Quote

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

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Eoin Colfer
Age: 59
Born: 1965
Born: May 14
Author
Novelist
Science Fiction Writer
Writer
Wexford
Moon
Visionary
Looks
Bananas
Visionaries
Monkey
Glances
Monkeys
Optimistic
Sees
Banana

More quotes by Eoin Colfer

Image
Chief of security : They have a tank! How did they get a tank up here?
Eoin Colfer
Image
Victor Vigny: It is like the old fairy tale. The boy saves the princess they fall in love. He invents a flying machine - along with his dashing teacher, of course. They get married and name thier firstborn after the aforementioned dashing teacher. Conor: I don't recall that fairy tale from the nursery. Victor Vigny: Trust me, It's a classic.
Eoin Colfer
Image
I did what all good Iriah dads do when faced with a worthy adversary..I said Ask your mother!!
Eoin Colfer
Image
Anything else, Butler? The cosh, sir.
Eoin Colfer
Image
A metaphorical weight lifted from his allegorical chest and Artemis Fowl felt himself again.
Eoin Colfer
Image
What's that supposed to mean? A wolf's head on a stick. Big wolf barbecue tonight? Bring your own wolf?
Eoin Colfer
Image
Don’t feel bad I regularly reduce people to unintelligible stammers.
Eoin Colfer
Image
Meg and Belch only had eyes for each other. Not in the usual romantic sense.
Eoin Colfer
Image
Together we will be unstoppable.
Eoin Colfer
Image
Me, Artemis blurted. I'm the nut. Artemis could have sworn the squid winked at him before bringing the five-ton chunk of spacecraft swinging down toward the morsel of meat in its blue shell. I'm the nut! Artemis shouted again, a little hysterically, it must be said.
Eoin Colfer
Image
People like me, LB, the truly great ones ... we are always alone.
Eoin Colfer
Image
Commander: What's that? Foaly: It's a finger, what does look like?
Eoin Colfer
Image
...Hardly. A ragged apron does not a waiter make.
Eoin Colfer
Image
A genius. A criminal mastermind. A millionaire. And he is only twelve years old.
Eoin Colfer
Image
Genius inspires resentment. A sad fact of life.
Eoin Colfer
Image
Why can't we for once have a meeting in Starbucks?
Eoin Colfer
Image
Miss me? Bet you did ... so would I.
Eoin Colfer
Image
Artemis: Holly, how did you find me? Holly: Oh, I saw a huge explosion and wondered: now, who could that be?
Eoin Colfer
Image
Her glare was so intense that you completely forgot she was wearing pink.
Eoin Colfer
Image
If you're going to read five books, three should be issues and two for fun.
Eoin Colfer