Cuckoos Quotes - Page 3

• Being daily swallowed by men's eyes, They surfeited with honey and began To loathe the taste of sweetness, whereof a little More than a little is by much too much. So, when he had occasion to be seen, He was but as the cuckoo is in June. Heard, not regarded.

  William Shakespeare

  Eye, Men, June

  'Henry IV, Part 1' (1597) act 3, sc. 2, l. 70

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• Men capable of governing empires fail to control a small white ball, which presents no difficulties whetever to others with one ounce more brain than a cuckoo clock. I wish to goodness I knew the man who invented this infernal game. I'd strangle him. But I suppose he's been dead for ages. Still, I could go and jump on his grave.

  P. G. Wodehouse

  Golf, Men, Games

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• I aspire to be Jack Nicholson. I love his every single mannerism. I used to try and be him in virtually everything I did, I don't know why. I watched One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest when I was about 13, and I dressed like him. I tried to do his accent. I did everything like him. I think it kind of stuck with me.

  Robert Pattinson

  Thinking, Careers, Trying

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

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• Cruelty in all countries is the companion of anger; but there is only one, and never was another on the globe, where she coquets both with anger and mirth.

  Walter Savage Landor

  Country, Mirth, Cruelty

  Walter Savage Landor (1826). “Imaginary Conversations of Literary Men and Statesmen”, p.453

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• The duke had a mind that ticked like a clock and, like a clock, it regularly went cuckoo.

  Terry Pratchett

  Mind, Dukes, Clock

  "Wyrd Sisters". Book by Terry Pratchett, 1988.

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• 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

  Team, Half, Bills

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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

  Mother, Animal, Kingdoms

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• To me, the most amazing the most amazing transformation in my lifetime is not the revolution of the Sixties but the counter revolution of the Seventies, where they managed to put the cuckoo clock back together again

  Terence McKenna

  Together Again, Cuckoo Clocks, Revolution

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• Cruelty is no more the cure of crimes than it is the cure of sufferings; compassion, in the first instance, is good for both; I have known it to bring compunction when nothing else would.

  Walter Savage Landor

  Compassion, Suffering, Firsts

  Walter Savage Landor (1856). “Selections from the Writings of Walter Savage Landor”, p.18

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• Where are you anyway? (Acheron) I don't know. I hear some godawful kind of music from outside, horns blaring, and I'm in a house with a Mohawk cuckoo bird, a transvestite, and a knife-wielding lunatic. (Valerius) Why are you at Tabitha's? (Acheron)

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Knives, Bird, House

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• That cruelty which children are permitted to show to birds and other animals will most probably exert itself on their fellow creatures when at years of maturity.

  Samuel Richardson

  Children, Maturity, Animal

  Samuel Richardson (1980). “A collection of the moral and instructive sentiments: a facsimile reproduction”, Scholars Facsimilies & Reprint

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• If you got a dollar, soak it away, put it in a savings bank, bury it, do anything but spend it. Spending when we didn't have it put us where we are today. Saving when we've got it will get us back to where we was before we went cuckoo.

  Will Rogers

  Business, Dollars, Saving

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• He was met even now As mad as the vex'd sea; singing aloud; Crown'd with rank fumiter and furrow-weeds, With bur-docks, hemlock, nettles, cuckoo-flowers, Darnel, and all the idle weeds that grow In our sustaining corn.

  William Shakespeare

  Weed, Flower, Sea

  William Shakespeare (1866). “The Works of William Shakespeare”, p.376

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• I never really set out to research any of these stories. I try to lead an interesting life though. I guess the closest I came to research was when I applied to work at the state mental institution in Austin, TX. I wanted to work the night shift like Ken Kesey did when he wrote One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest. I thought that might inspire me to write a book that great.

  Arthur Bradford

  Book, Writing, Night

  Source: www.bookbrowse.com

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• When I was seven, I watched One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest with my mom. When Jack Nicholson was strapped to the table getting electroshock treatment, my mom burst into tears. She said it reminded her of her life, and I was stunned, because I didn't know my mom had been nominated for an Oscar.

  Christopher Titus

  Mom, Tears, Tables

  "Titus / Locking Up Mom". www.imdb.com. 2000.

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• In terms of popular cinema, 'One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest' is as near perfection as I can think of.

  Peter Mullan

  Thinking, Perfection, Cinema

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• 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

  Parent, Pieces, Nests

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• Have I got a mother-in-law. She's so neat she puts paper under the cuckoo clock.

  Henny Youngman

  Mother, Law, Paper

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• I loved the movie theater so I always saw a lot of movies. And then there was a play, I saw in the local paper, they were having auditions for a play of a book I had read. Which was One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest by Ken Kesey. So I said, "oh, I've read this, so I'm perfect for the part of the lead." His name is escaping me.

  Ed O'Neill

  Book, Escaping, Play

  Source: collider.com

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• I think taking vacations and turning off the phone and only doing emails or social media for a specific short amount of time helps with work/life balance. If I'm checking it all day I start to feel cuckoo-bird. So I just do it once or twice a day instead of a thousand. And then remembering that it doesn't matter. It just doesn't matter.

  Maria Bamford

  Thinking, Vacation, Phones

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• I bought the book, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest. I paid to have it made into a play and I played in it for six months. I came back and I tried to make it into a movie, without success.

  Kirk Douglas

  Book, Play, Six Months

  "EXCLUSIVE: Kirk Douglas Reflects on an Amazing Career". Interview with Brian Gallagher, movieweb.com. December 8, 2008.

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• When I was thirteen, I had a nervous breakdown, and I was put into this grown-up mental hospital with all these 50-, 60-year-old men and women. This big, Victorian mental house. There were like five boys in there, all my age, looked after by this woman who was 22 or 23. And it was like "Empire of the Sun" meets "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest"-type of arrangement where you've got this young boy overcoming and becoming heroic in the face of this awful place.

  Duncan Roy

  Boys, Men, Years

  Source: www.indiewire.com

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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 Blair

  Sports, Pain, Amusement

  Hugh Blair, Alfred Howard (Esq.) (1810). “The Beauties of Blair: Consisting of Selections from His Works”, p.18

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• Owls hoot in B flat, cuckoos in D, but the water ousel sings in the voice of the stream. She builds her nest back of the waterfalls so the water is a lullaby to the little ones. Must be where they learn it.

  Karen Joy Fowler

  Voice, Water, Owl

  Karen Joy Fowler (2004). “Sarah Canary”, Plume

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• At the center, where a cuckoo bird would live in a more traditional timepiece, is the juggler. Dressed in harlequin style with a grey mask, he juggles shiny silver balls that correspond to each hour. As the clock chimes, another ball joins the rest until at midnight he juggles twelve balls in a complex pattern.
  After midnight the clock begins once more to fold in upon itself. The face lightens and the clouds return. The number of juggled balls decreases until the juggler himself vanishes.
  By noon it is a clock again, and no longer a dream.

  Erin Morgenstern

  Dream, Numbers, Clouds

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