Owl Quotes

142 Owl quotes by 106 unique authors

I'm not very keen for doves or hawks. I think we need more owls. — George Aiken
Do you think I was born in a wood to be afraid of an owl? — Jonathan Swift
Beware The Court of Owls, that watches all the time, ruling Gotham from a shadowed perch, behind granite and lime. They watch you at your… — Scott Snyder
The eastern light our spires touch at morning, The light that slants upon our western doors at evening, The twilight over stagnant pools at batflight,… — Thomas Stearns Eliot
When the Sun sets, shadows, that shew'd at Noon But small, appear most long and terrible; So, when we think Fate hovers o'er our Heads,… — John Dryden
The owl, that bird of onomatopoetic name, is a repetitious question wrapped in feathery insulation especially for Winter delivery. — Hal Borland
The rugs that I picked out and the pillows with the little owls, sort of like whimsical throw pillows - I feel like you can… — Busy Philipps
I think the shocking thing to discover is the owls are not stupid and very feral, very hard to train. — Robbie Coltraine
I don't really start writing until later in the night. I'm a night owl. — Ester Dean
For the poor wren (The most diminutive of birds) will fight, Her young ones in her nest, against the owl. — William Shakespeare
The large white owl that with eye is blind, That hath sate for years in the old tree hollow, Is carried away in a gust… — Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Why should I copy this owl, this sea urchin? Why should I try to imitate nature? I might just as well try to trace a… — Pablo Picasso
A professional model is like a stuffed owl. These girls are alive. — Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec
The owl and the pussycat went to sea, / In a beautiful pea green boat. / They took some honey, and plenty of money, /… — Edward Lear
We tried to talk about [the Owls' zone], but it's hard to replicate it. It's nearly impossible to penetrate that zone. What you do get… — Chris Mooney
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

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