His Last Bow Quotes

#1. I cannot at the moment recall any possible blunder which you have omitted. From His Last Bow

Arthur Conan Doyle

#2. It is neither wise nor honest to detract from beauty as a quality. There cannot be a refined soul insensible to its influence.

Lew Wallace

#3. She calls me 'bird boy' and Hawkeye every time she gets a chance. Last year she bought me a bow and arrow for my birthday and told me it was for when the Avengers were called into action.

Lila Felix

#4. Broken things are powerful.Things about to break are stronger still.The last shot from the brittle bow is truest.

Eugene McCarthy

#5. I get drunk, and I drive my wife away with a breath like mustard gas and roses.

Kurt Vonnegut

#6. To defend his purity, Saint Francis of Assisi rolled in the snow, Saint Benedict threw himself into a thorn bush, and Saint Bernard plunged into an icy pond ... You - what have you done?

Josemaria Escriva

#7. Your shadow is bought and paid for, and your death will not remit that payment. You can go shadowless into the shadowless world, and your death will only be one last dark thing on my long dark road. It will hurt me but I do not care. It is all but over.

Erin Bow

#8. When your bow is broken and your last arrow spent, then shoot, shoot
with your whole heart.

Roger Zelazny

#9. I wouldn't want to be married to me, but luckily Tom Cruise does.

Nicole Kidman

#10. Otrera, we meet at last,' he said. 'Dang, girl, you're fine.' Otrera's knees shook. It's not every day you meet one of your favourite gods. But she didn't bow or kneel. She was done bowing to men, even Ares. Also,

Rick Riordan

#11. What was wonderful about childhood is that anything in it was a wonder. It was not merely a world full of miracles; it was a miraculous world.

G.K. Chesterton

#12. You have no idea about presents or what they mean. The last
present you gave me was a stick."
"You wanted a weapon."
"It was a stick."
"It had a bow on it."
"It was a stick."
"I thought you liked the stick. You laughed.

Derek Landy

#13. All our moments are last moments. We abide in the forever leaving of our own coming? We can put our hands together, palm to palm, settling here on the last leaf of our brief flight, and bow to the wonder of it.

Jens Jensen

#14. In Vegas, the veneer of glamor was bright but thin. You didn't have to look that hard to see the darker realities that lurked beneath the surface.

Rob Thomas

#15. I spent uncounted hours sitting at the bow looking at the water and the sky, studying each wave, different from the last, seeing how it caught the light, the air, the wind; watching patterns, the sweep of it all, and letting it take me.
The sea.

Gary Paulsen

#16. Silently, sadly, the earth covered life coinage is read both ways; so much vs. so little and ... so little vs. ... so much!

Wes Adamson

#17. Bowing is a very serious practice. You should be prepared to bow, even in your last moment. even though it is impossible to get rid of our self-centered desires, we have to do it. Our true nature wants us to.

Shunryu Suzuki

#18. I returned from Boston and rallied my fellow librarians to defend the town," Quinn replied, as if the answer should have been obvious. He offered me a small bow from his seat. "The librarians are at your disposal, Widdershins. We will fight to the last man.

Jordan L. Hawk

#19. My Intent today is to expand the flow of abundance through the energy of gratitude.

Deepak Chopra

#20. He was not at the moment in very good odour at Bow Street. Such epithets as Blockhead and Blunderer had been used in connection with his last case. 'Jeremiah Stubbs, miss,' said the Runner. 'I am here in the execution of my dooty.

Georgette Heyer

#21. When I'd begun my last relationship, nearly two decades ago, I'd been unaware of the rule that new lovers must hoard the 'L Word' the way atomic nations hoard their explosives, like something that, once detonated, would change their world forever.

Anya Ulinich

#22. Old Year! upon the Stage of Time You stand to bow your last adieu; A moment, and the prompter's chime Will ring the curtain down on you.

Robert W. Service

#23. Experience supplies painful proof that traditions once called into being are first called useful, then they become necessary. At last they are too often made idols, and all must bow down to them or be punished.

J.C. Ryle

#24. Dieter walked a little ahead of the other actors, murmuring to his favourite horse. The horse, Bernstein, was missing half his tail, because the first cello had just restrung his bow last week.

Emily St. John Mandel

#25. I was so happy with my bow ties from the last kickstarted project that I'm back for more.

Mike Mills

#26. I was the guy literally in the chess club who decided to wear a bow tie for the last two years of high school, so I obviously wasn't trying to get the ladies.

Dallas Roberts