Quotes by Eoin Colfer

About Eoin Colfer:

Eoin Colfer is an Irish author of children's books. He worked as a primary school teacher before he became a full-time writer. He is best known for being the author of the Artemis Fowl series. In September 2008, Colfer was commissioned to write the sixth instalment of the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy series, entitled And Another Thing ..., which was published in October 2009.
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Other men look up and down, left and right; but men like us are different. We are visionaries.

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Conor, I could search the world for another swashbuckling scientist, but I doubt if I would find one like you.

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A monkey glances up and sees a banana, and that's as far as he looks. A visionary looks up and sees the moon.

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Nobody ever got rich by wearing a heart on their sleeve, unless it was someone else's heart.

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Friendship isn't a science mudboy. Just do what you think is right.

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No matter what dimension you're in, there's a big-headed male trying to take over the world.

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Excuse me, Captain. Are you two going to weep salty tears of admiration over a helmet all night, or do we have matters to discuss?

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Wait," said Butler. "Just wait, Holly. Artemis has a plan." He squinted through the green dome. "What is your plan, Artemis?" All Artemis could do was smile and shrug.

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Ignorance, as they say, is usually fatal, but sometimes it can be bliss.

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That, as my cousin Nord would say, is where my improvised lie falls apart.

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Holly clambered after him, struggling up the human-size steps. "Wait! Just wait," she called, overtaking Artemis and looking him in the eye from one step up. "I know you, Artemis. You like to play your genius card close to your chest until the big re...

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Don't hate me forever, Arty," whispered Holly. "I couldn't bear that.

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Artemis looked at Holly and felt a tremendous affection for her... he could properly appreciate how fierce and beautiful his best friend was... She is truly magical, thought Artemis. Perhaps her qualities are more obvious to me now that I have decide...

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How could you...? How?" "Logically you have no right to be angry. I simply followed your lead." ... "No," She managed. "There is no other way.

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Have you ever heard of the theory of relativity?" Artemis blinked. "Is this a joke? I have traveled through time, Doctor. I think I know a little something about relativity.

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The sun was already long past the spire when Garrick purchased a mug of coffee from his regular man on the tip of Oxford Street. But his palate had been educated by 21st century coffee, and he judged this mug as bilge water not fit for the Irish.

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The Theory of Evolution has more holes in it than a dam made out of Swiss cheese.

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Genius inspires resentment. A sad fact of life.

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Artemis felt like he was six again and caught hacking the school computers trying to make the test questions harder

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Of course I saved you," she said. "I couldn't do without you." And because she was happy and flushed with magic, Holly leaned down and kissed Artemis, magic sparking around the contact like tiny fireworks.

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Author Bio

  • NameEoin Colfer
  • DescriptionIrish author of children's books
  • BornMay 14, 1965
  • CountryIreland
  • ProfessionWriter; Novelist; Children's Writer
  • WorksArtemis Fowl