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• The Alexander Technique helped a long-standing back problem and to get a good night's sleep after many years of tossing and turning.

  Paul Newman

  Good Night, Healing, Sleep

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• I love fashion. What I love is the ability to express yourself, to be able to make a product and shoot an ad campaign that tosses you out into the world and lets you have a voice in contemporary culture, iconography. I felt a little bit neutered not having that voice.

  Tom Ford

  Fashion, Love Is, Voice

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• I don't emphasize the whatevs. I say it as if it's truly a toss-away word.

  Eugene Mirman

  Ifs

  "A Guide To Mustering 'The Will To Whatevs'". "All Things Considered" with Robert Smith, www.npr.org. March 1, 2009.

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• Tosses her head and flips her hair, she got a whole bunch of nothing in there.

  Frank Zappa

  Art, Media, Hair

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• When you take the bull by the horns...what happens is a toss-up.

  William Pett Ridge

  Bulls, Horns, Happens

  William Pett Ridge (1912). “Love at Paddington”

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• If he who has little wit needs a master to inform his stupidity, he who has much frequently needs ten to keep in check his worldly wisdom, which might otherwise, like a high-mettled charger, toss him to the ground.

  Christian Scriver

  Stupidity, Needs, Littles

  Christian Scriver (1857). “Gotthold's Emblems: or Invisible things understood by things that are made. Tr. by R. Menzies”, p.147

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• She would try to relieve the pain of love by first roughly rubbing her dry lips against mine; then my darling would draw away with a nervous toss of her hair, and then again come darkly near and let me feed on her open mouth, while with a generosity that was ready to offer her everything, my heart, my throat, my entrails, I gave her to hold in her awkward first the scepter of my passion.

  Vladimir Nabokov

  Pain, Passion, Heart

  Vladimir Nabokov (2016). “Lolita”, p.6, Hamilton Books

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• good call. A second drag and your next stop's the wastepaper basket - and not to toss your kleenex, true.

  J.R. Ward

  Next, Baskets, Drag

  J.R. Ward (2012). “Lover Reborn: A Novel of the Black Dagger Brotherhood”, p.58, Penguin

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• Niko caught my hand and slapped it lightly down on the bar. “Pistol whipping elderly women isn’t precisely our mission statement, Cal.” I hadn’t been going to pistol-whip her. Yell at her a little more, then pick her up and toss her out into the street. Some risk of a broken hip there, but that wasn’t pistol-whipping… unless she tried to come back in.

  Rob Thurman

  Elderly, Hands, Broken

  Rob Thurman (2010). “Roadkill: A Cal Leandros Novel”, p.25, Penguin

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• You’re like Marilyn Monroe,’ Ken tells me, which I take as a compliment and say a nervous “Thank You”. Interrupting, he adds, ‘You’re all velvet and Velcro. Men want you because you’re sexy and broken and when it gets too rough they can say “Hey! This toy is broken!” and toss you aside without feeling bad.

  Emma Forrest

  Sexy, Men, Broken

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• Now, if I could get Mark to put down his phone and stop taking breaks, we’d be able to finish up before Oprah comes on.” – Bubba “Bubba, what are you going to do when they cancel her show?” – Caleb “Shut your mouth, boy. That’s sacrilege in this store. You talk like that, and I’ll toss you through the window like an old-timey hobo in a Western.” – Bubba

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Boys, Phones, Taking A Break

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• One day, lad, your eyes will light upon a woman, and you will never forget that glint in her eye, that toss of her head, or sway of her hips. You will dream of her, whether you are asleep of awake. She will possess your mind, and your body will be on fire for her. Nothing will ever erase the linger of her scent in your nostrils, the touch of her hand on your body, the feel of her flesh beneath your fingers. When you find a woman to love, Cnut, your life changes forever.

  Helen Hollick

  Dream, Life Changing, Eye

  Helen Hollick (2004). “A Hollow Crown: The Story of Emma, Queen of Saxon England”, William Heinemann

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• My desire, my sincere and heartfelt desire is to rip that surprisingly sheer garment from your body, toss you onto that bed, and indeed ravish you from head to toe. I wish to make love to you until you are too exhausted to do so much as stand without support. Until you call out my name in your dreams and reach for me in your sleep. Until you can think of no one and nothing beyond the touch of my hand, the caress of my lips.

  Victoria Alexander

  Dream, Rip, Sleep

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• Swords have been my life, not books. But every child knows that the Targaryens have always danced too close to madness. Your father was not the first. King Jaehaerys once told me that madness and greatness are two sides of the same coin. Every time a new Targaryen is born, he said, the gods toss the coin in the air and the world holds its breath to see how it will land.

  George R. R. Martin

  Kings, Children, Father

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• Some men are born to good luck: all they do or try to do comes right—all that falls to them is so much gain—all their geese are swans—all their cards are trumps—toss them which way you will, they will always, like poor puss, alight upon their legs, and only move on so much the faster. The world may very likely not always think of them as they think of themselves, but what care they for the world? what can it know about the matter?

  Jacob Grimm

  Moving, Fall, Good Luck

  Jacob Grimm, Wilhelm Grimm “Annotated Grimms' Fairy Tales with English Grammar Exercises: by Jacob Grimm and Wilhelm Grimm (Author), Robert Powell (Editor)”, Powell Publications, LLC

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• Perriwickturned to Penelope as he set the tray down on a table. "If I might be so bold, my lady-" "Perriwick!" Blake roared. "If I hear the phrase 'if I might be so bold' one more time, as God is my witness, I'm going to toss you into the channel!" "Oh dear," Penelope said. "Perhaps he does have the fever, after all.Perriwick , what do you think?" The butler reached for Blake's forehead, only to have his hand nearly bitten off. "Touch me and die," Blake snarled.

  Julia Quinn

  Thinking, Hands, Doe

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• Good girls hold their heads high by daylight, Their grace and their virtue soaring with kites, While bad girls slink along in their shame- Everyone stares at them, everyone blames. But those bad girls sleep soundly at night, Ne'er do their consciences wake them in a fright, While our good girls toss and they turn- They lay awake for those who will burn.

  Anna Godbersen

  Girl, Sleep, Night

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• The seals stupidly dive off rocks into swirling black water, barking mindlessly. The zookeepers feed them dead fish. A crowd gathers around the tank, mostly adults, a few accompanied by children. On the seals' tank a plaque warns: COINS CAN KILL——IF SWALLOWED, COINS CAN LODGE IN AN ANIMAL'S STOMACH AND CAUSE ULCERS, INFECTIONS AND DEATH. DO NOT THROW COINS IN THE POOL. So what do I do? Toss a handful of change into the tank when none of the zookeepers are watching. It's not the seals I hate——it's the audience's enjoyment of them that bothers me.

  Bret Easton Ellis

  Children, Hate, Animal

  Bret Easton Ellis (2014). “American Psycho: Picador Classic”, p.240, Pan Macmillan

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• I don't know whether to toss you through that window or shake your hand and say 'Well done'" Henry said in a tired voice.

  Julia Quinn

  Tired, Hands, Voice

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• Talk is cheap. If it wasn't, people might not toss around 'I love you' like a marked-down phrase in a sales bin.

  Tonya Hurley

  Love You, People, Phrases

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• A man fishes for two reasons: he’s either sport fishing or fishing to eat, which means he’s either going to try to catch the biggest fish he can, take a picture of it, admire it with his buddies and toss it back to sea, or he’s going to take that fish on home, scale it, fillet it, toss it in some cornmeal, fry it up, and put it on his plate. This, I think, is a great analogy for how men seek out women.

  Steve Harvey

  Sports, Home, Mean

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• In politics as on a sickbed men toss from side to side in hope of lying more comfortably.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Lying, Men, Political

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1963). “Goethe's world view: presented in his reflections and maxims”

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• The sea can do craziness, it can do smooth, it can lie down like silk breathing or toss havoc shoreward; it can give gifts or withhold all; it can rise, ebb, froth like an incoming frenzy of fountains, or it can sweet-talk entirely. As I can too, and so, no doubt, can you, and you.

  Mary Oliver

  Sweet, Lying, Sea

  Mary Oliver (2012). “A Thousand Mornings: Poems”, p.41, Penguin

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• Days Pass By Somehow But Nights Now Are Wagon Of Pain Injuries May Heal With Time But Marks Will Always Remain Restless On My Comfortable Bed I Toss And Turn And Try To sleep But Thoughts Are Walking My Head And Formed A Huge Heap The Past Is Flashing Its Scorching Light Beams Tearing Me Apart, Breaking Me At The Seams The Darkness Of My Life Is More Visible In The Dark !!

  Ravinder Singh

  Pain, Sleep, Dark

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• Eve: "What do you want?" Nadine: "A man of amazing sexual prowess, great sensitivity, stupendous abs, and the face of an angel. Toss in a wicked sense of humor and stupendous wealth, who adores the very ground I walk on. Oh wait, you already have him.

  Nora Roberts

  Angel, Men, Waiting

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