“In comic books, people with gifts became superheroes; in real life they became outcasts.”
― Eoin Colfer, quote from The Supernaturalist
“Whatever their circumstances, people still had to eat, live, and love.”
― Eoin Colfer, quote from The Supernaturalist
“Any of these vultures smell weakness, and they’ll mess you up faster than sugar in a gas tank.”
― Eoin Colfer, quote from The Supernaturalist
“Mona began firing with deadly accuracy, also with a stream of Spanish words that Cosmo suspected were not taught in kindergarten.”
― Eoin Colfer, quote from The Supernaturalist
“Mona was half ninja, half gunslinger, popping off charge after charge into the blue creatures.”
― Eoin Colfer, quote from The Supernaturalist
“world was dripping down his eyeballs like wet oil paint down a canvas.”
― Eoin Colfer, quote from The Supernaturalist
“Cosmo was halfway through a particularly nasty dream involving two Parasites, Ziplock, and a hair dryer,”
― Eoin Colfer, quote from The Supernaturalist
“Some instruments seemed like they were held together with duct tape and prayers. Everything looked out of date.”
― Eoin Colfer, quote from The Supernaturalist
“Cosmo sank into a near trancelike state. The events of the past few days bounced around his head like blobs of oil in a lava lamp. Who was he now? Cosmo Hill fugitive no-sponsor, or Cosmo Hill Supernaturalist? Who was Cosmo Hill anyhow? A product of Clarissa Frayne, with no personality to speak of. Fourteen years old and he had never kissed a girl.”
― Eoin Colfer, quote from The Supernaturalist
“Myishi will kick Phonetix’s butt next quarter.”
― Eoin Colfer, quote from The Supernaturalist
Eoin Colfer
Born place: in Wexford, Ireland
Born date May 14, 1965
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“No decision-making system is going to guarantee corporate success. The strategic decisions that corporations have to make are of mind-numbing complexity. But we know that the more power you give a single individual in the face of complexity and uncertainty, the more likely it is that bad decisions will get made.”
― James Surowiecki, quote from The Wisdom of Crowds
“I might have been made of metal once, but not anymore. Like Pinocchio, I'd turned into a real girl. So far it sucked. But there was nothing I could do about it.”
― Natalie Standiford, quote from How to Say Goodbye in Robot
“I am coming to feel that the people of ill will have used time much much more effectively than the people of good will.”
― Martin Luther King Jr., quote from Letter from the Birmingham Jail
“themselves. They work towards unattainable goals and assume too much responsibility. They try to perform several tasks correctly and to the same high standard. When told that their expectations are too high, they reply that they wouldn’t be doing their job properly if they didn’t meet those expectations. And since they’ve convinced themselves that they should be able to meet them, their ears are closed to advice.”
― Yasutaka Tsutsui, quote from Paprika
“Once, if my memory serves me well, my life was a banquet where every heart revealed itself, where every wine flowed.”
― Arthur Rimbaud, quote from A Season in Hell
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