Top 100 Throw Quotes

#1. I throw down a lot on paper and on tape. Sometimes while I'm practicing on the guitar, I'll think of a song.

Jake Holmes

#2. Sometimes the only option is to raise the stakes, to throw yourself the other way, to force your opponent further down the path they've chosen, further than they might want to go.

Mark Lawrence

#3. I think at some point I am going to throw in the belt and decide to stick behind the camera.

Brody Jenner

#4. There are times when you throw an interception and you're beating yourself up.

Tom Brady

#5. 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

#6. Who aspires to remain leader must keep in advance of his column. His fear must not play traitor to his occasions. The instant he falls into line with his followers, a bolder spirit may throw himself at the head of the movement initiated, and in that moment his leadership is gone.

Christian Nestell Bovee

#7. You and Galileo," I said.
"Didn't he throw his balls off the leaning tower?" Quirk Said.

Robert B. Parker

#8. A lot of people are promoting records that are just throw-it-agains t-the-wall-see- if-it-sticks meaningless bullshit. Everybody has the responsibility to do the right thing and promote artists that mean something.

Dave Grohl

#9. I've always said it takes more courage to stand back there and throw a ball knowing you're fixing to get drilled than anything I can think of in football.

Bobby Bowden

#10. Keep your dreams ALIVE. No matter how hard it gets, no matter how many people talk about you; they're going to throw dirt on you but that's alright, when they put you in that box (after your dead), they're going to put dirt on you some more, so that's okay - GO, don't be afraid, have NO FEAR.

Tyler Perry

#11. We were sweet, lovely people who wanted to throw out all the staid institutions who placed money and wars above all else. When you're young you think that's how life works.

Margot Kidder

#12. When spring knocks at your door, regardless of the time of year or season of our lives, run, do not walk to that door, throw it open with wild abandon, and say, Yes! Yes, come in! Do me, and do me big!

Jeffrey R. Anderson

#13. If the story's there for it, if there's a reason for it, then I'm all for it. But if you throw in a barbed wire match just to do a barbed wire match, then it makes no sense to me.

CM Punk

#14. When I concentrate and focus, they always go in, so I'm gonna continue to do that, and they will go in.

Shaquille O'Neal

#15. All of my art is suitcase-sized. I always paint in mediums that dry pretty quickly because I've got to throw them in my suitcase and go. And I have so much because of that, because it's what I've always done to pass the time, and I like it.

Alison Mosshart

#16. When Marvel approached me about possibly bringing back a She-Hulk solo series, a few touchstones for a take immediately popped into my head - make her an attorney. Make her charming and fun, not weighed down by the various things life will throw at her. Give her a vibrant social life.

Charles Soule

#17. I don't throw my body down on the stage at all anymore because I'm sure I'd snap like a twig.

Michael Gira

#18. I opened my mouth, mad enough to spit, and said loudly, "I don't eat iceberg lettuce!" Really? I asked myself. That's what you're going to throw down with? "I don't care what you eat, just don't be pickin' in there!

Piper Kerman

#19. Oh, go to hell, Gabriel! What are you going to do, flap you wrings around and throw your halon at me?

Christine Zolendz

#20. Just throw away all thoughts of
imaginary things,
and stand firm in that which you are.

Kabir

#21. We as Americans have ripped off the world. We get to throw food away. It's insane.

John McAfee

#22. Wash out her private parts with lye and throw her in a dungeon, Tarly commanded.

George R R Martin

#23. You know how in football, guys throw defenses, and the defense throws you a look, but the look is not really what it is - it's only made to fool you. It's the same thing with drugs. The drug is only an illusion to draw you in.

Rick Ross

#24. 'Push' had a story, 'The Paperboy' story you could just throw up in the air and shoot holes through the book because the story wasn't as strong. But I felt the characters were stronger in 'The Paperboy'; they were vivid.

Lee Daniels

#25. 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

#26. A man who possesses a veneration of life will not simply say his prayers. He will throw himself into the battle to preserve life, if for no other reason than that he himself is an extension of life around him.

Albert Schweitzer

#27. People who live in my stone house shouldn't throw glass.

Atticus

#28. I think it is important for all those young out there, who someday hope to play real football, where you throw it and kick it and run with it and put it in your hands, a distinction should be made that football is democratic, capitalism, whereas soccer is a European socialist sport.

Jack Kemp

#29. If there's one thing I can't bear, it's when hundreds of old men come creeping in through the window in the middle of the night and throw all manner of garbage over me. I can't bear that.

Peter Cook

#30. I've talked to Bruce about it. He'll have kittens, and Hiro will have penguins, and August will completely throw a fit, but I've made up my mind. It's up to you

Lili St. Crow

#31. Men throw huge shadows on the lawn, don't they? Then, all their lives, they try to run to fit the shadows. But the shadows are always longer.

Ray Bradbury

#32. Often we can achieve an even better result when we stumble yet are willing to start over, when we don't give up after a mistake, when something doesn't come easily but we throw ourselves into trying, when we're not afraid to appear less than perfectly polished.

Sharon Salzberg

#33. A nickname is the hardest stone that the devil can throw at a man.

William Hazlitt

#34. A writer writes always! (Larry Donner, Throw Mama from the Train)

Trish Isabella Hopkins

#35. Why would one ever be so insane as to ditch a perfectly beautiful metaphor? Cut back, of course, prune if you like, so that the best metaphors are clear and sparkling. But I will throw out unread the book that promises me no metaphors inside.

Marie Rutkoski

#36. She informed me that in the future, I was not to throw out Starbucks customers just for being heartless bitches.

Lauren Myracle

#37. The wins and losses are over for Rice, the football player, who leaves with 38 NFL records. He was the easiest guy in the world to throw the football to, ... You always knew where he was headed.

Steve Young

#38. When I get sent manuscripts from aspiring poets, I do one of two things: if there is no stamped self-addressed envelope, I throw it into the bin.-If there is, I write and tell them to f**k off.

Philip Larkin

#39. When a professional baseball team asks you to throw out the first pitch, that's an honor, and you do it.

Bubba Watson

#40. You're mine," he said. "You can deny it, argue, throw fits, try to run away. But. You're. Still. Mine."

~Dragos

Thea Harrison

#41. For black people, being around white people is sometimes like taking care of babies you don't like, babies who throw up on you again and again, but whom you cannot punish, because they're babies.

Hilton Als

#42. He said if I was good enough to throw a perfect game, I'd be good enough to date his daughter.

Julie Cross

#43. The world so quickly adjusts itself after any loss, that the return of the departed would nearly always throw it, even the circle most interested, into confusion.

Charles Dudley Warner

#44. I've realized the most effective way to write, for me, is knowing what to throw away.

Youth Lagoon

#45. I'm always trying to pop up in different genres, what interests me. Sometimes I just like to throw myself into new situations to see what it feel like.

Dylan McDermott

#46. I have learned one lesson as a writer ... keep writing and never throw any notes away. Written parts that can't be used today ... may be used for other books tomorrow.

Timothy Pina

#47. Most criminals are stupid. They creep $500,000 homes in the Garden District, load up two dozen bottles of gin, whiskey, vermouth, and Collins mix in a $2,000 Irish linen tablecloth and later drink the booze and throw the tablecloth away.

James Lee Burke

#48. Tycoons and barrow boys will rob you
And throw you on the side
All because they love themselves sincerely

Richard John Thompson

#49. Some people can go out in a tight, short dress and heels, and it works, but even if I'm going to a club, I've got to throw on a big hoodie or something. And that's if you can get me into something tight in the first place.

Suki Waterhouse

#50. The pitch count situatio-it doesn't matter if you throw 120 or 80, whatever. It's the quality of pitches that you throw.

Eli Manning

#51. The best way to ruin a comedy is to throw a lot of money at it.

Jay Leno

#52. I throw back my head, and, feeling free as the wind, breathe in the fresh mountain air. Although I am heavy-hearted, my spirits are rising. To walk in nature is always good medicine.

Jean Craighead George

#53. A machine condemned to devour books and then throw them , in a changed form , on the dunghill of history .

Karl Marx

#54. Throw not my words away, as many do;They're gold in value, though they're cheap to you.

John Clare

#55. P.S. I'm going to throw an absolutely mind-blowing fact your way. I'm not kidding, either. The country of Uganda is obsessed with Celine Dion. They dedicate entire days to broadcasting her music. They love her that much. Five words. My. Heart. Will. Go. On. Yeah.

Fisher Amelie

#56. When you close that door to nowhere throw away the key, we have a tendency to look back and regret

Paulo Coelho

#57. You don't paddle against the current, you paddle with it. And if you get good at it, you throw away the oars.

Kris Kristofferson

#58. Marry an outdoors woman. Then if you throw her out into the yard on a cold night, she can still survive.

W.C. Fields

#59. Unlock your mind, unlock your mind. Throw off the fear, and let us fly.

Heather Nova

#60. It's like, the more you commit, the happier the animators are; if you're at all iffy and concerned, then it doesn't free them up to do as much fun stuff, so you have to just go for it and, again, trust the people around you and not be seemingly guarded and numb. Throw caution to the wind a bit.

Neil Patrick Harris

#61. Was not merely weak but also evil to throw away your life when so many had their lives or the promise of their future taken from them by cruel people or by the brutal forces of nature.

Dean Koontz

#62. A writer who wishes to be read by posterity must not be averse to putting hints which might give rise to whole books, or ideas for learned discussions, in some corner of a chapter so that one should think he can afford to throw them away by the thousand.

Georg C. Lichtenberg

#63. Did I throw the most important thing perhaps, by accident, away?

Renata Adler

#64. 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

#65. The life of man is like a game with dice; if you don't get the throw you want, you must show your skill in making the best of the throw you get.

Terence

#66. Throw the lumber over, man!

Jerome K. Jerome

#67. In the past, work was defined primarily by putting in time, and secondarily on getting results. "We need to flip that model," Ressler told me. "No matter what kind of business you're in, it's time to throw away the tardy slips, time clocks and outdated, industrial-age thinking.

Daniel H. Pink

#68. There is nothing more agreeable than having a place where one can throw on the floor as many cigar butts as one pleases without the subconscious fear of a maid who is waiting like a sentinel to place an ashtray where the ashes are going to fall.

Fidel Castro

#69. Don't throw away luck on little stuff. Save it up.

Tim O'Brien

#70. They say Princes learn no art truly, but the art of horsemanship. The reason is, the brave beast is no flatterer. He will throw a prince as soon as his groom.

Ben Jonson

#71. When I was little I was always getting hit. Kids would take my hat and throw it around, and it upset me. So I got to be very revengeful.

Freddie Prinze

#72. I see myself as a first-draft writer, so when I sit down to write something, the first draft is usually pretty close to the end draft. There will be some tweaks along the way, but it's not like I'll go 20 pages and throw it out and start again.

Noah Hawley

#73. Put two ships in the open sea, without wind or tide, and, at last, they will come together. Throw two planets into space, and they will fall one on the other. Place two enemies in the midst of a crowd, and they will inevitably meet; it is a fatality, a question of time; that is all.

Jules Verne

#74. The technique of tredding the success path is making a single step, and if you are kinda afraid to throw the second leg, hire divinity to pull you along.

Michael Bassey Johnson

#75. I'd love to play basketball with the president, or throw the football around or something like that.

Robert Griffin III

#76. The next morning, for the first time, Jonas did not take his pill. Something within him, something that had grown there through the memories, told him to throw the pill away.

Lois Lowry

#77. You want to eliminate your evil desires in order to reveal your Buddha nature, but where will you throw them away?

Shunryu Suzuki

#78. Drag you back if you do not wish to go. Though ... the prince consort did mention the phrase, throw away the key, at one point.
I couldn't be sure, but I thought I saw Keirran gulp.

Julie Kagawa

#79. There is nothing like despair to make one throw oneself upon the gods.

Mary Renault

#80. We throw you as many as you want, in this profession, and the more you want the more we'll give you, until you're so confused that you'll just beg for us to stop. Stop what? You're the one who started it - you're doing it anyway.

Frederick Lenz

#81. That once you throw your life to the winds, you will discover things you had never known before, things that cannot be learned under any other circumstances.

Paul Auster

#82. For those gamblers who know the secret to surviving Is knowing what to throw away And knowing what to keep

Karina Halle

#83. Then who is it?" said Arthur. "Well," said Ford, "if we're lucky it's just the Vogons come to throw us in to space." "And if we're unlucky?" "If we're unlucky," said Ford grimly, "the captain might be serious in his threat that he's going to read us some of his poetry first ... .

Douglas Adams

#84. The time for war has not yet come, but it will come, and that soon. And when it does come, my advice is to draw the sword and throw away the scabbard.

S.C. Gwynne

#85. Good keepers sniff out attacks whether with the feet or a throw out.

Tim Howard

#86. Jesus. Why couldn't he have had boys? All boys. Little fucking shits like Cage. A whole slew of 'em he could throw condoms at and be done with it.

Madeline Sheehan

#87. You'll use it, boy, and as long as you hate using it, you will use it more wisely than most men would. Wait. If ever you don't hate it any longer, then will be the time to throw it as far as you can and run the other way.

Robert Jordan

#88. I grabbed another. Aerosmith. Nope, can't throw classic Aerosmith. I snatched a copy of the Thompson Twins' greatest hits and chucked it at him.

Rachel Vincent

#89. I'd carry the mail for you, Ethel,
Stop running around with that pup,
He's got a car, sure, and jack to throw
Like water but what does he want?
What do they all want? something easy,
Something that somebody else worked for.
Ethel, lay off rich kids, you'll end dirty.

Kenneth Patchen

#90. Great companies don't throw money at problems, they throw ideas at problems.

Greg McAdoo

#91. If you do not throw in a few promises of better things to come, gloomy one, I am going to take you back to the library.

Mason Cooley

#92. Because I didn't go to drama school, I didn't start in the business with any toolbox apart from enthusiasm and instinct. I'd throw everything at a part and sometimes realise that I had hit my limits.

Hattie Morahan

#93. We have to be careful that in throwing out the devil, we don't throw out the best part of ourselves.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#94. You can't hang on to the past and you certainly can't throw a wobbly every time something happens that you don't like.

Shelly Crane

#95. Across the river, a row of crystal castles glittered in the sunlight in a way that would make Walt Disney want to throw rocks at his Magic Kingdom.

Shannon Messenger

#96. I briefly closed my eyes and imagined him in a Barbie minivan hoping to expel the way his masculinity made me want to strip down to nothing and throw caution to the wind.

Rachel Van Dyken

#97. There are so many young women who throw their talent away.

Britt Ekland

#98. Citizens are starting not to excuse political candidates who have web sites that do nothing but throw virtual confetti.

David Weinberger

#99. I don't think I was born to be in the club. Just to throw that out there.

Taylor Swift

#100. Gabrielle?"

"Yes?"

"I also like you." I wanted to throw down my phone, jog the two blocks and throw myself into his arms.

"Yeah, well I like you too even if you do put my clients in jail. See you later Mr. Prosecutor."

"See you later Ms. Saucy Mouth.

N.M. Silber

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