Owl Quotes · Page 3

A professional model is like a stuffed owl. These girls are alive.

— Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec

The crow wished everything was black, the Owl, that everything was white.

— William Blake

I sit at the piano for a couple of hours and tinker away until I get something. I am a nocturnal spirit,…

— Thomston

Suspicion is an owl that flies when the light is bad and catches only vermin for food.

— Austin O'Malley

If you wish to take advice from an owl, then don't share it with a rooster because he will never appreciate it.

— Vikrant Parsai

An owl is the wisest of all birds because the more it sees the the less it talks.

— Christie Watson

I am brother to dragons, and companion to owls. My skin is black upon me, and my bones are burned with heat.

— Alan Moore

If this were a made-up story, it would begin at night, with a storm blowing and owls hooting and rattling noises under…

— Darren Shan

Seeing an Earl as an owl on a mantelpiece, and having part of one's face removed by a cat, both on the…

— Mervyn Peake

“As Hegel put it, only when it is dark does the owl of Minerva begin its flight. Only in extinction is the…

— Walter Benjamin

And if anyone knows anything about anything," said Bear to himself, "it's Owl who knows something about something," he said, "or my…

— Anonymous

Night Owls is a fast, fun read that kept me turning the pages. Lauren M. Roy delivers a plot that zips, dialogue…

— Devon Monk

I consider anybody a twerp who hasn't read the greatest American short story, which is 'Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge,' by Ambrose…

— Kurt Vonnegut

The owl, that bird of onomatopoetic name, is a repetitious question wrapped in feathery insulation especially for Winter delivery.

— Hal Borland

The screech-owl, with ill-boding cry, Portends strange things, old women say; Stops every fool that passes by, And frights the school-boy from…

— Mary Wortley Montagu

Of all the horrid, hideous notes of woe, Sadder than owl-songs or the midnight blast; Is that portentous phrase, "I told you…

— Lord Byron

“We are the owls of the weather chaw. We take it blistering, We take it all. Roiling boiling gusts, We’re the owls…

— Kathryn Lasky

The Owl and the Pussycat went to sea In a beautiful pea-green boat: They took some honey, and plenty of money Wrapped…

— Edward Lear

I had the heaviest paper round in Ilkley, West Yorks, and if you look at my shoulders one is still lower than…

— Alan Titchmarsh

When you begin to read a poem you are entering a foreign country whose laws and language and life are a kind…

— Randall Jarrell

You would know the secret of death. But how shall you find it unless you seek it in the heath of life?…

— Khalil Gibran

I want it so that every minister will be not a parrot, not an owl sitting upon a dead limb of the…

— Robert Green Ingersoll

We filmed one scene on the beach and there was definitely weird energy around, and we were followed around by a white…

— Rachel True

It drains the bars and cafes after hours, concentrates the wicked and the guilty along its chipped Formica counter, and thrums with…

— Michael Chabon

If the early bird catches the worm, then what the night owl catches?

— Vikrant Parsai

I'm a bit of a night owl, I'm always visiting the gym throughout the night.

— Jimi Manuwa

Don't, Ginny, we'll send you loads of owls. We'll send you a Hogwarts toilet seat. George! Only joking, Mum.

— Anonymous

Perhaps he does not want to be friends with you until he knows what you are like. With owls, it is never…

— Anonymous

The owl of Minerva spreads its wings only with the falling of the dusk.

— Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

In the enemy's territory, be as silent as the owl's wings; in friend's territory, be as cheerful as the nightingale's songs.

— Mehmet Murat Ildan

An owl sound wandered along the road with me. I didn't hear it--I breathed it into my ears.

— William Stafford

First, it was not a strip bar, it was an erotic club. And second, what can I say? I'm a night owl.

— Anonymous

The inauspiciousness of the owl is nothing but the inauspiciousness of the man who thinks that owl is inauspicious!

— Mehmet Murat Ildan

Owls are known as lonely birds; but it is not known that they have the forest as their best friend!

— Mehmet Murat Ildan

I think I'm a tiny bit like Harry 'cos I'd like to have an owl. Yeah, that's the tiny bit, actually.

— Daniel Radcliffe

I often have deer on my property and there's a fox and owls. You're not going to see that in the city.

— Billy Corgan

I'm a bit of a night owl because that's when I feel the most creative and alive.

— Christina Aguilera

If you are unwilling to defend your right to your own lives, then you are merely like mice trying to argue with…

— Terry Goodkind

Then at night the general stillness is more impressive than any sound, but occasionally you hear the note of an owl farther…

— Henry David Thoreau

Oft in the silence of the night, When the lonely moon rides high, When wintry winds are whistling, And we hear the…

— Louisa May Alcott