Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charles Dickens

The aim of talk should be like the aim of a flying arrow -- to hit the mark; but to this end there must be a mark to hit, that is, there must be a listener.

Deborah Norville

Im about as straight an arrow as youll find out there.

William Shakespeare

If ever (as that ever may be near) you meet in some fresh cheek the power of fancy, then shall you know the wounds invisible that love's keen, arrows make.

William Shakespeare

The wounds invisible that Love's keen arrows make.

Arthur Eddington

So far as physics is concerned, time's arrow is a property of entropy alone.

Bob Seger

Like a rock, standing arrow straight. Like a rock, charging from the gate.

William Shakespeare

As many arrows, loosed several ways, come to one mark...so many a thousand actions, once afoot, end in one purpose.

A lot of barns in those days had arrows painted on their roofs and other messages to let the pilots known they were still on course. And those guys used to joke that the early airplanes were made of sticks and wires.

Sean M. Carroll

The particular aspect of time that I'm interested in is the arrow of time: the fact that the past is different from the future. We remember the past but we don't remember the future. There are irreversible processes. There are things that happen, like you turn an egg into an omelet, but you can't turn an omelet into an egg.

Richard Moe

Arrow Rock's fascinating history represents a microcosm of the frontier experience in Missouri. A small, historic and unspoiled town, Arrow Rock had the good sense to hang on to what makes it so special. The result is a vibrant community that offers travelers an ideal retreat.

A single arrow is easily broken, but not ten in a bundle

The sun and moon stood still in their habitation: at the light of thine arrows they went, and at the shining of thy glittering spear.

The things that churned inside Daredevil were deeply religious, somewhat guilt-driven traces of the messianic, with his powers being a compensation for and driven by the vulnerability of being blind. Green Arrow is not driven by dark forces.

Satellite companies are working on smaller bases, and their (market) shares have been growing since 1995 when they started. Their growth rate is slowing, however. Part of that is due to the fact that cable has got more arrows in their quiver now by being able to offer more services to a customer.

It was a bright, orange arrow, and at first in looking at it I didn't really know what it was, and as I looked closer, it dawned on me it was an arrow that someone had shot the deer.

Aesop

The shaft of the arrow had been feathered with one of the eagle's own plumes. We often give our enemies the means of our own destruction.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

I shot an arrow into the air,It fell to earth, I knew not where (The Arrow and the Song)

Juvenal

The arrows are from her dowry.

Stephen Amell

I wasn't aware of Green Arrow as a kid. My thing growing up was wrestling.

George Crook

When I jerked it out the head remained in my leg, where it remains still. There were a couple of inches of blood on the shaft of the arrow when I pulled it out.

Aristotle

If everything when it occupies an equal space is at rest, and if that which is in locomotion is always occupying such a space at any moment, the flying arrow is therefore motionless.

William Blake

Bring me my bow of burning gold!Bring me my arrows of desire!Bring me my spear! O clouds, unfold!Bring me my chariot of fire!

As irrigators lead water where they want, as archers make their arrows straight, as carpenters carve wood, the wise shape their minds.

Michael Shermer

We should be exploring consciousness at the neural level and higher, where the arrow of causal analysis points up toward such principles as emergence and self-organization.

Michelle Paver

It's the little details I love. How to fletch your arrows with owl feathers, because owls fly silently, so maybe your arrows will, too. How to carry fire in a piece of smouldering fungus wrapped in birchbark. These are the things which help a world come alive.

Curly Howard

I shoot an arrow into the air, where it lands I do not care: I get my arrows wholesale!

Suzanne Collins

They recognize me. Of course they recognize me. My face is uncovered and I'm standing here outside of District 12 pointing an arrow at them. Who else would I be?

Sylvia Fraser

As the arrow that leaves the bow cannot be recaptured, what we say, senselessly, about others causes us great harm.

Sylvia Plath

That’s one of the reasons I never wanted to get married. The last thing I wanted was infinite security and to be the place an arrow shoots off from. I wanted change and excitement and to shoot off in all directions myself, like the colored arrows from a Fourth of July rocket.

Sun Tzu

When you shoot a bow and arrow, you aim at the clouds, not because you expect to hit them, but so that you may reach the distant target on the ground.

Rainer Maria Rilke

As the arrow endures the string, and in the gathering momentum becomes more than itself. Because to stay is to be nowhere.

Miguel de Cervantes

Truly I was born to be an example of misfortune, and a target at which the arrows of adversary are aimed.

Paulo Coelho

The gigantic tension before the shooting of an arrow, and the total relaxation seconds later, is my way of connecting to the universe.