Fowl Quotes

I am monarch of all I survey, My right there is none to dispute; From the center all round to the sea I am lord of the fowl and the brute. (William Cowper)
The howling pariah dogs, the cocks that herald dawn all night, the drumming, the moaning that will be found later white plumage huddled on telegraph wires in back gardens or fowl roosting in apple trees, the eternal sorrow that never sleeps of great Mexico. View quote
Malcolm Lowry
Plato had defined Man as an animal, biped and featherless, and was applauded. Diogenes plucked a fowl and brought it into the lecture-room with the words, "Behold Plato's man!" View quote
Diogenes of Sinope
To put the flesh of an animal into one's belly makes one an accessory after the fact of its slaughter, simply because if cows, pigs, sheep, fowl, and fish, to mention the most common, were not eaten they would not be killed. View quote
Philip Kapleau
Carbon dioxide, Mister Speaker, is a natural byproduct of nature. Carbon dioxide is natural. It occurs in Earth. It is a part of the regular lifecycle of Earth. In fact, life on planet Earth can't even exist without carbon dioxide. So necessary is it to human life, to animal life, to plant life, to the oceans, to the vegetation that's on the Earth, to the, to the fowl that - that flies in the air, we need to have carbon dioxide as part of the fundamental lifecycle of Earth...There isn't one such study because carbon dioxide is not a harmful gas, it is a harmless gas. Carbon dioxide is natural. It is not harmful. It is part of Earth's life cycle...And yet we're being told that we have to reduce this natural substance and reduce the American standard of living to create an arbitrary reduction in something that is naturally occuring in the earth. View quote
Michele Bachmann
I never lamented about the vicissitudes of time or complained of the turns of fortune except on the occasion when I was barefooted and unable to procure slippers [shoes]. But when I entered the great mosque of Kufah with a sore heart and beheld a man without feet I offered thanks to the bounty of God, consoled myself for my want of shoes and recited: 'A roast fowl is to the sight of a satiated man Less valuable than a blade of fresh grass on the table And to him who has no means nor power A burnt turnip is a roasted fowl. View quote
Saadi
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. View quote
Ian Hacking
Being in command means making tough decisions. Not being in command means shutting up and doing what you're told. --Artemis Fowl. View quote
Eoin Colfer
Artemis Fowl will never be secondary." "I thought you were Artemis Fowl the Second?" said Holly. View quote
Eoin Colfer
She forces me to endure this ridiculous therapy, when the so-called counselors are little better than misguided do-gooders with degrees. -Artemis Fowl. View quote
Eoin Colfer
(about his terrible attempt at making a sandwich) It's more difficult than it looks. (Artemis Fowl) (Eoin Colfer)
Just what we need," moaned Holly. "Artemis Fowl with magical powers. View quote
Eoin Colfer
gold is power-artemis fowl I liked the artemis fowl series because its about a boy genius. View quote
Eoin Colfer
A fifeteen-year old, of to save the world, with faries. - Angeline Fowl. View quote
Eoin Colfer
A metaphorical weight lifted from his allegorical chest and Artemis Fowl felt himself again. View quote
Eoin Colfer
Artemis Fowl grinned right back at him and pointed his index finger to the sky... from the tip of this finger sprang a small blue spark that exploded like a tiny firework. "I know magic can be stolen,” said Artemis. "Because I stole some myself. View quote
Eoin Colfer
Write her a poem, spill your heart to her in sweet cadences; but I didn't know how to write poetry. It was love and dove with me, bad rhymes, blundering sentiment. Oh Christ in Heaven, I'm no writer: I can't even put down a little quatrain. I'm no good in this world. I stood at the window and waved my hands at the sky; no good at all, just a cheap fake; neither writer nor lover; neither fish nor fowl. View quote
John Fante
That is no country for old men. The young In one another's arms, birds in the trees Those dying generationsat their song, The salmon-falls, the mackerel-crowded seas, Fish, flesh, or fowl, commend all summer long Whatever is begotten, born, and dies. Caught in that sensual music all neglect Monuments of unaging intellect. View quote
William Butler Yeats
The wolf howled under the leaves And spit out the prettiest feathers Of his meal of fowl: Like him I consume myself. View quote
Arthur Rimbaud
I am truly sorry that a fowl of Canada is no longer with us. View quote
Dave Winfield
People always say 'Etta, you know what your problem is? You're neither fish nor fowl. There is no place to rack you.' When I would go in a record shop, you might find one or two records by me in different stacks. (Etta James)
Speech is often barren but silence also does not necessarily brood over a full nest. Your still fowl, blinking at you without remark, may all the while be sitting on one addled egg and when it takes to cackling will have nothing to announce but that addled delusion. View quote
George Eliot
That will be her undoing," gasped Artemis, already suffering under the weight of the flak jacket. "Artemis Fowl will never be." "I thought you were Artemis Fowl the Second?" said Holly. View quote
Eoin Colfer
As full as a piper's bag; as a tick. As full as a toad is of poison. As full as a jade, quoth the bride. As gant as a greyhound. As glad as a fowl of a fair day. To go like a cat upon a hot bake-stone. To go out like a candle in a snuff. As good as George of Green. To go like a cat upon a hot bake-stone. View quote
John Ray
The cook cares not a bit for toil, toil, if the fowl be plump and fat. View quote
Horace