Fling Quotes

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.

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.

Marriage is a dialogue. But in any meaningful relationship, we should be honest, whether it is about having an affair or a fling.

There are so many ideas that you just come up with on a day-to-day basis when you’re a writer that it’s very difficult to want to go back to an old fling, so to speak.

My mother told me Homer Ditto was not my father. Nope. Mom had had a fling with some other guy who was my dad. Some dude who didn’t stick around too long who Mom was happy to get rid of. She chose Homer, and Homer chose me, so he lent me his name even though I didn’t have his blood.

Literary interviews are inevitably packed with the nuts and bolts of how writers do their work, and there’s very little that aspiring writers do more readily than fling other people‘s nuts and bolts into their toolboxes.

This has always been the way of presidential politics. The president rises above the fray while his surrogates go on the attack. They throw the spears and fling the mud; he sits upon the throne.

I don’t care how many times I play ‘Angry Birds.’ When you have the world‘s cares on your shoulders and you fling those little birds at those rotten pigs, then the whole world just melts away.

We did some cool wire work in ‘The Pact‘ – they had me strapped to a harness underneath my shirt so they could fling me around the house and slam me into doors. I definitely got some bruises even with all the padding!

Bullets are fast – even a 9-millimeter handgun launches lead at Mach 1. And the bigger the bullet gets, the more grains of gunpowder it carries, the faster it goes. Modern rifles can fling the small pieces of metal at half the velocity needed to escape the gravitational pull of the Moon.

A great lie is like a great fish on dry land; it may fret and fling and make a frightful bother, but it cannot hurt you. You have only to keep still, and it will die of itself.