Words Are Like Arrows Quotes

#1. The trouble is, sometimes words are like arrows. Once you shoot them, there's no going back.

Jess Rothenberg

#2. Words are like arrows, Arianne. Once loosed, you cannot call them back. - Areo Hotah

George R R Martin

#3. Silence is a prince's friend, the captain had heard him tell his daughter once. Words are like arrows, Arianne. Once loosed, you cannot call them back.

Anonymous

#4. Wise words are like arrows flung at your forehead. What do you do? Why, you duck of course.

Steven Erikson

#5. If poets were realistic, they wouldn't be poets.

Peter Davison

#6. My uniform felt like a costume. I put on a fresh coat of black nail polish. I twisted up a tube of Revlon Red and put my war paint on. I sharpened the tips of my Fierce Words so they were like a row of shiny arrows.

Shirley Marr

#7. The computer was primitive. It had the words 'Macbook Pro' on it, and a keypad full if letters and numbers, and a lot of arrows pointing in every possible direction. It seemed like a metaphor for human existence.

Matt Haig

#8. The better quarterbacks are real consistent. Rookie quarterbacks are not.

Jeffrey Lurie

#9. Big words do not smite like war-clubs, Boastful breath is not a bow-string, Taunts are not so sharp as arrows, Deeds are better things than words are, Actions mightier than boastings.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

#10. Kids in college often look for mentors and role models to model their careers after, and women don't have the equivalent of a Steve Jobs or Bill Gates. I think it's a self-perpetuating loop.

Ruchi Sanghvi

#11. Cooking is like anything else: some people have an inborn talent for it. Some become expert by practicing, and some learn from books.

Laurie Colwin

#12. I think good actors - good, collaborative actors who see themselves as leaders in a given production - can and should offer ideas that have nothing to do with wanting to direct themselves.

Joe Mantello