#thrown

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

#doing #establish #everything #get #judgment

In all feats of fire-eating it should be noted that the head is thrown well back, so that the flame may pass out of the open mouth instead of up into the roof, as it would if the head were held naturally. ↗

— Harry Houdini

#feats #flame #head #held #instead

I had never seen a perfect game or no-hitter thrown. ↗

— Phil Humber

#had #i #never #perfect #seen

Men are much oftener thrown on their knees by the melancholy than by the agreeable passions. ↗

— David Hume

#knees #melancholy #men #much #oftener

American society is a sort of flat, fresh-water pond which absorbs silently, without reaction, anything which is thrown into it. ↗

— Henry Adams

#american society #anything #flat #into #pond

There were a lot of signs being thrown at me, a lot of angels I was meeting, inspiring me to get back into show business. ↗

— Anna Chlumsky

#back #being #business #get #i

To have no heroes is to have no aspiration, to live on the momentum of the past, to be thrown back upon routine, sensuality, and the narrow self. ↗

— Charles Horton Cooley

#back #heroes #live #momentum #narrow

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

— Gregory Corso

#fast #i #learned #old #people

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

— Edwidge Danticat

#country #daily #future #i #i think

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

— Martin Henry Fischer

#birds #could #eat #except #half