A Quote by Cyril Connolly

In a perfect union the man and woman are like a strung bow. Who is to say whether the string bends the bow, or the bow tightens the string?

Cyril Connolly

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Cyril Connolly
English - Journalist
September 10, 1903 - November 26, 1974

I like America anyway. In Japan we are much more formal. If two friends are separated for a long time and they meet they bow and bow and bow. They keep bowing without exchanging a word. Here they slap each other on the back and say: Hello, old man, how goes everything.

Sessue Hayakawa

Bow, bow, ye lower middle classes! Bow, bow, ye tradesmen, bow, ye masses!

W. S. Gilbert

Always have a black bow, a white bow, a rainbow bow - those bows will match literally just about everything!

JoJo Siwa

For all of the creeds are false, and all of the creeds are true; And low at the shrines where my brothers bow, there will I bow too; For no form of a god, and no fashion Man has made in his desperate passion, But is worthy some worship of mine; Not too hot with a gross belief, Nor yet too cold with pride, I will bow me down where my brothers bow, Humble, but open eyed.

Don Marquis

The bow tie started off with one of my friends, Kunta Littlejohn. He said if you want to be anybody, you've got to rock the bow tie. I dismissed it at first, but later he told me he had non-Hodgkin's lymphoma, so I decided to wear the bow tie to support him. And as he got better, I came to learn the power of the bow tie.

Dhani Jones

I want to shoot an elk with a bow. Mind you, I've never hunted in my life. But I feel like if I'm ever going to hunt, it's going to be with a bow. I just feel like a bow requires more skill.

Jake Arrieta

Versatility is an extra string to a player's bow.

Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain

The bow of God's wrath is bent, and His arrows made ready upon the string. Justice points the arrow at your heart and strings the bow. It is nothing but the mere pleasure of God (and that of an angry God without any promise or obligation at all) that keeps the arrow one moment from being made drunk with your blood.

Jonathan Edwards

I don't know what it is about bow ties, but I love a good bow tie on a man.

Becca Kufrin

I have to say that I bow to Dana White and I bow to the Fertitta brothers every time I see them.

Bruce Buffer

I've got more than one string to my bow, and I thought I'd give this one a twang.

John le Carre

[Writing is like fishing]. You don't bow because you made the fish. That's the difference. If you know that, then you bow for your labor.You crafted, you worked, you put in those hours so that you could catch that fish. But you didn't make that fish. You just caught the fish. That will help you stay humble and bow for the right reason and be very lucid about the work you do.

Sandra Cisneros

Tim Sherwood has come in, done very well and given us another string to the bow in a different type of way.

Glenn Hoddle

Ideas are great arrows, but there has to be a bow. And politics is the bow of idealism.

Bill Moyers

You don’t have to want to be in a relationship for a little bow-chicka-bow-wow.” Brittany looked at him slowly. “Did you really just say that?” “I did. And I owned it . Gonna make me a shirt that says that.