Monkeys Quotes - Page 17

• It was a mystery to me. To that awful black-and-white farm, with that aunt who was dressed badly, with smelly farm animals around when she could live with winged monkeys and magic shoes and gay lions. I didn't get it.

  John Waters

  Gay, Black And White, Animal

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• A past President, bullied and sandbagged by a monkey posing as a newscaster, finally lashed back....The nation's marketplace of ideas is being poisoned by a propaganda company so blatant that Tokyo Rose would've quit....As with all the other nefariousness and slime of this, our worst presidency since James Buchanan, he [President Bush] is having it done for him, by proxy. Thus, the sandbag effort by Fox News Friday afternoon.

  Keith Olbermann

  Friday, Past, Ideas

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• In Africa, you know, if you're poor, at least you can go to the forest and share some mangoes with the gorillas and monkey.

  Emmanuel Jal

  Gorillas, Forests, Poor

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• For me, two of my favourite science fiction films are Blade Runner, which is fantastic, and Terry Gilliam's Twelve Monkeys. Both of those were smart science fiction films hitting more of a medium budget, and I desperately hope there is an audience for that kind of film because I would love that to be my next film, on that kind of scale.

  Duncan Jones

  Smart, Two, Blade Runner

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• Everybody knows that fanaticism is religion caricatured; bears, indeed, about the same relation to it that a monkey bears to a man; yet, with many, contempt of fanaticism is received as a sure sign of hostility to religion.

  Edwin Percy Whipple

  Men, Bears, Relation

  Edwin Percy Whipple (1851). “Literature and life, lects”, p.68

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• And you, my best friend on earth, my soul sister who shares Chunky Monkey scoops and beefcake e-mails at the drop of a hat, the woman who made me wear a frothy, ruffled lime-colored bridesmaid dress that added fifteen pounds to my hips, are going to spill your guts to me, aren’t you? (Sunshine) No fair and the dress wasn’t lime, it was mint. (Selena) It was lime-icky green and I looked like a sick pistachio. (Sunshine)

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Sunshine, Sick, Soul

  Sherrilyn Kenyon (2010). “Night Embrace”, p.220, Macmillan

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• What were you thinking? You just met him. (Selena) I know. It’s so not like me, but I couldn’t help myself. It was just like that weird magnetic force that grabs me when I’m walking past the Frostbyte Café and makes me swerve in to get a triple scoop of Ben and Jerry’s Chunky Monkey. The power of temptation was just too much, Selena. I couldn’t resist it. He was a Chunky Monkey container and all I could think was, ‘Someone give me a spoon.’ (Sunshine)

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Sunshine, Thinking, Past

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• Right.” Sadie looked dazed. “You’ve got a monkey butler. Why not?

  Rick Riordan

  Why Not, Sadie, Butlers

  Rick Riordan (2010). “The Kane Chronicles, The, Book One: Red Pyramid”, Hyperion

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• Evolution is fundamentally creative, and when we align ourselves with the evolutionary movements of consciousness, the universe itself puts wind in our sails. Quantum thinking goes beyond the thoughts we're aware of; it includes unconscious processing, which doesn't just expand our boundaries, but can also free us from the suffering that conscious processing (sometimes known as 'the monkey mind') creates.

  Amit Goswami

  Inspirational, Thinking, Wind

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• I wouldn't give my troubles to a monkey on a rock.

  David Letterman

  Rocks, Giving, Trouble

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• You're not really drinking coffee unless you drink it black, don't you think? Oh, no? You like to monkey with it?

  David Letterman

  Drinking, Coffee, Thinking

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• Coolidge is a better example of evolution than either Bryan or Darrow, for he knows when not to talk, which is the biggest asset the monkey possesses over the human.

  Will Rogers

  Teaching, Science, Example

  In 'Saturday Review' 25 August 1962 'A Rogers Thesaurus'

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• But then, after all, we are all alike, for we are all derived from the monkey.

  Albert Einstein

  William Hermanns, Albert Einstein (1983). “Einstein and the Poet: In Search of the Cosmic Man”, Branden Publishing Company

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• Southerners ask intimate questions in the way monkeys groom each other for lice, not to pry but to make you feel cared for.

  Reynolds Price

  Lice, Way, Intimate

  Reynolds Price (2000). “Tongues of Angels: A Novel”, Scribner

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• I am not going to spend any time whatsoever in attacking the Foreign Secretary. If we complain about the tune, there is no reason to attack the monkey when the organ grinder is present.

  Aneurin Bevan

  Tunes, Complaining, Reason

  During a debate on the Suez crisis, 'Hansard' 16 May 1957, col. 680

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• I set my monkey on the log, and ordered him to do the Dog. He wagged his tail and shook his head, and he went and did the Cat instead.

  Bob Dylan

  Dog, Cat, Animal

  Song: I Shall Be Free--No. 10

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• You can beat on your chest, hell, any monkey can.

  Bruce Springsteen

  Animal, Hell, Beats

  Song: Real Man, Album: Human Touch, 1992

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• I have mentally overcome situations most of you would be terrified to ever attempt: heights, fire, needles, spiders, snakes, angry monkeys, being shot, being hit by a car, going blind - you name it, I have been in a situation where I have had to mentally overcome my inherent fears to do my job.

  Criss Angel

  Jobs, Fire, Snakes

  Criss Angel (2009). “Mindfreak: Secret Revelations”, p.18, Harper Collins

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• I furnished the body that was needed to sit in the defendant's chair.[Explaining his role in the Scopes Monkey Trial.]

  John T. Scopes

  Roles, Trials, Body

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• Im thinking of buying a monkey. Then I think, Why stop at one? I don't like being limited in that way. Therefore, I'm considering a platton of monkeys, so that people will look at me and see how mellow and well-adjusted I am compared to these monkeys throwing feces around.

  Robert Downey, Jr.

  Thinking, People, Looks

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• Look at The Rock's competition! Look at him! It looks like a big monkey came down here, took a crap, and out came Mankind!

  Dwayne Johnson

  Rocks, Wwe, Competition

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• Kevin Kelly, let The Rock answer your question with a question of his own: Are you mentally, as well as physically prepared to tickle the anus of a monkey?

  Dwayne Johnson

  Rocks, Wwe, Answers

  "Line-o-rama: The Rock Says" By Matt Fowler, www.ign.com. July 2, 2009.

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• A blindfolded monkey throwing darts at a newspaper's financial pages could select a portfolio that would do just as well as one carefully selected by experts.

  Burton Malkiel

  Experts, Pages, Portfolios

  Burton G. Malkiel (2007). “A Random Walk Down Wall Street: The Time-Tested Strategy for Successful Investing”, p.24, W. W. Norton & Company

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• A mathematician who can only generalise is like a monkey who can only climb up a tree, and a mathematician who can only specialise is like a monkey who can only climb down a tree. In fact neither the up monkey nor the down monkey is a viable creature. A real monkey must find food and escape his enemies and so must be able to incessantly climb up and down. A real mathematician must be able to generalise and specialise.

  George Polya

  Real, Math, Tree

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• I have a lot of funny friends, though not everyone's funny all the time. Doon Mackichan's my funniest friend in the pub; Nina Conti's the funniest with a monkey.

  Sally Phillips

  Funny Friend, Pubs, Nina

  "A funny five minutes with Sally Phillips". Interview with Mirror.co.uk, www.mirror.co.uk. May 30, 2010.

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