Owen Quotes
55 quotes by 39 authors
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I was a Liverpool fan simply because my dad followed them. Unfortunately I wasn't born when the team had their golden era, but I enjoyed…
— Theo Walcott
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Because of his compassion Owen was always in trouble with his partners. They would have much preferred a tough, down-to-earth manager who would get a…
— John Kenneth Galbraith
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I don't like department stores. I had a chain of department stores back in 1994 which was Lewis's and Owen Owen, only for a short…
— Philip Green
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You'll never meet a nicer guy than Owen Wilson.
— Vince Vaughn
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It is amazing to me, now, how such wild imaginings and philosophies - inspired by a night charged with frights and calamities - made such…
— John Irving
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Dan suggested to Owen and me that we were better off to not involve ourselves with Hester. How true! But how we wanted to be…
— John Irving
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Owen Meany believed that “coincidence†was a stupid, shallow refuge sought by stupid, shallow people who were unable to accept the fact that their lives…
— John Irving
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I am doomed to remember a boy with a wrecked voice. Not because of his voice, or because he was the smallest person I ever…
— John Irving
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Hello, Halberstam," Owen says, walking by. Hello, Owen," I say, admiring the way he's styled and slicked back his hair, with a part so even…
— Bret Easton Ellis
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I laughed. It was just like Owen to make excuses for someone else’s shortcomings. Even fictional characters. Owen found my tendency to speak my mind…
— Rachel Vincent
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This was not of the nature of a Christlike lesson for Owen Meany to learn, as he lay in the manger, that someone you hate…
— John Irving
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I don't think it's possible to c-call yourself a C-Christian and... and j-just leave out the awkward bits.' -Wilfred Owen
— Pat Barker
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So…†Kimball looks at his book helplessly. “There’s nothing you can tell me about Paul Owen?†“Well.†I sigh. “He led what I suppose was…
— Bret Easton Ellis
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I think that was when the headmaster realized he had lost; he realized then that he was finished. Because, what could he do? Was he…
— John Irving
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I remembered Owen telling me how music had saved him in Phoenix, that it drowned everything out, and it was the same for me now.…
— Sarah Dessen
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Mithros's spear, Kel!" he exclaimed. "When did you turn into a real girl?" "You said she was a girl already," muttered one of his cousins...…
— Tamora Pierce
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Owen meany who rarely wasted words and who had the conversation-stopping habit of dropping remarks like coins into a deep pool of water... remarks that…
— John Irving
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What are you reading?" Owen asks. "Charlotte's Web," Liz says. "It's really sad. One of the main characters just died." "You ought to read the…
— Gabrielle Zevin
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Oh," says Owen, "but I would have, you know." "I know you would have," says Liz, "and knowing you would have is nearly as good.
— Gabrielle Zevin
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Owen is the most Hitchcockian preschooler I ever met. He's three. He knows maybe ninety word and one of them is 'crypt'?
— Sarah Vowell
Who Wrote These Owen Quotes
39 authors contributed a total of 55 Owen Quotes, led by these top contributors: