Monkeys Quotes - Page 15

• It can be argued that man's instinct to gamble is the only reason he is still not a monkey up in the trees.

  Mario Puzo

  Science, Men, Gambling

  9 Copy quote

• It is a lot better to come from an evolved monkey than from a fallen angel.

  Marcellin Boule

  Angel, Science, Evolution

  5 Copy quote

• Now run along and play, but don't get into trouble. George promised to be good. But it is easy for little monkeys to forget.

  H. A. Rey

  Happiness, Running, Play

  H. A. Rey, Margret Rey (2009). “Curious George”, p.19, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

  50 Copy quote

  Show source

• He felt so lost, he said later, that the familiar studio felt like a haunted valley deep in the mountains, with the smell of rotting leaves, the spray of a waterfall, the sour fumes of fruit stashed away by a monkey; even the dim glow of the master's oil lamp on its tripod looked to him like misty moonlight in the hills.

  Ryūnosuke Akutagawa

  Oil, Smell, Mountain

  14 Copy quote

• It was just a kiss – " "Yeah, and King Kong was just a monkey.

  Linda Howard

  Kings, Kissing, Yeah

  Linda Howard (2009). “Night Moves: Dream Man/After the Night”, p.151, Simon and Schuster

  5 Copy quote

  Show source

• My way of learning is to heave a wild and unpredictable monkey-wrench into the machinery.

  Dashiell Hammett

  Way, Machinery, Unpredictable

  Dashiell Hammett (2010). “The Maltese Falcon”, p.95, Vintage Crime/Black Lizard

  31 Copy quote

  Show source

• Everything in the universe is everything else. A man is a killer is a saint is a monkey is a cockroach is a goldfish is a whale, and the Devil is just the angel who asked for More.

  Craig Clevenger

  Angel, Men, Whales

  Craig Clevenger (2005). “Dermaphoria: A Novel”, Macadam Cage Pub

  8 Copy quote

  Show source

• I'm a barrel of monkeys, kid, though mostly I figure monkeys stuck in a barrel are just going to be pissed off.

  Nora Roberts

  Kids, Pissed Off, Figures

  4 Copy quote

• The monkeys solved the puzzle simply because they found it gratifying to solve puzzles. They enjoyed it. The joy of the task was its own reward.

  Daniel H. Pink

  Inspirational, Joy, Tasks

  4 Copy quote

• I swear, sometimes it feels like there's this monkey in my head who runs around turning the dials and changing channels on me. One minute I'm sitting around eating chocolate chip cookies and then all of a sudden I'm thinking about bears.

  Michael Thomas Ford

  Running, Thinking, Chocolate

  6 Copy quote

• Slavery is an institution for converting men into monkeys.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Men, Slavery, Institutions

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Alfred R. Ferguson (1965). “Journals and Miscellaneous Notebooks of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Volume V: 1835-1838”, p.295, Harvard University Press

  12 Copy quote

  Show source

• The monkey body has carried us to this moment of release, but we are coming more and more to exist in a world made by the human imagination.

  Terence McKenna

  Imagination, World, Body

  7 Copy quote

• North Korea is the country that the monkeys in the Wizard of Oz came from.

  Lewis Black

  Funny, Country, Humor

  "Lewis Black: Red, White and Screwed". Documentary, Comedy, June 10, 2006.

  23 Copy quote

  Show source

• A misfit like me getting anywhere in Hollywood as I somehow have, seemed, certainly at the time of 'Spanking The Monkey,' kind of out of reach, or not a very realistic take.

  Jeremy Davies

  Hollywood, Kind, Misfits

  Interview with Nathan Rabin, film.avclub.com. November 21, 2007.

  5 Copy quote

  Show source

• The first movie I ever saw was a blaxploitation movie. It was called 'Monkey Hustle.' Like I said, just listen to the name. That's a blaxploitation movie. It had these incredible, bigger-than-life images of people who looked like I did. Or who looked like I wanted to look like.

  Michael Jai White

  Names, People, Hustle

  "Black Dynamite's Michael Jai White and Scott Sanders: The Movieline Interview". Interview with S.T.Vanairsdale, movieline.com. October 14, 2009.

  11 Copy quote

  Show source

• Great people will always be mocked by those who feel smaller than them. However, a lion does not flinch at laughter coming from a hyena. A gorilla does not budge from a banana thrown at it by a monkey. A nightingale does not stop singing its beautiful song at the intrusion of an annoying woodpecker. Whenever you should question your self-worth, remember the lotus flower. Even though it plunges to life from beneath the mud, it does not allow the dirt that surrounds it to affect its growth or beauty.

  Suzy Kassem

  Beautiful, Song, Laughter

  49 Copy quote

• Black people have this thing about calling themselves apes and monkeys I know they get real (whatever) and I don't blame em'. But I feel like I'm a brute. I am, but I'm smart though. I'm not a dummy.

  Sean Price

  Real, Smart, People

  Source: www.okayplayer.com

  14 Copy quote

  Show source

• A disturbing novel about dreams and wishes, a nightmarish distaff monkey's paw of a book that it's impossible to forget. Lisa Tuttle remains our preeminent chronicler of family madness and desire.

  Neil Gaiman

  Dream, Book, Wish

  4 Copy quote

• One monkey don't stop no show. Not one, not six. The struggle continues.

  Toni Cade Bambara

  Struggle, Six, Activism

  Toni Cade Bambara (2011). “The Salt Eaters”, p.40, Vintage

  8 Copy quote

  Show source

• Every creature reproduces after its kind. A dog gives birth to dogs, a cat gives birth to cats, a cow gives birth to cows, a monkey reproduces monkeys and a human reproduces humans. So when God gives birth, what do you think He'll reproduce? gods, of course! When God created Man, He created him in His image and after His likeness. That's why we look like Him; we have two hands the same way He has two hands. We have two legs, one head, one mouth, one nose, two ears and two eyes just like Him.

  Chris Oyakhilome

  Dog, Cat, Eye

  13 Copy quote

• It is the simple truth that man does differ from the brutes in kind and not in degree; and the proof of it is here; that it sounds like a truism to say that the most primitive man drew a picture of a monkey and that it sounds like a joke to say that the most intelligent monkey drew a picture of a man. Something of division and disproportion has appeared; and it is unique. Art is the signature of man.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Art, Intelligent, Unique

  "The Everlasting Man". Book by Gilbert K. Chesterton, Part I: On the Creature Called Man, 1925.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• We are creatures of information and the imagination. The monkey we are already beginning to transform and shed. We don't look like the other monkeys, and we look less like them all the time.

  Terence McKenna

  Imagination, Looks, Information

  6 Copy quote

• My company is called Talking Monkey, Inc. It's because that's what I think all people are: talking monkeys.

  Joe Rogan

  Thinking, Talking, People

  14 Copy quote

• You see the button with the guy with the tray, and you push it, and he arrives with a sandwich! And you think: "Yes! Yes! I control sandwich monkey! I live in magic land, magic land, magic land"

  Dylan Moran

  Funny, Humor, Thinking

  "Monster". Documentary, Comedy, 2004.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• Standing on a ledge again. Everyone laughs at dancing monkey with the typewriter. Not for long, though.

  Neil Simon

  Typewriters, Long, Dancing

  5 Copy quote