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Bows Quotes - Page 4

Mere fact has no chance of being formally perfect. It will get in the way, it will be all elbows.

"Martin Amis, The Art of Fiction No. 151". Interview with Francesca Riviere, www.theparisreview.org. 1998.

How to paint the landscape: First you make your bow to the landscape. Then you wait, and if the landscape bows to you, then, and only then, can you paint the landscape.

John Marin, Nannette Vicars Maciejunes, Charles Ephraim Burchfield (1991). “Trees as Seen Through the Eyes of John Marin and Charles Burchfield: May 1991”

One can only be silent and sit peacefully when one hath arrow and bow; otherwise one prateth and quarrelleth. Let your peace be a victory!

Friedrich Nietzsche (2017). “THUS SPOKE ZARATHUSTRA (Modern Classics Series): The Magnum Opus of the World’s Most Influential Philosopher, Revolutionary Thinker and the Author of The Antichrist, The Birth of Tragedy & Beyond Good and Evil”, p.50, e-artnow

When Mister Safety Catch Is Not On, Mister Crossbow Is Not Your Friend.

Terry Pratchett (2002). “Night watch”, Doubleday UK

The heathen in his blindness Bows down to wood and stone.

'From Greenland's icy mountains' (1821 hymn). Heber later altered 'Ceylon's isle' to 'Java's isle'.

Better is to bow than break.

"Proverbs". Book by John Heywood, 1546.

Om is the bow, the arrow is soul.

Hermann Hesse (2016). “Siddhartha”, p.9, Jaico Publishing House