Bananas Quotes - Page 5

• She sounds the way bananas taste.

  Truman Capote

  Sound, Way, Taste

  Truman Capote (2013). “Portraits and Observations”, p.544, Modern Library

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• A good banana daiquiri is hard to come by. I've only ever found one place in this country that makes a proper one, and that's in Leeds.

  Terry Pratchett

  Country, Found, Hard

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• A Tom Ford three-piece makes you feel so confident, it's bananas.

  Dwyane Wade

  Three, Pieces, Feels

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• It's like a banana farm for guns!

  Brandon Sanderson

  Gun, Farms

  Brandon Sanderson (2013). “Steelheart”, p.142, Delacorte Press

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• A muddy little stream, a village grown unfamiliar with time and trees. I turn around and retrace my way up Main Street and park and have a Coke in the confectionery store. It is run by a Greek, as it used to be, but whether the same Greek or another I would not know. He does not recognize me, nor I him. Only the smell of his place is familiar, syrupy with old delights, as if the ghost of my first banana split had come close to breathe on me.

  Wallace Stegner

  Running, Smell, Tree

  Wallace Stegner (2000). “Wolf Willow: A History, a Story, and a Memory of the Last Plains Frontier”, p.29, Penguin

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• Where the banana grows man is sensual and cruel.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Men, Sensual, Grows

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• In Puerto Rico, we have a lot of traditions. We eat a very typical thing that's called 'pasteles' - it's almost like a tamale made of bananas, and we make it all together. Like, all the women of the family unite, and it's a very big deal, a very big thing.

  Joyce Giraud

  Together, Typical, Tamales

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• Humans waste words. They toss them like banana peels and leave them to rot. Everyone knows the peels are the best part.

  Katherine Applegate

  Waste, Toss, Humans

  Katherine Applegate (2012). “The One and Only Ivan”, p.13, HarperCollins UK

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• I believe in holistic medicine, yoga, Pilates and so on. But I also believe in banana split sundaes once in a while.

  Gwyneth Paltrow

  Believe, Yoga, Medicine

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• Apes had it worked out. No ape would philosophize, "The mountain is, and is not." They would think, "The banana is. I will eat the banana. There is no banana. I want another banana.

  Terry Pratchett

  Thinking, Mountain, Want

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• Ms. Sophia was evil bananas.

  Lauren Kate

  Evil, Sophia

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• It doesn't matter to me where Barack Obama goes. If he wants to go to Hawaii because it's his home state, fine! Hunky-dory. Plastic banana, good-time rock 'n' roller dittos.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Home, Rocks, Hawaii

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• Everything goes with short hair. It's bananas.

  Ginnifer Goodwin

  Hair, Short Hair

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

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• At my age, I dont even buy green bananas.

  Claude Pepper

  Age, Green

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• When you're thinking about something that you don't understand, you have a terrible, uncomfortable feeling called confusion... Now, is the confusion's because we're all some kind of apes that are kind of stupid working against this, trying to figure out [how] to put the two sticks together to reach the banana and we can't quite make it... So I always feel stupid. Once in a while, though, the sticks go together on me and I reach the banana.

  Richard P. Feynman

  Stupid, Thinking, Two

  YouTube Chanel "sdfhsfh"/ "Richard Feynman explains the feeling of confusion", www.youtube.com. November 3, 2007.

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• I must admit to a personal lack of sympathy with women who have themselves photographed in black stockings, garter belts and boots, with bare breasts, bananas, and coy, come-hither glances.... A woman using her own face and body has a right to do what she will with them, but it is a subtle abyss that separates men's use of women for sexual titillation from women's use of women to expose that insult.

  Lucy R. Lippard

  Men, Black, Use

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• Sexual fulfillment is the banana life dangles in front of us just to keep us running.

  Jobriath

  Running, Fulfillment, Fronts

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• We share half our genes with the banana. [After the announcement Jun 2000 that a working draft of the genetic sequence of humans had been completed by the Human Genome Project.]

  Robert May, Baron May of Oxford

  Science, Half, Share

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• I saw you, Walt Whitman, childless, lonely old grubber,poking among the meats in the refrigerator and eyeing the grocery boys. I heard you asking questions of each: Who killed the pork chops? What price bananas? Are you my Angel?

  Allen Ginsberg

  Lonely, Angel, Boys

  Allen Ginsberg (2001). “Howl and Other Poems: Pocket Poets Number 4”, p.29, City Lights Publishers

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• Me Grandad is 74 and he's football bananas, so me nan gets loads of grief.

  Jamie Redknapp

  Football, Grief, England

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• In the whole story of the world, bananas have never once been a special treat.

  Gary D. Schmidt

  Special, Stories, World

  Gary D. Schmidt (2011). “Okay for Now”, p.249, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• I've realized that the world is, in essence, full of banana peels - loaded with things that may unwittingly trip an internal wire in my mind, opening a floodgate of fears without warning.

  Amanda Lindhout

  Essence, Mind, Wire

  Amanda Lindhout, Sara Corbett (2013). “A House in the Sky: A Memoir”, p.365, Simon and Schuster

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• I always make my favorite pancakes with milk, and I also add some fruit - like a banana or apple with some cinnamon sprinkled on top. I also sometimes put peanut butter on my pancakes!

  Gabriela Isler

  Apples, Pancakes, Fruit

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• I love my kids, they are amazing children, but they drive me bananas sometimes. And sometimes, I want to sell them on eBay... but I'm not going to.

  Katie Aselton

  Children, Kids, Ebay

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I never cheat or steal. Also, I never wear a top-hat with a sack coat or munch bananas in public on the streets, because a gentleman does not do those things either. I would as soon do the one as the other sort of thing--it is all a matter of harmony and good taste.

  H. P. Lovecraft

  Gentleman, Doe, Coats

  H. P. Lovecraft (2010). “Against Religion: The Atheist Writings of H.P. Lovecraft”, p.104, Lulu.com

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