Owl Quotes

142 Owl quotes by 106 unique 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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