Owl Quotes · Page 2

I was born a jackdaw; why should I try to be an owl?

— Ogden Nash

“Sometimes an owl is just an owl.”

— Mark Frost

Owl hasn't exactly got Brain, but he Knows Things.

— A. A. Milne

The wailing owl Screams solitary to the mournful moon.

— David Mallet

The owls are gathering; find out why soon.

— Anonymous

The ignorant man doesn't praise the wise as the owl doesn't praise the light.

— Vikrant Parsai

The clamorous owl, that nightly hoots and wonders At out quaint spirits.

— William Shakespeare

The ignorant hath an Eagles wings, and an Owles eyes. [The ignorant hath an eagle's wings and an owl's eyes.]

— George Herbert

Owls are wise. They are careful and patient. Wisdom precludes boldness. That is why owls make poor heroes.

— Patrick Rothfuss

At home, I love reaching out into that absolute silence, when you can hear the owl or the wind.

— Amanda Harlech

One time, I had to do Edgar in 'King Lear' and Owl in 'Winnie the Pooh' on the same day.

— Jonathan Pryce

I felt like 'Owl Pharoah,' not everyone understood who I was as an artist.

— Travis Scott

The clamorous owl that nightly hoots and wonders At our quaint spirits.

— William Shakespeare

The sun was set; the night came on apace, And falling dews bewet around the place; The bat takes airy rounds on…

— John Gay

The rugs that I picked out and the pillows with the little owls, sort of like whimsical throw pillows - I feel…

— Busy Philipps

Well,” said Owl, “the customary procedure in such cases is as follows.” “What does Crustimoney Proseedcake mean?” said Pooh. “For I am…

— Anonymous

Owls hoot in B flat, cuckoos in D, but the water ousel sings in the voice of the stream. She builds her…

— Karen Joy Fowler

“Like some winter animal the moon licks the salt of your hand, Yet still your hair foams violet as a lilac tree…

— Johannes Bobrowski

Words should wander and meander. They should fly like owls and flicker like bats and slip like cats. They should murmur and…

— David Almond

When you hear Portuguese, if you're listening fleetingly, it's as if you're hearing Russian, which never happens with Spanish. Because the Portuguese…

— Gregory Rabassa

I plead alignment to the flakes of the untitled snakes of a merry cow and to the republicrats for which they scam:…

— Matt Groening

In the hollow tree, in the old gray tower, The spectral Owl doth dwell; Dull, hated, despised, in the sunshine hour, But…

— Bryan Procter

Government barriers on Business For example, the Endangered Species Act prevents 'disturbing the habitat' of the spotted owl. That has restricted 4.2…

— Rush Limbaugh

I live in Topanga Canyon, which is like a faux-rustic enclave in Los Angeles. I love the sounds of all the critters…

— Cliff Martinez

When the Sun sets, shadows, that shew'd at Noon But small, appear most long and terrible; So, when we think Fate hovers…

— John Dryden

Look, the world's comforter, with weary gait, His day's hot task hath ended in the west: The owl, night's herald, shrieks-'tis very…

— William Shakespeare

Pooh hasn't much Brain, but he never comes to any harm. He does silly things and they turn out right. There's Owl.…

— Anonymous

...Zedar was gone...As an owl, though, I was able to drift silently from tree to tree until I caught up with him...He…

— David Eddings

Give me a hot coal glowing bright red, Give me an ember sizzling with heat, These are the jewels made from my…

— Kathryn Lasky

The truth is, we [women] live like bats, or owls, labor like beasts, and die like worms.

— Margaret Cavendish

Where the bee sucks, there suck I In the cow-slip's bell i lie There I couch when owls do cry

— William Shakespeare

I'm not very keen for doves or hawks. I think we need more owls.

— George Aiken

The large white owl that with eye is blind, That hath sate for years in the old tree hollow, Is carried away…

— Elizabeth Barrett Browning

If you want to be friends with both a rooster and an owl, you will have neither good night nor good morning.

— Vikrant Parsai

If I was an owl, I would peck your eyes out. Wow this lyric is ****ing brilliant.

— Thom Yorke

I don't really start writing until later in the night. I'm a night owl.

— Ester Dean

Lamentation is the only musician that always, like a screech-owl, alights and sits on the roof of any angry man.

— Plutarch

The spider is the chamberlain in the Palace of the Caesars The owl is the trumpeter on the battlements of Afrasiyah.

— Bill Vaughan

Some men pray only when the world is dark, as owls hoot at night.

— Austin O'Malley

I think the shocking thing to discover is the owls are not stupid and very feral, very hard to train.

— Anonymous