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  • You Liberals think that goats are just sheep from broken homes. -- Malcolm Bradbury
  • I was writing poetry, and the Mountain Goats was an outgrowth of that. -- John Darnielle
  • Every man can tell how many goats or sheep he possesses, but not how many friends. -- Marcus Tullius Cicero
  • Ideas are easy. It's the execution of ideas that really separates the sheep from the goats. -- Sue Grafton
  • I think people should be free to engage in any sexual practices they choose; they should draw the line at goats though. -- Elton John
  • There is nothing wrong with going to bed with someone of your own sex. People should be very free with sex, they should draw the line at goats. -- Elton John
  • A close family member once offered his opinion that I exhibit the phone manners of a goat, then promptly withdrew the charge - out of fairness to goats. -- Jeffrey Kluger
  • I think that the reason why 'Goats' is called 'Goats' is because you can't give direction to goats. They do what they want. That's the point of this film. -- Graham Phillips
  • Males do not represent two discrete populations, heterosexual and homosexual. The world is not to be divided into sheeps and goats. Not all things are black nor all things white. -- Alfred Kinsey
  • I have several dogs and several cats who aren't really mine. In fact, they think that I am theirs. I'd like to have some goats and chickens, but I travel around too much. -- Eric Stoltz
  • Goats are the cable talk show panelists of the animal world, ready at a moment's notice to interject, interrupt, and opine. They have something to say about everything, little of it complimentary. They are the most impertinent animals I have ever known. -- Jon Katz
  • At my high school, there were always kids carrying acoustic guitars around, which is why I named my band the Mountain Goats. I didn't want to seem like one of those guys who brought his guitar to the party whether you asked him to or not. -- John Darnielle
  • Goats," said Maxwell Hyde, "are a special case. Mad as hatters, all of them. -- Diana Wynne Jones
  • I'm not really a goal-oriented guy. I started doing the Mountain Goats just for the sheer hell of it. -- John Darnielle
  • I hate pigs. I hate goats. -- Blake Shelton
  • Happiness isn't happiness unless there's a violin-playing goat. -- Julia Roberts
  • Bring me coffee before I turn into a goat! -- Johann Sebastian Bach
  • Love is not love, without a violin playing goat. -- Julia Roberts
  • And I like pygmy goats, because they're just lovely, and ducks. -- Richard Hammond
  • On second thought, I think I am more crazy than my goat. -- Remedios Varo
  • We had five goats, two dogs, a cat and racks of commentaries on Shakespeare. -- Charles Dance
  • Books are no different from goats! They enjoy an afternoon out on the lawn. -- Kate Bernheimer
  • My men like satyrs grazing on the lawns, / Shall with their goat-feet dance an antic hay. -- Christopher Marlowe
  • Well, only Japanese may understand it, but I'm like a goat or something that likes high places. -- Tamae Watanabe
  • I was what they call 'skinny fat' - a body that resembled a python after swallowing a goat. -- A. J. Jacobs
  • Dogs and other animals - goats, donkeys, cows, a grumpy rooster - continue to change my writing life. -- Jon Katz
  • I had a ton of animals; I had a goat growing up, a bunch of rabbits, a vegetable garden. -- Kelli Williams
  • New York is my Lourdes, where I go for spiritual refreshment... a place where you're least likely to be bitten by a wild goat. -- Brendan Behan
  • Where I live, there's a lot of canyons. We're climbing constantly - we're like mountain goats. I'm just trying to get better at that. -- Joey Santiago
  • Great sermon helped me to reflect on scape goats, forgiveness, revenge and the messiness of community. .. where I referenced this sermon. Thanks! Keep preaching the damn Gospel! -- Bill Peterson
  • Tom Cruise only makes one or two film appearances a year. A baseball player can be the hero or the goat one-hundred and sixty-two times a year. -- Dave Winfield
  • My goats are not contemplative, accepting, or introspective. They are the Greek chorus of my farm, sometimes of my life. They watch me closely and remind me that I am foolish. -- Jon Katz
  • If we didn't live venturously, plucking the wild goat by the beard, and trembling over precipices, we should never be depressed, I've no doubt; but already should be faded, fatalistic and aged. -- Virginia Woolf
  • I actually would love to live in New York. But I need land; I need space. I'd love to move to a place where I could have a lot of land and a goat. -- Lusia Strus
  • Guys, there's only one thing I hate more than bloggers who start sentences with 'guys' - and it's those mealy-mouth hipsters who crochet codpieces and their ye-olde-sideburned friends who pickle stuff and slaughter their own gluten-free goats. -- Jill Soloway
  • I'll be with The Goat until the fall. Then I've been given three plays to look at and there have been a couple of films have come over the desk. I will probably not do either one of them. -- Mercedes Ruehl
  • The pride of the peacock is the glory of God. The lust of the goat is the bounty of God. The wrath of the lion is the wisdom of God. The nakedness of woman is the work of God. -- William Blake
  • In Ethiopia... you might find a seven-year-old expected to take 15 goats out into the fields for the whole day with only a chapati to eat and his whistle. Why are we so afraid to give our children responsibilities like this? -- Joanna Lumley
  • Mali exists mostly to itself. Few people go there. Few Malians leave. Most of Mali's 13 million people live, and seem to live quite happily, off the rice, corn and millet they grow and the long-horn cattle and goats they keep. -- Richard Engel
  • We as children went up the mountain to find feed for livestock, like goats, cows and horses, and because in the winter time we would light the fire in the house, we would climb the mountain to collect firewood as well. Because of that, I suppose I became used to climbing mountains. -- Tamae Watanabe
  • It was a small farm in a little rural town by the Indiana state border. I lived there from ages 5 to 12, I would say, before we moved to Dallas. We had chickens and a vegetable garden, and I had to get up to milk the goats at seven in the morning or do it at seven at night. -- Scott Michael Foster
  • We have some goats, some chickens, and we used to have pigs. There used to be two ostriches as well, but they were a little bit violent, so we had to give them away. When we were little, we used to play with the goats all the time. We each had our own little goat, and we'd go and run around with them. -- Jessica Springsteen
  • I think most of us are raised with preconceived notions of the choices we're supposed to make. We waste so much time making decisions based on someone else's idea of our happiness - what will make you a good citizen or a good wife or daughter or actress. Nobody says, 'Just be happy - go be a cobbler or go live with goats.' -- Sandra Bullock
  • I drive out to this quail farm, where I get a lot of these incredible quail eggs, which I eat all day long. And I eat a lot of superfoods like goji, cacao and chia seeds, things like that. And I like unpasteurised milk of the goat and the sheep. They send it once a week from Pennsylvania, from the Amish farms, and I get it in Los Angeles. -- Vincent Gallo
  • Redheaded women buck like goats. -- James Joyce
  • Even goats may have starlight in their eyes. -- Robert W. Service
  • I want to go about like the light-footed goats. -- Johanna Spyri
  • Political men, like goats, usually thrive best among inequalities. -- Walter Savage Landor
  • We know the goats are imported because they don't speak English. -- Scott Adams
  • I don't need to kill goats to say things. I CAN talk. -- L. J. Smith
  • To the goats, all people are equal, except for those who have treats. -- Karin Tidbeck
  • Men may die like lambs and yet have their place forever with the goats. -- Matthew Henry
  • . . . children - not kids. Kids are goats. I've always spoken of my children as children. -- Mickey Rooney
  • People here will date goats. But no one wants to date a goat wearing Google glass. -- Kara Swisher
  • Sheep are stupid, and have to be driven. But goats are intelligent, and need to be led. -- Terry Pratchett
  • If I do marry, I'll expect a pretty serious dowry. I'm talking goats, pigs, chickens, the works. -- Dov Davidoff
  • Kids are baby goats. They're cute and they have redeeming social value. You are definitely not kids. -- Rick Riordan
  • Dogs and other animals - goats, donkeys, cows, a grumpy rooster - continue to change my writing life." -- Jon Katz
  • A time will come when instead of shepherds feeding the sheep, the church will have clowns entertaining the goats -- Charles Spurgeon
  • The prime minister is 12 years old. She looks after 20 goats in the morning, but she's prime minister in the evening. -- Bunker Roy
  • Of course not. You can't have a family hanging over you like a bunch of old dead goats. No offense. -- Roald Dahl
  • Christ was born in a manger, laying down amongst donkeys ang goats. He was given gifts of incense and perfume. No kidding. -- Dana Gould
  • Creeds are definitions of what it means to be a Christian. They are fences that, albeit imperfectly, seek to separate sheep from goats. -- R. C. Sproul, Jr.
  • As he drank, little brown drops of coffee clung to his mustache like dew. Men will live like billy goats if they are let alone. -- Charles Portis
  • Think I have made a terrible mistake going to college. Have decided to become a shepherd and spend my days tending to flocks of goats -- Scott Frost
  • Well, there was a time when we used to sacrifice goats, but then we all became vegans, so we've been sacrificing tofu before the shows! -- Jared Leto
  • There are times, Sember, when I could believe your mother had a secret lover. Looking at you makes me wonder if it was one of my goats. -- David Gemmell
  • What difference does it make if you live in a picturesque little outhouse surrounded by 300 feeble minded goats and your faithful dog? The question is: Can you write? -- Ernest Hemingway
  • But you cannot have harmony without a commitment to ethical behavior. It's the fence that keeps out the goats that will eat all the young shoots in your garden. -- Jon Kabat-Zinn
  • If poisonous minerals, and if that tree, Whose fruit threw death on else immortal us, If lecherous goats, if serpents envious Cannot be damned; alas; why should I be? -- John Donne
  • The older we women grow, the more clearly we see what men really are: hypocrites, boasters, he-goats. The older men grow, the more they doll us up with every perfection. -- Jean Giraudoux
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  • A good way to lose weight is to put salt on your ass and go to a petting zoo. But stay away from goats because I've seen them fornicate with a mail box. -- Gary Busey
  • Throughout history, men have tried to play God by moving rabbits, goats, sparrows, mongooses, and a hundred other species to oceanic islands and island continents, and later have wished to God they hadn't. -- Victor Blanchard Scheffer
  • My wife has a beastly habit of comparing poetry -- all literature in fact -- to the droppings of the goats among the rocks -- mere excreta that fertilises the ground it falls on. -- D. H. Lawrence
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  • Shagga son of Dolf likes this not. Shagga will go with the boyman, and if the boyman lies, Shagga will chop off his manhood-" "-and feed it to the goats, yes," Tyrion said wearily. -- George R. R. Martin
  • What are men better than sheep or goats That nourish a blind life within the brain, If knowing God, they lift not hands of prayer Both for themselves and those who call them friend? -- Alfred Lord Tennyson
  • As with cows, mares, female camels, slave girls, buffalo cows, she goats, and ewes, it is not the begetter ,or his owner who obtains the offspring, even thus ,it is with the wives of others. -- Guru Nanak
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