- Evening
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- Nov 07, 2020
Flung Quotes
On sudden departures, thrown fortunes, and life mid-motion.
These lines all capture motion and abruptness: someone flinging themselves onto a horse and riding off in every direction, or the sun described as flinging wide its cloak before stepping below the horizon. One quote turns reflective, warning that ignorant people don't recognize the good in their hands until they've flung it away, worth weighing against Good quotes.
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- Himself
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- Nov 07, 2020
He flung himself from the room, flung himself upon his horse and rode madly off in all directions.
- Hands
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- Nov 07, 2020
Ignorant men don't know what good they hold in their hands until they've flung it away.
- Hill
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- Nov 07, 2020
Breathless, we flung us on a windy hill, Laughed in the sun, and kissed the lovely grass.
- Far
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've gone out on limbs, flung far, and Forrest-Gumped my way into the center of the action.
- Christopher
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- Nov 07, 2020
Even if the Bush Administration had flung open the gates to stem-cell research years ago, we would not be at the point of offering treatment today. Christopher Reeve would still have been taken from us. But we would be closer.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I left the house to become an actress, my mother literally flung her body across the door and said, 'You're killing me!' It was a very strict household. That can be okay, but there was also no nourishment, either.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
The expat life was a good one: There was my French boyfriend. My bright two-bedroom flat in Islington. My wine at lunch. I had a 'go bag' packed with loose linens and mosquito repellent - I was ready to be flung to the outer edges of the world at a moment's notice. It was all intrigue and adventure.
- Make
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's an awesome thing to be flung out onto the stage twice a weekend in front of 250 people, and you have to make it up as you go along.
- Laughter
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- Nov 07, 2020
At the height of laughter, the universe is flung into a kaleidoscope of new possibilities.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have been called many things in my life, but if there has been but one constant, one barb, one arrow flung my way time after time, it is the accusation that I am, in essence, nothing more than an escapist. Apparently this is bad, suspect, possibly even un-American.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
The winter of 1991 found me stunned and shivering in the aftermath of an imploded love affair. Being 26, I flung myself actorishly on London and, without any intimations of my own ludicrousness, spent two years showing God what I thought of Him by letting myself go.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
In 35 years of being in the media, I've had all this mud flung at me many, many times. It's not the first time. It's nothing unusual. I've been through it all before and the best way to deal with it is not to read them.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
Bits and pieces flung into the universe, sticking in the sky like cotton balls on a jet black velcro surface.
- Long
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- Nov 07, 2020
Weirdly enough, I live in London - was born there and have lived there all my life - but I hadn't made a film in London for a long time. I hadn't found the right subject. I liked going away, to some far flung place.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020