Top 40 Goose Quotes

I was doing a play out in L.A. 20-some-odd years ago called ‘Goose and Tomtom’ by David Rabe, and somebody saw it and the next thing I know I’m doing the table read of the film version of ‘Glengarry Glen Ross’ with Al Pacino and Jack Lemmon – one of the great films of our generation.

I never knew listening to a song could give you goose bumps and make you cry until I listened to Lauryn Hill.

Stevie Winwood played like I’d never heard anybody play before. It just gave me goose bumps.

Any powerful technology has sauce for the goose and the gander… It’s just an extension of humanity.

Actually, have you ever heard Sylvester’s live version of ‘Mighty Real’ that was recorded in San Francisco? If I listen to that, I never fail to get goose bumps all over. I go crazy. That song just makes me so emotional.

When you go to the movie theater and the opening of this movie and you see the kids just cracking up with a character you are giving your voice to, you get goose bumps. It’s so beautiful.

The snow goose need not bathe to make itself white. Neither need you do anything but be yourself.

Once you’re in the military, she means a lot more to you than just a grandmother. She is the queen. And then you suddenly, it’s like start realizing, you know, wow, this is quite a big deal. And then you get goose bumps and then the rest of it.

The Goose Fair was the cornerstone of the city’s year. The smell of fairs is amazing: deep-fried donuts, hot dogs, the frying of onions. You never wanted to eat all your baby pink candyfloss – it was so sickly sweet – but seeing it made with a stick around the barrel was like magic.

The addition of romance in my books or mystery to a historical romance is the sauce, not the goose.

For the very young, there’s nothing better than Mother Goose and anything by Dr. Seuss for the rhythms and language.

But I absolutely love New York. Every time I go there, I still get excited. When you come over the bridge and you’re coming towards Manhattan, I still get goose bumps every time.

I hate having my feet touching stuff. And I’ve been finding people that have the same thing. It’s not a phobia; it just gives me goose bumps.

Most people with whom I talk, often quite educated, think the military is made up of knife-between-the-teeth grunts, uneducated robots without any kind of free will whatsoever – people who goose step to Republican philosophy and particularly the Bush cowboy mentality.

Gaga is a gorgeous singer, and when she sings a great ballad, I get goose bumps.

Geese always support each other. When a goose gets injured two birds always accompany it down to the ground. Just as geese do, we must support each other.

I taught myself to read when I was three by comparing the letters in my Mother Goose book with the rhymes I had memorised.

It gives me goose bumps and little butterflies in the stomach when I start thinking about the ‘golden slam.’

The goose that lays the golden eggs likes to lay where there are eggs already.

Marriage is anti-romantic – husband and wife are terms like ‘turkey’ and ‘goose.’ Worse, they denote ownership.

Don’t kill the golden goose.

Stravinsky used Mother Goose. He was influenced by Mother Goose, indirectly, but very beautifully.

I was on this weird, wild goose chase where I thought I might try to adapt a Willa Cather book. And if you don’t know Willa Cather, she was an author in the early 1900s. And for a while, she wrote these books about New York high society.

I guess my thermometer for my baseball fever is still a goose bump.

The whole process of being one of the 10 finalists for the ‘Vogue’ Fashion Fund award has to be my biggest achievement to date. Meeting Anna Wintour, Diane von Furstenberg, etc., has been an amazing experience that even now gives me goose bumps when I think about it.

Is education possibly a process of trading awareness for things of lesser worth? The goose who trades his is soon a pile of feathers.

Television is a golden goose that lays scrambled eggs; and it is futile and probably fatal to beat it for not laying caviar. Anyway, more people like scrambled eggs than caviar.

I knew I was as gay as a goose. Then I ended up in West Hollywood, where the queers hang from the trees. I was home. I had landed.

An education system suits some more than others. It can lead you out into life or lead you on a wild goose chase. It can help to make you miserable, or dull and nasty and insipid, or profoundly stupid in the special way that ‘brainy’ people can be.

When I sit down to write, I just let the goose out of the bottle.

What’s my expectation in the U.S.? I would like to replace Grey Goose.

I do not believe in God because I do not believe in Mother Goose.

Laissez Faire was very good sauce for the goose, labor, but was very poor sauce for the gander, capital.

When you’re the cash cow that lays the golden goose egg, people are always going to cheer you on, whatever.

What is sauce for the goose may be sauce for the gander but is not necessarily sauce for the chicken, the duck, the turkey or the guinea hen.

I think only a batsman will be able to tell you about the goose bumps he gets after hitting a perfect cover drive. I’m one of them.

The Brady Bunch is a live action modern fairytale of family. In this context it’s less odd that it’s lasted for over thirty years; and why it may last in some respects as long as Mother Goose!

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.

I was born trying to figure out why other kids were just playing in a circle. What are you doing in the circle? Duck, Duck, Goose? What is the goose supposed to do? You could be organizing; you could be producing products that are for sale. You have a circle, but how are you utilizing it?

If your people don’t really believe or respect you, if you don’t have the moral authority to rule, then your goose is cooked.