Top 100 Throw The Quotes
#1. A lot of people who want to cook with less fat are surprised by that. You can cook vegetables in a little water in a covered pan and then throw the fat into the residual liquid to coat them.
Sally Schneider
#2. How many women have the courage to start properly with a cold, cold bath early in the morning? I jump in, throw the water, cold as ice, and after the first plunge I am happy.
Anna Held
#3. The poet is in the end probably more afraid of the dogmatist who wants to extract the message from the poem and throw the poem away than he is of the sentimentalist who says, Oh, just let me enjoy the poem.
Robert Penn Warren
#4. In order for this team to win the game, the quarterback has to throw the ball.
John Madden
#5. Fuzzy thinking is, after all, just one step above not thinking at all. But to take the ideas of serious transformational thinkers and philosophers and throw the "new age" label at them is also abhorrent.
Marianne Williamson
#6. Don't just throw the seed at the people! Grind it into flour, bake it into bread, and slice it for them. And it wouldn't hurt to put a little honey on it
Charles Spurgeon
#7. I think I throw the ball as hard as anyone. The ball just doesn't get there as fast.
Eddie Bane
#8. It's the people who almost decide to live in glass houses who throw the first stones.
Carol Tavris
#9. He is ready, if the occasion presents itself, to throw the whole English population in the St. Lawrence.
Wilfrid Laurier
#10. He had a childish urge to throw the phone down. Only the prospect of the pain he'd inflict on himself in the process of leaning over to retrieve it stopped him from giving in to the impulse.
Samanthe Beck
#11. The Chasers throw the Quaffle and put it through the hoops to score," Harry recited. "So - that's sort of like basketball on broomsticks with six hoops, isn't it?"
"What's basketball?" said Wood curiously.
"Never mind," said Harry quickly.
J.K. Rowling
#12. We would sit in the living room, drink a case of Busch beer, and throw the empty cans into the kitchen for no reason whatsoever, beyond the fact that it was the most overtly irresponsible way for any two people to live.
Chuck Klosterman
#13. (If it's any comfort, we should remind ourselves of the purpose of voting. We don't vote to elect great persons to office. They're not that great. We vote to throw the bastards out.)
P. J. O'Rourke
#14. I throw the ball ninety-two miles an hour, but they hit it back just as hard.
Joaquin Andujar
#15. As a print journalist, if you hear a rumour you try to stand it up and if you can't, the story dies. With a blog you can throw the rumour out there and ask for help. You can say: 'We don't know if this is true or not.'
Nick Denton
#16. Chesterton had an incorrigible and persistent tendency to throw-the-baby-out-with-the-bathwater.
R. Alan Woods
#17. The order that our mind imagines is like a net, or like a ladder, built to attain something. But afterward you must throw the ladder away, because you discover that, even if it was useful, it was meaningless.
Umberto Eco
#19. I have a feeling that when you're on the cover, they supe up all your abilities in the game to a pretty high level. I'm excited to see what that equates to, like if I can throw the ball 100 yards in the air or something.
Drew Brees
#21. Goodbye, Zahra," says the princess, and she pulls her arm back, preparing to throw the lamp.
"Do it, Princess," says a voice, "and I will tear your head from your shoulders.
Jessica Khoury
#22. I could always throw the ball pretty well and I worked pretty hard at learning how to play the game. But I didn't consider it work as a kid, since I just loved playing baseball.
Jim Abbott
#23. I persuaded him to throw the dirk away; and it was as easy as persuading a child to give up some bright fresh new way of killing itself.
Mark Twain
#24. If there was not one man Adam and one woman Eve, and a literal event of the one man Adam taking the fruit in rebellion and thus bringing sin and death into world, then one may as well throw the rest of the Bible away.
Ken Ham
#25. We have reached a point today where labor-saving devices are good only when they do not throw the worker out of his job.
Eleanor Roosevelt
#26. Shane said, "Don't worry. I'll protect you."
Claire hit him in the shoulder. "I don't need you to protect me."
"Then why am I going first?"
"So you can take the first punch while I throw the second?"
"So I'm bait? Ouch. You've been in Morganville way too long, girl.
Rachel Caine
#27. Don't try to strike everybody out ... stay back and just focus on the catcher's mitt, just throw the ball low in the strike zone.
Ubaldo Jimenez
#28. When something needs to be ironed I put it in the ironing basket. If a year goes by and the item is still in the basket I throw the item away. This is a good system since eventually I end up only with clothes that don't need ironing.
Janet Evanovich
#29. If you live in Europe ... things change ... but continuity never seems to break. You don't have to throw the past away.
Nadine Gordimer
#30. You can't eat the orange and throw the peel away - a man is not a piece of fruit.
Arthur Miller
#31. That's why I always keep a handful of silver glitter in my pockets. If I get pushed into a conversational corner I throw the glitter into the air, and while the person I'm talking to is distracted, I run away. An additional benefit is that I look like a cool magician, so I've got that going for me.
Jon Acuff
#32. I'm not yet defeated, just waiting for my next turn to throw the dice again.
Neetesh Dixit
#33. Throw the computer away and don't look on the internet. That's the best thing to do.
Daniel Craig
#34. There are cases where you design something that looks good on paper and there's only one small part of it that's fun. You have to focus on that and throw the rest away.
Brent Iverson
#35. I swear you are my fucking dream come true."
It's amazing how he can take the sweetest things, throw the word "fucking" in the middle of it, and I could melt into a puddle at his feet. If my panties weren't already off, I'd be dropping them after hearing him say that.
Georgia Cates
#36. Despair is like forward children, who, when you take away one of their playthings, throw the rest into the fire for madness. It grows angry with itself, turns its own executioner, and revenges its misfortunes on its own head.
Pierre Charron
#37. I like both athletic girls and girly girls. It depends on their personality. I like girls who can go out and play sports with me and throw the football around, but you don't want a girl who's too much tougher than you. I like brainy girls who can respond to what I'm saying.
Josh Hutcherson
#38. Children should be like waffles
you should be able to throw the first one away.
Nancy Mitford
#39. I can score the basketball, but I think I can pass pretty well or I can make the correct pass. I'm not the type of guy who's just going to throw the ball inbounds to a guy who's wide open. I can make the right pass.
Kevin Durant
#40. The job of the first eight pages is not to have the reader want to throw the book at the wall, during the first eight pages.
David Foster Wallace
#41. Failure at one point could throw the momentum out of balance and result in chaos. All in that room were aware
Stephen E. Ambrose
#42. In a democracy you cannot stop public access to that art that will most misinform the people. You cannot stop people from being misinformed. But what you can do is to educate the people to the point that they will throw the rascals out.
Edward Albee
#43. If it feels nice, just throw the dice.
Nina Obran
#44. Many people in America throw the term "fascism" around, particularly for Middle-Eastern terrorists, but in fact what fascism really is is a close alliance between a unitary executive and a state and large corporations and a state.
David Foster Wallace
#45. It's kind of boring to me if teams never throw the ball.
Peyton Manning
#46. We poor tellers of tales have our moments too, it seems. Like great generals sitting upon horses upon the tops of hills and throwing troops into the arena, we throw the little soldier words into our battles.
Sherwood Anderson
#47. That's the difference between a champ and a knife thrower. The champ may have lost his stuff temporarily or permanently, he can't be sure. But when he can no longer throw the high hard one, he throws his heart instead. He throws something. He doesn't just walk off the mound and weep.
Raymond Chandler
#48. Don't throw the ball before you have it.
Vern Law
#49. Chef?" Carmel exclaims. "I could give a shit about a chef. I'm going to find the most expensive thing in that kitchen, eat one bite, and throw the rest on the floor. Then I'm going to break some plates.
Kendare Blake
#50. I believe that when Paul plants and Apollos waters, God gives the increase; and I have no patience with those who throw the blame on God when it belongs to themselves.
Charles Spurgeon
#51. I do not wish to be a coward like the father of mankind and throw the blame upon a woman.
Ouida
#52. The God of Battles will throw the dice that decide ...
A.J.P. Taylor
#53. You be sure to throw the book at him, you hear me? I feel violated, Detective. Violated."
"I'll throw this table at you if you don't give us the names we're looking for.
Derek Landy
#55. I count on chiropractic sessions to keep my body aligned. Standing for hours can impact my posture, and that can throw the rest of my body out of whack. Acupuncture helps me relax and release stress. I'm also very into massage to help release tension in my back, neck, and shoulders.
Giada De Laurentiis
#56. You can throw the whole weight of your anxieties upon him, for you are his personal concern.
J.B. Phillips
#57. I always have a plan, but then I'm always ready to throw the plan out, and everyone's ready to make a radical left turn if necessary.
Steven Soderbergh
#58. Yeah, well, the F-bomb - it's become as ubiquitous as the word 'like.' People just throw the word 'like' around as punctuation. And I think in a lot of everyday speech, the F-bomb has become a kind of dash or a comma.
Geoffrey Rush
#59. When you're conscious and writing from a place of insight and simplicity and real caring about the truth, you have the ability to throw the lights on for your reader.
Anne Lamott
#60. I'm just a repair guy who can throw the occasional fireball.
Rick Riordan
#61. Rather than turning the page, it's much easier to just throw the book away.
Anthony Liccione
#62. When life gives you lemons, you don't make lemonade. That's for pantywaisters. No. You pucker up, suck them dry, then throw the used rinds back in life's face with a giant fuck-you and a gesture for more.
K.L. Kreig
#63. Squeeze some lemon on it, a dab of hot sauce, throw the oyster down the back of your throat, take a shot of vodka, and try to forget you just ate snot from a rock.
Jim Gaffigan
#64. All of political history history can be summed up as a struggle to throw the bad guys out and put the good guys in.
John Pugsley
#65. I throw the rest of my thoughts into the vault in my head and lean as hard as I can to close the door. I don't quite succeed. That's been happening a lot lately.
Susan Ee
#66. The practical value of history is to throw the film of the past through the material projector of the present on to the screen of the future.
B.H. Liddell Hart
#67. Once a year, I take my whole wine team down to see the Giants, and we meet the players. I've never seen anyone pitch like Lincecum that can throw the ball and get through the front leg. He has that stiff front leg.
Tom Seaver
#68. If you're going to throw the girl to the wolves, it's only appropriate to outfit her with a red cloak.
Courtney Milan
#69. You throw the sand against the wind and the wind blows it back again.
William Blake
#70. Yet, we must never 'throw the baby out with the bathwater'".
~R. Alan Woods [2012]
R. Alan Woods
#71. When the going is good and the putts are dropping, you love your putter. When it's going bad, it's like it has betrayed you and you want to throw the sucker in a lake.
Ken Green
#72. Pain makes us crazy. All we want is to throw the live coal of it as far from us as we can, not thinking what we might set afire.
Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
#73. To throw the Christian into the furnace is to put him into Christ's parlor; for lo! Jesus Christ is walking with him.
Charles Spurgeon
#74. When do you know it's time to say, 'OK, that's it?' That is the most difficult part of any decision like that because you don't want to throw the 'R' word out there. I've mentioned it a couple times, but not in the sense that I'm doing it. That word is very fragile. We'll see.
Jim Thome
#75. I throw the ball as hard as ever, but it just takes longer to get to the plate.
Don Newcombe
#76. I know you can throw holy water on the vampire, but I didn't know you could throw the host." (Sheriff St. John)
I had to smile. "They aren't like little holy grenades. I want the host to give to the Quinlans so they can put one at every windowsill, every doorsill." (Anita Blake)
Laurell K. Hamilton
#77. The Federal Reserve - all of them - could be sitting on a barrel of dynamite, and then pouring gasoline on top of it, and then light a cigar with matches, throw the match into the gasoline, and then not notice that there is any danger.
Marc Faber
#78. Let the world burn through you. Throw the prism light, white hot, on paper.
Ray Bradbury
#79. You can't sit on a lead and run a few plays into the line and just kill the clock. You've got to throw the ball over the damn plate and give the other man his chance. That's why baseball is the greatest game of them all.
Earl Weaver
#80. The gods throw the dice and they don't ask whether we want to be in the game or not.
Paulo Coelho
#81. I love to compare different time frames. Poetry can evoke the time of the subject. By a very careful choice of words you can evoke an era, completely throw the poem into a different time scale.
Robert Morgan
#82. I write thank-you notes the minute I throw the wrapping paper away.
Sarah Dessen
#83. Swing hard, in case they throw the ball where you're swinging.
Duke Snider
#84. The thought of all that happiness was hard to bear. What's the point of happiness when all it does is throw the facts of dying into clear relief?
Sebastian Faulks
#85. I never really was that passionate about playing sports. But when I was at this Mt. Herman school, I did have the ability to throw the frisbee. So when this sport evolved, it was fun because I was good at it.
Joel Silver
#86. Little stones that are pelted into the lake of consciousness should not throw the whole lake into commotion.
Paramahansa Yogananda
#87. Many come to seek fortunes who only find trouble and sorrow, and then they throw the blame on chance, and forget the true cause is their own idleness and vice and want of commonsense. Whoever is sober and industrious, honest and economical, gets on.
Jules Verne
#89. I think that in our society we use the word 'terrorism' a lot - individuals throw the word around a lot without carefully considering it.
Marshall Curry
#90. She just threatened to throw the next man who shoots at you out the window. Megan is awake. She offered to help. God, Trent, what is it with you and women?
Kim Harrison
#91. They would almost throw the cops in jail when they tried to arrest me.
Lawrence Taylor
#92. I've spent my whole life pushing sugar. People aren't going to stop eating sugar-we shouldn't throw the baby out with the bathwater. When you're with a group of people and you take a bite of a really great dessert, the conversation just stops. We don't want to get rid of those moments.
Emily Luchetti
#93. So many QBs throw the ball down the field, that's wrong. Watch Aaron Rodger throw it up the field
Phil Simms
#94. Roaring dreams take place in a perfectly silent mind. Now that we know this, throw the raft away.
Jack Kerouac
#95. (About events he will take part in) I vaulted today, and I'll throw the discus tomorrow around one o' clock. Then I'll race in the 100-meter final at 3:45 on Saturday.
Trey Hardee
#96. No better way is there to learn to love Nature than to understand Art. It dignifies every flower of the field. And, the boy who sees the thing of beauty which a bird on the wing becomes when transferred to wood or canvas will probably not throw the customary stone.
Oscar Wilde
#97. I will say I love competing, and I was in a great era of playing with young Phil Mickelson and older Greg Norman and Nick Price. I don't know if YA Title could throw the ball these days, but you can play golf for a long, long time.
Fred Couples
#98. I know that some endeavor to throw the mantle of romance over the subject and treat woman like some ideal existence, not liable to the ills of life. Let those deal in fancy who have nothing better to deal in; we have to do with sober, sad realities, with stubborn facts.
Ernestine Rose
#99. There were knives on a rack on the kitchen wall, many shiny bright knives all in a row. It would be so easy just to throw the odd one at him and see what I could hit.
Kylie Scott
#100. People throw the word love around like confetti when they actually mean affection.
Robert Cormier
