Eoin Colfer Quotes

• If I win, I’m a prodigy. If I lose, then I’m crazy. That’s the way history is written.

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  Topics in History

  Tags in Written

• I never tell anyone exactly how clever I am. They would be too scared.

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Exactly

• You know you’re in trouble when your own imagination starts punishing you.

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Imagination

• I can’t imagine what they’re planning. But I can tell you two things. We won’t like it, and it won’t be legal.

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Imagine

• And it’s amazing how much noise people ignoring each other can make.

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  Tags in Amazing

• The problem is that I know the textbook answers to any question you care to ask.

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  Tags in Problem

• Together we will be unstoppable.

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  Tags in Together

• Sometimes plans don’t translate smoothly from paper to real life.

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  Tags in Plans

• Perhaps we can win, he thought. But there will be no happy ending.

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  Tags in Win

• Confidence is ignorance.If you’re feeling cocky, it’s because there’s something you don’t know.

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  Topics in Confidence

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

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  Topics in Money

• All we can hope for is that he will fall into the ocean with a bar of soap in his pocket.

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  Topics in Humor

• Being part of a secret is a great source of strength.

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  Tags in Secret

• Dreams come true all the time, just not for the dreamers.

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  Topics in Humor, Inspirational

• They have gone. And the tunnel is about to close. So, boys, I am looking for someone to blame.

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Time

• Genius inspires resentment. A sad fact of life.

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  Topics in Genius

• We’re being lead by an idiot with a crayon.

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  Topics in Humor

• Being in command means making tough decisions. Not being in command means shutting up and doing what you’re told.

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Command

• Good. Illegal is always faster.

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Crime

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

  Eoin Colfer

  Topics in Humor

  Tags in Men

Eoin Colfer (26)

Birth:	14th May, 1965
Nationality:	Irish
Profession:	Writer

About

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. His novels have been compared to the works of J. K. Rowling.

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