Quotes About Foaly

#1. Too much damned TV. Thinks he's Sherlock Holmes."
"That's professor Moriarty," corrected Foaly.
"Holmes, Moriarty, they both look the same with the flesh scorched off their skulls.

Eoin Colfer

#2. Orion:"Oh, how I pray that dragon will turn 'round so that I may smite it."
Foaly: "Smite it with what? Your secret birthmark?"
Orion: "Don't you mock my birthmark, which I may or may not have.

Eoin Colfer

#3. Don't worry chief,"said foaly,"It's like riding a unicorn,you never forget.

Eoin Colfer

#4. Stupid. Stupid. Foaly, we are both imbeciles. I don't expect lateral thinking from the LEP, but from you ... "
... "What is it?" [Holly] asked, afraid of the answer, which must surely be terrible.
"Yeah," agreed Foaly, who always had time to feel insulted. "Why am I an imbecile?

Eoin Colfer

#5. (to Foaly) Captain Short's life is in danger, so push the button before I climb that tower and push it with your face!

Eoin Colfer

#6. When Holly Short had opened the door of her makeshift basement cell, she had found her helmet bouncing on the spot in front of her with a 3-D image of Foaly's face projected onto it. That is really creepy,

Eoin Colfer

#7. I feel a little dizzy," said Orion. "But also wonderfully elated. I feel that I am on the verge of finding a rhyme for the word orange."
"Oxygen deprivation," said Foaly. "Or maybe it's just him.

Eoin Colfer

#8. Artemis: I am not buoyed by that.
Foaly: You are not supposed to be buoyed by that. You are supposed to be equalized.
Mulch: I'm pretty sure that both of you just made really horrible jokes. But I'm not sure because I think you broke my funny bone.

Eoin Colfer

#9. Anybody see you come in here?"
Holly thought about it.
"The FBI, CIA, NSA, DEA, M16. Oh, and the EIB."
Foaly frowned. "EIB?"
"Everyone in the building.

Eoin Colfer

#10. Is that how you're going to take me? Scare me into voluntarily coming aboard, then steal my Ice Cube?"
"It's always cubes with you," noted Foaly, somewhat randomly. "What's wrong with a nice sphere?

Eoin Colfer

#11. Look!" said Foaly, pointing with some urgency into the vast steel-gray gloom, "Someone who cares!

Eoin Colfer

#12. HOLLY: Are you suggesting I occasionally stray from the rule book?
FOALY: No. I'm suggesting you do not own a copy of the rule book, and if you do, you have certainly never opened it.

Eoin Colfer

#13. Yes, Chix, it's between us. Everyone has a right to be temporarily unstable.
- Foaly

Eoin Colfer

#14. Foaly: Anyone see you come in here?
Holly: The FBI, CIA, NSA, DEA, MI6. Oh, and the EIB.
Foaly: The EIB?
Holly: (smirking) Everyone in the building.

Eoin Colfer

#15. What's this?" he inquired, none too pleasantly. "A circus?"
"No, Julius. It's the end of the circus."
"I see. And these are the clowns?"
Foaly's head poked through the doorway.
"Pardon me for interrupting your extended circus metaphor, but what the hell is that?

Eoin Colfer

#16. Commander: What's that?
Foaly: It's a finger, what does look like?

Eoin Colfer

#17. He threw his head back and sang, "'I am a centaur, yes, a centaur is what I am.' It's not like you to wax, Artemis"
"Foaly is singing," said Holly. "Surely that's illegal?

Eoin Colfer

#18. I can grow cameras!" she had shrieked at the Brill brothers during one briefing. "Who's to say that despicable centaur Foaly hasn't succeded in splicing surveillance equiptment to plants? So get rid of all the flowers. Rocks, too. I don't trust them. Sullen little blebers.

Eoin Colfer

#19. Mulch's tongue lolled out, resting on the centaur's neck. "Mmm," he mumbled around his tongue. "Horse. Tasty"
"Let's go," said Foaly nervously. "Let's go right now.

Eoin Colfer

#20. And I will not be beaten by that jackass."
"Jackass?" said Foaly, wounded. "My favorite uncle is a jackass.

Eoin Colfer

#21. Onscreen, Foaly rubbed his eyelids with his index fingers.
Yeah, yeah. Here we go. Captain Short goes rogue once more. Hands up who's surprised. Anyone?

Eoin Colfer

#22. Holly is alive,' thought Foaly
'My princess lives,'exulted Orion. 'And we're chasing a dragon

Eoin Colfer

#23. Foaly twitched his tail contentedly. Genius. No point in being humble about it.

Eoin Colfer

#24. The miracle of modern science. The LEP pours millions into your department, Foaly, and all you can do is send Mud Boys to the toilet.

Eoin Colfer

#25. We put the fun in dysfunction.

William Lashner

#26. Josh didn't trust inanimates; not one bit; but he didn't trust men either, nor did he trust the sea. The first could drive you crazy; the second could steal your soul; and the last could take your life.

Fred Vargas

#27. I can't let time move on without fighting tooth and nail and hopefully being a part of a revolution that is positive.

Ian Somerhalder

#28. Ah, my princess. Noble steed. How does the morning find you both?

Eoin Colfer

#29. Existence came from God; death came by Adam; and immortality and eternal life come through Christ.

Bruce R. McConkie

#30. Are you saying that you people knew about these amorophobots all the time?"
"Of course we did. They attacked us in Iceland. Remember?"
"No. I was unconscious.

Eoin Colfer

#31. Luckily, growing up "unfinished" can make geeks the very best people to guide and nurture the next generation of outsiders: We know you don't have to be finished to be awesome.

Stephen H. Segal

#32. It's like learning to ride a unicorn. You never forget.

Eoin Colfer

#33. Who or what inspires you?"
"I must admit that I often read my own articles in scientific journals and inspire myself.

Eoin Colfer

#34. I was gonna be super pissed in the afterlife if I died a virgin in this crap hole.

Jennifer L. Armentrout

#35. Death knew that to tinker with the fate of one individual could destroy the whole world. He knew this. The knowledge was built into him.

To Bill Door, he realised, it was so much horse elbows.

Terry Pratchett

#36. War is a grim, cruel business, a business justified only as a means of sustaining the forces of good against those of evil.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

#37. This is what love does, he realized, and in that moment he understood why Artemis had kidnapped a fairy to get the money to find his father.
Love makes everything else seem
inconsequential

Eoin Colfer

#38. One of the things we might want to learn when considering the failings of others is not to gloat because someone else has tripped up.

Desmond Tutu

#39. As soon as I set foot there, everything I had imagined was forgotten; Pyrrha had become what is Pyrrha; and I thought I had always known

Italo Calvino

#40. What are the five products you want to focus on? Get rid of the rest, because they're dragging you down. They're turning you into Microsoft. They're causing you to turn out products that are adequate but not great.

Walter Isaacson

#41. War is sanctioned murder, no matter what side you're on.

Sarah J. Maas