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.

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.

Deborah Norville

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

Edmund Waller

Music so softens and disarms the mind That not an arrow does resistance find.

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.

Brian Eno

I prefer to shoot the arrow, then paint the target around it. You make the niches in which you finally reside.

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.

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.

Carrie Vaughn

Just so you know, I'm straight. Totally straight. As an arrow." Her voice held a smile. "So am I

William Stafford

My name is William Tell: when little oppressions touch me arrows hidden in my cloak whisper, "Ready, ready.

Brian Roberts

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

Juvenal

The arrows are from her dowry.

If we distributed money to the military this way, our troops in Iraq would have bows and arrows to fight with,

Nobody had any idea of what it really cost to manage the habitat . . . to the standard that ultimately became required, ... They were pioneers and they have arrows in them.

Foster Friess

You don't want to put all your lead on the target. You want to leave some arrows in the quiver.

It is with a word as with an arrow--once let it loose and it does not return.

William Shakespeare

I go, I go, look how I go, swifter than an arrow from a bow

Valentine's Day card baby with the bow and arrows and wings. He's not threatening.

Let rats shoot arrows at each other. Sudan

Bob Dylan

Truth is an arrow and the gate is narrow that it passes through.

Curly Howard

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

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!

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.

Condoleezza Rice

There are many other arrows in our diplomatic quiver.

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.

Gregory Benford

True twins share womb chemistry and endure many fateful slings and arrows together. The fabled connection between twins is true in my case.

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.

There brake he the arrows of the bow, the shield, and the sword, and the battle. Selah.

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

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.