(1001 quotes found)
“When the stars threw down their spears, / And watered heaven with their tears, / Did he smile his work to see? / Did he who made the Lamb make thee?”
William Blake
“The tired and thirsty prospector threw himself down at the edge of the watering hole and started to drink. But then he looked around and saw skulls and bones everywhere. "Uh-oh," he thought. "This watering hole is reserved for skeletons."”
Jack Handy
“I was a young man with uninformed ideas. I threw out queries, suggestions, wondering all the time over everything; and to my astonishment the ideas took like wildfire. People made a religion of them.”
Charles Darwin
“When they circumcised him they threw away the wrong bit”
David Lloyd George
“I wrote some three hundred pages, threw most of them out, and started over. The novel seemed to require a maturity and breadth of vision I didn't yet have. What I discovered was that this maturity and vision accrues gradually over the course of many days, months, years of struggling to be a better writer.”
John Dalton
“Someone once threw me a small, brown, hairy kiwi fruit, and I threw a wastebasket over it until it was dead.”
Erma Bombeck
“Someone threw a petrol bomb at Alex Higgins once and he drank it!”
Frank Carson
“The clock talked loud. I threw it away, it scared me what it talked.”
Tillie Olsen
“Ross (Robinson) is insane! Once, when we were recording here, he threw a potted plant at me. It exploded on the wall over my head and the dirt went in my mouth. It was awesome.”
Joey Jordison
“I threw a lot of balls and walked a lot of batters. Not something I'm proud of, but something I learned from.”
Randy Johnson
