“I want to go about like the light-footed goats.”
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author of children's stories, best known for her book Heidi 1827–1901Related quotes
“While he smells like nectar, you smell like a goat.”
Julian (emperor) (331–363) Roman Emperor, philosopher and writer
As quoted in The Barbarian's Beverage: A History of Beer in Ancient Europe (2005) by Max Nelson, p. 28. In this epigram, Julian mocked the beer of the Germans and Celts as disgusting in comparison with wine.
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Context: Who and from where are you Dionysus?
Since by the true Bacchus,
I do not recognize you; I know only the son of Zeus.
While he smells like nectar, you smell like a goat.
Can it be then that the Celts because of lack of grapes
Made you from cereals? Therefore one should call you
Demetrius, not Dionysus, rather wheat born and Bromus,
Not Bromius.
“Do I look like the kind of person who wastes time turning goats into pin cushions?”
L.J. Smith (1965) American author
Source: Night World, No. 1
“I'd like to see you move up to the goat class, where I think you belong.”
Philip K. Dick book Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?
Source: Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?
Mary Midgley (1919–2018) British philosopher and ethicist
Beast and Man: The Roots of Human Nature (1979). 173.
Context: We must face unconsidered possibilities and ask ourselves alarming questions–for instance, must we perhaps let the self-destroyer go if he really wants to? Trying to answer this by collecting information about our own neurones would be no more use than doing it, like the Roman augur, by inspecting the entrails of a goat.
William Herschel (1738–1822) German-born British astronomer, technical expert, and composer
Source: Sir William Herschel: His Life and Works (1880), Ch.4 "Life and Works" Footnote: At least one of these telescopes had the principal mirror made of glass instead of metal. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London (1803).
“What is 45 minutes to an old goat like you?" - Vanda
"I believe it is still 45 minutes." - Connor”
Kerrelyn Sparks (1955) American writer
Source: Forbidden Nights with a Vampire
George Foreman (1949) a retired American professional boxer, ordained Baptist minister, author and entrepreneur
After fighting Axel Schulz in 1995. http://observer.guardian.co.uk/osm/story/0,,1053352,00.html