Arcs Quotes
136 quotes by 123 authors
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Understand this: we are both tiny and massive. We are nothing more than molded clay given breath, but we are nothing less than divine self-portraits,…
— N.D. Wilson
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Paralysis seems to happen on the steepest slope of the survival arc—where almost all hope is lost, when escape seems impossible, and when the situation…
— Amanda Ripley
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Besides being asked why I write about young characters, I am often asked how I write about young characters. How do I throw myself across…
— Ann Brashares
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Age is not so much a feature of your character, as the spot where you stand for a pretty fleeting time on the arc of…
— Ann Brashares
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Above all there's a love which is real, the ultimate love. We merge not only physically, but mentally and spiritually, in arc-line, aura and subtle…
— Harbhajan Singh Yogi
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As an artist, you don't think about the parabola or the arc you're describing or where you're going to ultimately end up, you're just kind…
— Michael Nesmith
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The arc of your swing doesn't have a thing to do with the size of your heart.
— Carol Mann
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The arc of history is longer than human vision. It bends. We abolished slavery, we granted universal suffrage. We have done hard things before. And…
— Barbara Kingsolver
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You sometimes see a woman who would have made a Joan of Arc in another century and climate, threshing herself to pieces over all the…
— Rudyard Kipling
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The arc of history is long, but it bends toward justice.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
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A man who took history in his hands and bent the arc of the moral universe toward justice
— Barack Obama
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I just did an arc with Warren Ellis - and no one else on the planet could get away with this, because I think this…
— Kelly Sue DeConnick
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Today is one of those excellent January partly cloudies in which light chooses an unexpected part of the landscape to trick out in gilt, and…
— Annie Dillard
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People don't have these tidy little redemption arcs in reality the way they do in movies.
— Diablo Cody
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I am on the International Board of Best Buddies, and I am also working with Special Olympics, and with The Arc to help people with…
— Lauren Potter
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The joy of 'Crash' was that it was all about the work. It was my first real part. Before that, it was a line here…
— Michael Pena
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I find historical figures in general very tricky because you feel at times that you're serving two masters. Not only the arc and wonderful writing…
— Vincent Piazza
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In documentary films, you're a storyteller using found objects. You still have to have a story arc and all the elements that make a good…
— Garth Stein
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I'd like to do the young cadet thing again for sure, but that's why I wanted to do this, to see if I could do…
— Scott Speedman
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It's a whole other way of working when you work in films: You know exactly the arc of your character.
— Sissy Spacek
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