Owl Quotes

142 quotes by 106 authors

The little owls call to each other with tremulous, quavering voices throughout the livelong night, as they sit in the creaking trees. — Theodore Roosevelt
It may well happen that what is in itself the more certain on account of the weakness of our intelligence, which is dazzled by the… — Thomas Aquinas
May your trails be dim, lonesome, stony, narrow, winding and only slightly uphill. May the wind bring rain for the slickrock potholes fourteen miles on… — Edward Abbey
The spider is the chamberlain in the Palace of the Caesars The owl is the trumpeter on the battlements of Afrasiyah. — Bill Vaughan
I'm a night owl, and luckily my profession supports that. The best ideas come to me in the dead of night. — Josh Fox
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 really liked the snake that breaks out of the cage in the beginning of the movie. I saw it in real life, and it… — Tom Felton
A serious writer is not to be confounded with a solemn writer. A serious writer may be a hawk or a buzzard or even a… — Ernest Hemingway
There was an old man with a beard, who said: 'It is just as I feared! Two owls and a hen, four larks and a… — Edward Lear
The thing about owls is that they do sort of have this facial disc, which is unlike any other bird. They kind of have a… — Zack Snyder
This tower, patched unevenly with black ivy, arose like a mutilated finger from among the fists of knuckled masonry and pointed blasphemously at heaven. At… — Mervyn Peake
The clamorous owl, that nightly hoots and wonders At out quaint spirits. — William Shakespeare
Other sound than the owl's voice there was none, save the falling of a fountain into its stone basin; for, it was one of those… — Charles Dickens
The owl goes not into the nest of the lark. — Victor Hugo
I consider anybody a twerp who hasn't read the greatest American short story, which is 'Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge,' by Ambrose Bierce. — Kurt Vonnegut
My very small part in WATCHMEN is that, every now and then, Alan would phone me: ''Neil, you're an educated man. Where does it say...''… — Neil Gaiman
It drains the bars and cafes after hours, concentrates the wicked and the guilty along its chipped Formica counter, and thrums with the gossip of… — Michael Chabon
She was elusive. She was today. She was tomorrow. She was the faintest scent of a cactus flower, the flitting shadow of an elf owl.… — Jerry Spinelli
Now, you two â€“ this year, you behave yourselves. If I get one more owl telling me you've â€“ you've blown up a toilet or… — Joanne Kathleen Rowling
Where the bee sucks, there suck I In the cow-slip's bell i lie There I couch when owls do cry — William Shakespeare

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