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.
The sun was like a great visiting presence that stimulated and took its due from all animal energy. When it flung wide its cloak and stepped down over the edge of the fields at evening, it left behind it a...
He flung himself from the room, flung himself upon his horse and rode madly off in all directions.
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I'm a lot less travelled as an adult than I was as a child, but I think living in far flung places gives you a perspective on the world and people that adds flavour to your writing.
Action Quotes
Breathless, we flung us on a windy hill, Laughed in the sun, and kissed the lovely grass.
I've gone out on limbs, flung far, and Forrest-Gumped my way into the center of the action.
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.
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.
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...
Good Quotes
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.
At the height of laughter, the universe is flung into a kaleidoscope of new possibilities.
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...
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...
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...
Life Quotes
When you die, we go back to the white energy of all the white energy: white heat that's flung against the sky and becomes a star.
Bits and pieces flung into the universe, sticking in the sky like cotton balls on a jet black velcro surface.
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,...
Once, I was coming back from school, and there was this guy who was eve-teasing me and my friend. I had a Milton water bottle that I flung it at his face. My dad told me if you are in...
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There's even a lighter, expat-life sample about being 'ready' with a packed bag, suggesting flinging oneself into new circumstances too. For more on decisive movement, see Action quotes.
