Famous Quotes & Sayings

Tony Buzan

I used to take formal notes in lines of blue, and underline the key words in red, and I realised I needed only the key words and the idea. Then to bring in connections, I drew arrows and put in images and codes. It was a picture outside my head of what was inside my head - 'mind map' is the language my brain spoke.

Rick Warren

You'll never do anything creative, innovative or world changing if you fear criticism. Pioneers are easy targets for arrows!

Ronald Reagan

We need more Democrats in the Senate -Like Custer needed more arrows.

Vladimir Nabokov

Which arrow flies for ever? The arrow that has hit its mark.

Brian Roberts

Pioneers are the ones who get the arrows in their backs,

I have to give them credit. They are pioneers but are they leaders? And one might want to ask the question that isn't it true that pioneers die with arrows in their backs?

Emilie Autumn

If that happens again someone's gonna get shot.... with an arrow of love!

Emily Dickinson

Some Arrows slay but whom they strike - But this slew all but him - Who so appareled his Escape - Too trackless for a Tomb

It takes one of the arrows out of our quiver, as it were.

They, astounded at the flash of the armor, and the swiftness of the charge, and attacked by showers of arrows and missiles, half naked as they were, never stopped to resist but gave way.

Tom Burnett

It looks like they're trying to right the ship. They deserved to suffer all those slings and arrows of their own outrageous fortune.

Rachel McAdams

I did do some Shakespeare on film, it's really difficult. It's really interesting, because I was doing a series in Canada called 'Slings and Arrows' and it was about a company based around the Stratford Festival.

Paul Celan

Each arrow you shoot off carries its own target into the decidedly secret tangle

Nathaniel Hawthorne

Cupid in these latter times has probably laid aside his bow and arrow, and uses fire-arms -- a pistol -- perhaps a revolver.

Karl Kraus

I trim my opponents to fit my arrows.

Kacey Musgraves

Follow your arrow / Wherever it points,

Paul Klee

Be winged arrows aiming at fulfillment and goal.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

I shot an arrow into the air, it fell to earth, I knew not where.

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

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.

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.

Juvenal

The arrows are from her dowry.

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 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.

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.

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

The narrative fallacy addresses our limited ability to look at sequences of facts without weaving an explanation into them, or, equivalently, forcing a logical link, an arrow of relationship, upon them. Explanations bind facts together. They make them all the more easily remembered; they help them make more sense. Where this propensity can go wrong is when it increases our impression of understanding.

F. Scott Fitzgerald

Young people do not perceive at once that the giver of wounds is the enemy and the quoted tattle merely the arrow.

George R. R. Martin

Words are like arrows, Arianne. Once loosed, you cannot call them back. - Areo Hotah

Jim Carroll

My voice has a quiver/ A quiver is where you keep arrows until you shoot them.

Jeremy Taylor

An unjust acquisition is like a barbed arrow, which must be drawn backward with horrible anguish, or else will be your destruction.