Fowl Quotes - Page 2

• Cutting up fowl to predict the future is, if done honestly and with as little interpretation as possible, a kind of randomization. But chicken guts are hard to read and invite flights of fancy or corruption.

  Ian Hacking

  Future, Cutting, Done

  The Emergence of Probability Am Absent Family of Ideas (p. 3)

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• Butler was seeing the world as it was, complete with L.E.P retrival team

  Eoin Colfer

  Team, World, Butlers

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• Artemis Fowl will never be secondary." "I thought you were Artemis Fowl the Second?" said Holly.

  Eoin Colfer

  Hollies, Said, Artemis

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• And one more thing. About my name — Artemis — you were right. In London, it is generally a female name, after the Greek goddess of archery. But every now and then a male comes along with such a talent for hunting that he earns the right to use the name. I am that male. Artemis the hunter. I hunted you.

  Eoin Colfer

  Hunting, Archery, Names

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• Listen to me, goblin. You're stupid, let's accept that and move on.

  Eoin Colfer

  Stupid, Moving, Accepting

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• Hit that back-stabber where it hurts, right in the ambition.

  Eoin Colfer

  Hurt, Ambition, It Hurts

  Eoin Colfer (2001). “Artemis Fowl”

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• Speech is often barren; but silence also does not necessarily brood over a full nest.

  George Eliot

  Silence, Speech, Nests

  'Felix Holt' (1866) ch. 15

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• Shut up, Julius! I mean, quiet a moment, Commander.

  Eoin Colfer

  Mean, Quiet, Shut Up

  Eoin Colfer (2001). “Artemis Fowl”

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• I'm right there with you, darlin'. Unless you step on a landmine, in which case I'm way back in the Operations Room.

  Eoin Colfer

  Way, Rooms, Steps

  Eoin Colfer (2010). “Artemis Fowl”, p.174, Penguin UK

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• Orion brightened. "I have an idea." "Yes?" said Foaly, daring to hope that a spark of Artemis remained. "Why don't we look for some magic stones that can grant wishes? Or, if that doesn't work, you could search my naked body for some mysterious birthmark that means I am actually the prince of somewhere or other.

  Eoin Colfer

  Mean, Ideas, Magic

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• (to Foaly) Captain Short's life is in danger, so push the button before I climb that tower and push it with your face!

  Eoin Colfer

  Buttons, Towers, Captains

  Eoin Colfer (2001). “Artemis Fowl”

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• Let the mouth also fast from disgraceful speeches and railings. For what does it profit if we abstain from fish and fowl and yet bite and devour our brothers and sisters? The evil speaker eats the flesh of his brother and bites the body of his neighbor.

  Saint John Chrysostom

  Brother, Evil, Doe

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• A metaphorical weight lifted from his allegorical chest and Artemis Fowl felt himself again.

  Eoin Colfer

  Weight, Metaphorical, Artemis

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• So if you're not Artemis Fowl, then who are you?" The boy extended a dripping hand straight up. "My name is Orion. I am so pleased to meet you at last. I am, of course, your servant." Holly shook the proferred hand, thinking that manners were lovely, but she really needed someone cunning and ruthless right now, and this kid didn't appear to be very cunning.

  Eoin Colfer

  Kids, Thinking, Boys

  Eoin Colfer (2010). “Artemis Fowl and the Atlantis Complex”, p.87, Penguin UK

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• It is not always the most brilliant speculations nor the choice of the most exotic materials that is most profitable. I prefer Monsieur de Reaumur busy exterminating moths by means of an oily fleece; or increasing fowl production by making them hatch without the help of their mothers, than Monsieur Bemouilli absorbed in algebra, or Monsieur Leibniz calculating the various advantages and disadvantages of the possible worlds.

  Noel-Antoine Pluche

  Mother, Mean, Science

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• (about his terrible attempt at making a sandwich) It's more difficult than it looks. (Artemis Fowl)

  Eoin Colfer

  Looks, Sandwiches, Difficult

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• The wolf howled under the leaves And spit out the prettiest feathers Of his meal of fowl: Like him I consume myself.

  Arthur Rimbaud

  Meals, Spit, Prettiest

  Wallace Fowlie, Arthur Rimbaud (1966). “Rimbaud”

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• Just what we need," moaned Holly. "Artemis Fowl with magical powers.

  Eoin Colfer

  Hollies, Needs, Artemis

  Eoin Colfer (2008). “Artemis Fowl: The Lost Colony”, Miramax

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• Being in command means making tough decisions. Not being in command means shutting up and doing what you're told. --Artemis Fowl

  Eoin Colfer

  Mean, Decision, Tough

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• Why, Yrael?” it said, as the last of the dark gave way to silver, and the shining sphere of metal sank slowly to the ground. “Why?” “Life,” said Yrael, who was more Mogget than it ever knew. “Fish and fowl, warm sun and shady trees, the field mice in the wheat, under the cool light of the moon.

  Garth Nix

  Dark, Moon, Light

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• Ah, Evelyn and Vivian, I love you both, I love you for your sad lives, the empty misery of your coming home at dawn. You too are alone, but you are not like Arturo Bandini, who is neither fish, fowl nor good red herring. So have your champagne, because I love you both, and you too, Vivian, even if your mouth looks like it had been dug out with raw fingernails and your old child's eyes swim in blood written like mad sonnets.

  John Fante

  Children, Love You, Home

  John Fante (2002). “Ask The Dust”, p.89, Canongate Books

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• She forces me to endure this ridiculous therapy, when the so-called counselors are little better than misguided do-gooders with degrees. -Artemis Fowl

  Eoin Colfer

  Degrees, Littles, Ridiculous

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• A fifeteen-year old, of to save the world, with faries. - Angeline Fowl

  Eoin Colfer

  Years, World, Save The World

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• I said, "I'll take the T-bone steak." A soft voice mooed, "Oh wow." And I looked up and realized The waitress was a cow. I cried, "Mistake--forget the the steak. I'll take the chicken then." I heard a cluck--'twas just my luck The busboy was a hen. I said, "Okay no, fowl today. I'll have the seafood dish." Then I saw through the kitchen door The cook--he was a fish. I screamed, "Is there anyone workin' here Who's an onion or a beet? No? Your're sure? Okay then friends, A salad's what I'll eat." They looked at me. "Oh,no," they said, "The owner is a cabbage head.

  Shel Silverstein

  Mistake, Voice, Doors

  Shel Silverstein, “Strange Restaurant”

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• Holly winked. 'Do I look like a fly boy to you, Fowl?' Artemis had to admit that she didn't. Captain Short was extremely pretty in a dangerous sort of way. Black-widow pretty. Artemis was expecting puberty to hit in approximately eight months, and he suspected that at that point he would look at Holly in a different light. It was probably just as well that she was eighty years old.

  Eoin Colfer

  Boys, Eight, Light

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