“A monkey glances up and sees a banana, and that's as far as he looks. A visionary looks up and sees the moon.”
― Eoin Colfer, quote from Airman
“Don’t feel bad; I regularly reduce people to unintelligible stammers.”
― Eoin Colfer, quote from Airman
“Other men look up and down, left and right; but men like us are different. We are visionaries.”
― Eoin Colfer, quote from Airman
“A pity to survive night flights over St. Georges Channel only to crack my skull falling from a ladder.”
― Eoin Colfer, quote from Airman
“If things go badly for me tonight, I want you to stay with Mr. Wynter; he will pay you a decent wage.”
“Will he make me bathe?”
“No, he will debate the matter with you until you decide to wash.”
“Ah. One of those.”
― Eoin Colfer, quote from Airman
“Scientists are the enemies of tradition , and tradition own all the prisons. - Victor Vigny”
― Eoin Colfer, quote from Airman
“I have no time for babbling foolishness.”
“Don’t be so hasty,” said Victor. “There’s always time for babbling.”
― Eoin Colfer, quote from Airman
“Everything rests on the poisoned wine. If it were just the queen, I could force it down her gullet, but Declan Broekhart would run me through with that damned ceremonial sword, and if his wife's stares were daggers, he'd be dead already. ”
― Eoin Colfer, quote from Airman
“Connor Broekhart was born to fly, or more accurately he was born flying.”
― Eoin Colfer, quote from Airman
“There is always a use for everything, Victor had told him. Even pain.”
― Eoin Colfer, quote from Airman
“Conor, I could search the world for another swashbuckling scientist, but I doubt if I would find one like you.”
― Eoin Colfer, quote from Airman
“All we can hope for is that he will fall into the ocean with a bar of soap in his pocket.”
― Eoin Colfer, quote from Airman
“Being part of a secret is a great source of strength.”
― Eoin Colfer, quote from Airman
“I must capture the flag,’ he breathed. ‘That’s what a pirate captain is supposed to do. Go to the roof, so I can capture the flag and gloat.’
‘Capture the flag and goat?’
‘Gloat.’
Isabella stood hands on hips. ‘It’s pronounced goooaaat, idiot.”
― Eoin Colfer, quote from Airman
“King Nicholas had explained the lense box to”
― Eoin Colfer, quote from Airman
“He had seen bigger men than he with mummy's handkerchief clutched in on hand and a bloody dagger in the other.”
― Eoin Colfer, quote from Airman
“Are you an angel or a devil, sir? I need to know. Are you taking me up or down?”
― Eoin Colfer, quote from Airman
“Young love is common, but that doesn't mean it's not precious.”
― Eoin Colfer, quote from Airman
“Naturally, we lunatics are the kindest of the bunch.”
― Eoin Colfer, quote from Airman
Eoin Colfer
Born place: in Wexford, Ireland
Born date May 14, 1965
See more on GoodReads
“He opened his arms and she moved into the space they made in the world, and laying her head against his chest she permitted herself the almost unimaginable luxury of grief.”
― Guy Gavriel Kay, quote from The Lions of Al-Rassan
“No one knows, incidentally, why Australia's spiders are so extravagantly toxic; capturing small insects and injecting them with enough poison to drop a horse would appear to be the most literal case of overkill. Still, it does mean that everyone gives them lots of space.”
― Bill Bryson, quote from In a Sunburned Country
“Almost anything can be improved with the addition of bacon.”
― Jasper Fforde, quote from Shades of Grey
“Happiness is the most natural thing in the world when you have it, and the slowest, strangest, most impossible thing when you don't. It's like learning a foreign language: You can think about the words all you want, but you'll never be able to speak it until you suck up your courage and say them out loud.”
― Dan Wells, quote from Partials
“The soul is an irrational, indivisible equation that perfectly expresses one thing: you. The soul would be no good to the devil if it could be destroyed. And it is not lost when placed in Satan's care, as is so often said. He always know exactly how to put his finger on it.”
― Joe Hill, quote from Horns
Making Waves
The Complete Short S...
A Field Guide to Get...
Lucy Gayheart
Born in FlamesBookQuoters is a community of passionate readers who enjoy sharing the most meaningful, memorable and interesting quotes from great books. As the world communicates more and more via texts, memes and sound bytes, short but profound quotes from books have become more relevant and important. For some of us a quote becomes a mantra, a goal or a philosophy by which we live. For all of us, quotes are a great way to remember a book and to carry with us the author’s best ideas.
We thoughtfully gather quotes from our favorite books, both classic and current, and choose the ones that are most thought-provoking. Each quote represents a book that is interesting, well written and has potential to enhance the reader’s life. We also accept submissions from our visitors and will select the quotes we feel are most appealing to the BookQuoters community.
Founded in 2023, BookQuoters has quickly become a large and vibrant community of people who share an affinity for books. Books are seen by some as a throwback to a previous world; conversely, gleaning the main ideas of a book via a quote or a quick summary is typical of the Information Age but is a habit disdained by some diehard readers. We feel that we have the best of both worlds at BookQuoters; we read books cover-to-cover but offer you some of the highlights. We hope you’ll join us.
