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Time flies like an arrow; fruit flies like a banana.
— Illustrating ambiguity.
— Misattributed to Groucho Marx; first recorded on Usenet group net.jokes in 1982: Bill Banze (1982-09-07). "<bnews.mork-cb.130> Time flies...". net.jokes. (Google Groups). Retrieved on 2009-08-31. See also Fred R. Shapiro, (2006). The Yale Book of Quotations, p. 498, in which the earliest appearance of the saying is attributed to the net.jokes post. Shapiro gives the post's date as 9 July 1982, transposing the day and month of the Usenet post.
For a tear is an intellectual thing,And a sigh is the sword of an Angel King,And the bitter groan of the martyr's woeIs an arrow from the Almighty's bow.
william blake— The Gray Monk, st. 8
It is to be emphasized that no matter how many [amplitude] arrows we draw, add, or multiply, our objective is to calculate a single final arrow for the event . Mistakes are often made by physics students at first because they do not keep this important point in mind. They work for so long analyzing events involving a single photon that they begin to think that the arrow is somehow associated with the photon [rather than with the event].
richard feynman— p. 75-76 (QED: The Strange Theory of Light and Matter (1985))
I shot an arrow in the air. She fell to earth in Berkeley Square.
Robert Hamer— 1949 Kind Hearts and Coronets (with John Dighton).
Time flies like an arrow, fruit flies like a banana.
— Anonymous; earliest citation was by Bill Banze (1982 Sept. 7). "<bnews.mork-cb.130> Time flies...". net.jokes. (Google Groups). , according to Fred R. Shapiro, (2006) in The Yale Book of Quotations, p. 498 -- though Shapiro garbles the date to July 9. (But it is also attributed, apparently without basis, to Groucho Marx).
An arrow shot From a well-experienc’d archer hits the mark His eye doth level at.
— Antiochus, scene i (Act I)
I shot an arrow into the air, It fell to earth, I knew not where.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow— 1845 'The Arrow and the Song'.
If you would hit the mark, you must aim a little above it; Every arrow that flies feels the attraction of earth.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow— 1881Elegaic Verse, stanza 9.
The man who has been wounded by a chance arrow must not shoot at sight the first man he happens to meet.
edward jenks— Chapter I, Old English Law, p. 7
No one cares to speak to an unwilling listener. An arrow never lodges in a stone: often it recoils upon the sender of it.
jerome— Letter 52 (Sourced)
"You never know how things are gonna turn out, though, and that's the truth. You aim for one place, sure as an arrow, but before you hit the mark, the wind gets you. I don't believe I ever met one person who became what they wanted to be when they were your age."
robert mccammon— Cory's dad to Cory
— Book One, Ch. 1
Oh, I think it was like when, you know, Cupid throws an arrow and hits you. First, there was this Mexican band, dressed up with bows and arrows. They were playing some funky weird music,, I didn't know it yet, but it was like Lee Perry, George Clinton, and Sun Ra mixed up, Mexican funky.
carlos santana— On his first musical memory.[[2]]
Aim at the sun, and you may not reach it; but your arrow will fly far higher than if aimed at an object on a level with yourself.
— Joel Hawes, as quoted in You're Born an Original - Don't Die a Copy (1993) by John Mason, Revell; in Moments of Reflection (1995) by Jean Howarth and Mike Walton, Heinemann Educational Publishers; in Worth Repeating: More Than 5,000 Classic and Contemporary Quotes (2003) by Bob Kelly, Kregel Publications; and in Secrets of Mind Power (2005) by Harry Lorayne, Frederick Fell Publishers, Inc.
"Everything is already there in...." How does it come about that [an] arrow points? Doesn't it seem to carry in it something besides itself? — "No, not the dead line on paper; only the psychical thing, the meaning, can do that." — That is both true and false. The arrow points only in the application that a living being makes of it.
ludwig wittgenstein— § 454
An arrow may not be a shocklance, yet it can still kill you.
robert jordan— Sammael to Graendal
I shot an arrow into the air, It fell to earth, I knew not where.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow— The Arrow and the Song, st. 1 (1845)
What a man is is an arrow into the future and what a woman is is the place the arrow shoots off from.
Sylvia Plath— Ch. 5 (The Bell Jar (1963))
When he was wounded with an arrow in the ankle, and many ran to him that were wont to call him a god, he said smiling, "That is blood, as you see, and not, as Homer saith, ‘such humour as distils from blessed gods.'"
Plutarch— 43 Alexander.
It was precisely this notion of infinite series which in the sixth century BC led the Greek philosopher Zeno to conclude that since an arrow shot towards a target first had to cover half the distance, and then half the remainder, and then half the remainder after that, and so on ad infinitum, the result was, as I will now demonstrate, that though an arrow is always approaching its target, it never quite gets there, and Saint Sebastian died of fright.
tom stoppard— George, Act I
Swifter than arrow from the Tartar's bow.
william shakespeare— William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night's Dream (c. 1595-96), Act III, scene 2, line 101.
Aim at the sun, and you may not reach it; but your arrow will fly far higher than if aimed at an object on a level with yourself.
— Joel Hawes, as quoted in You're Born an Original - Don't Die a Copy (1993) by John Mason, Revell; in Moments of Reflection (1995) by Jean Howarth and Mike Walton, Heinemann Educational Publishers; in Worth Repeating: More Than 5,000 Classic and Contemporary Quotes (2003) by Bob Kelly, Kregel Publications; and in Secrets of Mind Power (2005) by Harry Lorayne, Frederick Fell Publishers, Inc.
The devil hath not, in all his quiver's choice, An arrow for the heart like a sweet voice.
lord byron— Lord Byron, Don Juan (1818-24), Canto XV, Stanza 13.
Just as a fletcher straightens an arrow shaft, even so the discerning man straightens his mind so fickle and unsteady, so difficult to guard. (Verse 33)
— Translator: Acharya Buddharakkhita (Quotes)
For a tear is an intellectual thing, and a sigh is the sword of an angel-king. And the bitter groan of a martyr's woe is an arrow from the Almighty's bow.
william blake— The Grey Monk
The man who has been wounded by a chance arrow must not shoot at sight the first man he happens to meet.
— Chapter I, Old English Law, p. 7 (A Short History Of The English Law (First Edition) (1912))
When he was wounded with an arrow in the ankle, and many ran to him that were wont to call him a god, he said smiling, "That is blood, as you see, and not, as Homer saith, ‘such humour as distils from blessed gods.'"
— 43 Alexander. (Others)
In February 1953, I was making a second picture with Jeff Chandler, one called War arrow . Jeff was a real sweetheart, but acting with him was like acting with a broomstick.
maureen o'hara— p.224 ('Tis Herself (2004))
A great deal of study has been directed to denning 'best decisions,' particularly since the pioneering work of mathematical statisticians (such as Wald), of mathematicians (such as von Neumann), of economists (such as arrow )... The main effect of this development on the practice of OR has been the growing realization that there are decision objectives other than maximizing expected return and minimizing maximum loss. That is, in many practical situations there are criteria of optimality that are more appropriate than these two mentioned.
— p. 270 (The development of operations research as a science, 1956)
Oh, yes. Do say hello to Mr. arrow. (Jim: Tell him yourself!) AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHH!!!
— Who: Scroop
— Source: Treasure Planet (2002)
— Note: Scroop killed Mr. Arrow earlier by cutting his lifeline and sending him down a black hole. At that moment, he is about to kill Jim in a similar fashion, but Jim manages to escape and push Scroop aside. Scroop ends up stuck in the ship's flag and floats out into space, never to be seen again.
