#throw

In all feats of fire-eating it should be noted that the head is thrown well back, so that the flame may pass out of the open mouth instead of up into the roof, as it would if the head were held naturally. ↗

— Harry Houdini

#feats #flame #head #held #instead

I was just then going through a healthy reaction from the orthodoxy of my youth; religion had become for me not so much a possession as an obsession, which I was trying to throw off, and this iconoclastic tale of an imaginary tribe was the result. ↗

— Laurence Housman

#going #had #healthy #i #iconoclastic

What a folly to dread the thought of throwing away life at once, and yet have no regard to throwing it away by parcels and piecemeal. ↗

— John Howe

#dread #folly #life #once #parcels

I always hated to throw a guy out of a game but sometimes it was necessary to keep order. ↗

— Cal Hubbard

#game #guy #hated #i #i always

The call that always seemed the toughest to me was the slide and tag play at second. You can see it coming, but you don't know which way the runner is going to slide, where the throw is going to be, and how the fielder is going to take the throw. ↗

— Cal Hubbard

#call #coming #going #how #know

I had never seen a perfect game or no-hitter thrown. ↗

— Phil Humber

#had #i #never #perfect #seen

Men are much oftener thrown on their knees by the melancholy than by the agreeable passions. ↗

— David Hume

#knees #melancholy #men #much #oftener

Movie acting is a great job for your twenties: You travel all over, you have affairs with people, and you throw yourself into one part and then another. It gets more challenging as you get older, and it's not just having a daughter, it's wanting to have your own life and be yourself. ↗

— Helen Hunt

#affairs #another #be yourself #challenging #daughter

I wasn't an actor. They they take the externals. Here I was, a kid thrown into Hollywood with a brand-new name, starring in motion pictures. ↗

— Tab Hunter

#brand-new #externals #here #hollywood #i

After washing there was no place to pour the water except out of the window onto the heads of the people in the streets, which is the proper place to throw everything that is not wanted. ↗

— Ellsworth Huntington

#everything #except #heads #onto #out