Fowl Quotes

I looked down from my terrace hanging over the Thames one morning. It was low tide and there, stranded on the pebbles, was a four-legged corpse - hairless, white and bloated. Was it a calf or a sheep or a goat or a dog? I stared at it until the tide rose and washed it away. For 24 hours I was off my food. When I started eating again, I couldn`t face meat - fresh or tinned. Overnight I was vegetarian and I have been for 15 years or more. I`ve seen the pictures of factory farming and followed the politics of mad cow disease and felt effortlessly superior. Yet it`s not reason or conscience that keeps me off meat and fowl--and these days fish, too--just a memory of that unidentifiable, decomposing body on the beach.

I am truly sorry that a fowl of Canada is no longer with us.

(Right now, on tour, Colfer is missing his wife and two kids but says it would be churlish not to appreciate the wonderful opportunities the Artemis Fowl books have presented him. At this point, he thinks he`ll write two more books in the series and then he`ll put Artemis to rest.) I`ll be a bit sad when it happens. I`ve spent a lot of time in his company, but I have lots of other things I`d like to do. ... People are very supportive and it`s not just a class thing - everybody, the common man can be creative and it`s OK, you can be young and say, `I`m writing a play`, and people will say, `Good on you`. Some other countries, they wouldn`t take you seriously.

We know John Kerry likes fowl. But we were confused if it was hawk or dove. So we decided to send wings,

*Det. Mac Taylor: Two dead doves, one dead bride... looks like "fowl" play to me. Det. Mac Taylor: (Danny makes a joke about marriage) You know, it could happen to you. Danny Messer: What? Marriage? Det. Mac Taylor: No, love. Danny Messer: Don`t even joke about that Mac! That`s not funny!