Arcs Quotes

136 quotes by 123 authors

In a film you only get two hours to do this big arc and so you have to pick and choose your moments carefully, but… — Chris Zylka
Now I know how Joan of Arc felt. — Steven Morrissey
He could tell at once that they carried different sorts of bubble bath mixed with the water though it wasn't bubble bath as Harry had… — Joanne Kathleen Rowling
She was riding a bear! And the Aurora was swaying above them in golden arcs and loops, and all around was the bitter Arctic cold… — Philip Pullman
Out of a human population on earth of four and a half billion, perhaps twenty people can write a book in a year. Some people… — Annie Dillard
If life was an arc of light that began in darkness, ended in darkness, the first part of his life had happened in ordinary glare.… — Annie Proulx
Itâ€™s possible, Iâ€™m moving through the hard veins of heavy mountains, like an arc, alone; Iâ€™m so deep inside, I see no end in sight,… — Rainer Maria Rilke
On motionless wing they emerge from the lifting mists, sweep a final arc of sky, and settle in clangorous descending spirals to their feeding grounds.… — Aldo Leopold
Look, Gail." Roark got up, reached out, tore a thick branch off a tree, held it in both hands, one fist closed at each end;… — Ayn Rand
For each Joan of Arc there is a Hitler perched at the other end of the teeter-totter. — Charles Bukowski
The way you're singing in your sleep The way you look before you leap The strange illusions that you keep You don't know But I'm… — David Levithan
Sanchez looked at me and we locked eyes a second too long. There was nothing I could do about it. The signal went out. A… — Rick Riordan
It seemed to take Sirius an age to fall: his body curved in a graceful arc as he sank backwards through the ragged veil hanging… — Joanne Kathleen Rowling
I like Joan of Arc best of all my books; and it is the best; I know it perfectly well. — Mark Twain
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
Just for fun I flew in huge banking arcs, taking deep breaths, enjoying the feel of my newly weightless hair. The stylist had called it… — James Patterson
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

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