Bananas Quotes - Page 7

• Ripe bananas are the mark of a good produce section. A good produce section is the mark of a superior grocery store. A superior grocery store is the mark of a good man.

  Stanley Tucci

  Men, Good Man, Stores

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• Of course, I'm not often the top dog, but sometimes it's better not to be top dog, because you last longer. If a movie or play flops, you always blame the lead. They say, 'He couldn't carry it.' They always blame him. But they rarely blame the second or third banana.

  Charles Durning

  Dog, Play, Lasts

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• There are still some terrible cliches in the presentation of Indian fiction. The lotus flower. The hennaed hands. In mainland Europe, people still slap these images on my books and I go bananas.

  Hari Kunzru

  Flower, Book, Hands

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• If I'm playing in the morning, I'll get some carbs early: porridge with chopped banana. If I'm playing in the afternoon, I'll start with less carbs and have some eggs and fruit for breakfast, then a light lunch about 90 minutes before I play, so I don't feel sluggish or full.

  Rory McIlroy

  Morning, Light, Play

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• I find as a viewer, when I go to see comedies, the strain to be funny throughout the whole thing. I start to lose my sense of reality, and it ends up feeling like an empty experience; there's funny stuff in it but I've lost the emotional connection to the characters because it's just so bananas.

  Mike White

  Character, Reality, Emotional

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• I used to work for a management consulting company, so I dressed differently - business casual, probably a lot of things from Banana Republic. My wardrobe now is definitely more expensive, but I always dress for the occasion.

  John Legend

  Dresses, Republic, Management

  "John Legend On Fashion Trends" by Jeremy Berger, www.askmen.com.

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• My own diagnosis of my problem is a simpler one. It's that I share 50 per cent of my genome with a banana and 98 per cent with a chimpanzee. Banana's don't do psychological consistency. And the tiny part of us that's different - the special Homo sapiens bit - is faulty. It doesn't work. Sorry about that.

  Sebastian Faulks

  Sorry, Consistency, Special

  Sebastian Faulks (2007). “Engleby: A Novel”, Doubleday Books

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• If it were not for me, the Gracies would be selling Bananas in Largo do Machado!

  Carlson Gracie

  Would Be, Selling, Ifs

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• I hate banana bread. It's too suspicious-looking. I always thought the cooked banana looked like insect legs.

  Elizabeth Berg

  Hate, Legs, Bread

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• 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

  Mirrors, Neurons, Monkeys

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• Kelly, there are people in Somalia who would die for a banana.

  Jack Osbourne

  People, Somalia, Dies

  "The Osbournes". TV Series 2002–2005,

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• A man, a plan, a canoe, pasta, heros, rajahs, a coloratura, maps, snipe, percale, macaroni, a gag, a banana bag, a tan, a tag, a banana bag again (or a camel), a crepe, pins, Spam, a rut, a Rolo, cash, a jar, sore hats, a peon, a canal - Panama

  Guy Steele

  Hero, Men, Camels

  Guy Steele (1990). “Common LISP: The Language”, p.406, Elsevier

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• I always say, 'If you can't give a reason for the banana peel being in the alley, then don't have the comic slide over it.' Do you understand what I mean? First explain how the banana peel got there quickly. And then there's a reason for all the comedy.

  Elaine Stritch

  Mean, Giving, Firsts

  "Interview: Elaine Stritch from ’30 Rock’". FanBolt Interview, www.fanbolt.com. May 7, 2010.

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• Angry Black White Boy is bananas! Actually, it's a banana split with razor blades in it. Adam Mansbach is the white Richard Wright, and Angry Black White Boy is our generation's Native Son.

  William Upski Wimsatt

  Son, Boys, Our Generation

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• Sarah turned her narrow-eyed gaze on him, making me glad once more that Antimony's comic books got it wrong, and telepaths can't actually kill you with their brains. Give you a whopping headache and earworm you with annoying jingles, yes; kill you, no. (Although sometimes, when she's managed to stick "The Happy Banana Song" in my head for a week, I sort of wish she could kill people with her brain. It would be kinder.)

  Mira Grant

  Song, Book, People

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• I knew there was a reason I didnt turn you into a banana slug." Leonid'd eyes widened. "No banana slug! Please!" "It was a compliement, silly. Forbidden is good! Sadie likes forbidden!

  Rick Riordan

  Silly, Eye, Slugs

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• If you must eat a banana in public, never make eye contact.

  Darynda Jones

  Eye, Contact, Ifs

  Darynda Jones (2015). “The Charley Davidson Series”, p.284, St. Martin's Press

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• They travel best in gangs, hanging around like clumps of bananas, thick skinned and yellow.

  Neil Kinnock

  Yellow, Gang, Thick

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• It really drives me banana sangwich.

  Dane Cook

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• According to Life & Style, Lance Armstrong was seen canoodling with fitness model Kim Strother, and the night before, he was with Ashley Olsen. He's going from bar to bar picking up women - how does he get them home? Does he put them on the handlebars, or does he have a banana seat?

  Chelsea Handler

  Home, Night, Style

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• The parrot holds its food for prim consumption as daintily as any debutante, [with] a predilection for pot roast, hashed-brown potatoes, duck skin, butter, hoisin sauce, sesame seed oil, bananas and human thumb.

  Alexander Theroux

  Oil, Ducks, Skins

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• Honduras was the original 'banana republic,' and its poverty remains extreme.

  Elliott Abrams

  Republic, Poverty, Honduras

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• I just feel like I aint never did nothing foul in the game. My ghetto report card has always been straight A's across the board. So I said let me go ahead and name this "My Ghetto Report Card," and I'm touching down on all 4 angles of the game you smell me? I'm touching it from all basis. The album aint banana's, it's coconuts.

  E-40

  Ghetto, Games, Names

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• During the Vietnam War, Abbie Hoffman announced that the new high was banana peels taken rectally. So then FBI scientists stuffed banana peels up their asses to find out if this was true or not.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  War, Taken, Vietnam

  Kurt Vonnegut (2017). “A Man Without a Country”, p.108, Dial Press

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• Somebody give me a banana. I'm playing like a monkey, so I might as well eat like one.

  Chi Chi Rodriguez

  Golf, Giving, Monkeys

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