Quote by Barry Hughart Download Open image ““Miser Shen is preparing to spend the night with a goat.”” — Barry Hughart ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.0 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare
“I took the goats downslope a bit and they screamed at each other and I screamed too to see what it was like.” — China Miéville Copy Share Image
“I could probably be into goats, sexy style, and [my mom] still wouldn’t use it against me. She’d want me to achieve whatever goat-wooing… — Hannah Johnson Copy Share Image
“I’d killed and eaten this particular goat on another world, which is the sort of bonding experience you don’t forget.” — Rick Riordan Copy Share Image
“In the silence, I could hear the distinct sound of goats maa-ing in the barn. Lying there listening to them made me smile, too.… — Steve Watkins Copy Share Image
“You don't get the name of the Goat with a Thousand Young without getting around.” — Dennis Liggio Copy Share Image
“So a half-breed goatsnake, a Yith, and a Ghast walk into a bar.” — Catherynne M. Valente Copy Share Image
“Throughout his twenty-eight years on the island, goats are as wild as it gets.” — Richard T Nash Copy Share Image
“Ellen walks past the lobby in her high heels, stops in her tracks, and turns back around to face Zack. She points at Marvin.… — Chelsea Fine Copy Share Image
“The mind is a miser," he said. "Nothing is ever thrown away, and it's amazing what you can find if you dig deep enough.” — Barry Hughart Copy Share Image
I have never been able to understand why perfectly sensible people waste time being wittily obscure instead of just saying what they want and… — Barry Hughart Copy Share Image
“Master Li turned bright red while he scorched the air with the Sixty Sequential Sacrileges with which he had won the all-China Freestyle Blasphemy… — Barry Hughart Copy Share Image
I shall clasp my hands together and bow to the corners of the world. May your villages remain ignorant of tax collectors, and may… — Barry Hughart Copy Share Image
“Occasionally a moderately intelligent thought misses a turn and accidentally enters my mind” — Barry Hughart Copy Share Image
“Ox, at an early age a Chinese genius gazes at the path that lies ahead and reaches for a wine jar," Master Li said.… — Barry Hughart Copy Share Image
“everybody knows that the soul of a cat is formed from the composite souls of nine debauched nuns who failed in their vows.” — Barry Hughart Copy Share Image
“Ox, what occupation is most closely linked to insanity?' 'Emperor,' I said promptly.” — Barry Hughart Copy Share Image
“Nothing on the face of this earth - and I do mean nothing - is half so dangerous as a children's story that happens… — Barry Hughart Copy Share Image
“The problem with 'the crown jewel of Chinese literature' [Dream of the Red Chamber] is that it has two thousand pages and an equal… — Barry Hughart Copy Share Image
