Top 55 Arrow Quotes

When I auditioned for The Black Canary, I only knew I was reading for a new recruit on team ‘Arrow.’ It wasn’t until I’d booked the role that they told me who I’d be playing.

I seem to have some of the greatest fans in the world. They are so respectful, whether it’s been people that are fans from ‘Arrow’ or ‘The Affair’ or ‘Chicago Med.’

My father was never really the con-man type that the film shows him to be: he was straight as an arrow, though he did have problems with the IRS.

I shoot an arrow into the air, where it lands I do not care: I get my arrows wholesale!

My university teacher and mentor Kenneth Arrow remembers me as a student who asked good questions. Although I had not previously thought of myself in that way, on reflection I think that Arrow was right.

I wasn’t aware of Green Arrow as a kid. My thing growing up was wrestling.

I do love archery in my day-to-day life because I find it very therapeutic, and I’ve trained every season with the bow and arrow.

The cast of ‘Arrow’ is truly one of the greatest groups of people I’ve ever met. Every single one of them is kind, funny, loving, and talented beyond belief.

The Loden in Vancouver, where I stayed when I was filming ‘The Arrow,’ is a family-run hotel with a fantastic restaurant, great facilities, and brilliant people.

What a man is is an arrow into the future, and what a woman is is the place the arrow shoots off from.

We want the reading experience of digital comics to be as simple as tapping a tablet or an arrow key or mouse button to move forward or back.

The gigantic tension before the shooting of an arrow, and the total relaxation seconds later, is my way of connecting to the universe.

I used to come down from New Rochelle and go to Radio City. They’d have a floor show and a movie. I’m showing my age, but I saw ‘Cat on a Hot Tin Roof’ and ‘Broken Arrow’ with Jimmy Stewart. It was a great way for a kid to see a movie.

I know my predecessors have written a Green Arrow who has a lot of thoughts about social justice, but that was a more evolved, older, wiser Green Arrow.

My dad was an FBI agent. My mom and dad were straight arrow types, and I had a conservative, suburban Orange County upbringing.

Time flies like an arrow – but fruit flies like a banana.

There were moments where Supergirl gets a thrashing in the pilot, where if a man in the ‘Flash’ or ‘Arrow’ pilot got beat up, people didn’t visibly wince. And I watched in testing, people in the audience really became uncomfortable by the fisticuffs and the action. But then, they were elated and cheering at the end.

I’ve never written a character that wasn’t burdened by years of pain and trauma. Let’s face it: Most comic-book heroes have some serious baggage. Not Green Arrow. He’s a healthy guy – imagine that? Carrying your hero around in your head, imagining the world through his eyes, is just a hoot.

The trouble with ecological invocations of Nature is that they’re like calling for a medieval tool, perhaps a portcullis or an arrow slit, to fix a modern problem.

Oliver Queen/Green Arrow is a character whose core is about legacy and responsibility. And that all comes from his father and the responsibilities of living up to his legacy.

Legolas is that kind of action elf who pouts a bit, stares off to the distance, and has a couple hero moments, killing with a lethal bow and arrow along the way.

You spend so much time writing a character the way I did with Buddy Baker and then Green Arrow that you start to care about them. And you almost think of them as people, you know?

I was a straight arrow, a control freak. I didn’t do drugs or drink, and this was the ’70s. I didn’t like the loss of control. Which isn’t exactly right, because I didn’t know what happened when you did drugs.

A longbow takes a massive draw for the arrow to go anywhere.

Their crew for ‘Arrow’ is just one of the most wonderful crews that I’ve worked with. I know that actors say that all the time, and it sounds like trash coming out of my own mouth, but it’s so true.

The ‘Arrow’ thing happened really quickly.

Death is like an arrow that is already in flight, and your life lasts only until it reaches you.

I had adapted to the blonde. So when they told me I’m going back to do these five episodes of ‘Arrow’, I was clearly really excited, but when they said I couldn’t be blonde, it stung a little.

One of the best decisions we made on the ‘Arrow’ pilot was to have the Deathstroke mask. Within 30 seconds, you knew you were watching a DC comics show.

I got to dress up in funny clothes and run around New Zealand with a bow and arrow for 18 months, how bad could that be?

I’m about as straight an arrow as you’ll find out there.

I’m thrilled to be taking over Green Arrow. What I adore about the Arrow is his recklessness. He’ll shoot off on an impulse, dispatch someone if they deserve it; his heroism is instinctive.

Always grow flowers, as that will make your way full of flowers. Never grow thorns, as that will make your way thorny. Never want to target someone on an arrow. You may become the target of that arrow. Never make a well in the way of someone. As you may pass by that way sometime.

Naturally, it was easier for me to envision becoming a novelist than it is for most people. I had two great in-house teachers; I had parents who considered a career in the arts a real possibility rather than a dreamy arrow shot into the sky.

The sun doesn’t shine at night, and wind power is highly variable. To meet our emissions goals, we’re going to have to grasp every arrow in the quiver, and nuclear is one of those arrows.

An arrow may fly through the air and leave no trace; but an ill thought leaves a trail like a serpent.

When we started ‘Arrow,’ there weren’t really a lot of superhero shows in general. And it was a burden on us because it was, ‘Are you going to fail or succeed?’ And now they’re everywhere.

The name ‘Seventh-day Adventist’ carries the true features of our faith in front and will convict the inquiring mind. Like an arrow from the Lord’s quiver, it will wound the transgressors of God’s law, and will lead to repentance toward God, and faith in our Lord Jesus Christ.

‘Underrated.’ That is the word that best describes Prince, the Guitarist. Why? Because his phenomenal guitar-playing was just one arrow in a quiver full of remarkable talents.

The arrow of time doesn’t move forward forever. There’s a phase in the history of the universe where you go from low entropy to high entropy. But then, once you reach the locally maximum entropy you can get to, there’s no more arrow of time.

Attending ComicCon for ‘Arrow’ was so much fun! Seeing the fans excited gets me excited and feels really good.

We should be exploring consciousness at the neural level and higher, where the arrow of causal analysis points up toward such principles as emergence and self-organization.

The things that churned inside Daredevil were deeply religious, somewhat guilt-driven traces of the messianic, with his powers being a compensation for and driven by the vulnerability of being blind. Green Arrow is not driven by dark forces.

One of the great things about the ‘Arrow’ crew is that no one is settling for what they did yesterday. They’re always thinking about what they can do tomorrow.

I think one of the great strengths of ‘The Flash’ is just how close everyone is on the show. They tend not to have these raging conflicts, like what we keep giving everybody on ‘Arrow.’ That show is more of a soap opera, and I don’t say that derogatorily.

If you ask me what I like about Green Arrow, I can tell you that I read ‘Longbow Hunters’ years ago and that it’s my favorite Green Arrow.

You have to relax when you’re shooting an arrow. You can’t be tense. And that just helps, in your day-to-day life.

Twain’s ‘A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court’ made me long to wake in an era when my Casio wristwatch would strike folks as sorcery, and Martin Amis’s ‘Time’s Arrow’ wrecked my assumption that all narratives had to proceed from Then to More-Recently-Than-Then.

Oh yeah, I mean, it wasn’t a very good guitar, most good guitars have got thrust rods in the necks that you can adjust or that’ll keep them in shape, you know keep them straight. This one just, well it turned into a bow and arrow after a couple of months.

I’m so proud of this show and I’m really stoked that fans were so enthusiastic about the show so quickly. I mean, I got recognized for ‘Arrow’ at the airport when I was headed to Vancouver to shoot the second episode. That was kind of crazy.

What’s really amazing is that the showrunner who really got me my start in TV is Andrew Kreisberg. He brought me on to ‘Arrow,’ and he tracked me down because he was a fan of ‘Punisher.’

I wanted the new Green Arrow to somehow sense his long, brutal past. It’s like someone who has past lives they can’t remember but feels occasional flashes of.

The West has become very sophisticated, seeing love as a very complex thing. In Bollywood, it’s not complex: it’s an arrow straight to the heart.

My wife could give a rip about comic books, but she loves ‘Arrow,’ and she loves ‘The Flash,’ and she likes them because of the characters.