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  • ...'Goose girl, may I kiss you?' She answered by... kissing him first.

    Girl   Kissing   May  
  • There is a little bit of a head vs. heart kind of battle that happens sometimes with the song. There's the goose bump thing, where the melody or whatever it is just gets you and you don't know why. Sometimes, it's in a genre that you didn't think you liked and, all of a sudden, the song hits you and you just say, wow, I feel the hairs on the back of my neck. I love this song.

    Song   Heart   Thinking  
    "Josh Groban indulges his inner musical theater geek with ‘Stages’". "PBS NewsHour" with Jeffrey Brown, www.pbs.org. October 7, 2015.
  • I’m sorry, my lady,” said Geric, rubbing his arm. “But I failed to force an apology out of the offending goose.

    Shannon Hale (2010). “The Goose Girl”, p.186, A&C Black
  • Can you call a farm with a dozen geese a farm? Still, it was a little better for the Jews in Czechoslovakia. There were only two pogroms there. What's two pogroms?

    Two   Dozen   Littles  
    "Testament to a Lost People" by Herbert Mitgang, New York Times, www.nytimes.com. October 2, 1983.
  • Laissez Faire was very good sauce for the goose, labor, but was very poor sauce for the gander, capital.

    Benjamin Ricketson Tucker (1972). “Instead of a Book”
  • While he writes, I feel as if he is drawing me; or not drawing me, drawing on me - drawing on my skin - not with the pencil he is using, but with an old-fashioned goose pen, and not with the quill end but with the feather end. As if hundreds of butterflies have settled all over my face, and are softly opening and closing their wings.

    Margaret Atwood (2011). “Alias Grace: A Novel”, p.69, Anchor
  • Some men are born to good luck: all they do or try to do comes right—all that falls to them is so much gain—all their geese are swans—all their cards are trumps—toss them which way you will, they will always, like poor puss, alight upon their legs, and only move on so much the faster. The world may very likely not always think of them as they think of themselves, but what care they for the world? what can it know about the matter?

    Moving   Fall   Good Luck  
    Jacob Grimm, Wilhelm Grimm “Annotated Grimms' Fairy Tales with English Grammar Exercises: by Jacob Grimm and Wilhelm Grimm (Author), Robert Powell (Editor)”, Powell Publications, LLC
  • To have some parts flowing free again . . . with deer grazing on its banks . . . ducks and geese raising their young in the backwaters . . . eddies and twists and turns for canoeists . . . and fishing opportunities such as Lewis and Clark enjoyed . . . would be the finest possible tribute to the men of the Expedition, and a priceless gift for our children.

  • What's good for the goose is good for the gander.

    Wisdom   Gander   Geese  
  • To bring about a genuine political realignment, Republicans must kill the Government Goose that Lays the Golden Eggs - the very Goose they have fought so hard and long to possess.

    Government   Eggs   Long  
    "Deinventing Government". imprimis.hillsdale.edu. June, 1995.
  • A war, or any wild-goose chase, is, as the vulgar use the phrase, a lucky turn-up of patronage for the minister, whose chief merit is the art of keeping himself in place.

    Art   War   Liberty  
    Mary Wollstonecraft (2008). “A Vindication of the Rights of Women”, p.152, Cosimo, Inc.
  • When you think of things that influenced your life, Mother Goose influenced more people than almost any other thing, the rhythms of those poems. Everything after that was a bare imitation of some of those mysterious and materialistic poems.

  • He writes so well he makes me feel like putting my quill back in my goose.

    Funny   Work   Writing  
  • It was the best place to be, thought Wilbur, this warm delicious cellar, with the garrulous geese, the changing seasons, the heat of the sun, the passage of swallows, the nearness of rats, the sameness of sheep, the love of spiders, the smell of manure, and the glory of everything.

    Love   Happiness   Sheep  
    Charlotte'sWeb ch. 22 (1952)
  • When I swing at a golf ball right, my mind is blank and my body is loose as a goose.

    Golf   Swings   Mind  
  • Stravinsky used Mother Goose. He was influenced by Mother Goose, indirectly, but very beautifully

  • I do not believe in god because I do not believe in Mother Goose.

    Speech, Toronto, Canada, 1930
  • - Might it console you to know that I expect nothing but torture from her return? That I regard you as a bird of paradise? She shook her head. - That my admiration for you is painfully strong? - I want Van – she cried – and not intangible admiration. - Intangible? You goose. You my gauge it, you may brush it once very lightly with the knuckles of you gloved hand. I said knuckles. I said once. That will do. I can't kiss you. Not even your burning face. Good-bye, pet. Tell Edmond to take a nap after he returns. I shall need him at two in the morning.

  • If I don't get the goose-bump factor when I'm reading it than I can't do it.

    Reading   Bumps   Geese  
  • She glanced up at him, and in that moment he pulled his wet shirt over his head. She forced her mind blank. Blank as a new sheet of paper, blank as a starless sky. He came to the fire and crouched before it. He rubbed the water from his bare arms and flicked it in the flames. She stared at the goose and sliced his drumstick carefully and thought of the blankest expression on the blankest face she could possibly imagine. It was a chilly evening; she thought about that. The goose would be delicious, they must eat as much of it as possible, they must not waste it; she thought about that.

  • What liberals mean by 'goose-stepping' or 'ethnic cleansing' is generally something along the lines of 'eliminating taxpayer funding for the National Endowment for the Arts.' But they can't say that, or people would realize they're crazy.

    Art   Crazy   Mean  
    Ann Coulter (2003). “Slander: Liberal Lies About the American Right”, p.16, Crown Forum
  • The goose that lays golden eggs has been considered a most valuable possession. But even more profitable is the privilege of taking the golden eggs laid by somebody else's goose. The investment bankers and their associates now enjoy that privilege.

    Eggs   Bankers   Golden  
    Louis D. Brandeis (2009). “Other People's Money and How the Bankers Use It”, p.12, Cosimo, Inc.
  • I am terminally curious, so I tend to be attracted to the shiny. That's a mixed blessing, as sometimes it means that I can end up right on the cutting edge, but sometimes it can result in wild goose chases as well. Either way, it makes life interesting!

    Mean   Cutting   Blessing  
  • When you first run up First Avenue in New York, if you don't get goose bumps, theres something wrong with you.

  • I don't believe in God because I don't believe in Mother Goose.

    Death   Mother   Atheist  
    Speech, Toronto, Canada, 1930
  • Quill: An instrument of torture yielded by a goose and commonly weilded by as ass.

    Art   Entertainment   Ass  
  • I reach out and grab her wrist. It feels impossibly tiny in my hand, like this one time I found a baby bird near goose Point, and I picked it up and it died there, taking its final gasping fluttering breaths in my palm.

    Baby   Hands   Bird  
    Lauren Oliver (2010). “Before I Fall”, p.203, Hachette UK
  • What wonderful and haunting worlds Krys Lee illuminates-a goose for a goose father, a sympathetic wife made bold by her husband's infidelity- all facets of a Korea and a Korean America made new by this exciting writer's entrancing vision.

    Husband   Father   Korea  
  • Whoever you are, no matter how lonely, the world offers itself to your imagination.

    Mary Oliver (2006). “Owls and Other Fantasies: Poems and Essays”, p.9, Beacon Press
  • When you're the cash cow that lays the golden goose egg, people are always going to cheer you on, whatever.

    Cheer   Eggs   People  
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