rabbits out of if elected.”

Ifs Should Political Three Politics Talking Politician Should Have Election Rings Hats Throwing Pulling Rabbits Election Day Great Political

Author:Carl Sandburg

“When you're on top and you lead the parade, everyone's there throwing lilies and lilac water on your head. But when those parades have gone by and there's a storm in your heart, there are very few people that are going to sit there and listen to you bemoan life.”

People Heart Water Gone Storm Throwing Lilies Parades Listen To Your Heart Lilac

Author:Sylvester Stallone

“I flailed my arm in a throwing motion before I could even walk.”

Hands Sports Walks Arms Throwing

Author:Willie Stargell

“If Jesus came back today, and saw what was going on in his name, he'd never stop throwing up.”

Ifs Today Religion Jesus Names Saws Throwing Throwing Up

Author:Max von Sydow

“There must be a reason why some people can afford to live well. They must have worked for it. I only feel angry when I see waste. When I see people throwing away things we could use.”

“You can't imagine what satisfaction can be gotten from throwing a pie into someone's face.”

Faces Imagine Satisfaction Throwing Pie

Author:Emma Thompson

“One of my most productive days was throwing away 1,000 lines of code.”

Lines Computer Productivity Code Programming Productive Software Throwing Programmers Computer Programming Computer Science Great Day Computer Programmers Throwing Away Computer Software Programming Funny

Author:Ken Thompson

“The biggest thrill a ballplayer can have is when your son takes after you. That happened when my Bobby was in his championship Little League game. He really showed me something. Struck out three times. Made an error that lost the game. Parents were throwing things at our car and swearing at us as we drove off. Gosh, I was proud.”

Source: If These Walls Could Talk: Milwaukee Brewers: Stories from the Milwaukee Brewers Dugout, Locker Room, and Press Box

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

Littles Listening Grew Grew Up Stranger Queens Dramatic Unexpected Throwing

Author:Carrie Underwood

“All records are riddles, and whatever you may want people to think it's about, it may just be throwing them off. And you don't want it to get in the way of what someone else's understanding is. It's not really about anything. At the same time, it will find some meaning.”

People Thinking Way Want May Understanding Records Throwing Riddle

Author:Tom Waits

“For me, I skate as masculine as I can. I'm not a big strong guy. I'm not interested in fighting or throwing punches or balling my hands in fists all day. I'm not interested in guns, I'm not interested in football or stereotypically masculine things, so I'm going to skate in a fashion that is manly for Johnny Weir.”

I Can Hands Bigs Guy Fighting Strong Fashion Football Gun Throwing Not Interested Fists Masculine Manly Skates Throwing Punches

Author:Johnny Weir

“You do not want to get married at 22! Especially if you're famous, because girls are going to be throwing themselves at you.”

Ifs Want Girl Married Throwing

Author:Usain Bolt

“I actually think that the economy has got some positives. It's got the market. It's got consumer confidence and it's got banks throwing - I mean central bankers throwing money at it around the world.”

Thinking World Inspirational Mean Economy Around The World Consumers Throwing Bankers Consumer Confidence

Author:Jack Welch

“Celebrate your child's achievement, then rotate it when the next mini-masterpiece comes along. Then chuck the old picture. Don't worry that you're throwing away a memory. Your children will remember your praise more than they will remember the picture with macaroni and glitter glued on it.”

Children Remember Next Memories Worry Achievement Praise Celebrate Your Children Throwing Masterpiece Glitter Chuck Throwing Away Macaroni Old Picture

Author:Niecy Nash

“Since the advent of the Internet - more recently compounded by blogging - everyone can be a published voice. Any cowardly, anonymous anger-monger can have an audience of thousands. That doesn't make them a journalist any more than my throwing an onion and a few carrots into a pot of boiling water makes me Julia Child.”

Children Voice Water Audience Internet Journalist Pot Throwing Cowardly Blogging Onions Advent Carrots Julia Boiling Boiling Water

Author:Lynda Resnick

“Civilization, in fact, grows more maudlin and hysterical; especially under democracy it tends to degenerate into a mere combat of crazes; the whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by an endless series of hobgoblins, most of them imaginary. Wars are no longer waged by the will of superior men, capable of judging dispassionately and intelligently the causes behind them and the effects flowing out of them. The are now begun by first throwing a mob into a panic; they are ended only when it has spent its ferine fury.”

“Everyone is guilty at one time or another of throwing out questions that beg to be ignored, but mothers seem to have a market on the supply. "Do you want a spanking or do you want to go to bed?" Don't you want to save some of the pizza for your brother?" Wasn't there any change?”

Want Seems Mother Brother Bed Guilty Throwing One Time Ignored Pizza Your Brother Spanking

Author:Erma Bombeck

“It's the arrangement of events which makes the stories. It's throwing away, compressing, underlining. Hindsight can give structure to anything, but you have to be able to see it. Breathing, waking and sleeping: our lives are steamed and shaped into stories. Knowing that is what keeps me from going insane, and though I don't like to admit it, sometimes it's the only thing.”

Giving Sometimes Stories Able Sleep Knowing Our Lives Events Structure Insane Breathing Throwing Waking Arrangements Hindsight Throwing Away

Author:Carol Shields

“I am unarmed. But Butler here, my ...ah...butler, has a Sig Saucer in his shoulder holster, two shrike-throwing knives in his boots, aderringer two-shot up his sleeve, garrotte wire in his watch, and three stun greanades concealed in variouse pockets. Anything else, Butler?”

Two Three Watches Shots Shoulders Pockets Throwing Knives Boots Wire Concealed Sleeves Butlers Unarmed Artemis Fowl

Author:Eoin Colfer

“Anything we need to know, we can learn it from a book. Reading, careful study, a little practice, and we’re throwing knives expertly, overhauling engines, speaking Esperanto like natives.”

Knows Needs Littles Book Reading Practice Study Careful Throwing Knives Engines Book Reading Esperanto

Author:Richard Bach

“Humility is throwing oneself away in complete concentration on something or someone else.”

Inspiring Humility Oneself Concentration Throwing

Author:Madeleine L'Engle

“Although I was able to maintain a pleasant expression, I was mentally throwing up in her face.”

Able Faces Expression Pleasant Throwing Throwing Up Magical Thinking

Book:Magical Thinking

Source: Magical Thinking

“Here I should like to remark, for the sake of princes and princesses in general, that it is a low and contemptible thing to refuse to confess a fault, or even an error. If a true princess has done wrong, she is always uneasy until she has had an opportunity of throwing the wrongness away from her by saying: 'I did it; and I wish I had not; and I am sorry for having done it.”

Ifs Should Done Opportunity Wish Lows Errors Faults Sorry Sake Refuse Throwing Princess Remarks Uneasy I Am Sorry Am Sorry

Book:Delphi Complete Works of George MacDonald (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of George MacDonald (Illustrated)

“I DON'T CARE!" Harry yelled at them, snatching up a lunascope and throwing it into the fireplace. "I'VE HAD ENOUGH, I'VE SEEN ENOUGH, I WANT OUT, I WANT IT TO END, I DON'T CARE ANYMORE!" "You do care," said Dumbledore. He had not flinched or made a single move to stop Harry demolishing his office. His expression was calm, almost detached. "You care so much you feel as though you will bleed to death with the pain of it.”

“And before me was the great raw bulge and bulk of my American continent; somewhat far across, gloomy, crazy New York was throwing up its cloud of dust and brown steam. There is something brown and holy about the East; and California is white like washlines and emptyheaded - at least that's what I thought then.”

White Crazy New York Holy Clouds East Dust California Brown Throwing Continents Steam Gloomy Throwing Up

Author:Jack Kerouac

“Women are so useless and unimaginative, aren't they? All they ever think of planting in the dirt is the seed of something beautiful or edible. The only missile they can ever think of throwing at anybody is a ball or a bridal bouquet.”

Thinking Beautiful Balls Seeds Useless Throwing Dirt Missiles Something Beautiful Bouquets Bridal

Book:Bluebeard: A Novel

Source: Bluebeard: A Novel

“Being a wiseass in a groupthink environment is like throwing an egg at a bulldozer.”

Environment Eggs Throwing Groupthink Bulldozers

Book:The Great Derangement: A Terrifying True Story of War, Politics, and Religion at the Twilight of the American Empire

Source: The Great Derangement: A Terrifying True Story of War, Politics, and Religion at the Twilight of the American Empire

“All stories are about wolves. All worth repeating, that is. Anything else is sentimental drivel. ...Think about it. There's escaping from the wolves, fighting the wolves, capturing the wolves, taming the wolves. Being thrown to the wolves, or throwing others to the wolves so the wolves will eat them instead of you. Running with the wolf pack. Turning into a wolf. Best of all, turning into the head wolf. No other decent stories exist.”

Thinking Stories Running Fighting Decent Thrown Throwing Packs Sentimental Escaping Taming Drivel Packs Of Wolves Wolf Packs

Author:Margaret Atwood

“Being human means throwing your whole life on the scales of destiny when need be, all the while rejoicing in every sunny day and every beautiful cloud.”

Needs Humans Mean Whole Beautiful Destiny Clouds Whole Life Scales Throwing Rejoice Being Human Sunny Sunny Day

Author:Rosa Luxemburg

“Hiro watches the large, radioactive, spear-throwing killer drug lord ride his motorcycle into Chinatown. Which is the same as riding it into China, as far as chasing him down is concerned.”

Lord Watches Drug Concerned China Throwing Killers Riding Chasing Motorcycle Spears Chinatown

Book:Snow Crash

Source: Snow Crash

“I wasn't sure I could make it through another hour of his company without throwing my stapler at his head.”

Hours Company Throwing

Book:The Likeness: Dublin Murder Squad: 2

Source: The Likeness: Dublin Murder Squad: 2

“Writing in English is like throwing mud at a wall.”

Writing Wall Throwing Mud

Author:Joseph Conrad

“If you stumble over mere believability, what are you living for? Love is hard to believe, ask any lover. Life is hard to believe, ask any scientist. God is hard to believe, ask any believer. What is your problem with hard to believe? Reason is excellent for getting food, clothing and shelter. Reason is the very best tool kit. Nothing beats reason for keeping tigers away. But be excessively reasonable and you risk throwing out the universe with the bathwater”

“On my first day in jail, a three hundred pound man named Porterhouse hit me in the back of the head with a metal tray. I was standing in line for lunch and I didn't see it coming. I went down. When I got up, I turned around and started throwing punches." (James Frey, pg.1)”

Men Firsts Three Lines Hundred Standing Pounds Jail Lunch Throwing Metals Trays Standing In Line Throwing Punches

Book:My Friend Leonard

Source: My Friend Leonard

“The Prince found Buttercup waiting unhappily outside his chamber doors. It's my letter,' she began. 'I cannot make it right.' Come in, come in,' the Prince said gently. 'Maybe we can help you.' She sat down in the same chair as before. 'All right, I'll close my eyes and listen; read to me.' Westley, my passion, my sweet, my only my own. Come back, come back. I shall kill myself otherwise. Yours in torment, Buttercup.' She looked at Humperdinck. 'Well? Do you think I'm throwing myself at him?”

Thinking Wells Said Helping Eye Passion Found Waiting My Own Doors Sweet Letters Sat Chairs Throwing Torment Chamber My Passion Buttercup

Author:William Goldman

“The party in Alobar’s head, which agitation and anxiety were throwing, now was crashed by a notion: existence can be rearranged.”

Party Existence Anxiety Notion Throwing Agitation

Book:Jitterbug Perfume

Source: Jitterbug Perfume

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