Don't count your owls before they are delivered.
The little owls call to each other with tremulous, quavering voices throughout the livelong night, as they sit in the creaking trees.
I did but prompt the age to quit their clogs By the known rules of ancient liberty, When straight a barbarous noise environs me Of owls and cuckoos, asses, apes and dogs.
I mean, I have done scenes with animals, with owls, with bats, with cats, with special effects, with thespians, in the freezing cold, in the pouring rain, boiling hot; I've done press with every syndication, every country; I've done interviews with people dressed up as cows - there's honestly nothing that's gonna intimidate me!
I am brother to dragons, and companion to owls. My skin is black upon me, and my bones are burned with heat.
There are dark shadows on the earth, but its lights are stronger in the contrast. Some men, like bats or owls, have better eyes for the darkness than for the light. We, who have no such optical powers, are better pleased to take our last parting look at the visionary companions of many solitary hours, when the brief sunshine of the world is blazing full upon them.
Where the bee sucks, there suck I In the cow-slip's bell i lie There I couch when owls do cry
The owls are gathering; find out why soon.
I often have deer on my property and there's a fox and owls. You're not going to see that in the city.
Animals like crows, owls or black cats are not ominous at all; it is the men's superstitious mind which is the inauspicious one!
You can't hoot with the owls and then soar with the eagles
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.
Some men pray only when the world is dark, as owls hoot at night.
Perhaps he does not want to be friends with you until he knows what you are like. With owls, it is never easy-come-easy-go.
Women have in their natures something akin to owls and fireflies. While men grow stupid and sleepy towards evening, they become brighter and more open-eyed, and show a propensity to flit and sparkle under the light of chandeliers.
