Top 97 Quotes About Fowl
#1. A metaphorical weight lifted from his allegorical chest and Artemis Fowl felt himself again.
Eoin Colfer
#2. The funeral of Andrew Jackson at the Hermitage was flawed when his pet parrot had to be removed because it kept squawking out the profanity Jackson had taught the foul fowl.20
Craig Shirley
#3. Similarly the animal psychologist, Aristophanes, accidentally discovered the world's first joke while inquiring into the hitherto mysterious motivations of pathway-traversing fowl.
George Pendle
#4. Fowl never tastes as savory when you're hungry for venison.
Lynn Flewelling
#5. Whosoever loveth wisdom is righteous, but he that keepeth company with fowl is weird.
Woody Allen
#6. There is a phrase "neither flesh nor fowl nor good red herring." This thing was all of them, plus some other bits of beasts unknown to science or nightmare or even kebab. There was certainly some red, and a lot of flapping, and Nutt was sure he caught a glimpse of an enormous sandal ...
Terry Pratchett
#7. (about his terrible attempt at making a sandwich) It's more difficult than it looks. (Artemis Fowl)
Eoin Colfer
#8. These resemble no chicken fingers I've ever seen, lass. And I saw a fair amount of chickens in my day. There was this wench in the stables with the most remarkable . . . well, never mind that. You must grow fowl considerably larger now. I shudder to ponder the size of their beaks.
Karen Marie Moning
#9. Jon Spiro might have "stuff " that the military didn't have, but Artemis Fowl had "stuff " that humans had never seen.
Eoin Colfer
#10. She forces me to endure this ridiculous therapy, when the so-called counselors are little better than misguided do-gooders with degrees.
-Artemis Fowl
Eoin Colfer
#11. A fifeteen-year old, of to save the world, with faries. - Angeline Fowl
Eoin Colfer
#12. To put the flesh of an animal into one's belly makes one an accessory after the fact of its slaughter, simply because if cows, pigs, sheep, fowl, and fish, to mention the most common, were not eaten they would not be killed.
Philip Kapleau
#13. Just what we need," moaned Holly. "Artemis Fowl with magical powers.
Eoin Colfer
#14. Self-pity is the hens' besetting sin," remarked Mr. Payton. "Foolish fowl. How they came to achieve anything as perfect as the egg I do not know! I cannot fathom.
Elizabeth Enright
#15. Cutting up fowl to predict the future is, if done honestly and with as little interpretation as possible, a kind of randomization. But chicken guts are hard to read and invite flights of fancy or corruption.
Ian Hacking
#16. Concede that the new government of Louisiana is only to what it should be, as the egg is to the fowl; we shall sooner have the fowl by hatching the egg than by smashing it.
Abraham Lincoln
#17. Gold is power-artemis fowl I liked the artemis fowl series because its about a boy genius
Eoin Colfer
#18. The raven once in snowy plumes was drest,
White as the whitest dove's unsullied breast,
Fair as the guardian of the Capitol,
Soft as the swan; a large and lovely fowl
His tongue, his prating tongue had changed him quite
To sooty blackness from the purest white.
Ovid
#19. For many years, the proposed influenza epicenter has been thought to be Southeast Asia. Farming practices there bring pigs, fowl, and people into close contact, allowing swine, avian, and human flu viruses to mix. The cycle is thought to be birds to pigs to humans.
Elizabeth T. Murane
#20. As a natural process, of the same character as the development of a tree from its seed, or of a fowl from its egg, evolution excludes creation and all other kinds of supernatural intervention.
Thomas Huxley
#21. Plato had defined Man as an animal, biped and featherless, and was applauded. Diogenes plucked a fowl and brought it into the lecture-room with the words, Here is Plato's man.
Diogenes
#22. I am truly sorry that a fowl of Canada is no longer with us.
Dave Winfield
#23. My voice sounded like one of the guinea fowl that screeched in our trees as it pooped, but I never let that stop me.
William Kamkwamba
#24. The howling pariah dogs, the cocks that herald dawn all night, the drumming, the moaning that will be found later white plumage huddled on telegraph wires in back gardens or fowl roosting in apple trees, the eternal sorrow that never sleeps of great Mexico.
Malcolm Lowry
#25. Now I was surprised and light-headed, like a domestic fowl that finds itself able to fly over a low fence in a moment of terror.
Charles Portis
#26. Will Peter be joining us for tea, do you think?'
'I doubt it. Peter rarely returns home before late in the evening.'
'Oh.'
Quill felt as if he had told a baby chick that his favorite dish was roast fowl.
Eloisa James
#27. Being in command means making tough decisions. Not being in command means shutting up and doing what you're told.
Artemis Fowl
Eoin Colfer
#28. It was nothing compared to his awe as he watched her de-feather the dead fowl like a trained expert,
Marissa Meyer
#29. 'Fowl Space' was a lovechild of boredom. While in class, two of the developers started passing designs back and forth. Somewhere in the middle of all that ink and crumpled paper, a chicken in a space helmet was born and thus we have 'Fowl Space.'
Rob Manuel
#30. Why, Yrael?" it said, as the last of the dark gave way to silver, and the shining sphere of metal sank slowly to the ground. "Why?"
"Life," said Yrael, who was more Mogget than it ever knew. "Fish and fowl, warm sun and shady trees, the field mice in the wheat, under the cool light of the moon.
Garth Nix
#31. Fifteen years ago, my wife and I purchased an authentic log cabin in Maryland. Painstakingly restored since, the cabin sits on a forested bluff high above a wide river frequented by ospreys, eagles, geese, herons, and other water fowl.
James Luceno
#32. Artemis Fowl grinned right back at him and pointed his index finger to the sky ... from the tip of this finger sprang a small blue spark that exploded like a tiny firework.
"I know magic can be stolen," said Artemis. "Because I stole some myself.
Eoin Colfer
#33. People always say 'Etta, you know what your problem is? You're neither fish nor fowl. There is no place to rack you.' When I would go in a record shop, you might find one or two records by me in different stacks.
Etta James
#34. We need the tonic of the wilderness, to wade sometimes in the marsh where the bitten and the meadow hen lurk, and hear the booming of the snipe; to smell the whispering sedge where only some wilder and more solitary fowl builds her nest, and the mink crawls with its belly close to the ground.
Henry David Thoreau
#35. The cook cares not a bit for toil, toil, if the fowl be plump and fat
Horace
#36. Since that time Saracen had been making a name for himself. That name was not 'Saracen'. Indeed the name was more along the lines of 'that hell-fowl', 'did-you-see-what-it-did-to-my-leg', 'kill-it-kill-it-there-it-goes' or 'what's-that-chirfugging-goose-done-now'.
Frances Hardinge
#37. more than 25 billion chickens. And they are all over the globe. The domesticated chicken is the most widespread fowl ever. Following Homo sapiens, domesticated
Yuval Noah Harari
#38. Speak to me, fair maid!
Speak and do not go!
What sorrows have your eyes inlaid
With such black woe?
My dam is buried deep
Dark are my father's halls
And carrion fowl and wolves now keep
Their ruined walls
From: The Lay of Andomian and Beruldh
Alison Croggon
#39. To him who is stinted of food a boiled turnip will relish like a roast fowl.
Saadi
#40. He broke through the wall of men surrounding Olivia - dim-witted fowl clustered about a dozing crocodile, as he saw it - and offered to take her home.
Loretta Chase
#41. It is logical to look for a green fowl in a dark room even if you know the chance of finding a green fowl in a dark room is slim.
Duop Chak Wuol
#42. Let the mouth also fast from disgraceful speeches and railings. For what does it profit if we abstain from fish and fowl and yet bite and devour our brothers and sisters? The evil speaker eats the flesh of his brother and bites the body of his neighbor.
John Chrysostom
#43. What people don't think about when they think about New York is this amazing farmland that grows wonderful fruits, vegetables, seafood, game, and fowl just outside of Manhattan.
Daniel Humm
#44. Animals (meat, fish, fowl, and eggs) and plants (vegetables, fruits, nuts, seeds, and herbs and spices) should represent the entire composition of your diet.
Mark Sisson
#45. There will be consequences for this, he thought. You can't alter time and not be affected. But whatever the consequences are, I will bear them, because the alternative is too terrible. -Artemis Fowl, The Lost Colony
Eoin Colfer
#46. You may wear her in title yours: but, you know, strange fowl light upon neighbouring ponds.
William Shakespeare
#47. And as an ev'ning dragon came, Assailant on the perched roosts And nests in order rang'd Of tame villatic fowl.
John Milton
#48. The wolf howled under the leaves
And spit out the prettiest feathers
Of his meal of fowl:
Like him I consume myself.
Arthur Rimbaud
#49. Speech is often barren; but silence also does not necessarily brood over a full nest. Your still fowl, blinking at you without remark, may all the while be sitting on one addled egg; and when it takes to cackling will have nothing to announce but that addled delusion.
George Eliot
#50. Eating what stands on one leg [mushrooms and plant foods] is better than eating what stands on two legs [fowl], which is better than eating what stands on four legs [cows, pigs, and other mammals].
Michael Pollan
#51. 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
#52. Listen to me, goblin. You're stupid, let's accept that and move on.
Eoin Colfer
#53. 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
#54. Some people just needed to be stolen from.
Eoin Colfer
#55. Look!" said Foaly, pointing with some urgency into the vast steel-gray gloom, "Someone who cares!
Eoin Colfer
#56. The boy who kidnapped Holly Short all those years ago would never have entertained the notion of sacrificing himself. But he was no longer that boy. His parents were restored to him, and he had brothers. And dear friends. Something else Artemis had never anticipated.
Eoin Colfer
#57. Artemis and Holly stood together in their underwear, gingerly locking fingers. They had crossed space and time together, weathered rebellions and tangled with demented despots. Coughed blood, lost digits, inhaled dwarf fumes and swapped eyeballs, yet they found holding hands awkward.
Eoin Colfer
#58. Im riding a troll! i was born to do this,and steal stuff, and EAT LOADS!
Eoin Colfer
#59. This might hurt a little is universal code for this will definitely hurt a lot
Eoin Colfer
#60. Ah, my princess. Noble steed. How does the morning find you both?
Eoin Colfer
#63. They were in a position of total ignorance and people in that position often died without being enlightened.
Eoin Colfer
#64. They have gone. And the tunnel is about to close. So, boys, I am looking for someone to blame.
Eoin Colfer
#65. I don't know why it is, Captain Short, but whenever you start agreeing with me, I get decidedly nervous.
Eoin Colfer
#66. You need to stop thinking with your head, Mud Boy, and start thinking with your heart.
Artemis sighed. The heart was an organ for pumping oxygen-rich blood to the cells. It could no more think than an apple could tap-dance.
Eoin Colfer
#67. Can we please focus? We are supposed to be professionals." Holly said.
"Not me!" said Orion cheerily, "I'm just a Teenager with hormones running wild and may I say, young fairy lady, they're running wild in your direction.
Eoin Colfer
#68. Perhaps we can win, he thought. But there will be no happy ending
Eoin Colfer
#69. Play along, the wink said. I'll get you out of this.
At least Artemis hoped this was what his wink communicated and not something like 'Any chance of another kiss later?
Eoin Colfer
#70. Remember the pain?' thought Artemis. I hate myself. I really do.
Eoin Colfer
#71. Why can't we for once have a meeting in Starbucks?
Eoin Colfer
#72. Either that boy is the sanest creature on Earth, he thought, or he is so disturbed that our tests cannot even begin to scratch the surface.
Eoin Colfer
#74. Holly is alive,' thought Foaly
'My princess lives,'exulted Orion. 'And we're chasing a dragon
Eoin Colfer
#75. The next minute or so was spent howling on the ceiling . Imp No.1 joined in, but he wasn't really feeling it. It shouldn't be "Who do we hate?", he thought, it really should be "whom", but this probably wasn't a good time to bring that up.
Eoin Colfer
#76. Really, I'm trying to care, Artemis, really. But I thought it was all supposed to be over when the fat lady sings. Well, she's singing, but it doesn't appear to be over
Eoin Colfer
#77. 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
#78. You guys looking for my dad? People are always, like, looking for him, and he's never around. Daddy is so not here. And I mean that literally and spiritually.
Eoin Colfer
#79. Oh,It's going to be so easy to kill you,scoffed Opal.
Eoin Colfer
#80. Nobody's death is impending."
... "Well technically everyone's death is impending.
Eoin Colfer
#81. Certain battles were won by retreating.
Eoin Colfer
#82. It looks like you've found an intellectual equal, Mulch," said Holly. "It's a pity he isn't a girl; then you could marry him."
Mulch imitated shock. "Romance outside your species. Now THAT's disgusting. What kind of weirdo would kiss someone when they weren't even part of the same species?
Eoin Colfer
#83. Friendship isn't a science mudboy. Just do what you think is right.
Eoin Colfer
#84. Have you ever heard of the theory of relativity?"
Artemis blinked. "Is this a joke? I have traveled through time, Doctor. I think I know a little something about relativity.
Eoin Colfer
#85. The humans were protecting their heritage, or so they thought. Strange that Mud Men seem more concerned about the past than the present.
Eoin Colfer
#86. Language,-human language,-after all is but little better than the croak and cackle of fowls, and other utterances of brute nature,-sometimes not so adequate.
Nathaniel Hawthorne
#87. So, what did you get for me?"
Angeline paused for a beat. "Jeans."
"What?" croaked Artemis.
"And a T-shirt.
Eoin Colfer
#88. Butler was seeing the world as it was, complete with L.E.P retrival team
Eoin Colfer
#89. Pizza, pizza,
Fill up your face,
The thicker the pastry,
The better the base!
Eoin Colfer
#90. Me," Artemis blurted. "I'm the nut."
Artemis could have sworn the squid winked at him before bringing the five-ton chunk of spacecraft swinging down toward the morsel of meat in its blue shell.
"I'm the nut!" Artemis shouted again, a little hysterically, it must be said.
Eoin Colfer
#91. Orion nodded, then asked, "Dwarf cheese?"
"Cheese made by dwarfs."
"Oh," said Orion, relieved. "They make it. It's not actually ... "
"No. What a horrible thought."
"Exactly.
Eoin Colfer
#92. Butler could kill you a hundred different ways without use of his armoury. Though I'm sure one would be quite sufficient.
Eoin Colfer
#93. I do remember, Holly. I remember it all. Especially you. It's a real comfort to have you here.
Eoin Colfer
#95. The Theory of Evolution has more holes in it than a dam made out of Swiss cheese.
Eoin Colfer
#96. Waitress: "And to drink?"
Artemis: "Spring water. Irish, if you have it. And no ice, please. As your ice is no doubt made from tap water, which rather defeats the purpose of spring water.
Eoin Colfer
#97. You don't expect the goat to hatch the hen's eggs. People do what they know very well. Don't expect someone who doesn't know what you know to do it for you. Do it yourself.
Israelmore Ayivor
