Quotes and Sayings About Monkeys
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It's an absurd error to put modern English literature in the curriculum. You should read contemporary literature for pleasure or not at all. You shouldn't be taught to monkey with it.
-- Rebecca West -
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 -
Unlike some of the time-travel movies I love, like 'Primer' or '12 Monkeys,' 'Looper' is not about time travel. It's about this situation that time travel creates and the people dealing with that situation. So narratively, the big challenge was to have time travel get out of the way.
-- Rian Johnson -
Humans in space suits make monkeys nervous.
-- Richard Preston -
The brown monkey's instinct to kill is correct; such men are dangerous to all monkey customs.
-- Robert A. Heinlein -
Geniuses and supergeniuses always make their own rules about sex as on everything else; they do not accept the monkey customs of their lessers.
-- Robert A. Heinlein -
"Softly, softly, catchee monkey," is the West African rendering of a very valuable precept. An awful lot of men fail through lack of patient persistence.
-- Robert Baden-Powell -
They gave 12 monkeys a typewriter for a week, and after a week, they only used it as a bathroom.
-- Robin Ince -
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 -
I looked like a monkey trying to wrestle a football.
-- Sam Snead -
Scientists tracking mirror neurons noticed that a monkey will get excited not just when holding a banana, but also when seeing someone else holding a banana.
-- Sara Genn -
The fountain of youth is like the monkeys paw in the W. W. Jacobs story. It never ends well.
-- Sarah Monette -
I can train a monkey to wave an American flag. That does not make the monkey patriotic.
-- Scott Ritter -
My big break was back in the third grade playing the third monkey in 'Horton Hears a Who.
-- Sebastian Arcelus -
On the Ning Nang Nong Where the Cows go Bong! And the Monkeys all say Boo! Theres a Nang Nong Ning Where the trees go Ping! And the tea pots Jibber Jabber Joo On the Nong Ning Nang All the Mice go Clang! And you just cant catch em when they do! So its Ning Nang Nong! Cows go Bong! Nong Nang Ning! Trees go Ping! Nong Ning Nang! The mice go Clang! What a noisy place to belong,Is the Ning Nang Ning Nang Nong!
-- Spike Milligan -
It's kind of good to get that evil monkey off my back!
-- Stefan Cherneski -
Evolution isn't true, because if we evolved from monkeys, how can they still be here?
-- Stephen Baldwin -
In the beginning, a monkey evolutioned gay marriage.
-- Stephen Colbert -
Your mind makes you dance like a monkey all the time... Now you have to become stronger; you have to make the mind dance. Make it dance on the stage of mantra. For that, mediate and repeat mantra.
-- Swami Muktananda -
As for monkeys, I would have five, and they would be named: See No Evil, Hear No Evil, Speak No Evil, Do Pretty Much Whatever The Hell You Want, and Expensive Attorney.
-- Tad Williams -
You know, if you have a zoo you don't want the other creatures to see you. You want them to hang out and act properly and, you know, when the monkeys will come and ask for the bananas, they won't act like monkeys. If you want them to act on what their true nature is, you've got to leave them alone.
-- Tarsem Singh -
I love going into the centre of London because people don't give a monkey's about you or who you are. You can be in a restaurant and no one notices you or if they do they won't show it.
-- Teddy Sheringham -
We have changed. We are no longer, as I said, bipedal monkeys. We are instead a kind of cybernetic coral reef of organic components and inorganic technological components.
-- Terence McKenna -
My voice speaking is a monkey's mouth making little mouth noises that are carrying agree-upon meaning, and it is meaning that matters. Without the meaning one has only little mouth noises
-- Terence McKenna -
Look, as my mama always said, 'One monkey don't stop no show.
-- Terry McMillan -
We are monkeys. We like to chatter. Chattering doesn't cost us anything.
-- Terry Pratchett -
...claiming my right to follow whethersoever science should lead... it is as respectable to be modified monkey as modified dirt.
-- Thomas Huxley -
"More fun than a barrel of monkeys." Has anyone ever stopped to think how cranky, if not downright vicious, a barrelful of monkeys would be, especially once released from the barrel?
-- Tom Shales -
A monkey was the President, though maybe not the first. And there was peace and harmony throughout the universe.
-- Tom T. Hall
