Owl Quotes - Page 5

• When I see two owls and then two more owls and conclude that I see four owls, I am responding to reasons, and it better not be my choice to believe that two plus two always equals four. If I am a rational person, I will have that belief by necessity, whether I wanted to or not. So it's not that strange to discuss responding to reasons out of necessity.

  Nomy Arpaly

  Believe, Choices, Belief

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

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• I've got everything I need: a nice piece of land with hawks and owls and incredible sunsets, and the good will of my neighbors.

  Burt Shavitz

  Nice, Sunset, Land

  "Honey Dance". Interview with Tad Friend, www.newyorker.com. July 28, 2014.

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• I had the heaviest paper round in Ilkley, West Yorks, and if you look at my shoulders one is still lower than the other. I also did a milk round for a day. It was awful. I was a very surly milkman, because it was very cold, very dark and very early. I am a lark, not an owl, but not in winter when it's chilly. Apart from that I went straight into gardening at 15.

  Alan Titchmarsh

  Dark, Winter, Gardening

  Source: www.mirror.co.uk

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• I think the shocking thing to discover is the owls are not stupid and very feral, very hard to train.

  Robbie Coltraine

  Stupid, Thinking, Shocking Things

  Interview with Steven Horn, www.ign.com. February 18, 2004.

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• 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 of wind.

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning

  Eye, Years, Wind

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1873). “Elizabeth Barrett Browning's Poetical Works”, p.303

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• 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 are open outside shots. You're going to have to make some of them.

  Chris Mooney

  Impossible, Shots, Penetrate

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• 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 clearest objects of nature; as the owl is dazzled by the light of the sun. Hence the fact that some happen to doubt about articles of faith is not due to the uncertain nature of the truths, but to the weakness of human intelligence; yet the slenderest knowledge that may be obtained of the highest things is more desirable than the most certain knowledge obtained of lesser things.

  Thomas Aquinas

  Christian, Light, Doubt

  Saint Thomas Aquinas, Catholic Way Publishing (2014). “The Summa Theologica: Complete Edition”, p.59, Catholic Way Publishing

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• The spider is the chamberlain in the Palace of the Caesars The owl is the trumpeter on the battlements of Afrasiyah.

  Bill Vaughan

  Spiders, Palaces, Conquest

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• They're doing everything they can to tighten security at the White House. Today, on the roof of the White House, they added one of those fake owls.

  David Letterman

  White, Fake, House

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

  Austin O'Malley

  Light, Suspicion, Vermin

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• Just then, with a wink and a sly normal lurch, The owl very gravely got down from his perch, Walked round, and regarded his fault-finding critic (Who thought he was stuffed) with a glance analytic.

  James Thomas Fields

  Fault Finding, Faults, Normal

  James Thomas Fields, “The Owl-Critic”

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• 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 his play.

  Mary Wortley Montagu

  School, Boys, Play

  Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, “The Politicians”

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

  Darren Shan

  Night, Made Up Stories, Storm

  Darren Shan (2012). “Vampire Blood Trilogy (The Saga of Darren Shan)”, p.11, HarperCollins UK

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

  Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec

  Girl, Alive, Models

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

  J. K. Rowling

  Hogwarts, Toilet Seat, Toilets

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• Harry Potter, he sends a message on Owl Mail while us poor old muggles have to make do with instantaneous emails and texting. Oh, if only we could be like you Harry Potter, with your four day owl delivery!

  Craig Ferguson

  Email, Muggles, Potters

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• So why am I depressed? That's the million-dollar question, baby, the Tootsie Roll question; not even the owl knows the answer to that one. I don't know either. All I know is the chronology.

  Ned Vizzini

  Depression, Baby, Dollars

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• That's right. You'll like Owl. He flew past a day or two ago and noticed me. He didn't actually say anything, mind you, but he knew it was me. Very friendly of him. Encouraging." Pooh and Piglet shuffled about a little and said, "Well, good-bye, Eeyore" as lingeringly as they could, but they had a long way to go, and wanted to be getting on. "Good-bye," said Eeyore. "Mind you don't get blown away, little Piglet. You'd be missed. People would say `Where's little Piglet been blown to?' -- really wanting to know. Well, good-bye. And thank you for happening to pass me.

  A. A. Milne

  Past, Two, Bye

  Milne, George, Milne, A. A. (Alan Alexander), Shepard, Ernest H. (1977). “The World of Pooh : the Complete Winnie-The-Pooh and The House at Pooh Corner”, McClelland and Stewart, 1989

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• Owl explained about the Necessary Dorsal Muscles. He had explained this to Pooh and Christopher Robin once before and had been waiting for a chance to do it again, because it is a thing you can easily explain twice before anybody knows what you are talking about.

  A. A. Milne

  Talking, Waiting, Robins

  A. A. Milne (2011). “The House at Pooh Corner”, p.109, Egmont UK

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• That's not precisely what I had in mind." Jamie, I had found out by accident a few days previously, had never mastered the art of winking one eye. Instead, he blinked solemnly, like a large red owl.

  Diana Gabaldon

  Art, Eye, Mind

  Diana Gabaldon (2015). “The Outlander Series 8-Book Bundle: Outlander, Dragonfly in Amber, Voyager, Drums of Autumn, The Fiery Cross, A Breath of Snow and Ashes, An Echo in the Bone, Written in My Own Heart's Blood”, p.282, Dell

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• 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,
  Our apprehensions shoot beyond all bounds,
  Owls, Ravens, Crickets seem the watch of death,
  Nature's worst Vermine scare her God-like Sons.
  Ecchoes the very leavings of a Voice,
  Grow babling Ghosts, and call us to our Graves:
  Each Mole-hill thought swells to a huge Olympus,
  While we fantastick Dreamers heave and puff,
  And sweat with an Imagination's weight.

  John Dryden

  Fear, Fate, Son

  "Dramatik Works".

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• ...Zedar was gone...As an owl, though, I was able to drift silently from tree to tree until I caught up with him...He wasn't really hard to follow, since he'd conjured up a dim, greenish light to see by --and to hold off the boogiemen. Did I ever tell you that Zedar's afraid of the dark? That adds another dimension to his present situation, doesn't it? He was bundled to the ears in furs, and he was muttering to himself as he floundered along through the snow. Zedar talks to himself a lot. He always has. ...I drifted to a nearby tree and watched him --owlishly. Sorry. I couldn't resist that.

  David Eddings

  Sorry, Dark, Light

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• The rugs that I picked out and the pillows with the little owls, sort of like whimsical throw pillows - I feel like you can never enough whimsical throw pillows in your house, in your life. My husband probably disagrees.

  Busy Philipps

  Husband, House, Littles

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• He missed Hogwarts so much it was like having a constant stomachache. He missed the castle, with its secret passageways and ghosts, his classes, … the mail arriving by owl, eating banquets in the Great Hall, sleeping in his four-poster bed in the tower dormitory, visiting the gamekeeper, Hagrid, in his cabin next to the Forbidden Forest in the grounds, and especially, Quidditch, the most popular sport in the wizarding world

  J. K. Rowling

  Sports, Sleep, Class

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• The cynic is one who never sees a good quality in a man, and never fails to see a bad one. He is the human owl, vigilant in darkness and blind to light, mousing for vermin, and never seeing noble game.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Failure, Men, Light

  Henry Ward Beecher (1845). “Lectures to Young Men, on Various Important Subjects”, p.113

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