Thrown Quotes

Being thrown out of this place is significantly better than being thrown out of a leper colony.
Blake Edwards

Place, Colony, Leper

I think daily that the country's future is being thrown to the wind.
Edwidge Danticat

Future, Daily, Country

There was a ton of fighting between my mother and father. The kids would be thrown into the middle, to choose sides.
Nick Carter

Mother, Father, Fighting

During the rehearsal process I got thrown off the horse.
Julie Benz

Off, Process, Horse

The war on terrorism has made national security a legitimate concern, and a rising deficit, changes brought on by globalization and even the price of oil have thrown the nation's economic health into question.
Roger Mahony

Health, War, Made

Not being a comic book fan, being thrown into that and seeing the extreme - it's taken very seriously. So I tried to do as much learning as I could about it so I wasn't mean or anything.
Ashley Scott

Learning, Book, Mean

I feel incompetent to perform duties... which have been so unexpectedly thrown upon me.
Andrew Johnson

Duties, Perform

This recession is the deepest in our lifetimes, the deepest since 1929. If you take the people thrown out of work in the 1982 recession, the 1991 recession, the 2001 recession, not only is this bigger, this is bigger than all of those combined.
Austan Goolsbee

Work, Since, Deepest

I have seen one shrike occupy himself for hours in sticking up on thorns, a number of small fishes that the fishermen had thrown on the shore. The fishes dried up and decayed.
John Bachman

Small, Himself, Seen

Pastry is different from cooking because you have to consider the chemistry, beauty and flavor. It's not just sugar and eggs thrown together. I tell my pastry chefs to be in tune for all of this. You have to be challenged by using secret or unusual ingredients.
Ron Ben-Israel

Beauty, Together, Different

I wasn't an actor. They they take the externals. Here I was, a kid thrown into Hollywood with a brand-new name, starring in motion pictures.
Tab Hunter

Here, Actor, Name

Half of the modern drugs could well be thrown out of the window, except that the birds might eat them.
Martin Henry Fischer

Might, Half, Eat

I think so much of writing is an instinct, or a feel for a scene, or a feel for a character. You have to put into words the word 'tone,' which I think is thrown around a lot and can mean a hundred different things, but communicating that to other people is definitely a challenge.
Elizabeth Meriwether

Character, Writing, Mean

To establish yourself as a leading man, you're shooting for the smallest point on the target, and you get a lot of judgment thrown at you. It takes a lot for them to get past everything and just watch your art and what you're doing.
Josh Holloway

Art, Yourself, Past

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

Music, School, Forget

Me personally, I'm a guy who it took a long time to figure out what I'm supposed to be doing. I relate to a lot of that finding oneself a little later in the game, or being thrown a curve later in the game.
Kurt Sutter

Time, Long, Game

We were all thrown together on this show very rapidly, there was casting then a few days later a meeting where we all got to read the scripts and meet each other. Literally days after that we were on our way to Dallas.
Steve Kanaly

Together, After, Show

I would happily help to turn the stone being thrown at me into a boomerang.
Peer Steinbruck

Help, Turn, Stone

Nobody in my family was musical. I had no idea you could be a songwriter and make a living at it. It was all discovery. It was all just thrown at me.
Valerie Simpson

Family, Living, Idea

I think Australians do well here because we feel a bit naughty, like we're in America and if they only knew how much fun we were having, we'd all get thrown out, you know.
Melissa George

Fun, America, Here

The Iliad is the private lives of people thrown into disorder by history.
Raymond Queneau

History, Lives, Private

And when I met Cecil Taylor it was a complete transformation of musical identities. All the tenets that I had grown up with were thrown out the window.
Archie Shepp

Complete, Musical, Window

We've thrown out Saddam and Saddam, dead or alive, is finished in Iraq.
Paul Bremer

Dead, Alive, Iraq

The generality have considered that disease is but a confused and disordered effort in Nature, thrown down from her proper state, and defending herself in vain.
Thomas Sydenham

Nature, Down, Confused

As a dad, he thinks that his philosophy is morally correct. He has no conscience whatsoever about letting his kids put a penny in a light socket to find out electricity is not so good for you, and if you want to learn how to swim, you have to be thrown into the deep end.
Stacy Keach

Generally, I end up being the one thrown against the wall, because Zach is the drummer. He's stronger than me.
Isaac Hanson

End, Against, Stronger

I don't like lyrics that are just thrown together, that were obviously written as you went along, or the song was already written and the guy made up the lyrics in five minutes.
Neil Peart

Together, Made, Song

How little the public realizes what a girl must go through before she finally appears before the spotlight that is thrown upon the stage.
Florenz Ziegfeld

Girl, Through, Before

I was what? - twelve years old - and I was thrown in the cells with these people, so I learned fast.
Gregory Corso

Learned, Old, Fast

I don't know if it's a movement, but the only thing new that's happening is that I think music and art and video and fashion are all kind of thrown into one big ball that's on television, and people see that all the time - you see a fusion of all those things.
Stephen Sprouse

Music, Time, Art

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