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“Its idea of ''production value'' is spending a million dollars dressing up a story that any good writer would throw away. Its vision of the rewarding movie is a vehicle for some glamour-puss with two expressions and eighteen changes of costume, or for some male idol of the muddled millions with a permanent hangover, six worn-out acting tricks, the build of a lifeguard, and the mentality of a chicken-strangler.”
Raymond Chandler
“There are no accidents, only nature throwing her weight around. Even the bomb merely releases energy that nature has put there. Nuclear war would be just a spark in the grandeur of space. Nor can radiation ''alter'' nature: she will absorb it all. After the bomb, nature will pick up the cards we have spilled, shuffle them, and begin her game again.”
Camille Paglia
“Any pitcher who throws at a batter and deliberately tries to hit him is a communist.”
Alvin Dark
“One is forever throwing away substance for shadows”
Jennie Jerome Churchill
“Moralists and philosophers have adjudged those who throw temptation in the way of the erring, equally guilty with those who are thereby led into evil”
Mark Twain
“It's very important to have the right clothing to exercise in. If you throw on an old T-shirt or sweats, it's not inspiring for your workout.”
Cheryl Tiegs
“How far that little candle throws his beams! So shines a good deed in a naughty world”
William Shakespeare
“He's [Prince Charles] very relaxed at the table, throwing his salad around willy-nilly. I didn't find him stiff at all.”
Madonna
“In a start-up company, you basically throw out all assumptions every three weeks.”
William Lyon Phelps
“Were I like thee, I'd throw away myself.”
