Thrown Quotes (244 quotes)

Picture of quotation author Florenz Ziegfeld
„How little the public realizes what a girl must go through before she finally appears before the spotlight that is thrown upon the stage.“
Picture of quotation author Robert Zemeckis
„No matter how many obstacles that are thrown in our path, there are ways to except them and to live through them.“
― Robert Zemeckis ―
Picture of quotation author Don Young
„I wrote my thesis on the benefits of war and very near got thrown out of college. But I can show you where the greatest advancement of mankind comes under stress and strain, not comfort.“
― Don Young ―
Picture of quotation author Angus Young
„Actually, because I'm so small, when I strike an open A chord I get physically thrown to the left, and when I play an open G chord I go right. That's how hard I play, and that's how a lot of my stage act has come about. I just go where the guitar takes me.“
― Angus Young ―
Picture of quotation author Ludwig Wittgenstein
„I sit astride life like a bad rider on a horse. I only owe it to the horse's good nature that I am not thrown off at this very moment.“
Picture of quotation author Greg Wise
„I don't think women have ever thrown themselves at me, although I'm quite naive about these things, or was when I was available.“
― Greg Wise ―
Picture of quotation author Steve Winwood
„I got thrown out of music school for even listening to Fats Domino and Ray Charles. I was asked, 'What kind of music do you like to listen to?' and I said, 'Well, I do like Paul Hindemith and Igor Stravinsky but I also like Fats Domino and Ray Charles,' and they literally said, 'Either forget about that or leave.'“
― Steve Winwood ―
Picture of quotation author Kate Winslet
„I was very, very thrown by the fact that I had to make some big changes in my life in order to be myself, but under this kind of movie-star banner.“
― Kate Winslet ―
Picture of quotation author Elie Wiesel
„I remember, May 1944: I was 15-and-a-half, and I was thrown into a haunted universe where the story of the human adventure seemed to swing irrevocably between horror and malediction.“
― Elie Wiesel ―
Picture of quotation author Mae West
„His mother should have thrown him out and kept the stork.“
― Mae West ―
Picture of quotation author Earl Weaver
„The job of arguing with the umpire belongs to the manager, because it won't hurt the team if he gets thrown out of the game.“
― Earl Weaver ―
Picture of quotation author Alice Walker
„A people do not throw their geniuses away. And if they are thrown away, it is our duty as artists and as witnesses for the future to collect them again for the sake of our children and, if necessary, bone by bone.“
― Alice Walker ―
Picture of quotation author Alice Walker
„When I joined the freedom movement in Mississippi in my early 20s, it was to come to the aid of sharecroppers, like my parents, who had been thrown off the land they'd always known - the plantations - because they attempted to exercise their 'democratic' right to vote.“
― Alice Walker ―
Picture of quotation author Alice Walker
„In the summer of 1966, I went to Mississippi to be in the heart of the civil-rights movement, helping people who had been thrown off the farms or taken off the welfare roles for registering to vote. While working there, I met the civil-rights lawyer I later married - we became an interracial couple.“
― Alice Walker ―
Picture of quotation author Jill Wagner
„At the gym, I do full-body circuits with low weights and high repetitions, as well as four or five cardio intervals thrown into the mix. I put a lot of emphasis on core strength and flexibility training. I also do a lot of running in my free time. Anytime I can move my cardio outside in the sunshine, I do.“
― Jill Wagner ―
Picture of quotation author Neil deGrasse Tyson
„What you need, above all else, is a love for your subject, whatever it is. You've got to be so deeply in love with your subject that when curve balls are thrown, when hurdles are put in place, you've got the energy to overcome them.“
Picture of quotation author Tyga
„I make negative music, but I also make positive music because that's what thrown at me with life.“
― Tyga ―
Picture of quotation author Desmond Tutu
„I am not interested in picking up crumbs of compassion thrown from the table of someone who considers himself my master. I want the full menu of rights.“
― Desmond Tutu ―
Picture of quotation author Leon Trotsky
„The depth and strength of a human character are defined by its moral reserves. People reveal themselves completely only when they are thrown out of the customary conditions of their life, for only then do they have to fall back on their reserves.“
― Leon Trotsky ―
Picture of quotation author David Trimble
„The dark shadow we seem to see in the distance is not really a mountain ahead, but the shadow of the mountain behind - a shadow from the past thrown forward into our future. It is a dark sludge of historical sectarianism. We can leave it behind us if we wish.“
― David Trimble ―

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