Famous Quotes & Sayings

Bobby Harper

Just like every golf course has a 'pro,' every gun and archery has a 'pro,' they can help you find what you need.

Zhuangzi

When an archer shoots for enjoyment, he has all his skill; when he shoots for a brass buckle, he gets nervous; when he shoots for a prize of gold, he begins to see two targets.

Geena Davis

The main thing about archery is a battle with yourself. You can ruin it all. Once you have learned the technique, the point is to recreate the perfect technique over and over and over.

Heinrich Heine

The arrow belongs not to the archer when it has once left the bow; the word no longer belongs to the speaker when it has once passed his lips, especially when it has been multiplied by the press.

Edith Wharton

Archer had always been inclined to think that chance and circumstance played a small part in shaping people's lots compared with their innate tendency to have things happen to them.

Edith Wharton

But marriage is one long sacrifice.... Chapter 21, Medora Manson speaking to Newland Archer

Charles Baudelaire

The Poet is a kinsman in the clouds Who scoffs at archers, loves a stormy day; But on the ground, among the hooting crowds, He cannot walk, his wings are in the way.

Charles Baudelaire

The poet is like the prince of clouds Who haunts the tempest and laughs at the archer; Exiled on the ground in the midst of jeers, His giant wings prevent him from walking.

Norm MacDonald

I miss seeing real comics, Shecky Greene and Buddy Hackett, those types. I like straight stand-up, talking about the Olympics and why I feel obligated to watch them. 'Why am I watching archery at 4 in the afternoon?'

John Ashcroft

I think it is always very important for us to take those kinds of requests very seriously,

Robert Sanchez

He killed everyone with kindness at all times.

David Bowens

I think it's an even more macho thing to come out and talk about that kind of stuff.

Corey Dillon

It could get tiresome, ... It kind of wore on me.

David Sanborn

I think the kind of chronology of the whole thing was that I was making records in the 70's and 80's that used pop production values, but instrumental music; like improvising with R&B kinds of song structures, but with improvisation in them, and pop production values.

Jerry Sanders

I think the problem is you can't just kind of reveal things,

Pat Riley

I think you're going to see that kind of series.

Pat Thomas

I think we performed pretty well. We're kinda tiny but mighty. For every person on this team there is talent, but there just is not a lot of depth.

Tony Amonte

I think we're the only ones going to be there with kids. But we kinda have to with the baby.

Sarah Pinborough

I wrote my first five horror novels while I was teaching.

Edmund White

I didn't get anything published until I was thirty-three, and yet I'd written five novels and six or seven plays. The plays, I should point out, were dreadful.

William Golding

However you disguise novels, they are always biographies.

Wendell Berry

There is change by necessity or adaptation, and there is contrived change or novelty.

Brian Moore

Research is usually a policeman stopping a novel from progressing.

Jojo Moyes

Rejection is part of the process, so you can't let it crush you. My first three novels never made it into publication, but my fourth, 'Sheltering Rain,' was translated into 11 languages.

Rudolfo Anaya

In many respects, I think 'Bless Me, Ultima' is a novel about the indigenous.

Sarah Waters

I knew I'd always be a second-rate academic, and I thought, 'Well, I'd rather be a second-rate novelist or even a third-rate one'.

Khaled Hosseini

The novel [The Kite Runner] came about as an expansion of that original, unpublished short story.