Top 406 Arc Quotes & Sayings - Page 2
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Last updated on December 22, 2024.
We must move forward in the days ahead with audacious faith. The moral arc of the universe is long but it bends toward justice.
I don't represent anybody and I don't hold anything at such a high arc that I gotta manage by somebody's rule. I don't ever do good with rules.
It was always the intent, in a larger arc, to split the Avengers up before the greatest threat that they've ever seen.
Speaking of August Rodin: He raised his world above us in an immense arc, and made it a part of nature.
Male urination really is a kind of accomplishment, an arc of transcendance. A woman merely waters the ground she stands on.
It's rather rare when you play an older character in a movie in a supporting role to even get an arc.
Like a lot of people, I sold my first script in graduate school at UCLA, a 'Joan of Arc' for producer Joel Silver.
Acting is very physical, even when it doesn't appear to be. It's about the arc of your body's language through a film.
Drama is a complete meal, vitamins, proteins, carbohydrates. It's a slow burn thing. It's got an arc. Comedy is more like coke.
But if one doesn't have a character like Abraham Lincoln or Joan of Arc, a diet simply disintegrates into eating exactly what you want to eat, but with a bad conscience.
Arc, amplitude, and curvature sustain a similar relation to each other as time, motion, and velocity, or as volume, mass, and density.
The arc of the American story is long, it is bumpy and uncertain, but it always bends toward a more perfect union.
Joan of Arc is my namesake. I played her character while still in my teens, at a music festival held at the University of Colorado in Boulder.
I like Joan of Arc best of all my books; and it is the best; I know it perfectly well.
We presumably believe that most of the technological progress over the arc of humanity to date has been good. I don't see any argument to go back to 1600.
People tend to think of their lives as having a dramatic arc, because they read too much fiction.
I would not want to do one-episode television - that's just a brief encounter with your audience. The arc takes the actor into an arena where he can really stretch.
It doesn't matter if it's a drama or a comedy, the need to get the emotion and the character arc across is way harder in something like this so was more of a preparation.
All my games were political games; I was, like Joan of Arc, perpetually being burned at the stake.
With a series, you build the character as you go. When you've got a shorter project or a film, you know the overall arc from the beginning.
The loveliest roles, for me, have a growth arc - a beginning, a middle, and an end - and I'm always grateful when I can find one of those emotional journeys.
The arc of your swing doesn't have a thing to do with the size of your heart.
Chastity does not mean abstention from sexual wrong; it means something flaming, like Joan of Arc.
I am strongly of the opinion that chronology is very important. The great arc of time is what children are wired for.
It's a real challenge to complete a story arc and end up with a cool punchline in 120 characters.
I'm no Joan of Arc, but it's pretty revolutionary having a gender illusionist selling the illusion of beauty to females.
Things kind of have their arc: you get signed, and your first thought is, 'Oh my God, I made it!' But you never really make it.
I do not pretend to understand the moral universe; the arc is a long one. . . . But from what I see I am sure it bends toward justice.
The least likely of military leaders, Joan of Arc changed the course of the Hundred Years' War and of history.
The arc of the celebrity phenomenon ultimately is: everything turns to dust and everything does go away.
I think it's always good not to listen to what the rules are supposed to be about the arc of the character and the third acts and all this stuff.
Novelists are stamina merchants, grinders, nine-to-fivers, and their career curves follow the usual arc of human endeavour.
I feel like if a film is well-written, then the character's arc is complete. There really is very little room to expand on that afterwards.
One of the negative sides of a really intense arc as a touring band is there are big gaps in your memory because you're so exhausted.
The Arc de Triomphe, the Eiffel Tower. They're monumental. They're straight out of Page 52 in your school history book.
I want to be the Joan of Arc of fashion. I want to be the link between the runway and the real woman.
I've had such an incredible arc, so it made sense to me, creatively, that we've told Laurel's story. It has come to an end in the 'Arrow'-verse.
If Joan of Arc could turn the tide of an entire war before her eighteenth birthday, you can get out of bed.
My writing process is very organic. I start with an idea. I have the general story arc and the cast. But then I sit down to write, and things change.
Even though 'Glee' is sometimes a hard road, I am very excited about writing a multi-year arc.
The arc of the moral universe may bend towards justice, but it doesn't bend on its own.
There arc no such things as desperate situations. Only desperate men.
The stories that I like to tell and the movies I like are always grounded in the emotional arc of the characters.
The fundamental story arc of the Bible is God is passionate about rescuing this world, restoring it, renewing it.
A man who took history in his hands, and bent the arc of the moral universe toward justice.
It's a whole other way of working when you work in films: You know exactly the arc of your character.
It's really interesting working in television as opposed to the theater, where you know the arc of the character and you are able to create this whole backstory.
'Portlandia' is the most fun show. When I get a breakdown of what the arc of the story is going to be, I could never in my wildest dreams anticipate the direction.
But there are forces that don't let you turn back and undo things, because to do so would be to deny what is already in motion, to unwrite and erase passages, to shorten the arc of a story you don't own.
Adolf Hitler was a Jeanne d'Arc, a saint. He was a martyr. Like many martyrs, he held extreme views.
Another well-known Paris landmark is the Arc de Triomphe, a moving monument to the many brave women and men who have died trying to visit it.
You'd be surprised how hard it is getting the human emotional arc in a script to work. Ultimately a director stands and falls by their ability to do that.
The earth together with its surrounding waters must in fact have such a shape as its shadow reveals, for it eclipses the moon with the arc of a perfect circle.
As a feminine cocreator, having lived through the arc of evolution from 1929 to the present, I offer encouragement and vocational arousal to all!
In France it was Joan of Arc; in the Crimea it was Florence Nightingale; in the deep south there was Rosa Parks; in India there was Mother Teresa and in Florida there was Katherine Harris.
A writer's job is to cultivate what can go wrong. You're always looking for that dramatic arc of where things can fail.
I think the context of the era was still really important for Daphne's character arc, so I wanted to get all of that right.
You have 22 episodes to start from zero to hero; you can really take a nice, big, long arc. In a film, it's tough to do that - you only have 90 minutes.
Its really interesting working in television as opposed to the theater, where you know the arc of the character and you are able to create this whole backstory.
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 of crawling around, seeing what's out there.
