Arc Quotes

140 quotes by 129 authors

To me it seems that too many young women of this time share the same creed. 'Live, laugh, love, be nothing but happy, experience everything,… — Criss Jami
I don't particularly like the idea that there's an arc to the story and that therefore in this scene you have to convey this bit… — Michael Winterbottom
The more closely [the German army] converged on [Stalingrad], the narrower became their scope for tactical manoeuvre as a lever in loosening resistance. By contrast,… — B. H. Liddell Hart
No picture of life can have any veracity that does not admit the odious facts. A man's power is hooped in by a necessity, which,… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
One survey found that ten percent of Americans thought Joan of Arc was Noah's wife. — Rita Mae Brown
Change isn't optional, and creation isn't something that happened a long time ago and then ended. It's ongoing, and we are invited to be a… — David LaMotte
Final Execution is Wolverine's spotlight arc. He goes through a crazy thing here. I think the fear with him is that he's in so many… — Rick Remender
No one can stop a home run. No one can understand what it really is, unless you have felt it in your own hands and… — Sadaharu Oh
I miss theater. I miss living the arc of the character, from curtain to curtain, and I miss the immediate audience response. — David Anders
Writers know - especially new writers - [that] a lot of it [creative process] is the prewriting stage, the talking, brainstorming, the narrative arc and… — Jenna Bush
Filmmaking is always sort of building a mosaic of this arc of what the character is going through. — Matthew Fox
Comedy to the Senate? Well, there certainly hasn't been a satirist or a political satirist who's done that. So, that really was uncharted territory during… — Al Franken
All my games were political games; I was, like Joan of Arc, perpetually being burned at the stake. — Indira Gandhi
The earth together with its surrounding waters must in fact have such a shape as its shadow reveals, for it eclipses the moon with the… — Nicolaus Copernicus
It's a real challenge to complete a story arc and end up with a cool punchline in 120 characters. — Mark Hoppus
The boomers' biggest impact will be on eliminating the term 'retirement' and inventing a new stage of life... the new career arc. — Rosabeth Moss Kanter
The moral arc of the universe bends at the elbow of justice. — Martin Luther King, Jr.
When I look at the arc of my career, my focus is on lyricism, right? I own that. — Talib Kweli
We do long-form-style improv. Our focus was characters and telling a long arc story over about an hour and a half. It was closer to… — Tatiana Maslany
The arc of American history almost inevitably moves toward freedom. Whether it's Lincoln and the Emancipation Proclamation, the expansion of women's rights or, now, gay… — James McGreevey

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