Goons Quotes:

"Ok you're a goon but what's a goon to a goblin"

- Lil Wayne

source: Song: A Millie 2.0, Album: Tha Carter III, 2008

topic: Hater, Goons, Goblin

Time’s a goon, right? You gonna let that goon push you around?” Scotty shook his head. “The goon won.

- Jennifer Egan

topic: Time, Goons, Scotty

Though my books are written from a historical perspective, I have goon so far back that I am in the realm of prehistorical speculation rather than simple historical fact to weave my stories around.

- Jean M. Auel

topic: Book, Simple, Perspective, Goons, Historical Facts

Those who flashin' don't blast, they still buffoons, Just blowin out hot air, they should fill balloons. I'm like them shorties that could kill for goons, They started hustlin' in April to cop wheels in June.

- Elzhi

topic: Rap, June, Air, Goons, Buffoons

If some small storekeeper somewhere decides he's not going to pay the money, the Godfather doesn't let him get away with it. The money doesn't mean anything to him, but he sends in his goons to beat him to a pulp. You have to establish credibility, otherwise conformity to your orders will tend to erode. International affairs runs in much the same way.

- Noam Chomsky

source: Source: www.truth-out.org

topic: Running, Mean, Order, International Affairs, Storekeeper

We have the illusion of freedom only because so few ever try to exercise it. Try it sometime. Try to save your home from the highway crowd, or to work a trade without the approval of the goons, or to open a little business without a permit, or to grow a crop without a quota, or to educate your child the way you want to, or to not have a child. We all have the freedom of a balloon floating in a pin factory.

- Karl Hess

source: "From Far Right to Far Left". The New York Times Magazine, (p. 305), Decemebr 6, 1970.

topic: Children, Home, Exercise, Goons, Illusion Of Freedom

It doesn't matter if I'm off the beat. It doesn't matter if I'm snapping to the rhythm. It doesn't matter if I look like a complete goon when I dance. It is my dance. It is my moment. It is mine. And dance I will. Try and stop me. You'll probably get kicked in the face.

- Daniel Pearce

topic: Trying, Looks, Matter, Snapping, Goons

I am not afraid of death. I just don't want to be there when it happens.

- Woody Allen

source: "Death: A Comedy in One Act". Book by Woody Allen, 1975.

topic: Inspirational, Funny, Life, Afraid Of Death, Meaningful Death

[In hockey] I was a goon, just protecting the better players. I've always been a better baseball player.

- Eric Gagne

topic: Baseball, Hockey, Player, Goons

Is there anything worn under the kilt? No, it's all in perfect working order.

- Spike Milligan

topic: Order, Perfect, Kilts, Goons

Oooh, fashion, we are the goon squad and were coming to town, beep beep.

- David Bowie

source: Song: Fashion, 1980

topic: Fashion, Art, Squad, Goons

I have the body of an eighteen year old. I keep it in the fridge.

- Spike Milligan

topic: Health, Years, Body, Fridges, Eighteen

Many people die of thirst but the Irish are born with one.

- Spike Milligan

source: Spike Milligan (2014). “Puckoon”, p.48, Penguin UK

topic: People, Born, Thirst, Funny Monday, Goons

Nothing feels as awful as pouring your heart out to some talk therapist, then realizing this so-called professional is actually vastly stupid and you've just professed your most secret secrets to some goon who's wearing one brown sock and one blue sock.

- Chuck Palahniuk

source: Chuck Palahniuk (2011). “Damned”, p.135, Random House

topic: Goons

Tattoo. What a loaded word it is, rife with associations to goons, goofs, bikers, tribal warriors, carnival artists, drunken sailors and floozies.

- Jon Anderson

topic: Tattoo, Warrior, Artist, Goofs, Carnivals

Rock 'n' roll smells phony and false. It is sung, played and written, for the most part, by cretinous goons. And, by means of its almost imbecilic reiteration, and sly, lewd and in plain fact, dirty lyrics ... it manages to be the martial music of every side-burned delinquent on the face of the earth.

- Frank Sinatra

topic: Dirty, Mean, Smell, Delinquency, Delinquents

I felt more doubtful than usual with 'Goon Squad,' because I knew that the book's genre wasn't easily named - Novel? Stories? Novel-in-stories? - and I worried that its lack of a clear category would count against it. My hopes for it were pretty modest.

- Jennifer Egan

topic: Book, Squad, Usual, Goons

If only more of today's military personnel would realize that they are being used by the owning elite's as a publicly subsidized capitalist goon squad

- Smedley Butler

topic: Military, Squad, Today, Military Personnel, Goons

I never kissed a bear, I've never kissed a goon, but I can shake a chicken in the middle of a room.

- Wanda Jackson

topic: Animal, Rooms, Bears, Goons

And as for me, thogh that I can but lyte, On bakes for to rede I me delyte, And to hem yeve I feyth and ful credence, And in myn herte have hem in reverence So hertely, that ther is game noon, That fro my bokes maketh me to goon, But hit be seldom, on the holyday; Save, certeynly, when that the month of May Is comen, and that I here the foules singe, And that the floures ginnen for to springe, Farwel my book and my devocion.

- Geoffrey Chaucer

source: Geoffrey Chaucer (1931). “The complete works of Geoffrey Chaucer”

topic: Book, Games, Noon, Credence, Goons

King Arthur and his armored goons of the Round Table functioned as the Politburo of a slave state: Camelot. Of all who have written on the Matter of Arthur, from Malory to White, only Mark Twain understood this. But Mark Twain was a great writer.

- Edward Abbey

source: Edward Abbey (2015). “A Voice Crying in the Wilderness”, p.21, RosettaBooks

topic: Kings, White, Tables, King Arthur, Camelot

What are they teaching these thugs? -Why are there so many of them? -What is the Institute for Higher Aeronautics? -How many of the are there? There are only six of us! Why? -Why is DC public transportation so weird? -Why don't we mug those Eraser goons for money more often? -Fang's Blog

- James Patterson

topic: Teaching, Thug, Six, Erasers, Public Transportation

There’s nothing entertaining about watching goons hurl venomous slurs at congressmen like the civil rights hero John Lewis and the openly gay Barney Frank. How curious that a mob fond of likening President Obama to Hitler knows so little about history that it doesn’t recognize its own small-scale mimicry of Kristallnacht.

- Frank Rich

source: "The Rage Is Not About Health Care". www.nytimes.com. March 27, 2010.

topic: Hero, Gay, Rights, Mimicry, Venomous

This book will prove the following ten facts: 1. A Goon is a being who melts into the foreground and sticks there. 2. Pigs have wings, making them hard to catch. 3. All power corrupts, but we need electricity. 4. When an irresistible force meets an immovable object, the result is a family fight. 5. Music does not always sooth the troubled beast. 6. An Englishman's home is his castle. 7. The female of the species is more deadly than the male. 8. One black eye deserves another. 9. Space is the final frontier, and so is the sewage farm. 10. It pays to increase your word power.

- Diana Wynne Jones

topic: Book, Eye, Home, Foreground, Goons

I listened to classic rock and roll, and punk rock. 'Goon Squad' provides a pretty accurate playlist of my teenage years, though it leaves out 'The Who,' which was my absolute favorite band.

- Jennifer Egan

source: "Author Jennifer Egan: Making Her Own Rules". Interview with Jennifer Haupt, www.psychologytoday.com. March 25, 2011.

topic: Teenage, Rocks, Years, Favorite Bands, Classic Rock

Don't touch my junk, you airport security goon - my package belongs to no one but me, and do you really think I'm a Nigerian nut job preparing for my 72-virgin orgy by blowing my johnson to kingdom come?

- Charles Krauthammer

source: "Don't touch my junk" by Charles Krauthammer, www.washingtonpost.com. November 19, 2010.

topic: Jobs, Thinking, Airports, Kingdom Come, Airport Security

Having little money to spend was a valuable learning experience. My schooling also shaped my work ethic because while other children were listening to the Goons, I was studying, which enabled me to go to Cambridge University.

- Eric Idle

source: "Eric Idle: 'The BBC paid us £2,000 a series for Monty Python’". Interview with Angela Wintle, www.telegraph.co.uk. January 10, 2016.

topic: Children, Cambridge University, Work Ethic, Goons

I was roommates with 2 of the guys who were influential in forming the Black Arts philosophy. I called them "goons," and [Amiri] Baraka took offense at that. But if you read his autobiography, the night we went up there for a fundraiser, he talks about how he wished that some violence would happen to us. How do you like Baraka as a gracious host?

- Ishmael Reed

source: Source: www.counterpunch.org

topic: Art, Philosophy, Night, Black Art, Fundraiser

Rock 'n roll smells phony and false. It is sung, played and written for the most part by cretinous goons and by means of its almost imbecilic reiteration and sly, lewd, in plain fact, dirty lyrics ... manages to be the martial music of every side-burned delinquent on the face of the earth.

- Frank Sinatra

source: "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

topic: Delinquents, Goons

When I was nine I spent a lot of my time reading books about the history of comedy, or listening to the Goons or Hancock, humour from previous generations.

- Paul Merton

topic: Book, Reading, Listening, Goons

But, Lord Crist! whan that it remembreth me Upon my yowthe, and on my jolitee, It tickleth me aboute myn herte roote. Unto this day it dooth myn herte boote That I have had my world as in my tyme. But age, alias! that al wole envenyme, Hath me biraft my beautee and my pith. Lat go, farewel! the devel go therwith! The flour is goon, ther is namoore to telle; The bren, as I best kan, now most I selle.

- Geoffrey Chaucer

topic: Age, World, Als, Aliases, Goons

Goon Squad' took about three years to write and that's the short end. My second novel, 'Look at Me,' took six years.

- Jennifer Egan

source: "Jennifer Egan: 'I would have accepted a marriage proposal from Roger Daltrey on the spot'". Interview with Killian Fox, www.theguardian.com. August 20, 2011.

topic: Writing, Years, Squad, Goons

I'm a massive movie nerd. That being said, I could retire tomorrow because I wrote this movie 'Goon' and it came out, and it connected and it's a wonderful flick that I think is beautiful and then it had this wonderful life and it means a lot to a lot of people.

- Jay Baruchel

topic: Beautiful, Mean, Thinking, Wonderful Life, Goons