John Oliver
Comedian
"You don't need people’s opinion on a fact. You might as well have a poll asking: ‘Which number is bigger, 15 or 5?’ or ‘Do owls exist?’ or ‘Are there hats?'"
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Owl
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J. K. Rowling
Novelist, Screenwriter
"Don't, Ginny, we'll send you loads of owls. We'll send you a Hogwarts toilet seat. George! Only joking, Mum."
William Shakespeare
Playwright, Poet
"For the poor wren (The most diminutive of birds) will fight, Her young ones in her nest, against the owl."
Victor Hugo
Novelist, Poet
"The owl goes not into the nest of the lark."
Christie Watson
Author
"An owl is the wisest of all birds because the more it sees the the less it talks."
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"A serious writer is not to be confounded with a solemn writer. A serious writer may be a hawk or a buzzard or even a popinjay, but a solemn writer is always a bloody owl."
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"That's not precisely what I had in mind." Jamie, I had found out by accident a few days previously, had never mastered the art of winking one eye. Instead, he blinked solemnly, like a large red owl."
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"Then at night the general stillness is more impressive than any sound, but occasionally you hear the note of an owl farther or nearer in the woods, and if near a lake, the semihuman cry of the loons at their unearthly revels."
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"Do you think I was born in a wood to be afraid of an owl?"
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"I don't really start writing until later in the night. I'm a night owl."
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"I'm kind of a night owl."
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"The significant owl hoots in the night."
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"The owls are gathering; find out why soon."
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"I have learned that one of the most important rules in politics is poise - which means looking like an owl after you have behaved like a jackass."
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"The clamorous owl that nightly hoots and wonders At our quaint spirits."
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"Thou ominous and fearful owl of death."
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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"
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"Don't count your owls before they are delivered."
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"My very small part in WATCHMEN is that, every now and then, Alan would phone me: ''Neil, you're an educated man. Where does it say...'' He would need a quote from the Bible, or an essay about owls. I was his occasional research assistant."
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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."
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"I consider anybody a twerp who hasn't read the greatest American short story, which is 'Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge,' by Ambrose Bierce."
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