Throwing usually refers to:
- launching a projectile, especially by hand
It can also refer to:
Famous quotes containing the word throwing:
“Most men would feel insulted if it were proposed to employ them in throwing stones over a wall, and then in throwing them back, merely that they might earn their wages. But many are no more worthily employed now.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“It is impossible to talk or to write without apparently throwing oneself helplessly open.”
—Herman Melville (1819–1891)
“Nothing more powerfully excites any affection than to conceal some part of its object, by throwing it into a kind of shade, which at the same time that it shows enough to prepossess us in favour of the object, leaves still some work for the imagination.”
—David Hume (1711–1776)