quotes about Cuckoos
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The beauty of a cuckoo is in its notes, that of a woman in her unalloyed devotion to her husband, that of an ugly person in his scholarship, and that of an ascetic in his forgiveness.
-- Chanakya -
I want to build a clock that ticks once a year. The century hand advances once every one hundred years, and the cuckoo comes out on the millennium. I want the cuckoo to come out every millennium for the next 10,000 years. If I hurry I should finish the clock in time to see the cuckoo come out for the first time.
-- Danny Hillis -
An international team of psychiatrists has flown to Redmond, WA in an attempt to discover exactly what makes Bill Gates tick. And, more especially, what makes him go cuckoo every half hour.
-- David Pogue -
The belief that you have a great idea is not worth cuckoo spit. Ideas are ten a penny while the ability to execute counts for a great deal more.
-- Felix DennisSource : Felix Dennis (2011). “The Narrow Road: A Brief Guide to the Getting of Money”, p.19, Penguin
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Nothing is so pregnant as cruelty; so multifarious, so rapid, so ever teeming a mother is unknown to the animal kingdom; each of her experiments provokes another and refines upon the last; though always progressive, yet always remote from the end.
-- Johann Kaspar Lavater -
There was no immunity to cuckoo ideas on Earth.
-- Kurt Vonnegut -
In the economy of the cuckoo people that populate central banks, everything is possible. What you have is gigantic bubbles, the NASDAQ in 2000, then the housing bubble and then commodities in 2008 when oil went from $78 to $147 before plunging to $32 within six months.
-- Marc FaberSource : "MARC FABER: Sure Gold Is Down, But Apple Is Down By Twice As Much" by Sam Ro, www.businessinsider.com. April 12, 2013.
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Even in Kyoto/Hearing the cuckoo's cry/I long for Kyoto
-- Matsuo Basho -
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One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest' is a movie that I just find flawless. Jack Nicholson... I just saw 'The Shining' again the other day; he's so brilliant. He's such a brilliant actor, just unbelievable.
-- Michael Biehn -
I had those kind of parents where I watched all of these very sophisticated movies: 'Five Easy Pieces', 'One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest.'
-- Sam Rockwell -
The duke had a mind that ticked like a clock and, like a clock, it regularly went cuckoo.
-- Terry Pratchett -
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The Attic warbler pours her throat, Responsive to the cuckoo's note, The untaught harmony of spring.
-- Thomas Gray -
I love 30 Rock because Tina Fey allows me to fly over the cuckoo nest once a week.
-- Tracy Morgan -
O Cuckoo! shall I call thee bird, Or but a wandering voice?
-- William Wordsworth -
The cuckoo who is on to himself is halfway out of the clock.
-- Wilson Mizner -
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We ought never to sport with pain and distress in any of our amusements, or treat even the meanest insect with wanton cruelty.
-- Hugh BlairSource : Hugh Blair, Alfred Howard (Esq.) (1810). “The Beauties of Blair: Consisting of Selections from His Works”, p.18