Top 65 Falconer's Quotes
#1. Falconer's grasp of period and places is almost flawless ... He's my kind of writer.
Peter Corris
#2. A long sea implies an uniform and steady motion of long and extensive waves; on the contrary, a short sea is when they run irregularly, broken, and interrupted; so as frequently to burst over a vessel's side or quarter.
William Falconer
#3. They say women can fake an orgasm, but men can fake a whole relationship.
Colin Falconer
#4. It seems love is the root of all pain and most of its fruit only leaves a bitter taste behind.
L.F. Falconer
#5. Never step on caterpillars, as one day they'll become butterflies, and you'll never know when you'll need a ride on their wings of fortune.
R.P. Falconer
#6. Charlie Studd has written me a delightful letter ... He thinks the Chinese language was invented by the devil to prevent the Chinese from ever hearing the Gospel properly.
Ion Keith-Falconer
#7. Only five books tonight, Mommy," she says.
No, Olivia, just one."
How about four?"
Two."
Three."
Oh, all right, three. But that's it!
Ian Falconer
#8. Either you're a falconer or you're not. Either the birds come back to you or they fly away.
Carol Rifka Brunt
#9. There are two exits out of this room. Choose one."
Derrick chuckles. "What a glorious comeuppance.
Elizabeth May
#10. With living colours give my verse to glow: The sad memorial of a tale of woe!
William Falconer
#11. If things went my way, I would be working at a renaissance fair as a falconer. I wouldn't have to worry about climbing career ladders or getting promotions, because falconry's not like that. Either you're a falconer or you're not. Either the birds come back to you or they fly away. My father waited
Carol Rifka Brunt
#12. The admiral, or commander in chief of a squadron, being frequently invested with a great charge, on which the fate of a kingdom may depend, ought certainly to be possessed of abilities equal to so important a station and so extensive a command.
William Falconer
#13. War is like any other bad relationship. Of course you want out, but at what price? And perhaps more importantly, once you get out, will you be any better off?
- Quellcrist Falconer
Richard K. Morgan
#14. Blunt turned to the man in question with a helpless grin, "You have always proven yourself a mystery to me, good fellow!"
Falconer lifted one corner of his mouth, "Then I have succeeded, Blunt.
Nicole Sager
#15. The regular hours necessary to be observed by those who follow country business, are perhaps of more consequence than any of the other articles, however important those may be.
William Falconer
#16. Men of vision caught glimpses of truth and beauty shining aloft like stars: and in these glimpses was a new hope for the unification of mankind through enlightenment.
Robert Falconer
#17. You know who else thought lightly of them, once? The Falconer.
Scott Lynch
#18. My dad wrote to me. My mum put him up to it because she got this great idea that hearing from someone I'd never met and who didn't give a fuck about me might cheer me up...
Helen Falconer
#19. The simplicity and uniformity of rural occupations, and their incessant practice, preclude any anxieties and agitations of hope and fear, to which employments of a more precarious and casual nature are subject.
William Falconer
#20. Hence a ship is said to head the sea, when her course is opposed to the setting or direction of the surges.
William Falconer
#21. Nor is it the least advantage to health, accruing from such a way of life, that it expose those who follow it to fewer temptations to vice, than persons who live in crowded society.
William Falconer
#22. The fleet being thus more inclosed will more readily observe the signals, and with greater facility form itself into the line of battle a circumstance which should be kept in view in every order of sailing.
William Falconer
#23. You take care of my bairn."
He blinks. "I beg your pardon?"
"My ornithopter.
Elizabeth May
#24. The anchors now made are contrived so as to sink into the ground as soon as they reach it, and to hold a great strain before they can be loosened or dislodged from their station.
William Falconer
#25. Some men would rather break their donkeys back, than give them the carrot they both require to progress.
R.P. Falconer
#26. Father's Day is like Mother's Day except the gift is cheaper.
Colin Falconer
#27. The fishes are also employed for the same purpose on any yard, which happens to be sprung or fractured. Thus their form, application, and utility are exactly like those of the splinters applied to a broken limb in surgery.
William Falconer
#28. A man would rather break his donkeys back than give it the carrot it requires to progress.
R.P. Falconer
#29. Freedom from care and anxiety of mind is a blessing, which I apprehend such people enjoy in higher perfection than most others, and is of the utmost consequence.
William Falconer
#30. You can't forge a relationship with learned helplessness, you can only force one and it will always be tenuous. There is always the possibility the peregrine will rediscover the strength of his heart.
Rebecca K. O'Connor
#31. Mental agitations and eating cares are more injurious to health, and destructive of life, than is commonly imagined, and could their effects be collected, would make no inconsiderable figure in the bills of mortality.
William Falconer
#32. The daughter of a marquess does not charge out of a ballroom. The daughter of a marquess does not abandon her partner in the middle of a dance.
The daughter of a marquess does not hunt faeries.
- The Falconer
Elizabeth May
#33. Being a Falconer is about saving the buggers even if they don't deserve it." - Farlan MacNeil
Edwin McRae
#34. In the time of battle the hammocs, together with their bedding, are all firmly corded, and fixed in the nettings on the quarter-deck, or whereever the men are too much exposed to the view or fire of the enemy.
William Falconer
#35. The admirals of his majesty's fleet are classed into three squadrons, viz. the red, the white, and the blue.
William Falconer
#36. Only mothers will ever know the true struggle and sacrifice it takes to create life. Authors come in at a close second.
R.P. Falconer
#37. Oh deep winter snow, pale executioner, thou who delights in a slow, torturous death.
T.R. Neff
#38. Evelyn's New Age daughter will discover that a good shag beats hugging a guru any day.
- Helen Falconer, book reviewer for The Guardian
Deborah Moggach
#40. Something at the back of his mind whispered that this assignment would be like nothing he had encountered before.
Nicole Sager
#41. Well, perhaps Falconer will be able to figure it out; he's usually a good judge of character. I say the sooner we reach the Heartland the better. I, for one, am eager to rid him of our 'boring' company
Nicole Sager
#42. Ultimate insult that it's just business, it's politics, it's the way of the world, it's a tough life, and that it's nothing personal. Well, fuck them. Make it personal. QUELLCRIST FALCONER Things I Should Have Learned by Now Volume II There
Richard K. Morgan
#43. Of whatsoever number a fleet of ships of war is composed, it is usually divided into three squadrons; and these, if numerous, are again separated into divisions.
William Falconer
#44. Wherever he looked, he saw people who demanded to be heard but had nothing to say.
Craig A. Falconer
#45. Playboy offered me a lot to do their mag but I'm not even the sort to go topless on the beach.
Jenni Falconer
#46. searching the sky from high above to below the horizon, gradually working around until he reached the right and the rear.
Jonathan Falconer
#47. In a case such as this, unless an entire army is available, the safest number of men will be one. We have no army, and therefore I will go.
Nicole Sager
#48. The head of a ship however has not always an immediate relation to her name, at least in the British navy.
William Falconer
#49. Falconer was wearing his street clothes - jeans, a black turtleneck and an empty shoulder holster under his armpit. Cowboy boots. Little bit of beard stubble. John wondered if the guy would walk from one end of the street to the other without winding up covered in bitches.
David Wong
#51. I've changed my mind. Stop inadequately playing human," I say. "Drop her hand and step away. Take a very big step.
Elizabeth May
#52. I have but one candle of life to burn, and I would rather burn it out in a land filled with darkness than in a land flooded with light.
Ion Keith-Falconer
#53. [W]hen you find yourself face to face with one [Bondsmage], you bow and scrape and mind your 'sirs' and 'madams.'
...
'Nice bird, asshole,' said Locke.
Scott Lynch
#54. If consciousness is currency, I've got me a goldmine!
Kim Falconer
#55. Hence a ship is said to be tight, when her planks are so compact and solid as to prevent the entrance of the water in which she is immersed: and a cask is called tight, when the staves are so close that none of the liquid contained therein can issue through or between them.
William Falconer
#56. The accumulation of numbers always augments in some measure moral corruptions, and the consequences to health of the various vices incident thereto, are well known.
William Falconer
#57. Derrick... Have you ever heard of a Falconer?"
...
"Wherever did you hear that?
Elizabeth May
#58. LIBERAL, n. A man with his mind open at both ends.
Colin Falconer
#59. The great weight of the ship may indeed prevent her from acquiring her greatest velocity; but when she has attained it, she will advance by her own intrinsic motion, without gaining any new degree of velocity, or lessening what she has acquired.
William Falconer
#60. Turning and turning in the widening gyre
The falcon cannot hear the falconer;
Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold
The Second Coming
Wb Yeats
#61. The sacred lamp of day Now dipt in Western clouds his parting day.
William Falconer
#62. We have to find the seal before that happens," I tell him. "Reactivate it somehow."
...
"You're the only one who can... Last night you asked me a question. Do you remember what it was?"
"What is a Falconer?" I whisper.
Elizabeth May
#63. While vast continents are shrouded in darkness ... the burden of proof lies upon you to show that the circumstances in which God has placed you were meant by God to keep you out of the foreign mission field.
Ion Keith-Falconer
#64. I remember thinking of the passage in The Sword in the Stone where a falconer took a goshawk back onto his own fist, 'reassuming him like a lame man putting on his accustomed wooden leg, after it had been lost'.
Helen Macdonald
#65. The effect of sailing is produced by a judicious arrangement of the sails to the direction of the wind.
William Falconer
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