Top 100 Throw It Away Quotes
#1. When you are doing one thing - talking on your phone, texting, whatever - you are automatically not doing something else. What is the greatest scarcity in the world today? It's not oil. It's time. Time is precious. Don't throw it away.
Martin Cooper
#2. I look for things that no one I know, even myself, would ever come up with. If your solution is something that your friends or family might come up with, throw it away.
Jeff Goodby
#3. When I write a book I'm always questioning the project as a whole. I always feel I might have to just throw it away and forget about it, and I've done that with novels I've started and worked on for a long time. It's an option I need in order to write freely.
Daniel Kehlmann
#4. How do you sort the treasure from the trash? When does something move from sentimental to disposable? And if you think you are ready to part with it, are you really? If you throw it away today, will you regret it tomorrow? Or will it be something you never think about again?
Wendelin Van Draanen
#5. You do anything in the world to gain a reputation. As soon as you have one, you seem to want to throw it away.
Oscar Wilde
#6. If something doesn't work exactly right, or maybe needs some special treatment, you don't just throw it away. Everything can't be fully operational all the time. Sometimes, we need to have the patience to give something the little nudge it needs.
Sarah Dessen
#7. Self-trust is so important. When you launch on a story, make your neck loose, feel free, good-natured. And be lazy. Feel that you are going to throw it away. Try writing utterly unplanned stories and see what comes out.
Brenda Ueland
#8. It is true what Rimbaud said; If you think a book is strong enough, try it at the ocean, in the wind, at the waves. If the book can resist the ocean, then it exists. Otherwise, throw it away.
Klaus Kinski
#9. That life is far too short to waste on grudges. Love does not come along often. When it does, you can't throw it away because it isn't perfect.
Sophie Oak
#10. A story is like a nut. A fool will swallow it whole and choke. A fool will throw it away, think it of little worth. But a wise woman finds a way to crack the shell and eat the meant inside.
Patrick Rothfuss
#11. The whole thing is so degrading! That a man like Eric should be reduced to crawling before those bloodsuckers who are taking every advantage of his weakened state. And strip himself of one whole third of his wealth to throw it away like all the huge sums they've already got out of him!
Louis Auchincloss
#12. Whatever problems we had back then don't exist anymore. It's why we have this second chance, and we can't throw it away. Besides, you were the one who said we're not exactly the same as we were back then. If we're not the same, then things can turn out differently.
Michelle Madow
#13. A story is like a nut," Vashet said. "A fool will swallow it whole and choke. A fool will throw it away, thinking it of little worth." She smiled. "But a wise woman finds a way to crack the shell and eat the meat inside.
Patrick Rothfuss
#14. Wore sorrow and anger like a worn-out coat and would not throw it away.
Belva Plain
#15. You just have to keep going to find that thing that lets you in the door. Sometimes in life when that day comes and you're given the key, you throw it away.
Bob Dylan
#16. If you give a good idea to a mediocre group, they'll screw it up. If you give a mediocre idea to a good group, they'll fix it. Or they'll throw it away and come up with something else.
Edwin Catmull
#17. Sometimes, I do have something to say, so I'll sit there and I'll write a song to someone - and then I just throw it away because it makes me cringe.
Bradford Cox
#18. Harry: "And what if I wave my wand and nothing happens?"
Ron: "Throw it away and punch him on the nose.
J.K. Rowling
#19. You will invest your life in something, or you will throw it away on nothing.
Haddon W. Robinson
#20. When you give up a bit of work don't (unless it is hopelessly bad) throw it away. Put it in a drawer. It may come in useful later. Much of my best work, or what I think my best, is the re-writing of things begun and abandoned years earlier.
C.S. Lewis
#21. So I'll write it, and then I'll find out that I actually wrote something that is utterly useless. You can't use it in the story and it doesn't fit. So I just throw it away. I've done that countless times.
Jack Vance
#22. One, remember to look up at the stars and not down at your feet. Two, never give up work. Work gives you meaning and purpose and life is empty without it. Three, if you are lucky enough to find love, remember it is there and don't throw it away.
Stephen Hawking
#23. Noah crouched over Gansey's body. He said, for the last time, 'You will live because of Glendower. Someone else on the ley line is dying when they should not, and so you will live when you should not.'
Gansey died.
'Goodbye,' Noah said. 'Don't throw it away.'
He quietly slid from time.
Maggie Stiefvater
#24. Before you throw it away, let Mighty Mendit save the day.
Billy Mays
#25. I think a lot of what you do in acting, and for the most part singing and dancing and everything, is trial and error. It's all about just seeing what works, and if it does, to use it, and if not, to throw it away.
Nick Jonas
#26. Curtains always hide something, either the good or the bad! Their job is to hide! If you see a curtain covering up an evil, tear it down and throw it away!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#27. Feel it, deal with it, then throw it away
Reyna Hawk
#28. I assume most guitar players are like me. They're playing, having fun; then they get a magazine in the mail that says "Shred Is Dead" and they say, "What the Hell?" They throw it away and keep on playing.
Joe Satriani
#29. Love is like mayonaisse: when it separates, you've got to throw it away and start again.
Enrique Jardiel Poncela
#30. If you can't fuck it and it doesn't dance, eat it or throw it away.
Pat Cadigan
#31. Until the day when, your endurance gone, in this world for you without arms, you catch up in yours the first mangy cur you meet, carry it the time needed for it to love you and you it, then throw it away.
Samuel Beckett
#32. People in the real world would kill for a happily ever after, and you're willing to just throw it away ?" I look away from her. "It's hardly a happily ever after when you wind up right at the beginning.
Jodi Picoult
#33. If you haven't got an idea, start a story anyway. You can always throw it away, and maybe by the time you get to the fourth page you will have an idea, and you'll only have to throw away the first three pages.
William Campbell Gault
#34. One's writing is good only when the intelligence and the imagination are in equilibrium. As soon as one of them overbalances the other, it's all up; you may as well throw it away and begin afresh.
Leo Tolstoy
#35. Bless you, my boy. Have a horseshoe." "Thank you, sir. What should I do with it?" "Throw it." "Away?" "At that peg there. Then pick it up and throw it at this
Joseph Heller
#36. When you've understood this scripture, throw it away. If you can't understand this scripture, throw it away. I insist on your freedom.
Jack Kerouac
#37. You can only do two things with your life: give it away or throw it away.
Ron White
#38. Everything is a tool - a boot, a sled, a dog - and a hand, an arm, even a man! If it breaks down you throw it away and you march on! It's brutal, yes! And it's ugly. But anything else is sentiment and it will kill you.
Ted Tally
#40. It offended his sense of himself, because he was an individual from an age of individuals, and a string of lights was, like him, an individual thing. No matter how little the thing had cost, to throw it away was to deny its value ...
Jonathan Franzen
#41. Any coincidencce is worth noticing. You can throw it away later if it is only a coincidence.
Agatha Christie
#42. We are all living history, and it's hard to say now what will be important in the future. One thing's certain, though: if we throw it away, it's gone.
Marilyn Johnson
#43. Loss, once it's become a certainty, is like a rock you hold in your hand. It has weight and dimension and texture. It's solid and can be assessed and dealt with. You can use it to beat yourself or you can throw it away.
William Kent Krueger
#44. My mentor Jon Simmons introduced me to the Stanislavski system, which is so heavy on back-story. So you write and write and write these back stories about a character and then you throw it away. So then on set, if it doesn't come, then you didn't do your work.
Chris Zylka
#46. You picked a lemon, throw it away lemonade is overrated. Freaks should remain at the circus, not in your apartment. You already have one asshole. You don't need another. Make a space in your life for the glorious things you deserve. Have faith.
Greg Behrendt
#47. Capitalism is using its money; we socialists throw it away.
Fidel Castro
#48. The only way that you can find any semblance of a rule, or make any semblance of your own rule, is to tear up the rulebook. Throw it out, burn it, throw it away, and make your own rules.
Ben Harper
#49. Use your intuition. Picture how things happen, why they happen. Don't stick rigidly to first impressions, and once you've read the rule book, throw it away. Better still, burn the bastard.
Andrew Barrett
#51. If the story wasn't overly long, I'd type it out. And I'd carry it around with me for a week and jot notes on it, and then I'd throw it away and do another one.
Donald Ray Pollock
#52. Usually, I would mistrust a book if it took that long to write. Usually, if it isn't done in two years, I suspect there's something wrong and throw it away.
John Burnside
#53. Life. It's a funny thing. Some want it, some throw it away. Some cling, some have it stolen from them. It's terrifying ... which is maybe why I was drawn to Fear in the first place.
Kelsey Sutton
#54. It was all her fortune. It seemed to her very fine thus to throw it away.
Gustave Flaubert
#55. But he doesn't open the box anymore. It sits, firmly closed, in the tree. He thinks maybe he should throw it away, but he cannot bring himself to do it. Perhaps he will leave it in the tree and let the bark grow over it, sealing it inside.
Erin Morgenstern
#56. After five years, look at it with suspicion. And after ten years, throw it away and start all over.
Alfred E. Perlman
#57. The best way to be thankful for the gift of life is to not throw it away.
Bryant McGill
#58. Love is never lost. We choose to either return it ... or throw it away
Lenore Wolfe
#59. The secret of the difficulties of those people who make a great deal of money, and yet are always in want of it, is this-they throw it away as soon as they get it on the first whim or extravagance that strikes them, and have nothing left to meet ordinary expenses or discharge old debts.
William Hazlitt
#60. Most of the times it's healthier to start over in a different way, or throw it away.
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
#61. Whenever Ter read a book, rarely - he would rip each page off and throw it away. I would come home, to where the windows were always open or broken and the whole room would be swirling with pages, like Safeway lot pigeons. 33
Lucia Berlin
#62. There's no sense in running from the past. We can't throw it away or pretend it didn't happen, Miss Echohawk. But maybe we can learn something from it. You have an interesting story, and I'd like you to tell me more.
Amy Harmon
#63. When we have an item that has value to the school and the athletic department, we cannot throw it away just to be fair.
Jim Davidson
#64. Leftovers make you feel good twice. First, when you put it away, you feel thrifty and intelligent: 'I'm saving food!' Then a month later when blue hair is growing out of the ham, and you throw it away, you feel really intelligent: 'I'm saving my life!'
George Carlin
#65. If someone comes to you with an idea its like he is giving you a fragile glass made by himself. If the glass does not match your preference do not throw it away. Give him back otherwise it may hurt the person who made it.
Osama Bin Noor
#66. So it's a mistake for someone to think that they bailed New York out. They did assist us, for which we are grateful, but it's a mistake to say we bailed New York out by giving them a grant of money to help those poor people who throw it away on welfare.
David Dinkins
#67. I envied it; not the idea of having so much money that you could throw it away, but the thought of growing up in a world where someone cared so much about your happiness and so little about what you accomplished in life.
Kelley Armstrong
#68. I think sometimes the way to preserve the magic of a book is to throw it away - meaning, not to cling to the way a book does its magic, but to find a cinematic equivalent.
Emma Donoghue
#69. If you give a good idea to a mediocre team, they will screw it up. If you give a mediocre idea to a brilliant team, they will either fix it or throw it away and come up with something better.
Ed Catmull
#70. I never think about the audience. If someone gives me a marketing report, I throw it away.
Andrew Stanton
#71. We dribble away our life, little by little, in small packages - we don't throw it away all at once.
Robert A. Cook
#72. You take a handful of rocks and put them in a jar. Then once a week, you take one tiny pebble out of the jar and throw it away. When the jar is empty, why, you'll just about be over your grief ... Time alone will do if you're short on rocks.
Sharyn McCrumb
#73. My advice to anyone adapting a novel is that once they've read it and learnt to understand it, then they must throw it away and never look at it again!
Ben Elton
#74. If I've written five pages by hand, out of those five pages, one page might be worth saving. The rest is crap. I have to throw it away. It's like I need eight hours to do two hours' work.
Steve Toltz
#75. Just because you have a piece of trash and you throw it away and it gets hauled away, it doesn't mean that it's not affecting someone else.
Majora Carter
#76. Anything that immobilizes you, gets in your way, or keeps you from your goals is all yours. You can throw it away anytime you choose.
Wayne Dyer
#77. How strange to use 'You only live once' as an excuse to throw it away.
Bill Copeland
#78. Think about what happens on Earth when you throw up. You throw up and you have a bag of something horrible and then you throw it away, but if I have this bag, what am I going to do with it? This bag is going to stay with me in space for months, so we want a really good barf bag.
Chris Hadfield
#79. The management question, therefore, is not whether to build a pilot system and throw it away. You will do that. Hence plan to throw one away; you will, anyhow.
Fred Brooks
#80. I can't live my life happily knowing you're with someone else. That would kill a part of me. What we have is rare. it's too beautiful to just throw it away.
Nicholas Sparks
#81. If your right eye causes you to sin, tear it out and throw it away. For it is better that you lose one of your members than that your whole body be thrown into Hell.
Troy Lambert
#82. people who can't stay tidy can be categorized into just three types: the "can't-throw-it-away" type, the "can't-put-it-back" type, and the "first-two-combined" type.
Marie Kondo
#83. Freedom is dangerous but it's precious, too. You can't just throw it away or let it slip away. You can't sell it for bread and pottage.
Octavia E. Butler
#84. What you'll learn, Simon, is that people do not want to know the truth. You might think you are doing them a great favour to bring it to them. But even if you put it right on their doorstep, nobody will thank you for it. They'll throw it away. Throw it in your face. Most people prefer to forget.
Anna Smaill
#85. Just because there's a crack in something, doesn't mean you throw it away.
Geoff Johns
#86. Low, a guy doesn't fall in love with you and have you love him back then just throw it away. You're too special. After being loved by you, he can't completely forget. He's haunted by it. I'd bet my life on it. -Cage York
Abbi Glines
#87. You know, the condom is the glass slipper of our generation. You slip it on when you meet a stranger. You dance all night, then you throw it away.
Chuck Palahniuk
#88. Friendship is a precious thing, Sayuri. One mustn't throw it away.
Arthur Golden
#89. You have to have confidence in what you're doing and not be afraid. You only have one life, and it's over pretty quickly, right? Don't throw it away. Dare to dream and believe dreams are possible.
Vincent Noot
#90. Some people get exactly what they always wanted ... and throw it away. This is the cyclical behavior of someone who has built a life on the foundation of a victim mentality.
Steve Maraboli
#91. You can give them the world a thousand times over, and they will throw it away a thousand and one times.
Alejandro C. Estrada
#92. There was always the consolation that if I didn't like what I wrote I could throw it away or burn it.
Carl Sandburg
#93. I mean, when you've got someone who actually cares about you, maybe loves you, you'd have to be a real asshole to throw it away,
Lauren Baker
#94. Whatever separates you from the Truth, throw it away, it will vanish anyhow ...
Yunus Emre
#95. Victor Hugo: If a writer wrote merely for his time, I would have to break my pen and throw it away.
Ayn Rand
#96. If I crave a frequency in the mid, I'll just drag in a sound and try to mold it into what feels right. It happens very quickly. And if I've been making a piece of music for five hours and it sucks, I'll just throw it away.
Arca
#97. By some magic reversal, everything spectacularly useless filled the drawer intended for practical tools. What could you do with a single piece of jigsaw? But, on the other hand, did you dare throw it away?
Ian McEwan
#98. I'm not Vegas. Places I play usually cost like $3 to get in, you know, and people are going: Gee, I've got $3, I think I'll throw it away.
Steve Martin
#99. I'm going to grab hold of this night and crack it open, eat the fruit right out of the middle, and throw away the rind.
Tim Tharp
#100. We as Americans have ripped off the world. We get to throw food away. It's insane.
John McAfee
