Monkeys Quotes - Page 9

• I wonder if God created man because He was disappointed with the monkey.

  Mark Twain

  Men, Wonder, Disappointed

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• The living room is a monument to my impulsive spending habits. I've got more than two hundred DVDs, including cinematic greats such as Monkey Bone, Corkey Romano, and A Night at the Roxbury, leading me to believe not only do I have awful taste in films, but I also have a Chris Kattan fixation. What I don't have is $4000 earing intrest in a money market account.

  Jen Lancaster

  Believe, Night, Dvds

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• No matter what else you came up against, if you could smile and laugh while a monkey did you with chestnuts in a dank concrete basement while somebody took pictures, well, any other situation would be a piece of cake

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Cake, Laughing, Would Be

  Chuck Palahniuk (2001). “Choke: A Novel”, Anchor Books

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• We seem to live in a world where forgetting and oblivion are an industry in themselves and very, very few people are remotely interested or aware of their own recent history, much less their neighbors'. I tend to think we are what we remember, what we know. The less we remember, the less we know about ourselves, the less we are. (Interview with Three Monkeys Online, October 2008)

  Carlos Ruiz Zafon

  Thinking, People, Three

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  We are buried beneath the weight of information, which is being confused with knowledge; quantity is being confused with abundance and wealth with happiness. We are monkeys with money and guns.

  Tom Waits

  Happiness, Money, Confused

  "Tom Waits Interviews Tom Waits". www.npr.org. May 20, 2008.

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• How was your day?" Morelli asked me. "Oh, you know, the usual. Stole a truck. Blew up a building, and brought seven monkeys home with me.

  Janet Evanovich

  Home, Usual, Truck

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• I was about 12 years old and I was sitting watching the television and it was some kind of talent show, you know, and on marches this monkey, this ape, in a pair of red-checked trousers with a little matching jacket holding a ukelele and it started jigging around playing it, and it was looking straight into the camera, straight at me, and I remember thinking, that's it, that'll be me, you know, that'll be me.

  Nick Cave

  Thinking, Years, Cameras

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• I was the green monkey, the pariah. And I had no friends. Not just a few friends, or one good friend, or grudging acceptance by other misfits and outcasts. I was alone. All stinking alone, without even an imaginary playmate.

  Harlan Ellison

  Acceptance, Good Friend, No Friends

  Harlan Ellison (1989). “Harlan Ellison's watching”

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• I learned to swing on monkey bars over asphalt. I learned that if you fall, it hurts, so you try not to fall. But it's still worth swinging.

  Tim Cordes

  Hurt, Fall, Swings

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• Mother Nature is always speaking. She speaks in a language understood within the peaceful mind of the sincere observer. Leopards, cobras, monkeys, rivers and trees; they all served as my teachers when I lived as a wanderer in the Himalayan foothills.

  Radhanath Swami

  Mother, Teacher, Rivers

  "Bhakti Yoga: In Search of a Lost Love". www.huffingtonpost.com. March 10, 2011.

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• There's the Ronald Reagan cupped-ear gambit. The press is deliberately and systematically kept away from him. All you hear is a bunch of monkeys screaming at him when they could easily have been brought right up and the president could have stood and talked in a conversational tone.

  John Chancellor

  Loss, President, Ears

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• Watch them clamber, these swift monkeys! They clamber over one another and thus drag one another into the mud and the depth. They all want to get to the throne: that is their madness — as if happiness sat on the throne. Often, mud sits on the throne — and often the throne also on mud. Mad they all appear to me, clambering monkeys and overardent. Foul smells their idol, the cold monster: foul, they smell to me altogether, these idolators.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Idols, Smell, Mad

  Friedrich Nietzsche (1977). “The Portable Nietzsche”, p.105, Penguin

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• It is unethical not to know. It is unethical not to think. It is unethical not to love. It is unethical not to live an impassioned life. It is unethical not to attain greatness. It is unethical to succumb to the fear of envy and the conspiracy of mediocrity. It is unethical not to self-bestow genius. It is unethical not to be the first monkey.

  Yasuhiko Kimura

  Greatness, Thinking, Self

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• [monkeys] are used only when no other species and no alternatice approach can provide the answers to questions about such conditions as Alzhemers, stroke, Parkinson's, spinal injury, hormone disorders, and vaccines for HIV

  Colin Blakemore

  Animal, Vaccines, Answers

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• The work on [polio] prevention was long delayed by... misleading experimental models of the disease in monkeys

  Albert Sabin

  Animal, Long, Prevention

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• You can get the monkey off your back, but the circus never leaves town

  Anne Lamott

  Recovery, Circus, Towns

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• "Face the brutes." That is a lesson for all life-face the terrible, face it boldly. Like the monkeys, the hardships of life fall back when we cease to flee before them.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Inspirational, Motivational, Inspiring

  Swami Vivekananda, Swami Adiswarananda (2006). “Vivekananda, World Teacher: His Teachings on the Spiritual Unity of Humankind”, p.78, SkyLight Paths Publishing

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• If I let my fingers wander idly over the keys of a typewriter it might happen that my screed made an intelligible sentence. If an army of monkeys were strumming on typewriters they might write all the books in the British Museum. The chance of their doing so is decidedly more favourable than the chance of the molecules returning to one half of the vessel.

  Arthur Eddington

  Book, Writing, Army

  The Nature of the Physical World ch. 4 (1928)

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• I read the Bible and know little of its history, but the human beings who wrote it were instruments of Divine Power, and Jesus forged a far stronger bond than the ten commandments: love. Birds and monkeys, or any of God's creatures, obey their instincts and merely do what they're programmed to do. In the case of the human being, things are more complicated because we know about love and its traps.

  Paulo Coelho

  Jesus, Bird, Stronger

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• The fact that there are bigger injustices and wrongs doesn't make it right to sacrifice an innocent monkey. It doesn't alter the case at all.

  Brigid Brophy

  Sacrifice, Animal, Facts

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• Doctor, I had never had anybody like her in my life, she was the fulfillment of my most lascivious adolescent dreams– but marry her, can she be serious? You see, for all her preening and perfumes, she has a very low opinion of herself, and simultaneously– and here is the source of much of our trouble-a ridiculously high opinion of me. And simultaneously, a very low opinion of me! She is one confused Monkey, and, I'm afraid, not too very bright.

  Philip Roth

  Dream, Confused, Doctors

  Philip Roth (1969). “Portnoy's complaint”, Random House Inc

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• Only animals have to satisfy instincts! Surely your aims are somewhat higher than theirs! Than monkeys! Pigs!

  Tennessee Williams

  Animal, Pigs, Instinct

  Tennessee Williams, Tony Kushner (2011). “The Glass Menagerie”, p.85, New Directions Publishing

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• Civilization today reminds me of an ape with a blowtorch playing in a room full of dynamite. It looks like the monkeys are about to operate the zoo, and the inmates are taking over the asylum.

  Vance Havner

  Zoos, Civilization, Looks

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• Animal crackers in my soup Monkeys and rabbits loop the loop Gosh oh gee but I have fun Swallowing animals one by one In every bowl of soup I see Lions and Tigers watching me I make 'em jump right through a hoop Those animal crackers in my soup When I get hold of the big bad wolf I just push him under to drown Then I bite him in a million bits And I gobble him right down When their inside me where it's dark I walk around like Noah's ark I stuff my tummy like a goop With animal crackers in my soup.

  Shirley Temple

  Fun, Dark, Animal

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• Before every action ask yourself. Will this bring more monkeys on my back. Will the result of my action be a blessing or a heavy burden?

  Alfred Armand Montapert

  Blessing, Action, Burden

  Alfred Armand Montapert (1986). “Pray to Win!: A Blueprint for Success”, Value Pub.

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