Billy Goats Quotes

#1. 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

#2. So many have the same premise: once upon a time, there were three. Three of something: three pigs, three bears, three brothers, three soldiers, three billy goats. Three princesses.

E. Lockhart

#3. I guess you could say the beginning of my career as an actress was when I started performing in music videos.

Sheri Moon Zombie

#4. Poems are taught as though the poet has put a secret key in his words and it is the reader's job to find it. Poems are not mystery novels.

Natalie Goldberg

#5. I think the best songs are being written by the very under-stated, under-appreciated indie artists. The thing that separates them from mainstream success is they either consciously or unknowingly refuse to deliver on a big chorus.

Ryan Tedder

#6. It's a big formless, arctic night, the stars so bright they seem to hiss. I walk with my hands in pockets, arms pressed to my sides. Even in my down parka, the cold is still there. I feel as though my blood is crackling in it, my bones conducting cold like wires. My toes are curled in their boots.

Diana Abu-Jaber

#7. We can always be human
Meeting each day a wise new man
But the Animal Kingdom to which we belong
Animals we are; this truth can't be wrong.

Munia Khan

#8. As long as there's a few farmers out there, we'll keep fighting for them.

Willie Nelson

#9. My childhood is very vivid to me, and I don't feel very different now from the way I felt then. It would appear I am the very same person, only with wrinkles.

Sarah Orne Jewett

#10. I've been listening to the old school hip-hop stuff and rock like The Beatles and the Rolling Stones.

Mac Miller

#11. It is written on the arched sky; it looks out from every star. It is the poetry of Nature; it is that which uplifts the spirit within us.

John Ruskin

#12. We have cultural expectations that everyone needs a dining room, yet they're only used three times a year. But if I put a bone handle on the door of an upper-end brick home, I'm making an outlandish statement.

Dan Phillips

#13. You say wicked like it's a good thing.

Danielle Paige

#14. I love making cakes, and I'm good at it.

Buddy Valastro

#15. There was this billy goat at a movie studio who found and ate a can of film. When a nanny asked him how he liked it, he said, "It was all right but I liked the book better."

Johnny Carson