J. B. Smoove

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.

American Actor

Ravi Kishan

I suffered initially because I think most of the people working in the industry only care about themselves. They are not interested in helping anyone as that may boomerang on them someday.

Indian Actor

Louis Zamperini

If you hate somebody, it's like a boomerang that misses its target and comes back and hits you in the head. The one who hates is the one who hurts.

American

Jean Chatzky

Anticipating a boomerang child seems the odds-on thing to do. Think about furnishing - hello, sleeper sofa - with this in mind.

American Journalist

Florence Scovel Shinn

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

American Artist

Elaine Welteroth

I grew up with social media. I am the boomerang queen. I enjoy this. I live this. The day I don't is the day I need to resign.

Douglas Coupland

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

Canadian Author

Charley Reese

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

American Writer

Peer Steinbruck

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

German Politician

Bil Keane

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

American Cartoonist

Understand that the boomerang is strongly associated with Aboriginal Australian culture.

Aboriginal Heritage

Remember, not all thrown boomerangs come back; their return depends on their shape and throwing technique.

Returning Action

Originally, boomerangs served as hunting tools, not just for entertainment or sport.

Historical Use

Using 'boomerang' as a verb suggests an action has backfired or had the opposite effect of what was intended.

Unintended Consequences

As a verb, 'boomerang' does not involve a literal throw; it's metaphorical.

Figurative Meaning

When 'boomerang' means a toy, it's often compared to frisbees due to the throwing element.

Toy Similarity

A boomerang as a toy is widely used for recreation, not for practical purposes.

Recreational Use

In computing, 'boomerang' is jargon for a specific diagnostic method, not related to the physical object.

Technical Slang

The computing 'boomerang' helps to trace and improve performance in software or systems.

Performance Tracing

 most people think it means look at this hand while I do something with this room but actually what I want to do is direct and control your attention at least know where it is because if I send your attention off into the darkness it can come around just like throwing a boomerang it hit me when I don't want it

Apollo Robbins on Focus...

 communities in neighborhoods and increase emphasis on your neighbors as your support system also a wonderful byproduct of sort of really lousy thing which has been unemployment is a rise in volunteerism that's been noted in our country we also see the phenomenon some of you may have boomerang kids

The post-crisis consumer...

 I thought to myself, "What now? Where do I turn?" Poetry. Like a boomerang, the thing I loved came back to me. One of the first lines of poetry I can remember writing was in response to a world that demanded I hate myself.

"To This Day" ... for...

 one act of kindness can go on and on and sometimes like a boomerang come back to us at a time when we need it the most when I when I put this film up I figured

Boomerang

Aboriginal Heritage

Returning Action

Historical Use

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