| "His mother should have thrown him away and kept the stork." »Mae West |
| "This is not a novel to be tossed aside lightly. It should be thrown with great force." »Dorothy Parker |
| "A compliment is a gift, not to be thrown away carelessly, unless you want to hurt the giver." »Eleanor Hamilton |
| "A cucumber should be well-sliced, dressed with pepper and vinegar, and then thrown out." »Samuel Johnson |
| "Half of the modern drugs could well be thrown out of the window, except that the birds might eat them." »Dr. Martin Henry Fischer |
| "Wise sayings often fall on barren ground, but a kind word is never thrown away." »Sir Arthur Helps |
| "A cucumber whould be well sliced, and dressed with pepper and viniger, and then thrown out, as good for nothing." »Samuel Johnson |
| "I was thrown out of college for cheating on the metaphysics exam I looked into the soul of the boy sitting next to me." »Woody Allen |
| "If you believe, then you hang on. If you believe, it means you've got imagination, you don't need stuff thrown out for you in a blueprint, you don't face facts -- what can stop you If I don't make it today, I'll come in tomorrow." »Ruth Gordon |
| "I do not think myself to be a worm, and a grub, grass of the field fit only to be burned, a clod, a morsel of putrid atoms that should be thrown to the dungheap, ready for the nethermost pit. Nor if I did should I therefore expect to sit with Angels and Archangels." »Anthony Trollope |
| "This is the true joy in life, the being used for a purpose recognized by yourself as a mighty one the being thoroughly worn out before you are thrown on the scrap heap the being a force of Nature instead of a feverish selfish little clod of ailments and grievances complaining that the world will not devote itself to making you happy." »George Bernard Shaw |
| "Wounded vanity knows when it is mortally hurt and limps off the field, piteous, all disguises thrown away. But pride carries its banner to the last and fast as it is driven from one field unfurls it in another, never admitting that there is a shade less honor in the second field than in the first, or in the third than in the second." »Helen Hunt Jackson |
| "The honor of my race, family and self is at stake. Everyone is expecting me to do big things. I will. My whole body and soul are to be thrown recklessly about the field. Every time the ball is snapped, I will be trying to do more than my part...Fight low, with your eyes open and toward the play. Watch out for crossbucks and reverse end runs. Be on your toes every minute if you expect to make good. Jack." »Jack Trice |
| "I do not like poems that resemble hay compressed into a geometrically perfect cube. I like it when the hay, unkempt, uncombed, with dry berries mixed in it, thrown together gaily and freely, bounces along atop some truck-and more, if there are some lovely and healthy lasses atop the hay-and better yet if the branches catch at the hay, and some of it tumbles to the road." »Yevgeny Aleksandrovich Yevtushenko |
| "Aim at heaven and you will get earth thrown in. Aim at earth and you get neither." »Clive Staples Lewis |
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