Top 66 Arrow Quotes

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.

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

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

When I jerked it out the head remained in my leg, where it remains still. There were a couple of inches of blood on the shaft of the arrow when I pulled it out.

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.

Funny enough, the first time I watched ‘Arrow’ was because Audrey Marie Anderson, who plays Lyla, was in my episodes of ‘The Walking Dead’ with me.

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.

The Green Arrow stuff that I’ve responded to from the past is the Mike Grell stuff. I’ve liked a lot of other stuff, but I think for me, the direction and the mood and the tone that I really want is something much darker and more aggressive and really fast-paced action.

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.

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.

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’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.

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.

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.

The more obstinately you try to learn how to shoot the arrow for the sake of hitting the goal, the less you will succeed in the one and the further the other will recede.

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.

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.

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

To me, Green Arrow in the past, what people loved about Oliver Queen pre-New 52 was his relationships with other heroes. Like his friendship with Green Lantern, his animosity with Hawkman, his romance with Black Canary – these are all the things that sort of defined him.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

My scar is beautiful. It looks like an arrow.

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.

I confess I didn’t read the ‘Green Arrow’ comics before coming to play Shado. The comic books are not as easily accessible in Hong Kong as they are in the States. I do enjoy superhero fiction, though.

With ‘The Flash’ in existence, there’s no real compelling reason for us to do superpowers on ‘Arrow.’

New faces, maybe perking up the squad and giving you another arrow to your bow – that can be a help.

As always, things happen sooner rather than later on ‘Arrow.’

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.

As the eagle was killed by the arrow winged with his own feather, so the hand of the world is wounded by its own skill.

I’m actually a pretty decent human being, and when I’m home I’m straight as an arrow.

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.

‘Flash’ has a family drama element, ‘Arrow’ has a epic saga/crime element, ‘Supergirl’ has a young-woman-in-the-city and a workplace element, and ‘Legends’ is like the Dirty Dozen teaming up.

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.

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.

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.

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 think being an archer is much more integral to Green Arrow and his mythos than it is to Hawkeye.

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.

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.

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.

The nice thing about ‘Arrow’ is we never say never on the show. Hopefully the show will have a nice long life, and all manner of things can potentially happen.

I think what’s so great about ‘Arrow’ is that they really ground everything in reality.

We’re huge fans of ‘Game of Thrones’ for example, ‘Orphan Black.’ And even though those shows don’t necessarily correlate directly with ‘Arrow,’ I’m a very big believer that writers are the product of their inspirations.

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.

There’s a famous tension between Green Lantern and Green Arrow in the comic books. Those guys have always been friends. They started off as not on the same page, and then they quickly became best friends.

Every aspect of human technology has a dark side, including the bow and arrow.

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.

Everything is always on the table. I think it’s one of the things that’s made ‘Arrow’ special. But we also all collectively feel like ‘The Flash’ needs to stand on its own two feet, now that it’s gotten its launch from ‘Arrow.’

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

I have been practicing archery for a long time; a bow and arrow helps me to unwind.

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.

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.

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.

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?

Green Arrow has gone through so many changes; he’s been right-wing, he’s been left-wing, he’s been rich, he’s been poor, he’s been a social justice guy, then when I got him, he was a rich playboy guy. So it was a lot harder to get into a character that has so many personas in the past, and I just looked at his anger.

One of things we say on ‘Arrow’ is, ‘The only constant is evolution.’

The weird thing about the arrow of time is that it’s not to be found in the underlying laws of physics. It’s not there. So it’s a feature of the universe we see, but not a feature of the laws of the individual particles. So the arrow of time is built on top of whatever local laws of physics apply.

I love going back on ‘Arrow.’ It’s always fun to see friends when I go back there.

To get to play a bad person and do bad things in a safe environment like ‘Arrow’ was pretty amazing.

Now that I know how to handle a bow and arrow, I find it very therapeutic. It is a brilliant way to ease your mind, so I am going to keep it up in my free time. It is a very fun skill to have.

I want to make something like ‘Arrow’ and ‘Flash’ relatable and understandable and not make it cartoonish.

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.

I would be so happy to be back on ‘Arrow’ or on ‘Legends of Tomorrow,’ in whatever capacity.