Amy Sedaris
Amy Sedaris

Sometimes, to keep things exciting, I decorate my house as if I owned a child. I'll toss a tiny pair of shoes in the hallway or lean small wooden crutches in what I refer to as 'the baby's room,' which is actually a tiny space where I make things. I continue to call it the baby's room because it confuses people and it's creepy.

Anthony Fantano
Anthony Fantano

If music ever needs FDA approval in the future, bands like this will be the reason why; Magic Kids' sugar-coated songs paint a mental picture of smiling clouds and double rainbows, with a unicorn or two tossed in for good measure.

Antoni Porowski
Antoni Porowski

I love a bit of arugula tossed in olive oil and pepper over it to just have something nice and fresh and green.

Antony Garrett Lisi
Antony Garrett Lisi

As with any large investment, it can be emotionally difficult to abandon a line of research when it isn't working out. But in science, if something isn't working, you have to toss it out and try something else.

Aravind Adiga
Aravind Adiga

An honest politician has no goodies to toss around. This limits his effectiveness profoundly, because political power in India is dispersed throughout a multi-tiered federal structure; a local official who has not been paid off can sometimes stop a billion-dollar project.

Arianna Huffington
Arianna Huffington

The economic game is not supposed to be rigged like some shady ring toss on a carnival midway.

Ariel Gore
Ariel Gore

I don't know if my mother was a narcissist - or bi-polar or borderline. Those were words she tossed around over the years.

Aslaug Magnusdottir
Aslaug Magnusdottir

I try not to take much time off for lunch, so I usually end up with a tossed salad from the local deli.

August Wilson
August Wilson

Jazz in itself is not struggling. That is, the music itself is not struggling... It's the attitude that's in trouble. My plays insist that we should not forget or toss away our history.

Charlotte Rae
Charlotte Rae

My family was very loving but also very superstitious. My mother was always telling us, 'Don't walk under a ladder or you'll have bad luck,' or, 'If you spill salt, be sure and toss a pinch over your shoulder, or you're in trouble.'