Fling Quotations

An apt quotation is like a lamp which flings its light over the whole sentence.

May love's kindred treasure box fling your luminescent glove.

High Romanticism shows you nature in all its harsh and lovely metamorphoses. Flood, fire and quake fling us back to the primal struggle for survival and reveal our gross dependency on mammoth, still mysterious forces.

There's no sort o' mistake in little Bullet. He can pick up miles on his feet, and fling 'em behind him as fast as the next man's hoss, I don't care where he comes from. And he can keep at it as long as the sun can shine without resting.

I'm not one for flings, I can tell you that.

We die in proportion to the words we fling around us.

Do not waste time dreaming of great faraway opportunities; do the best you can where you are. Open your petals of power and beauty and fling out the fragrance of your life in the place that has been assigned to you.

We're being asked to be a conduit for the funds, ... Using the chamber that way allows the process to move quicker. Spring Fling is coming up in nine months. If using the chamber saves two or three months, that's two or three months that can be put to good use.

Love that so desires would fain keep her changeless; / Fain would fling the net, and fain have her free.

She accepts that the story, which she sold to the newspaper, was an entire fabrication on her part and that she had not had an affair or fling with the claimant.

To cure the mind's wrong bias, Spleen, / Some recommend the bowling-green; / Some, hilly walks; all, exercise; / Fling but a stone, the giant dies. / Laugh and be well.

Here, my dear Lucy, hide these books. Quick, quick! Fling ''Peregrine Pickle'' under the toilette --throw ''Roderick Random'' into the closet --put ''The Innocent Adultery'' into ''The Whole Duty of Man''; thrust ''Lord Aimworth'' under the sofa! cram ''Ovid'' behind the bolster; there --put ''The Man of Feeling'' into your pocket. Now for them.

I think it's actually easier for me to simulate Vick than Peyton Manning, but you can't mimic him to the full extent. You can't stand there flat-footed and fling the thing 65 or 70 yards off your back foot (like Vick can). I've got a little bit of a burst, but I can't run a 4.2, that's for darn sure. You see guys on film take the wrong angle on him all the time because he's so fast. You know he's fast, but you don't know how fast until you watch him in person.

Just a little fling and that's over with, ... And now I think I'm making my name with tennis. So that's what I'm here to do.

Spring Fling is expected to draw an even larger crowd this year and so what we are probably going to do is extend it down and set up the main stage down by Student Wing.

I tell you, he is a heck of a player. We were hoping he was going to fling that ball into the stands in the ninth.

We realize that as it is, the culture of Spring Fling is unsustainable, and this gives students the opportunity to somewhat rein in that culture.

The people are never so perfectly backed, but that they will kick and fling if not stroked at seasonable times.

We are not going to be able to change the culture of Spring Fling in one or two years, but in order to preserve its tradition, having students show a sense of responsibility is a step in the right direction.

When there are sequences when the eye, and not the ear, is the primary object, then the composer has his fling in the writing of incidental background music. In this branch of musical writing there have been some of the finest examples of orchestral music which our age has produced.

The PGA Tour will wish it had an entrenched June date here rather than a tacky fling with FedEx in Memphis.

When you are on a railway station platform waiting for the train that is due, and when you come to know that it arrives five hours late, how do you react? You fling abusive words at train.

Fling out the Anti-Slavery flag;Forever let it beThe emblem to a holy cause,The banner of the free.And never from its guardian heightLet it by man be driven,But let it float forever there,Beneath the smiles of heaven.

Fling out the Anti-Slavery flag; Forever let it be The emblem to a holy cause, The banner of the free. And never from its guardian height Let it by man be driven, But let it float forever there, Beneath the smiles of heaven.

People could see by your actions on the park that you cared about it. If we got beat, I'd fling the Sunday papers in the bin and wouldn't read them.

Now order the ranks, and fling wide the banners, for our souls are God's and our bodies the king's, and our swords for Saint George and for England!

It's not the thing you fling, it's the fling itself.

Students are responsible enough to show the administration that they can enjoy Fling without going too far.

Social mores change all the time. In the mid-1970s, it would've been astonishing, say, to see two men holding hands in the streets. And the attitude to having a fling with a girl, or whatever, was quite different then.

In the business I meet some beautiful women, but to be honest, 80 per cent of them are raving lunatics and are to be avoided. It's just insecurity; actors are generally quite insecure. I wouldn't date, or I've never had a fling with an actress, and I'd quite like to keep it that way.

I don't know if he can read anything. The first receiver better be open, but he can fling it.

Freddie [Highmore] is great in the movie [August Rush]. It comes out this Fall and I play a young cellist, a prodigy, who is touring and doing concerts. She's very young and has a one-night fling with an Irish rocker, played Jonathan Rhys Meyers, who is also a really talented musician.

I don't keer w'at you do wid me, Brer Fox,' sezee, 'so you don't fling me in dat brier-patch. Roas' me, Brer Fox' sezee, 'but don't fling me in dat brier-patch,' sezee.

In dinner talk it is perhaps allowable to fling any faggot rather than let the fire go out.

Come, therefore, and let us fling mud at them!

Dreams are the subtle Dower/ That make us rich an Hour/ Then fling us poor/ Out of the purple door.