We were restless for ages...After a while I heard an owl hooting and calmed myself by thinking of it flying over the dark fields - and then I remembered it would be pouncing on mice. I love owls, but I wish God had made them vegetarian.
Quotes about owls (16 Quotes)
I am brother to dragons, and companion to owls. My skin is black upon me, and my bones are burned with heat.
I really liked the snake that breaks out of the cage in the beginning of the movie. I saw it in real life, and it was really cool. Really big and fat. The owls are cool as well, but you can't really pet them.
O Indra, destroy all those lustful people behaving like birds.... angry ones behaving like wolves.... greedy ones behaving like vultures.... enticed ones like owls..... arrogant ones like eagles and the jealous ones behaving like dogs.
Where the bee sucks, there suck I:
In a cowslip's bell I lie;
There I couch when owls do cry.
What our experiment demonstrates is a fundamental principle of how the brain pays attention. The promise here is that because we are doing this in owls, we can get at the mechanisms of how this works.
They'll be placed in an incubator until they get feathers and begin to fly. Then they'll be placed with surrogate parents there who will teach them to hunt with the eventual goal to release the owls back into the wild.
The Owls will end their third week of preseason practices with a two-hour scrimmage this morning. With the season opener at UCLA still two weeks away, the Owls will have a full Conference USA officiating crew in attendance to supervise the scrimmage and to speak to the team about 2005 rule changes. They'll talk to the team about the way they'll interpret the rules and some other things to watch for, ... This is important, especially for the freshmen who have come in from other federations.
There was an old man with a beard, who said: 'It is just as I feared! Two owls and a hen, four larks and a wren have all built their nests in my beard.
Nehemiah Ingram is a great guy and everybody loves him and when he comes back from football, where he has changed positions multiple times but hasn't played yet for the Owls, we'll probably start him every ball game. He'll be better and maybe we'll be better from it.
Now that we have found that the principle applies in owls as well as monkeys, we can figure out the mechanisms of how the brain manages attention.
Basically we have a tiny little gland in the middle of our brains that controls when we sleep and when we are awake as well as many other things. And many of us are programmed, as it were, to either be night owls (want to go to sleep late) or larks, where we want to go to bed early.
I think the shocking thing to discover is the owls are not stupid and very feral, very hard to train.
That is the highest number of great gray owls ever banded in a single season in the world.
Top management is supposed to be a tree full of owls hooting when management heads into the wrong part of the forest. I'm still unpersuaded they even know where the forest is.
We tried to talk about the Owls' zone, but it's hard to replicate it. It's nearly impossible to penetrate that zone. What you do get are open outside shots. You're going to have to make some of them.