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Arrows Quote by Brian Eno

“I prefer to shoot the arrow, then paint the target around it. You make the niches in which you finally reside.” quote by Brian Eno — Download Open image

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

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I have lived in countries that were coming out of conflict: Ireland, South Africa, the Czech republic. People there are overflowing with energy.

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The lyrics are constructed as empirically as the music. I don't set out to say anything very important.

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The whole history of pop music had rested on the first person singular, with occasional intrusions of the second person singular.

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Robert Fripp and I will be recording another LP very soon. It should be even more monotonous than the first one!

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With the arrival of electric technology, man has extended, or set outside himself, a live model of the central nervous system itself. To the degree that this is so, it is a development that suggests a desperate suicidal autoamputation, as if the central nervous system could no longer depend on the physical organs to be protective buffers against the slings…

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Pure essence, and pure matter, and the two joined into one were shot forth without flaw, like three bright arrows from a three-string bow.

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Game of Thrones. I'm all about it. I watch Arrow.

Steven R. McQueen

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I have shot mine arrow o'er the house And hurt my brother.

William Shakespeare

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I had a map on my wall that had a circle around Lubbock and then giant arrows pointing toward New York City and Los…

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An arrow may fly through the air and leave no trace; but an ill thought leaves a trail like a serpent.

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If you shoot an arrow and it goes real high... Hooray for you.

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Our present time is indeed a criticizing and critical time, hovering between the wish, and the inability to believe. Our complaints are like arrows…

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You took a poison arrow and you aimed it at my heart. It's heavy and it's bitter, and it's tearing me apart.

Madonna Ciccone

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How long the thick dark clouds can prevent the truth from shining? The truth is an arrow that can pass through any shield!

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“Vasic said the words on Aden’s tongue. “The Arrows expect mercy from no one.”

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