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Quotes About Archery

I love long-range rifle shooting. I like anything that deals with precision. I also find that with archery. On my ranch, I have my own range with 3-D targets of animals and hay bales from different distances.
~ Paul Walker
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.
~ Stephen Amell
Don't think of what you have to do, don't consider how to carry it out! he exclaimed. The shot will only go smoothly when it takes the archer himself by surprise.
~ Eugen Herrigel
The shot will only go smoothly when it takes the archer himself by surprise.
~ Eugen Herrigel
It is easy to kill with a bow, girl. How easy it is to release the bowstring and think, it is not I, not I, it is the arrow. The blood of that boy is not on my hands. The arrow killed him, not I. But the arrow does not dream anything in the night. May you dream nothing in the night either, blue-eyed dryad. Farewell, Braenn.
~ Andrzej Sapkowski
1. – NajchÄ™tniej pchn??abym ciÄ™ z bliska, patrzÄ…c w oczy – ciÄ…gn??a elfka. – Ale ogromnie Å›mierdzisz, czÅ'owieku. ZastrzelÄ™ ciÄ™ z Å'uku. – Twoja wola. – Wied?min wzruszyÅ' ramionami, na ile pozwalaÅ'y mu na to pÄ™ta. – Zrobisz, co zechcesz, szlachetna Aén Seidhe. Do zwiÄ…zanego i nieruchomego celu powinnaÅ› trafi?.
~ Andrzej Sapkowski
When you choose the sword over a gun, just like Green Arrow chooses an arrow over a gun and Catwoman chooses a whip over a gun, you have to be highly skilled and highly trained. I can grab Green Arrow's bow, but I'm not strong enough to shoot it. I can grab Catwoman's whip, but have you ever tried to whip a whip? It's not easy.
~ Ann Nocenti
The Roman goddess Diana, you know, is usually shown with a bow and arrow. Every first-year Latin student knows that. I still remember the first simple sentence I learned in Latin 'Diana sagittas por tas... Diana carries the arrows.' That helped get me interested in archery as a teenager and I'm still into it a lot.
~ Cyd Charisse
up in the glade, and notch an arrow.
~ Robert E. Howard
The man in green was seated on a rock. His bow and quiver lay beside him on the ground. He flashed an evil smile in my direction.
~ Roger Zelazny
He drew back the string an extra inch. The arrowhead moved backward, the same inch, toward his hand, clenched tight around the grip. The bow curved harder. It sang with tension.
~ Lee Child
Master of the bow-string's deadly music!
~ Euripides
Lia aimed, shifted and waited, watching one man peek out time and time again. She let her arrow fly anticipating his next peek at us and it pierced his eye. "Okay that's just going to make 'em mad " I said. "Three hundred and ninety-two " she said to Luca tossing her braid over her shoulder and taking aim again. "Saints in heaven " he said to me rolling his eyes "how much deeper in love can I yet fall?
~ Lisa Tawn Bergren
Archers are pretty focused.
~ Geena Davis
The only thing that relaxes me is archery. That's why I have to have apartments with gardens.
~ Paulo Coelho
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.
~ Rose Leslie
Take one more step and I'll put an arrow through you." Will tried to model his voice on the quiet, threatening tone Halt had used. He had retrieved several of his arrows from the nearest target and now he had one of them ready, laid on the bowstring. Halt glanced around approvingly. "Good idea," he said. "Aim for the left calf. It's a very painful wound.
~ John Flanagan
You're dropping the bow hand as you release," he called, although Halt certainly wasn't. His mentor looked around, saw him, and replied pithily, "I believe your grandmother needs lessons in sucking eggs.
~ John Flanagan
Ooooh! Die was raak! Ik heb de roos geraakt,' gilde ze op een toon waarvan zij dacht dat die op meisjesachtige opwinding leek. Ze liet de boog vallen en klapte in haar handen. Arnaut rolde met zijn ogen. 'Aanstelster,' zei hij zachtjes.
~ John Flanagan
Halt glanced down at his friend's belt quiver. Like his own, it was empty. "Lost your arrows somewhere, did you?" he said, and the two of them laughed.
~ John Flanagan
voice: Is that a bony backside I see sticking up out of the grass by that black rock? I think it is. Perhaps I should put an arrow in it if its owner doesn't GET IT DOWN!
~ John Flanagan
Start with the bow hand close to your body, not extended. Then push with your bow hand and pull with the other. That way you're using the muscles of both arms, not just the string arm.
~ John Flanagan
their way across the border into Araluen. Will has defeated one of Tennyson's Genovesan assassins in Clonmel – but there are two left alive. Are the extraordinary archery skills of Will and Halt enough to save them during a duel with the assassins . . . or is Will's mentor facing his last battle?
~ John Flanagan
Zo eenvoudig is het?' vroeg Malcolm met een lachje. Will trok één wenkbrauw op. 'Ja, een fluitje van een cent. Als je tenminste eerst vijf jaar oefent om die pijl in dat gaatje te schieten!
~ John Flanagan