Boomerang Quotes

I wrote short stories for seven years and used to mail them out. You couldn't send them by e-mail. I called them manila boomerangs. I'd seal the self-addressed stamped envelope inside an envelope and I'd mail it off, and it would come back six weeks later with a rejection letter in it.

My two favorite movies are 'Coming to America' and 'Boomerang'.

Humor is when the joke's on you but hits the other fellow first -- before it boomerangs.

The manuscript may go forth from the writer to return with a faithfulness passing the faithfulness of the boomerang or the homing pigeon.

You know, I'm sick and tired of people pointing rifles at me.

I sometimes think that when the prime minister tries to select a weapon it is the boomerang he finds most effective.

Try to think of your thoughts as boomerangs - that is actually what they are - except that our thoughts multiply and each returns to us with a brood like itself.

We know that government intervention in the free market, and Argentine history has shown this, absolutely ends in a boomerang.

Most recently I read Michael Lewis "Boomerang." The other guy I love is Bill Bryson.

Of course, it is boring to read about boring thing, but it is better to read something that makes you yawn with boredom than something that will make you weep uncontrollably, pound your fists against the floor, and leave tearstains all over your pillowcase, sheets, and boomerang collection.

We have always borne part of the weight of war, and the major part ... Men have made boomerangs, bows, swords, or guns with which to destroy one another; we have made the men who destroyed and were destroyed! ... We pay the first cost on all human life.

If you are a guillotine producer, watch out your head; because wickedness is a boomerang.

When you speak directly at things and don't say you're going to try to do something or that you hope to do something, the universe will work with you. Think about it this way - a boomerang goes out and comes back to you if you throw it. If you throw it out at the universe, it will come back down to you on Earth.

For dishonest thinking, however well-intentioned, can only discredit the cause it serves, and must in the long run boomerang disastrously on those who indulge in it.

There is a destiny which makes us brothers; none goes his way alone. All that we send into the lives of others comes back into our own.

I would happily help to turn the stone being thrown at me into a boomerang.

Malice is of the boomerang character, and is apt to turn upon the projector.

He was like an undead boomerang. A zomberang.

Dishonesty is like a boomerang. About the time you think all is well, it hits you in the back of the head.

Kindness comes back like a boomerang to those who are kind. Perhaps, its return takes years. Perhaps, the kindness returns from a different direction than that which we sent out kindness. But it will return. It is never lost.

A boomerang returns back to the person who throws it. But first, while moving in a circle, it hits its target. So does gossip.

I forgot how to throw a boomerang, but then it came back to me.

A boomerang returns back to the person who throws it.

Faith is like a boomerang; begin using what you have and it comes back to you in greater measure.

In America, karma is best expressed in popular phrases like what goes around, comes around and what you sow, you will reap. Karma has also been referred to as having a boomerang effect where the thoughts and actions that you send out into the world turn around and come back at you... Jesus says, Do unto others as you would have them do unto you. Karma goes a step further and dictates that What you do unto others will come back to you. I think Jesus and the Hindus really had the same idea. Think about that the next time you want to say or do something nasty to someone else!

To get all that life wants for you, apply what I call the Boomerang Effect: Give out what you most want to see come back.

Love is a boomerang that returns to the thrower's hand.

Give out what you most want to come back.

I'm like a boomerang, I always come back.

If malice or envy were tangible and had a shape, it would be the shape of a boomerang.

Positivity is like a boomerang. The more we put it out there, the more it comes back to us.

All life is a boomerang. We receive what we give.

Life truly is a boomerang. What you give, you get.

A hug is like a boomerang - you get it back right away.

I suppose everyone tells little white lies. Quite often they're necessary to make someone feel better or prevent feelings from being hurt. Whoppers? No, that's dangerous and they'll boomerang.

My words, thoughts and deeds have a boomerang effect. So be-careful what you send out!

Negative words are powerful boomerangs so be careful what you say about people and yourself.

Now this is really going to impress Valentine." "I don't know," Clary said. "Other crack teams get bat boomerangs and wall-crawling powers; we get the Aquatruck." "If you don't like it, Nephilim," came Magnus's voice, faintly, from the truck cab, "you're welcome to see if you can walk on the water.

Other crack teams get bat boomerangs and wall-climbing powers; we get Aquatruck.

I have a TV Soap Boomerang award, and I always start my year with the Australian Open tennis! Tennis, soccer, you name it.

Some sad news from Australia... the inventor of the boomerang grenade died today.

The boomerang is Australia's chief export (and then import).

That ... is how the world moves: Not like an arrow, but a boomerang.

All wars eventually act as boomerangs and the victor suffers as much as the vanquished.

Make your goals big and broad enough so that they never become answered prayers and boomerang to curse you.

Forgiveness is like the martial arts of consciousness. In Aikido and, other martial arts, we sidestep our attackers force rather than resisting it. The energy of the attack then boomerangs back in the direction of the attacker. Our power lies in remaining nonreactive. Forgiveness works in the same way. When we attack back, and defense is a form of attack, we initiate a war that no one can win.

Knowledge is like a knife. In the hands of a well-balanced adult it is an instrument for good of inestimable value; but in the hands of a child, an idiot, a criminal, a drunkard or an insane man, it may cause havoc, misery, suffering and crime. Science and religion have this in common, that their noble aims, their power for good, have often, with wrong men, deteriorated into a boomerang to the human race.

The game of life is a game of boomerangs. Our thoughts, deeds and words return to us sooner or later with astounding accuracy.

The name Kylie can be used for Scrabble, as it is an aboriginal word for boomerang. Which is why Ms Minogue is so good at comebacks.

I was in my friends garage, and he had; a kite, a yo-yo, and a boomerang. I was like "Dude, you have abandonment issues"