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• The voice was low and tinged with a hint of Scotland. It would have caused Alexia to shiver and think primal monkey thoughts about moons and running far and fast, if she'd had a soul. Instead it caused her to sigh in exasperation and sit up.

  Gail Carriger

  Running, Moon, Thinking

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• I am afraid of radium and polonium ... I don't want to monkey with them.

  Thomas A. Edison

  Science, Want, Experiments

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• I happen to be a kind of monkey. I have a monkeylike curiosity that makes me want to feel, smell, and taste things which arouse my curiosity, then to take them apart. It was born in me. Not everybody is like that, but a scientific researchist should be. Any fool can show me an experiment is useless. I want a man who will try it and get something out of it.

  Willis R. Whitney

  Science, Men, Smell

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• He doesn’t look very smart,” Diesel said. “He’s not even giving me the finger.” “Can monkey’s do that?” Hal asked. Carl gave him the finger. “Cool!” Hal said.

  Janet Evanovich

  Smart, Giving, Looks

  Janet Evanovich (2009). “Plum Spooky”, p.322, Macmillan

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• Wait." "So what am I supposed to do now?" "You know, Jin, I would have saved myself from five hundred years' imprisonment beneath a mountain of rock had I only realized how good it is to be a monkey." (222-223)

  Gene Luen Yang

  Rocks, Years, Waiting

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• A father and two sons run Adelphia. It's a cable company. And they took from that company a billion dollars. A billion. Three people - three people took a billion dollars. What were they gonna do, start their own space program? 'Let's send the monkey to Mars, Dad!'

  Lewis Black

  Running, Dad, Father

  "Lewis Black: Black on Broadway". Documentary, www.imdb.com. 2004.

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• A few months ago, I had the pleasure of actually visiting the Playboy Mansion. I saw the peacocks, fed grapes to the monkeys, and even braved the fabled Grotto. After seeing the estate, I understood why anyone would be reluctant to leave.

  Diablo Cody

  Would Be, Months, Saws

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• I really like the Caribbean. Anyplace in the Caribbean. I get there, and I feel like a monkey - the perfect state.

  Penelope Cruz

  Perfect, States, Caribbean

  Interview With Marion Cotillard, www.interviewmagazine.com. November 28, 2009.

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• I have a toy poodle, Shadow. She's a little whippersnapper! And I love little monkeys.

  Vanessa Hudgens

  Shadow, Poodles, Littles

  "Vanessa Hudgens: Hey Look! She's All Grown Up". Interview with Amy Spencer, www.glamour.com. June 27, 2010.

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• What I am interested in with birds, just as I am with spiders or monkeys, is what they do and why they do it.

  David Attenborough

  Bird, Spiders

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• THERE'S NO MONKEY BUSINESS ABOUT THIS ELECTION,' he told the voters. 'IF YOU'RE ENOUGH OF AN ASSHOLE TO VOTE FOR NIXON, YOUR DUMB VOTE WILL BE COUNTED––JUST LIKE ANYBODY ELSE!

  John Irving

  Dumb, Voters, Election

  John Irving (1989). “A prayer for Owen Meany: a novel”, William Morrow & Co

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• We never change. Neither our socks nor our masters nor our opinions, or we're so slow about it that it's no use. We were born loyal and that's what killed us! Soldiers free of charge, heroes for everyone else, talking monkeys, tortured words, we are the minions of King Misery...It's not a life.

  Louis-Ferdinand Celine

  Kings, Hero, Talking

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• Those monkey-thumbs were meant for dogs. Give me my thumbs, you fu**ing monkeys!

  Garth Stein

  Dog, Giving, Thumbs

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• I’m stuck babysitting turtle eggs while a volleyball player slash grease monkey slash aquarium volunteer tries to hit on me.” I’m not hitting on you,” he protested. No?” Believe me, you’d know if I was hitting on you. You wouldn’t be able to stop yourself from succumbing to my charms.

  Nicholas Sparks

  Volleyball, Believe, Player

  Nicholas Sparks (2009). “The Last Song”, p.84, Hachette UK

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• We spend our lives guessing at what's going on inside everybody else, and when we happen to get lucky and guess right, we think we 'understand.' Such nonsense. Even a monkey at a computer will type a word now and then.

  Orson Scott Card

  Thinking, Lucky, Guessing

  "Xenocide". Book by Orson Scott Card, 1991.

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• I’m just trying to imagine you in flannel pink sock monkey pajamas. I’m sure you look stunning in pink. (Damien) Actually, with his skin tone he probably does look really good in it. I would definitely say he’s an autumn. (Kish) That’s summer, you dweeb. (Damien) I find it fascinating that you two women know that color palettes for clothes have a name. The fact you corrected him really scares me. (Sin)

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Summer, Autumn, Color

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• The phrase 'I just turn on my monkey and it makes me feel good' sounds very dirty, but I can't explain why. It's great to try to use expressions like that on the comics page. People want to complain but they can't, because they can't figure out quite what they should be complaining about.

  Stephan Pastis

  Dirty, Expression, People

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• We hear the ambient noise of children singing. We hear lions and tigers roar. Hyenas laugh. Some jungle bird or howler monkey declares its existence, screeching a maniac's gibberish. Our entire world, always doing battle against the silence and obscurity of death.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Children, Laughing, Silence

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• For God’s sake, let us be men not monkeys minding machines or sitting with our tails curled while the machine amuses us, the radio or film or gramophone. Monkeys with a bland grin on our faces.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Men, Tails, Machines

  D. H. Lawrence, James T. Boulton, Keith Sagar (2002). “The Letters of D. H. Lawrence”, p.99, Cambridge University Press

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• Dining out is a vice, a dissipation of spirit punished by remorse. We eat, drink, and talk a little too much, abuse all our friends, belch out our literary preferences and are egged on by accomplices in the audience to acts of mental exhibitionism. Such evenings cannot fail to diminish those who take part in them. They end on Monkey Hill.

  Cyril Connolly

  Food, Cooking, Abuse

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• The way in which men cling to old institutions after the life has departed out of them, and out of themselves, reminds me of those monkeys which cling by their tails - aye, whose tails contract about the limbs, even the dead limbs, of the forest, and they hang suspended beyond the hunter's reach long after they are dead. It is of no use to argue with such men. They have not an apprehensive intellect, but merely, as it were a prehensile tail.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Men, Long, Departed

  Henry David Thoreau, David Gross (2007). “The Price of Freedom: Political Philosophy from Thoreau's Journals”, p.63, David M Gross

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• Seafood is simply a socially acceptable form of bush meat. We condemn Africans for hunting monkeys and mammalian and bird species from the jungle yet the developed world thinks nothing of hauling in magnificent wild creatures like swordfish, tuna, halibut, shark, and salmon for our meals. The fact is that the global slaughter of marine wildlife is simply the largest massacre of wildlife on the planet.

  Paul Watson

  Marine, Thinking, Hunting

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• Have you ever seen a monkey examining a watch?

  Wilhelm Steinitz

  Watches, Chess, Examining

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• Technology is killing us. We think it's helping us but it's killing us. Don't ask me why because I don't have the time or the attention span to complete that thought. Now let's all hold hands and draw spider monkeys.

  Thom Yorke

  Technology, Thinking, Hands

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• Parties don't thrill me. I like sitting at home with a tub of Chunky Monkey ice cream watching Big Brother or Friends.

  Alex Pettyfer

  Brother, Party, Home

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