Arc Quotes

140 quotes by 129 authors

She (Annabeth) put her hand on my spine, and my skin tingled. I (Percy) moved her fingers to the one spot that grounded me to… — Rick Riordan
Perhaps fiction has, for me, served a similar purpose--what is a narrative arc if not the imposition of order on disparate events?--and perhaps it is… — Curtis Sittenfeld
I do not pretend to understand the moral universe; the arc is a long one, my eye reaches but little ways; I cannot calculate the… — Theodore Parker
Adolf Hitler was a Jeanne d'Arc, a saint. He was a martyr. Like many martyrs, he held extreme views. — Ezra Pound
I sat down in the sand, breathless with shame and failure. God, I thought, some defender of the weak. Some freedom fighter: Joan of Arc… — Anne Lamott
Don't you know how much I hero-worshiped you when I was a kid? You were Marie Curie crossed with Emily Bronte crossed with Joan of… — Kamila Shamsie
I watched as she added a question mark at the end. Arc, line, space, dot. — Aimee Bender
But there are forces that don't let you turn back and undo things, because to do so would be to deny what is already in… — Salvador Plascencia
For throughout history, you can read the stories of women who - against all the odds - got being a woman right, but ended up… — Caitlin Moran
He was losing her incrementally. It might be a few stray hairs listless on the pillow, or the crescents of bitten fingernails tossed behind the… — Anthony Marra
I hate that she's hurt. I hate that she's been hurt, by me and by others, throughout the entire arc of her life. I barely… — Isaac Marion
Willow: (on her Halloween costume): I'm Joan of Arc. I figured we had a lot in common, seeing as how I was almost burned at… — Joss Whedon
Marxists are more right than wrong when they argue that the problems scientists take up,. the way they go about solving them, and even the… — Theodosius Dobzhansky
Our brain starts a long degenerative arc beginning around age 40. — Eric Topol
The stories that I like to tell and the movies I like are always grounded in the emotional arc of the characters. — Eric Balfour
I like it when actors get an opportunity to chew into something. They love scenes with beginnings, middles, and ends - scenes that give an… — Tracy Letts
I like the Hotel Costes, on rue Saint Honore, a boutique hotel near the Arc de Triomphe, the Louvre and the Tuileries. I love the… — Alice Temperley
I want to be the Joan of Arc of fashion. I want to be the link between the runway and the real woman. — Carine Roitfeld
My writing process is very organic. I start with an idea. I have the general story arc and the cast. But then I sit down… — Sarah Addison Allen
I am strongly of the opinion that chronology is very important. The great arc of time is what children are wired for. — Simon Schama

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