Baa Quotes

#1. From the window, above the clatter of pots and the slamming of cabinets, Francis was singing, as though it was the happiest song in the world: 'We are the little black sheep who have gone astray ... Baa baa baa ... Gentlemen songsters off on a spree ... Doomed from here to eternity ...

Donna Tartt

#2. I'd be damned if I listened to the same money-grubbing whores who'd sell their ideals and principles for their fifteen minutes of fame; the ignorant buffoons that live in a one-dimensional 140-character world. Tweet tweet, roar roar, caw caw, more like baa baa.

Bruce Crown

#3. My husband sings Baa Baa black sheep and we pretend
that all's certain and good, that the marriage won't end.

Anne Sexton

#4. Well, you certainly are the most wonderfully woolly baa-lamb that ever stepped.

P.G. Wodehouse

#5. One of the lambs fixed its attention on Jared. "Baa," it flirted.
"Boo," said Jared.
"Oh my God, Jared. Don't tough-talk the lambs."
"It was giving me a funny look.

Sarah Rees Brennan

#6. Baa Baa Black Sheep' makes Marx's Capital look like Mary Poppins.

Terry Eagleton

#7. And Sam Vimes thought: Why is Young Sam's nursery full of farmyard animals anyway? Why are his books full of moo-cows and baa-lambs? He is growing up in the city. He will only see them on a plate! They go sizzle!

Terry Pratchett

#8. Shitload said, "His name is Korrok the Slavemaster from the eighth plane, also known in some realms as Baa'aaa'aaa'aab and in others as the Lord Zanthk All-Bzzki'l Shadd'uuul'l L'luuu'ddahs L'ikzzb-lla Khtnaz.

David Wong

#9. We're poor little lambs who've lost our way, Baa! Baa! Baa! We're little black sheep who've gone astray, Baa-aa-aa! Gentlemen-rankers out on the spree, Damned from here to Eternity, God ha' mercy on such as we, Baa! Yah! Bah!

Rudyard Kipling

#10. He was your usual man when it came to romance, which is to say he couldn't recite Baa Baa Black Sheep when sober, whereas when drunk, sixteen cantos of Byron's Don Juan was par for the course.

Tyne O'Connell

#11. There is no heroism in sheep. They stand on the hill and go "Baa", as they're being slaughtered.

Skip Coryell

#12. Wild inside; raging,
writhing - yes, "writhing" was the word, writhing with desire. But
outwardly he was hopelessly tame; outwardly - baa, baa, baa.

Aldous Huxley

#13. Writing is my passion, expression and an incessant obsession.

Pushpa Rana

#14. The writer can choose what he writes about but he cannot choose what he is able to make live.

Flannery O'Connor

#15. I won't leave forks in the dish rack overnight because I believe that the tines attract demonic energy.

Barbra Streisand

#16. Well, let her - she should see that he could be as indifferent as some other people.

Mark Twain

#17. It's hard to beat a guy when he's got his mind made up that he's going to win.

Muhammad Ali

#18. Dimly, I hear Maven yelling somewhere, the prince charging in to save his princess. But I'm not a princess. I'm not the girl who gets saved.

Victoria Aveyard

#19. The worst thing about me is my toes. I've thick joints from wearing pointe ballet shoes - I went to a dance school from the age of 11 and danced every day.

Pixie Lott

#20. The highest that we can attain to is not Knowledge, but Sympathy with Intelligence.

Henry David Thoreau

#21. To say time is evil because evil happens in time is like saying the ocean is a fish because fish happen in the ocean.

Christopher Isherwood