“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
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“Caspian looked angry. “Did you ever think that things might have changed? We don’t live and die by the sword anymore. I may not have a lifetime of darkness to atone for. Maybe I just need her to be the star in my night sky. To hold back the darkness and to let me see the light.” He looked at me then, and my throat went dry. “Or maybe it really is as simple as something in her fills the hollow in me. The black void disappears when we are together.”
― Jessica Verday, quote from The Haunted
“The woman never wanted much. Just her own way. Like just about every other woman he had ever known.”
― Robert Jordan, quote from Knife of Dreams
“Do you want to know the real reason I came back, Alix?” It was because of you. You’re my roots. Wherever you are would be home to me.”
― Katherine Allred, quote from The Sweet Gum Tree
“He showed the words “chocolate cake” to a group of Americans and recorded their word associations. “Guilt” was the top response. If that strikes you as unexceptional, consider the response of French eaters to the same prompt: “celebration.”
― Michael Pollan, quote from In Defense of Food: An Eater's Manifesto
“There are times when those who fear God make themselves very unpleasant as human beings.”
― Chaim Potok, quote from The Promise
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