Goose Feather Quotes

#1. Their nasty whispering made me angry. They had a neat way of tucking their point inside something softseeming and neighborly. The cutting edge was hidden in a joke or a piece of advice. It was like being sliced by a tiny blade hidden in a goose feather; it took a moment to realize the wound.

Ananda Braxton-Smith

#2. Take any writer you want in the 19th century: they wrote with quill pens, dipping a piece of goose feather in ink and writing. And yet we read those novels today, and if we're sensitive to them, we respond to them with an immediacy that is stronger than anything written today on a word processor.

Walter Murch

#3. There's nothing half so mortal as a grey goose feather.

George R R Martin

#4. It's dangerous to watch staggering butterflies. They have a plan but it has no meaning.

Gunter Grass

#5. If you're going to be a musician's girlfriend, you have to know that your man will always love his bandmates in a way you can't even touch, because they are the guys who help him create music. You can only help him create a living human being, with your dumb uterus.

Julie Klausner

#6. I love going to my supermarket. Sounds so rock 'n' roll, eh?

Rachel Stevens

#7. I find myself focusing up at the sky - the only roof left - because too many memories are drowning me.

Suzanne Collins

#8. In a close-up, the audience is only inches away, and your face becomes the stage.

Marlon Brando

#9. We are in a time, because of the proliferation of online media and a hundred channels on cable, where teenagers and young adults and eight- and nine-year-olds do not read enough. And the SAT is very unforgiving for students who do not read.

Jonathan Grayer

#10. The moment of assassination is the moment when power and the ignorance of power come together, with Death as validator.

Thomas Pynchon

#11. Some people must go to extremes to get the world in balance for themselves. Some can't bear bright lights, so wherever they go they search for the dark; they turn the lights down, anything to sustain some level of comfort.

Julian Schnabel

#12. His pulse races under my palms. "Was there ever ... between us, was there ever something?" I say.
He shakes his head. "Just for me. But you were always Noah's."
"I don't want to be."
He doesn't say anything.

Dan Krokos

#13. I've been worked over by the English press because there's an assumption that my politics are identical with my wife's, and for that matter that my wife's politics are identical with her politics of 20 years ago.

Stephen Rea

#14. Among mathematicians in general, three main categories may be distinguished; and perhaps the names logicians, formalists, and intuitionists may serve to characterize them.

Felix Klein

#15. Feather by feather the goose is plucked.

John Ray

#16. The tragedy of this world is that everyone is alone. For a life in the past cannot be shared with the present.

Alan Lightman