Top 100 Fowler's Quotes
#1. People say you should go out at the top but I was enjoying my football so much. Robbie Fowler's exactly the same: he's not playing for money any more, he's playing for enjoyment. Why go out at the top if it's going to make you miserable? I just wanted to play as long as I could.
Ian Rush
#2. I risked getting my tyres nicked by going to Robbie Fowler's home in Liverpool!
Kevin Keegan
#4. Talk about tactful - she's got a tongue like a Kalashnikov!
Steve Fowler
#5. A lot of my buddies enjoy the writing part or the studio part, and I love the live show part. That's the reason I got into all this, to play keg parties and bars. I still love playing live.
Kevin Fowler
#6. You know, I don't think there's anything truly unforgivable. Not where there's love.
Karen Joy Fowler
#7. Comparing to another activity is useful if it helps you formulate questions, it's dangerous when you use it to justify answers.
Martin Fowler
#8. we knew the Witch Doctor was busy in the village. I've got the spot marked to a certainty in my mind, and all of you notice that there's the finest cedar growing directly above him on the top of the wall,
Frank Fowler
#9. Because what could be more Casablanca? Suddenly Harlow saw that what she'd always wanted was a man of principle. A man of action. A domestic terrorist. Every girl's dream, if she can't have a vampire.
Karen Joy Fowler
#10. Me and my band, we love playing live, and I think it shows. We have one of the better live shows in the state, and I think it's because we just love playing live.
Kevin Fowler
#11. Our challenge for the future is that we realize we are very much a part of the earth's ecosystem, and we must learn to respect and live according to the basic biological laws of nature.
Jim Fowler
#12. That's really the challenge of this century, to develop spokespeople.
Jim Fowler
#13. Don't kick the horse's mouth that feeds you.
Ryan Fowler
#14. If you pray enough for things, I am proof that they can happen. I feel like a kid on Christmas day now, every day. It's something I have wanted for a long time and I am as happy as anyone to be here. It is great to be back at my first love.
Robbie Fowler
#15. I do read all my work aloud as I'm working - this has made it a little hard to adjust to my husband's retirement. I can shout the shouty parts if I'm alone in the house, but of course, I feel a fool if someone is there to hear me.
Karen Joy Fowler
#16. He cocks an eyebrow. "Penny for your thoughts, Miss Hen?" He appears focused on his task, but there's a sly glint in his eye. I flush. Oh, I was just imagining your hands traveling up my thighs and your teeth nibbling my breast.
F.L. Fowler
#17. No writing effort is ever wasted. At the very least, it's practice, and a writer never knows when he or she might usefully cannibalize an earlier effort for something new.
Therese Fowler
#18. His eyes, grayish green in that light, reminded me of the rare icicle in Montgomery, or a pebbled creek's rushing stream in early spring. They revealed his intelligence in a way that made me want to dive inside his head and swim in its depths.
Therese Anne Fowler
#19. Faith is an orientation of the total person, giving purpose and goal to one's hopes and strivings, thoughts and actions.
James W. Fowler
#20. There's four seasons in the UK, spring, autumn, winter and winter.
Steve Fowler
#21. Men who read a lot have a more sensitive disposition, added Fowler. [ ... ]
I did not know what to say to this.
Maybe reading is a sort of curse is all I mean, concluded Fowler. Maybe it's better for a man to stay inside his own mind.
Amen, I felt like saying, although I do not know why.
Dan Simmons
#22. We used to believe that memories were best retrieved in the same place that they were first laid down. Like everything else we think we know, that's not so clear anymore.
Karen Joy Fowler
#23. The dogs came racing up the stairs. They danced at Rima's feet, frantic with the need to communicate something to her. Little Timmy's down the well! Feed us ice cream and potato chips! Sometimes there's a benefit to not sharing a language.
Karen Joy Fowler
#24. In everyone's life there are people who stay and people who go and people who are taken against their will.
Karen Joy Fowler
#25. There was something appealing in thinking of a character with a secret life that her author knew nothing about. Slipping off while the author's back was turned, to find love in her own way. Showing up just in time to deliver the next bit of dialogue with an innocent face.
Karen Joy Fowler
#26. The money I try and earn is for my family. It's not for me. It's always about my family.
Robbie Fowler
#27. I wonder sometimes if I'm the only one spending my life making the same mistake over and over again or if that's simply human. Do we all tend toward a single besetting sin?
Karen Joy Fowler
#28. One Mother's Day, he gave Mom a music box that played the theme from Swan Lake. She cried for days over it.
Karen Joy Fowler
#29. Tremble had a secret. Underneath his dreary exterior, he was quite interesting. When his penchant for investigating the area's past was indulged, a light shown in his eyes and he became almost passionate, which is why his wife kept a stack of local history books on her bedside table.
Christopher Fowler
#30. Time management is probably the biggest thing I've had to learn to deal with being on the PGA Tour, whether it be media or figuring out how many weeks to play in a row. That's been the biggest adjustment, coming from amateur and college golf.
Rickie Fowler
#31. I remember very much there in Falls Church there was a creek that was flowing down into 4 Mile Run. I believe it's now covered up where it goes under Columbia Street. I found a whole family of weasels down there.
Jim Fowler
#32. A book is never finished; it's abandoned.
Gene Fowler
#33. Skinner's suits were a constant source of fascination to Robert. They seemed to be made from an alien synthetic fibre that never creased or got dirty. Indeed, it seemed possible that Skinner himself was constructed of the same material.
Christopher Fowler
#34. He has a profound respect for old age. Especially when it's bottled.
Gene Fowler
#36. Butler's novel 'Kindred' may be the book most widely read by readers outside science fiction; it has been assigned as a text in classrooms and has sold steadily since its publication in 1979.
Karen Joy Fowler
#37. Octavia Butler often described herself as an outsider, but within science fiction, she was loved as an insider, someone who was a fan first and came to S.F. writing as an enthusiastic reader.
Karen Joy Fowler
#39. Somali is turning into a desert. Rwanda, you can hardly find a place to plant a potato, it's so crowded.
Jim Fowler
#40. I don't think we're going to save anything if we go around talking about saving plants and animals only; we've got to translate that into what's in it for us.
Jim Fowler
#41. I wondered just how much of her I'd invented. Had I only mastered some skill for awing myself? Or would this creature, Camilla, like a settler's incessant New World, keep increasing my capacity not only to marvel but to marvel at myself in the face of her?
Nick Fowler
#42. Whatever one believes to be true either is true or becomes true in one's mind.
Gene Fowler
#43. Allegra's Austen wrote about the impact of financial need on the intimate lives of women. If she'd worked in a bookstore, Allegra would have shelved Austen in the horror section.
Karen Joy Fowler
#44. Life's most profound moments were, paradoxically, its most common ones: first breaths, and last.
Therese Anne Fowler
#45. Women are formed for love, yes, but also for purpose, and the highest state for a woman - for all humans, in fact - comes when one discovers and then achieves one's ultimate purpose.
Therese Anne Fowler
#46. If people don't want to believe in Robbie Fowler, it's because they don't want to
Kevin Keegan
#47. Kim Newman brings Dracula back home in the granddaddy of all vampire adventures. Anno Dracula couldn't be more fun if Bram Stoker had scripted it for Hammer. It's a beautifully constructed Gothic epic that knocks almost every other vampire novel out for the count.
Christopher Fowler
#48. I don't think you should make so many off-colour jokes about him becoming a cuckold. You're only getting away with it because he doesn't know what it means.' 'That's the beauty of the English language. One can wrap insults inside elegance, like popping anchovies into pastry.
Christopher Fowler
#49. I didn't want a world in which I had to choose between blind human babies and tortured monkey ones. To be frank, that's the sort of choice I expect science to protect me from, not give me.
Karen Joy Fowler
#50. How was your day, Rosie?" Dad would ask when he came home from work and I'd tell him it was ebullient. Or limpid. Or dodecahedron. "That's good to hear," he'd say.
Karen Joy Fowler
#51. Sun's role in the grand scheme of development is to work on the runtime environment and the APIs. The tools we produce are much more for systems programmers, not enterprise developers.
John Fowler
#52. My books have occasionally been of mixed success. It's not like I have gone from triumph to triumph. I have had a couple of books do very, very well and a couple do very, very badly.
Karen Joy Fowler
#53. The writer's Queen Victoria is his public, and he would do well to keep a bust of the old Queen on his desk with the legend "We are not amused" hanging from it.
Henry Watson Fowler
#54. There's nothing like losing yourself in someone else's troubles to make you forget your own.
Therese Anne Fowler
#55. The tongue of the righteous are like pure silver, but the mind of the wicked is worth little. The lips of the righteous feeds many, but fools die for lack of sense.
J.S. Fowler
#56. My mum's family are from Blaenau Ffestiniog, the slate town. My grandfather was Elis Humphreys Roberts, so that's quite Welsh isn't it?
Simon Fowler
#57. IN MOST FAMILIES, there is a favorite child. Parents deny it and maybe they truly don't see it, but it's obvious to the children. Unfairness bothers children greatly. It's hard to always come in second.
Karen Joy Fowler
#58. Throughout history, human nature remains unchanged. The world's oldest questions are still being asked. Medea, Oedipus, we're not adding anything that the Greeks didn't already know.
Christopher Fowler
#59. The one who is truly blessed is the one who wants to make everyone's dreams come true.
William M. Fowler
#60. There's so much to say, the human race will be extinct long before everything which could be said has been said.
Steve Fowler
#61. My parents moved from ranch to ranch, valley to valley, town to town, but our roots in Fowler never really faded. For me, it's a place of history, stories and songs, not just facts and figures.
Juan Felipe Herrera
#62. They say you can never go home again." Bartholomew Quasar leaned back in his deluxe-model captain's chair as the star cruiser raced toward Earth. "But I tend to disagree.
Milo James Fowler
#63. If we see a sad rain, it doesn't mean the rain is sad, but it means we see it. That's an easily dismissible kind of projection. But what I'm struggling to say, is that we take that rain in through our own hearts and emotions and senses and skin, and all those filters have an impact.
Karen Joy Fowler
#64. I don't have anyone telling me to change things or giving me unwanted opinions. It's just me and my band making music. It's nice for a change.
Kevin Fowler
#65. They'll be working through until it's done, so Janice has gone to KFC for a bargain bucket. They're dining al desko.
Christopher Fowler
#66. There's a melancholy sense of things lost in the shabbier British seaside towns; of comfortable failure and better times long gone.
Christopher Fowler
#68. I'm a busy author with a sense of Humor, so hang, it's a bumpy ride"!
Marilyn Fowler
#69. Only in Texas can mesquite have its own festival, then there's a crawfish festival, a festival for strawberries, everything has its own festival, with each town having their own yearly thing.
Kevin Fowler
#70. His unique skill had always been to absorb the talents and knowledge of others, use what he needed and discard the rest. He never allowed anyone to get to close. He kept the world at arm's length in order to look down on it.
Christopher Fowler
#71. There's no country in the world that's more devastated from natural resources than Afghanistan.
Jim Fowler
#72. At 19, I went to live in the Philippines for three years as a U.S. Air Force 'dependent spouse.' I lived off-base in Angeles City and had to haul water for drinking and cooking.
Therese Fowler
#73. Point-of-view is a matter that readers rarely pay attention to, yet it's one of the most important story decisions an author makes.
Therese Fowler
#74. It's harder to score well in a slow round. The tendency is to overthink shots while you're waiting and become mentally exhausted. Instead, chat with your playing partners about anything but golf. Concentrate on each shot for no more than a minute. You'll stay fresh.
Rickie Fowler
#75. If your friend's friend's friend (whom you may not have even met) is obese, a smoker or a zealot of some kind then it is a lot more likely that you will be too.
James H. Fowler
#76. There's no denying that television is one of the most powerful propaganda media we've ever invented.
Jim Fowler
#77. I used to hate Ian Rush when I was young, because I was a devout Evertonian in those days, and he seemed to score every time Liverpool played against us. It's strange to think he used to support Everton too when he was a kid. He was brilliant to me at Anfield always giving me good advice.
Robbie Fowler
#78. Marriage seemed like such a small space whenever I was in it. I liked the getting married. Courtship has a plotline. But there's no plot to being married. Just the same things over and over again. Same fights, same friends, same things you do on a Saturday. The repetition would start to get to me.
Karen Joy Fowler
#79. Why is composing symphonies tough? I don't know. It's just very few people in the world can do it well. And I think that's the case with upfront design. It is very hard to do well.
Martin Fowler
#80. I consider myself a kind of a nerd, because when we go to the coffee shop in the mornings, we sit there in a very neat row with our laptops. It's just like being at work, but with coffee and panini. And, of course, you don't get paid.
Christopher Fowler
#81. Honest to god, I'm so happy it's frightening! I'm just so chuffed - that's all I can say.
(on playing for Liverpool again)
Robbie Fowler
#83. My dog doesn't like dogs, and I kind of get where she's coming from; I'm not too keen on people.
Steve Fowler
#84. The drive behind what I do is really to make sure that people don't go to bed hungry. It's not just that I have a love of diversity, it's the importance of the uses of that diversity.
Cary Fowler
#85. There's science and there's science, is all I'm saying. Where humans are the subjects, it's mostly not science
Karen Joy Fowler
#86. If you pray for things, I am proof that they can happen. I want to repay the manager's faith in bringing me back.
(on re-signing for Liverpool)
Robbie Fowler
#87. I don't want to save a creek for the creek's sake, but what's in it for human beings.
Jim Fowler
#88. The dog show emphasizes bloodline, appearance, and comportment, but money and breeding are never far from anyone's mind.
Karen Joy Fowler
#89. Plus they think the hurricane's going to hit (starts laughing) New Orleans about the time they start. The timing, at least it appears now, that it'll be there Monday. That just demonstrates God's on our side
Donald Fowler
#90. The other thing is quality of life; if you have a place where you can go and have a picnic with your family, it doesn't matter if it's a recession or not, you can include that in your quality of life.
Jim Fowler
#91. I've always loved what I'd term 'dark fiction' writers, everyone from J. G. Ballard to Mervyn Peake and Philip Pullman. I'm not sure it's a genre, but it's what I like best.
Christopher Fowler
#92. It's hogwash to say drunkenness is no excuse for crime ... Wherever mind altering drugs are on sale to the public, we should expect mind altered behaviour from the public.
Steve Fowler
#93. Playing on the PGA Tour and playing professional golf, I think it's what everyone has dreamed of doing - all the guys who are out here. I'm just happy to be able to call this a job, if you want to call it a job.
Rickie Fowler
#94. It's a lot harder to break bones in golf than motocross. But that made me fearless in a way.
Rickie Fowler
#95. It's pretty cool to see yourself on a video game.
Rickie Fowler
#96. We glared at each other then, with the kind of hatred that comes from being deliberately wounded in one's softest, most vulnerable places by a person who used to love you passionately.
Therese Anne Fowler
#97. Big fucking mistake man. You can't be near her. Don't you get it? [ ... ] She's part of this city. Do you see? I mean, really part of it. You hurt her, you - hurt all of this.
Christopher Fowler
#98. It's inevitable now, because everyone is a superstar, even if they're just an average player, and maybe that was part of the process set in motion when I signed that contract in 1994.
Robbie Fowler
#99. I don't consider myself a songwriter, I've tried, I've written a few with friends but that's an art form I'm gonna leave to guys like Jimmy Ritchey and Kevin Fowler.
Mark Chesnutt
#100. Puma was a great fit for me. Obviously, they were looking for someone that was going to fit their brand, and I was looking to wear stuff that was going to fit me and not where I was going to go out and just blend in with everyone else. So it's been a great fit.
Rickie Fowler
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