Overarm Throw Quotes

#1. [Rincewind] drew his sword and, with a smooth overarm throw, completely failed to hit the troll.

Terry Pratchett

#2. A savage review is much more entertaining for the reader than an admiring one; the little misanthrope in each of us relishes the rubbishing of someone else.

Arthur Smith

#3. Get out from that kitchen and rattle those pots and pans. Well, roll my breakfast cause I'm a hungry man.

Big Joe Turner

#4. As early as high school, she had realized that few people paid attention to you if you were hidden behind a book.

Katarina Bivald

#5. Many of us are in are in our own prisons that aren't made of iron bars.

Hill Harper

#6. Very nice sort of place, Oxford, I should think, for people that like that sort of place.

George Bernard Shaw

#7. Don't send a poet to London.

Heinrich Heine

#8. Being empty makes me whole sometimes. I wonder if every hollow hole has its own solidity of fulfillment

Munia Khan

#9. I wasn't so inclined to tell anyone else in my family about my plan. It was very new and felt about as vulnerable as a day-old mouse, its eyelids still sealed shut.

Jeanne Ray

#10. All political spendings for purposes beyond the protection of life and property are a snare and a delusion.

Percy L. Greaves Jr.

#11. One day, when I own a house, I'll keep a library full of books. Books are different from other possessions-they're more like friends.

Blake Mycoskie

#12. Beyond the Wall the monsters live, the giants and the ghouls, the stalking shadows and the dead that walk, but they cannot pass so long as the Wall stands strong and the men of the Night's Watch are true. So go to sleep Brandon, my baby boy, and dream sweet dreams. There are no monsters here.

George R R Martin

#13. But is it possible to believe in the devil, if one hasn't the slightest belief in God?' Stavrogin laughed out loud.
'Oh yes, entirely possible, that's as common as can be,' Tibon raised his eyes and smiled, too.

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

#14. If you dissect a bird / to diagram the tongue, / you'll cut the chord / articulating song.

Sylvia Plath