- Human
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- Nov 07, 2020
Arresting Quotes
Lines that stop you cold.
These arresting quotes are about what stops people in their tracks — a single dramatic Action, an ad built to hijack attention before you can look away, or an image so bold it startles on sight.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Long
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- Nov 07, 2020
Advertising: the science of arresting the human intelligence long enough to get money from it.
- Fight
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think that when you've got a world in which it's plausible to have a guy dressed as a giant bat and fight evil clowns and other nightmarish freaks, I think the world has to be visually a little more arresting than a regular world.
- Political
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- Nov 07, 2020
Singling out political opponents for working against the ruling party is precisely the tactic of every tyrannical government from Red China to Venezuela. The first step in the process is creating unfounded public suspicion of political opponents, followed by arresting and jailing any who continue speaking against the regime.
- Nature
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- Nov 07, 2020
I know that my image and my clothing and my output are very colorful and can be arresting and startling in some respects. That is the nature of my work, but I am a simple farm boy, and I am very calm by nature.
- Emotional
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- Nov 07, 2020
Vengeance is the act of turning anger in on yourself. On the surface it may be directed at someone else, but it is a surefire recipe for arresting emotional recovery.
- Big Fan
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- Nov 07, 2020
I personally am a very big fan of 'Romeo + Juliet.' It had a visceral power to it that I thought was just exhilarating. It was a very arresting and very disturbing and deeply compelling version of the play.
- Craving
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- Nov 07, 2020
Professional reviewers read so many bad books in the course of duty that they get an unhealthy craving for arresting phrases.
- Company
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- Nov 07, 2020
Why does an iPhone cost only a couple hundred dollars? Because, as the stage performer Mike Daisey depicted in an arresting one-man show called 'The Agony and Ecstasy of Steve Jobs,' Apple's shiniest products are made by a shadowy company in China called Foxconn.
- Born
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- Nov 07, 2020
I really admire Ana Mendieta. She was a Cuban American artist who died the year I was born and whose work examines violence, feminism, and belonging. Her art is always brave and visually arresting and vibrates with meaning.
- Post
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- Nov 07, 2020
Architecture is undistinguished, sometimes derelict, but occasionally, as in 'Post and Beam,' there is something arresting in a setting... the building behind the Cathedral.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
A good picture book should have events that are visually arresting - the pictures should call attention to what is happening in the story.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
I want every man on the force to try his best, his level best, to try to avoid arresting anyone. I know that this going to take great will power but try.
- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020
I see a really good tag on a building, a man passed out in the middle of the street, a couple hugging, a cop arresting a panhandler. I'm interested in how all these things are happening in one block.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020