Throat Quotes - Page 9

• We've tried as hard as we can into keep the ideas intact in the hail storm that is Hollywood, so, whether he is or not, I'm personally proud of what I've been able to jam down their throats.

  Zack Snyder

  Ideas, Storm, Hollywood

  Source: ca.complex.com

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• If you have an ego of any sort, this course [Augusta] will take it and shove it down your throat.

  Tom Watson

  Golf, Ego, Augusta

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• Men appear to prefer ruining one another's fortunes, and cutting each other's throats about a few paltry villages, to extending the grand means of human happiness.

  Voltaire

  War, Mean, Cutting

  Voltaire (1824). “A Philosophical Dictionary: From the French”, p.43

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• I dreamed you a field of running horses, Selah. For you, Bianca, a balloon the size of the sky, my body a kite you can throw into the air.Pull me by string and horse.Tell me everything won't end in death. That everything doesn't end with February. Dead wildflowers wrapped around a crying baby's throat.I've slowed my heartbeat to three beats a minute. I've redrawn the clouds into birds, a fox chasing them into the mountains.I'm going to move my hand today.I vomit ice cubes.There's a ghost next to me.Get up, Dad.(Light Boxes)

  Shane Jones

  Running, Baby, Horse

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• Look at that! If you ever needed convincing that we live in the solar system, that we are on a ball of rock, orbiting around the Sun with other balls of rock, then look at that! That's the solar system coming down and grabbing you by the throat.

  Brian Cox

  Rocks, Balls, Looks

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• If there were only one religion in England there would be danger of despotism, if there were two, they would cut each other's throats, but there are thirty, and they live in peace and happiness.

  Voltaire

  Peace, Cutting, Two

  Voltaire (2016). “Treatise on Toleration”, p.22, Penguin UK

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• Should we force science down the throats of those that have no taste for it ? Is it our duty to drag them kicking and screaming into the twenty-first century ? I am afraid that it is.

  George Porter

  Fun, Science, Twenties

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• Some of my unhappiest moments have been in organizations. Somehow it seems to be quite respectable to do things in organizations that you would never do in private life. I have had people insult me to my face in front of colleagues. I have had my feelings rammed down my throat on the pretext that it would do me good. I have been required to do things which I didn't agree with because the organization wished it... In my worst moments I have thought organizations were places designed to be run by sadists and staffed by masochists.

  Charles Handy

  Running, Communication, Worst Moments

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• Singers are experts at keeping things from dripping on their throats. Believe me, they're experts.

  Dolora Zajick

  Believe, Experts, Singers

  "For Opera Powerhouse Dolora Zajick, 'Singing Is Connected To The Body'". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. March 19, 2014.

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• If a fly gets into the throat of one who is fasting, it is not necessary to pull it out.

  Ruhollah Khomeini

  Fasting, Ifs

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• The throat: how strange, that there is not more erotic emphasis upon it. For here, through this compound pulsing pillar, our life makes its leap into spirit, and in the other direction gulps down what it needs of the material world.

  John Updike

  Erotic, World, Pillars

  1989 Self-Consciousness, III.'Getting The Words Out'

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• It is agreed that all sound which is the material of music is of three sorts. First is harmonica, which consists of vocal music; second is organica, which is formed from the breath; third is rhythmica, which receives its numbers from the beat of the fingers. For sound is produced either by the voice, coming through the throat; or by the breath, coming through the trumpet or tibia, for example; or by touch, as in the case of the cithara or anything else that gives a tuneful sound on being struck.

  Isidore of Seville

  Music, Voice, Numbers

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• And within the house
  ashes are being stuffed into my marriage,
  fury is lapping the walls,
  dishes crack on the shelves,
  a strangler needs my throat,
  the daughter has ceased to eat anything.

  Anne Sexton

  Daughter, Wall, Divorce

  Anne Sexton (1976). “45 Mercy Street”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (HMH)

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• Thumbs grow into my throat.
  I wear slaps like a spot of rouge.

  Anne Sexton

  Thumbs, Assault, Spots

  Anne Sexton, Diane Wood Middlebrook, Diana Hume George (2000). “Selected Poems of Anne Sexton”, p.264, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• My objects dream and wear new costumes,
  compelled to, it seems, by all the words in my hands
  and the sea that bangs in my throat.

  Anne Sexton

  Dream, Hands, Sea

  Anne Sexton (1975). “The Awful Rowing Toward God”, Boston : Houghton Mifflin

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• If a man has his throat cut in Paris, it's a murder. If 50,000 people are murdered in the east, it is a question.

  Victor Hugo

  Cutting, Men, Paris

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• Those with very loud voices in their throats are nearly incapable of thinking subtle thoughts.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Thoughtful, Thinking, Loud Voices

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• We [ with Russel Crowe] had an Arabic coach there [ in the Body of Lies] that was really helpful, because it was more so than any accent. You have to be so exact, and there's different dialects of Arabic from country to country so it was really, really difficult to tell you the truth. And one of the hardest things I've ever had to do language-wise, because it comes from the throat. It's different. And also learning about the customs and the culture and all that, so we had advisors for that sort of thing.

  Leonardo DiCaprio

  Wise, Country, Lying

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• [G]et two-thirds of the states to alter the Constitution; come out with their national religion, and then let the people get their throats ready.

  Anne Royall

  Two, People, Atheism

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• In 1882 I was in Vienna, where I met an American whom I had known in the States. He said: 'Hang your chemistry and electricity! If you want to make a pile of money, invent something that will enable these Europeans to cut each others' throats with greater facility.'

  Hiram Maxim

  Cutting, Vienna, Want

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• Shaving is a way to start the workday by ritually not cutting your throat when you've the chance.

  Ben Lerner

  Cutting, Shaving, Way

  Ben Lerner (2014). “10:04”, p.127, Granta Books

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• I am resolved to rise superior to every obstacle. With whom need I be afraid of measuring my strength? I will take Fate by the throat. It shall not overcome me. O how beautiful it is to be alive - would that I could live a thousand times!

  Ludwig van Beethoven

  Beautiful, Fate, Overcoming

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• Go for the throat. If you cant, go for the nads.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Ifs, Cant

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• God bless the physician who warms the speculum or holds your hand and looks into your eyes. Perhaps one subtext of the health caredebate is a yen to be treated like a whole person, not just an eye, an ear, a nose or a throat. A yen to be human again, on the part of patient and doctor alike.

  Anna Quindlen

  Eye, Hands, Medicine

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• My soul's a little grief, grappling your chest,
  To climb your throat on sobs; easily chased
  On other sighs and wiped by fresher winds.

  Wilfred Owen

  Grief, Wind, Soul

  Wilfred Owen (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Wilfred Owen (Illustrated)”, p.47, Delphi Classics

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