Eoin Colfer Quotes

A true measure of strength is to use your hands to incapacitate somebody.

My whole body is a lethal weapon, you know. I know more ways to kill you than you know how to die.

If someone grabbed me, I'd probably be able to choke them out in about eight seconds.

I'm useless with a sword in real life.

I trained in combat, sword fighting, horse riding... It's empowering knowing that I can a break man's nose with my elbow.

I did not feel that I was designed for hand-to-hand combat.

People don't understand fighting. They think you just go there and stand in the middle and swing for the fence. People who fight like this are idiots.

I learned to wrestle, I learned defensive fighting at a young age, because when someone hit me, I would throw up and fall down.

Who cared whether you could change motor oil when you could snap a rottweiler’s neck in 2.8 seconds? Now there was a practical skill.

One had a knife. But I had a staff and was trained to use it.

We tottered together upon the brink of the fall. I have some knowledge, however, of baritsu, or the Japanese system of wrestling, which has more than once been very useful to me. I slipped through his grip, and he with a horrible scream kicked madly for a few seconds and clawed the air with both his hands.

If I kill you, you'll be awake, you'll be facing me, and you'll be armed.

I would much prefer their minds to be engaged in the deadly arts than clouded with dreams of marriage and fortune, as your own so clearly is!

Arms are my ornaments, warfare my repose.

Anecdotally his fitness reports rated him well above average in the classroom, excellent in the field, fluently bilingual in English and French, passable in Spanish, outstanding on all man-portable weaponry, and beyond outstanding at hand-to-hand combat. Susan knew what that last rating meant. Like having a running chainsaw thrown at you

If you have a sword, and the Aielman has his bare hands, it is an even fight. If you're good.

Yeah there's always something different. He's still limited to what he can do - ya know, no super powers, just a high skill set. But they have a cool thing - this time I learn very quickly... um, bow. 'Cause in the first Avengers he had that short bow that cracks open, and then I can crack and close with a staff. So now I'm a master with a staff apparently. I have to learn that today.

She might be unarmed, but Rose Hathaway was in possession of many weapons.

Boots and leather jackets were strewn on her bed, and what looked like a new knife set. She’d taken a class last winter and was dying to try them out legally on someone.

"What was that technique you were using on those bastards?" "An ancient form called kicking ass."

Is it not a strange blindness on our part to teach publicly the techniques of warfare and to reward with medals those who prove to be the most adroit killers?

Sparhawk grinned. "If Martel finds out that he's drinking again, he'll reach down his throat and pull his heart out." "Can you actually do that to a man?" "You can if your arm's long enough, and if you know what you're looking for.[...]

There are no pure styles of karate. Purity comes only when pure knuckles meet pure flesh, no matter who delivers or receives.

I had started also studying because I wanted to learn more about power and fighting.

His fingers never ceased to amaze me. They could break a man's neck, bandage a wound, and slide sensually across bare skin.