Eoin Colfer - Time Quotes

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I wear a name tag to help people find me. It saves time when you're dealing with idiots.

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Anything can be real. Every imaginable thing is happening somewhere along the dimensional axis. These things happen a billion times over with exactly the same outcome and no one learns anything. Whatever a person can think, imagine, wish for, or believe has already come to pass. Dreams come true all the time, just not for the dreamers.

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Tea? At the beach? No time for luxuries, Holly. There is important work to be done. He winked at Butler. Are you sure you're at the library? I thought I heard water. Artemis smiled, enjoying the exchange. Water? Surely not. The only thing flowing here is information. Are you grinning, Artemis? For some reason I get the feeling that you're wearing that smug smile of yours.

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There will be consequences for this, he thought. You can't alter time and not be affected. But whatever the consequences are, I will bear them, because the alternative is too terrible. -Artemis Fowl, The Lost Colony

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Sounded like girls. Mixed feelings on that score. He didn't despise them with the same passion he used to. In fact, Benny suspected that there would come a time in the not-too-distant future when he might develop a mysterious interest in them.

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Don't worry. I've been in showbusiness for a long time now - I know how to handle bastards

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Stupid. Stupid. Foaly, we are both imbeciles. I don't expect lateral thinking from the LEP, but from you..."... "What is it?" [Holly] asked, afraid of the answer, which must surely be terrible. "Yeah," agreed Foaly, who always had time to feel insulted. "Why am I an imbecile?

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Look at those two. Wasting time. You wouldn't catch me doing that.

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Let's save some time here. I grow weary of your clumsy bluffs. In the case of an abduction, the LEP will send a crack Retrieval team to get back what has been lost.. You have done so. Excuse me while I titter. Crack team? Honestly. A Cub-Scout patrol armed with water pistols could have defeated them.

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You display inordinate pride for someone who has completed a task which could have been performed by a lesser primate in a shorter time.

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I hear that you were on a date with Trouble Kelp. Are you two planning on building a bivouac any time soon?

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