Famous quotes containing the word throw:
“You have but little more to do than throw up your cap for entertainment these American days.... Farmers sons will stare by the hour to see a juggler draw ribbons from his throat, though he tells them it is all deception. Surely, men love darkness rather than light.”
—Henry David Thoreau (18171862)
“Oh, some as soon would throw it all
As throw a part away.
And some will say all sorts of things,
But some mean what they say.”
—Robert Frost (18741963)
“There are lone figures armed only with ideas, sometimes with just one idea, who blast away whole epochs in which we are enwrapped like mummies. Some are powerful enough to resurrect the dead. Some steal on us unawares and put a spell over us which it takes centuries to throw off. Some put a curse on us, for our stupidity and inertia, and then it seems as if God himself were unable to lift it.”
—Henry Miller (18911980)