Monkeys Quotes - Page 18

• The Democrats continue to snipe at Bush. They'll never give it up to him. You know Teddy Kennedy and Tom Daschle pick more nits than a father and son spider monkey team who know they're being followed by a National Geographic film crew.

  Dennis Miller

  Father, Team, Son

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• Frankly, sharing a media market with Chuck Schumer is like sharing a banana with a monkey. Take a little bite of it, and he will throw his own feces at you.

  Jon Corzine

  Media, Politics, Littles

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• ...and the cries of the birds and the uproar of the monkeys became more and more remote, and the world became eternally sad. The men on the expedition felt overwhelmed by their most ancient memories in that paradise of dampness and silence, going back to before original sin, as their boots sank into pools of steaming oil and their machetes destroyed bloody lilies and golden salamanders.

  Gabriel Garcia Marquez

  Memories, Men, Oil

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• On Keith Richards: He's like a monkey with arthritis.

  Elton John

  Culture, Keith, Arthritis

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• A monkey was the President, though maybe not the first. And there was peace and harmony throughout the universe.

  Tom T. Hall

  President, Firsts, Politics

  Song: The Monkey That Became President, Album: Storyteller Poet Philosopher

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• Nor do I think we came from monkeys, by the wayThat's another piece of garbage. What the hell's it based on? We couldn't've come from anything-fish, maybe, but not monkeys. I don't believe in the evolution of fish to monkeys to men. Why aren't monkeys changing into men now? It's absolute garbage. It's absolutely irrational garbage, as mad as the ones who believe the world was made only four thousand years ago, the fundamentalists.

  John Lennon

  Believe, Men, Thinking

  "All We Are Saying: The Last Major Interview with John Lennon and Yoko Ono". Book by David Sheff, G. Barry Golson, St. Martin's Griffin, pp. 112-113, 2000.

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• Cardboard cutouts of cheerleaders operated by arthritic monkeys would move more fluidly.

  Courtney Summers

  Moving, Cheerleader

  Courtney Summers (2013). “What Goes Around: Two Books In One: Cracked Up to Be & Some Girls Are”, p.34, Macmillan

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• In Mozambique, the story goes, monkeys do not talk, because they know if they utter even a single word some man will come and put them to work.

  Carl Sagan

  Men, Mozambique, Stories

  Carl Sagan (2016). “Contact”, p.313, Simon and Schuster

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• My belief is that science is to wreck us, and that we are like monkeys monkeying with a loaded shell; we don't in the least know or care where our practically infinite energies come from or will bring us to.

  Henry Adams

  Science, Technology, Energy

  Henry Adams, Ernest Samuels (1992). “Henry Adams, Selected Letters”, p.424, Harvard University Press

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• I learned early on that I could get a lot of attention by singing and writing little songs, so it was like throwing nuts to a monkey... I just couldn't get enough.

  Dolly Parton

  Song, Writing, Learning

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

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• On one tour, I was collecting stories about pet monkeys. You'd be surprised how many people have stories about monkeys. The problem is, most monkey stories end tragically.

  David Sedaris

  People, Pet, Stories

  Interview with Eric Spitznagel, www.believermag.com. October 2005.

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• The practice of meditation is represented by the three monkeys, who cover their eyes, ears and mouths so as to avoid the phenomenal world.

  Wei Wu Wei

  Eye, Practice, Meditation

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• My old man is drunker than a barrel full of monkeys, but my old lady she don't care.

  Elton John

  Family, Men, Care

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• Of course there is a monkey. There is always a monkey.

  Doug Dorst

  Courses

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• Rhesus monkeys as well as human adults and older children living in a remote Amazon village have been given comparison and addition tasks using arrays of dots, and they show the same abilities we find in 5- year- old Boston children.

  Elizabeth Spelke

  Children, Boston, Years

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• I'm such a dude. I'm just like, 'All right, I have to get up in my monkey suit.' I'd rather be in jeans.

  Matthew Morrison

  Jeans, Suits, Get Up

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• We see the man when we look at the monkey; we see the monkey when we look at the man!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Men, Looks, He Man

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• Each of us contributes our own piece to the whole, each in our own way, each in our own time with the gifts and talents that are ours. You ask about possible vehicles for change: question, stand, speak, act. Engage in unruly behavior. Disturb the status quo. Take direct action. Commit civil disobedience. Make art. Build community. Dance. Sing. Farm. Cook. Create something beautiful and then give it away. Find your own monkey wrench and use it with the force of love. Sharpen your pencil. Vote.

  Terry Tempest Williams

  Beautiful, Art, Direct Action

  Source: therumpus.net

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• Sweetness! World needs sweetness! It needs a sweet child, a sweet dolphin, a sweet monkey; it needs sweet people to soften the callous hearts!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Sweet, Children, Heart

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• If evolution works, why are monkeys still around?

  Terrence Howard

  Evolution, Stills, Ifs

  Biography/Personal Quotes, labs.imdb.com.

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• Like pregnant women lose their teeth feeding the stranger, junkies lose their yellow fangs feeding the monkey.

  William S. Burroughs

  Yellow, Teeth, Stranger

  William S. Burroughs (2007). “Naked Lunch: The Restored Text”, p.14, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• As a drumset player I look outside the typical canon of drums - jazz and rock. When I hear something like the "Monkey Chant", even though there are no instruments on it at all, the rhythms are so intriguing.

  Glenn Kotche

  Player, Rocks, Typical

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• Children are all more or less little monkeys in that they imitate everything they see. If their mother treats them exactly as she does her visitors they in turn play "visitor" to perfection. Nothing hurts the feelings of children more than not being allowed to behave like grown persons when they think they are able.

  Emily Post

  Mother, Hurt, Children

  Emily Post (2007). “Etiquette: In Society, in Business, in Politics and at Home”, p.577, Cosimo, Inc.

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• If you have that group of people who are both nice and also creative, then you have surprises like a room with monkeys in them. That has taken a very good scene and just made it a great scene. I want my movies to be visually interesting and to have a lot of energy and be colorful and full of life.

  Richard Shepard

  Nice, Taken, People

  Source: www.moviesonline.ca

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• Charles Darwin got totally hammered, woke up next to a monkey and decided he had to come up with a theory to make it all okay.

  Stephen Colbert

  Next, Come Up, Theory

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