Owl Quotes - Page 4

• Christopher Robin was home by this time, because it was the afternoon, and he was so glad to see them that they stayed there until very nearly tea-time, and then they had a Very Nearly tea, which is one you forget about afterwards, and hurried on to Pooh Corner, so as to see Eeyore before it was too late to have a Proper Tea with Owl.

  A. A. Milne

  Home, Tea, Robins

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• There are dark shadows on the earth, but its lights are stronger in the contrast. Some men, like bats or owls, have better eyes for the darkness than for the light. We, who have no such optical powers, are better pleased to take our last parting look at the visionary companions of many solitary hours, when the brief sunshine of the world is blazing full upon them.

  Charles Dickens

  Eye, Dark, Sunshine

  Charles Dickens (1838). “The posthumous papers of the Pickwick Club”, p.607

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• When the cold comes to New England it arrives in sheets of sleet and ice. In December, the wind wraps itself around bare trees and twists in between husbands and wives asleep in their beds. It shakes the shingles from the roofs and sifts through cracks in the plaster. The only green things left are the holly bushes and the old boxwood hedges in the village, and these are often painted white with snow. Chipmunks and weasels come to nest in basements and barns; owls find their way into attics. At night,the dark is blue and bluer still, as sapphire of night.

  Alice Hoffman

  Husband, Dark, Night

  Alice Hoffman (1999). “Here on Earth”, p.260, Penguin Group

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• Women have in their natures something akin to owls and fireflies. While men grow stupid and sleepy towards evening, they become brighter and more open-eyed, and show a propensity to flit and sparkle under the light of chandeliers.

  Abba Louisa Goold Woolson

  Stupid, Firefly, Men

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• If we call the young ones, say 10 to 30 years old, 'siblings,' we can see they tend to be naturally ecological. They regard whales and owls as siblings too. That's a great advance.

  Robert Bly

  Sibling, Whales, Years

  Source: www.utne.com

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• More like some small, fierce bird of prey, something with a sharp bite. An owl perhaps, that speaks only when the rest of the world sleeps. Jenny will do well enough.

  Juliet Marillier

  Sleep, Bird, World

  Juliet Marillier (2008). “Daughter of the Forest: A Sevenwaters Novel 1”, p.133, Pan Australia

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• The snowy owl has eyes that look just like mine, especially when it widens them. And while I stand there, staring at it, lowering my sunglasses, something unspoken passes between me and the bird - there's this weird kind of tension, a bizarre pressure, that fuels the following, which starts, happens, ends, very quickly.

  Bret Easton Ellis

  Eye, Bird, Sunglasses

  Bret Easton Ellis (2014). “American Psycho: Picador Classic”, p.240, Pan Macmillan

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• The inauspiciousness of the owl is nothing but the inauspiciousness of the man who thinks that owl is inauspicious!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Men, Thinking, He Man

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• 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 the other side of yonder blue ridge. May God's dog serenade your campfire, may the rattlesnake and the screech owl amuse your reverie, may the Great Sun dazzle your eyes by day and the Great Bear watch over you by night.

  Edward Abbey

  Dog, Rain, Eye

  "Beyond the Wall: Essays from the Outside". Book by Edward Abbey ("Preface" (dated October 1983), pp. 16-17), 1984.

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• Of all the horrid, hideous notes of woe, Sadder than owl-songs or the midnight blast; Is that portentous phrase, "I told you so.

  Lord Byron

  Song, Midnight, Phrases

  'Don Juan' (1819-24) canto 14, st. 50

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• For the poor wren (The most diminutive of birds) will fight, Her young ones in her nest, against the owl.

  William Shakespeare

  Fighting, Bird, Wrens

  'Macbeth' (1606) act 4, sc. 2, l. 8

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• And if anyone knows anything about anything," said Bear to himself, "it's Owl who knows something about something," he said, "or my name's not Winnie-the-Pooh," he said. "which it is," he added. "so there you are.

  A. A. Milne

  Names, Bears, Said

  A. A. Milne (2012). “Winnie-the-Pooh”, p.41, Egmont UK

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• Me and my brother, Illa Noyz. We was smoking weed. A ton of weed. I had a friend who at the time sold weed, and it was just there. And we just smoke and smoke. I think we had about... and remember, this is back in the day, this might have been when niggas were still smoking White Owls.

  Sean Price

  Weed, Brother, Thinking

  Source: hiphopdx.com

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• I'm a bit of a night owl because that's when I feel the most creative and alive.

  Christina Aguilera

  Night, Creative, Alive

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• I come alive at night. I'm such a night owl.

  Mpho Koaho

  Night, Alive, Night Owl

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• I'm kind of a night owl.

  Barack Obama

  Night, Kind, Night Owl

  Source: abcnews.go.com

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• If we don't preserve forest habitat for spotted owls, then soon we won't have trees to refresh the air we breathe. And we're realizing that this applies to social ecology, as well.

  Sam Keen

  Air, Tree, Habitat

  Source: www.scottlondon.com

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• Right before the game, she strolled up to me. "Hey, Seaweed Brain." "Will you stop calling me that?" She knows I hate that name, mostly because I never have a good comeback. She's the daughter of Athena, which doesn't give me a lot of ammunition. I mean, "Owl-head" and "Wise Girl" are kind of lame insults.

  Rick Riordan

  Girl, Wise, Daughter

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• Owl,' said Rabbit shortly, 'you and I have brains. The others have fluff. If there is easy thinking to be done in this Forest - and when I say thinking I mean thinking - you and I must do it.

  A. A. Milne

  Mean, Thinking, Brain

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• I am brother to dragons, and companion to owls. My skin is black upon me, and my bones are burned with heat.

  Alan Moore

  Brother, Dragons, Black

  Alan Moore, John Higgins (2005). “Watchmen”, Dc Comics

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• While Eeyore frets ... ... and Piglet hesitates ... and Rabbit calculates ... and Owl pontificates ...Pooh just is.

  Benjamin Hoff

  Piglet, Rabbits, Tao Of Pooh

  "The Tao of Pooh". Book by Benjamin Hoff, 1982.

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• Seeing an Earl as an owl on a mantelpiece, and having part of one's face removed by a cat, both on the same morning, can temporarily undermine the self-control of any man.

  Mervyn Peake

  Morning, Cat, Men

  Mervyn Peake (2007). “Titus Groan”, p.309, The Overlook Press

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• The Owl and the Pussycat went to sea In a beautiful pea-green boat: They took some honey, and plenty of money Wrapped up in a five-pound note. . . They dined on mince and slices of quince, Which they ate with a runcible spoon; And hand in hand, on the edge of the sand, They danced by the light of the moon, The moon, The moon, They danced by the light of the moon.

  Edward Lear

  Beautiful, Moon, Light

  "The Owl and the Pussy-Cat" l. 21 (1871)

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• Where the bee sucks, there suck I In the cow-slip's bell i lie There I couch when owls do cry

  William Shakespeare

  Lying, Bells, Cows

  William Shakespeare, “Tempest, Act V, Scene I [Where The Bee Sucks, There Suck I]”

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• The worst part of it is you don't know if he's barking at an owl, the moon or a burglar!" "That's one of the drawbacks of a limited vocabulary!

  Charles M. Schulz

  Moon, Vocabulary, Drawbacks

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