Arrows Quotes - Page 6

Has the grim savage rushed again from the wilderness? Or does some fiend... twang her deadly arrows at our breast? No, none of these: it is the hand of Britain that inflicts the wound.

Om is the bow, the arrow is soul.

Irrigators channel waters; fletchers straighten arrows; carpenters bend wood; the wise master themselves.

I've been friends with the guys in Radiohead for a lot of years, and I watch the way those guys work with incredible envy. Because whatever the slings and arrows of dealing with the record business, at the end of the day, they have total creative autonomy. They don't need a lot to do what they do, and Thom [Yorke] and Jonny [Greenwood] and the guys have their own joint in their hometown.

You shoot your arrow and then you paint your bulls eye around it, and therefore you have hit the target dead centre.

The feathered arrow of satire has oft been wet with the heart's blood of its victims.

Jackson is the most consummate sketcher I have ever known. These little panels, handy on the trail, could be handled as easily as an expert marksman uses a quiver full of arrows.

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

Well, in that hit you miss. She'll not be hit With Cupid's arrow. She hath Dian's wit, And, in strong proff of chastity well armed, From Love's weak childish bow she lives uncharmed. She will not stay the siege of loving terms, Nor bide th' encounter of assailing eyes, Nor ope her lap to saint-seducing gold. O, she is rich in beauty; only poor That, when she dies, with dies her store. Act 1,Scene 1, lines 180-197

Certainly I feel like I'm the tip of the arrow at times because certainly the national media wants to talk about the fact that I'm a black Republican and some people think of that as zany that a black person would be a conservative but to me what is zany is any person black, white, red, brown or yellow not being a conservative.

I wanted change and excitement and to shoot off in all directions myself, like the colored arrows from a Fourth of July rocket.

Truth is as straight as an arrow, while a lie swivels like a snake.

God's eye is on a sparrow. And I know - oh, yes, I know he watches over me...

When your bow is broken and your last arrow spent, then shoot, shoot with your whole heart.

How blunt are all the arrows of thy quiver in comparison with those of guilt.

I often find myself worrying about celebrities. It's an entirely caring thing; it's not like the people who commission those photographs with cruel arrows to go on the covers of the celebrity magazines. The photographs show botched plastic surgery, raging eczema, weight gain and horrible clothes for maximum schadenfreude.

I was just 20 years old when I wrote Broken Arrow.

The Stone Age gave us arrow heads and eventually knives, and that allowed us to kill animals in ways you couldn't before, and once you had them you were able to remove the skin and bones.

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.

The system wants you to be either a bow or an arrow; refuse both, because there is a third choice: To be an archer!

There were details like clothing, hair styles and the fragile objects that hardly ever survive for the archaeologist-musical instruments, bows and arrows, and body ornaments depicted as they were worn... No amounts of stone and bone could yield the kinds of information that the paintings gave so freely

Every aspect of human technology has a dark side, including the bow and arrow.

I want the privilege of guiding the arrows of my children and giving them the exhortations that can shoot them into the high place.

I'm actually a pretty decent human being, and when I'm home I'm straight as an arrow.

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