Cuckoos Quotes - Page 2

• They can't tell so much about you if you got your eyes closed.

  Ken Kesey

  Life, Eye, Ifs

  Ken Kesey (2016). “One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest”, p.1, Hamilton Books

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• What's the first image that comes to mind when you think of a mental hospital? Jack Nicholson in 'One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest,' right? We need to change that perception, and places like this one are doing that.

  Deborah Norville

  Thinking, Perception, Mind

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• 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 Faber

  Oil, People, Six

  "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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• This world… belongs to the strong, my friend! The ritual of our existence is based on the strong getting stronger by devouring the weak.

  Ken Kesey

  Strong, World, Rabbit Holes

  Ken Kesey (2016). “One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest”, p.33, Hamilton Books

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• That ain't me, that ain't my face. It wasn't even me when I was trying to be that face. I wasn't even really me them; I was just being the way I looked, the way people wanted.

  Ken Kesey

  People, Trying, Way

  Ken Kesey (2012). “One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest: 50th Anniversary Edition”, p.148, Penguin

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• We have been distracted into unnatural motivations: money, prestige, power. Listening to the cuckoo is not going to give you money. Listening to the cuckoo is not going to give you power, prestige. Watching the butterfly is not going to help you economically, politically, socially. These things are not paying, but these things make you happy.

  Rajneesh

  Money, Motivation, Butterfly

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• When daisies pied and violets blue And lady-smocks all silver-white And cuckoo-buds of yellow hue Do paint the meadows with delight, The cuckoo then, on every tree, Mocks married men; for thus sings he, Cuckoo; Cuckoo, cuckoo; O, word of fear, Unpleasing to a married ear.

  William Shakespeare

  Fear, Men, Blue

  'Love's Labour's Lost' (1595) act 5, sc. 2, l. [902]

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• In Switzerland they had brotherly love, five hundred years of democracy and peace, and what did they produce? The cuckoo clock!

  Graham Greene

  Love, Peace, Years

  Graham Greene, Carol Reed (1969). “The third man: a film”, Lorrimer Publishing Ltd.

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• Switzerland is a small, steep country, much more up and down than sideways, and is all stuck over with large brown hotels built on the cuckoo clock style of architecture.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Country, Style, Cuckoo Clocks

  Toronto Star Weekly 4 Mar. 1922, in William White By-line: Ernest Hemingway (1967) p. 18 See also F. Scott Fitzgerald (6.20)

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• You see, cuckoos are parasites. They lay their eggs in other birds' nests. When the egg hatches, the baby cuckoo pushes the other baby birds out of the nest. The poor parent birds work themselves to death trying to find enough food to feed the enormous cuckoo child who has murdered their babies and taken their places." "Enormous?" said Jace. "Did you just call me fat?" "It was an analogy." "I am not fat.

  Cassandra Clare

  Baby, Children, Taken

  Cassandra Clare (2009). “City of Ashes”, p.78, Simon and Schuster

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• the breed is more than the pasture. As you know, the cuckoo lays her eggs in any bird's nest; it may be hatched among blackbirds or robins or thrushes, but it is always a cuckoo. ... a man cannot deliver himself from his ancestors.

  Amelia Barr

  Men, Past, Eggs

  Amelia E. Barr (2009). “The Belle of Bowling Green”, p.50, Wildside Press LLC

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• I love "30 Rock" because Tina Fey allows me to fly over the cuckoo nest once a week.

  Tracy Morgan

  Rocks, Fey, Nests

  "Tracy Morgan: '30 Rock' Let Him Be Himself". "Fresh Air" with David Bianculli, www.npr.org. January 25, 2013.

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• He knows that you have to laugh at the things that hurt you just to keep yourself in balance, just to keep the world from running you plumb crazy.

  Ken Kesey

  Life, Running, Hurt

  Ken Kesey (2016). “One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest”, p.128, Hamilton Books

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• The April rain, the April rain,
  Comes slanting down in fitful showers,
  Then from the furrow shoots the grain,
  And banks are fledged with nestling flowers;
  And in grey shawl and woodland bowers
  The cuckoo through the April rain
  Calls once again.

  Mathilde Blind

  Spring, Rain, Flower

  Mathilde Blind, “April Rain”

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• It seems like cloud cuckoo land. If anyone is suggesting that I would go to Parliament and suggest the abolition of the Pound Sterling - no! We have made it quite clear that we will not have a single currency imposed upon us.

  Margaret Thatcher

  Clouds, Land, Pounds

  Margaret Thatcher, Iain Dale (1997). “As I said to Denis--: the Margaret Thatcher book of quotations”, Robson Book Ltd

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• High high in the hills , high in a pine tree bed. She's tracing the wind with that old hand, counting the clouds with that old chant, Three geese in a flock one flew east one flew west one flew over the cuckoo's nest

  Ken Kesey

  Clouds, Hands, Wind

  Ken Kesey (2002). “One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest”, p.253, Penguin

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• 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

  Hands, Years, Want

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• They-" He stopped and just blinked at me for a minute. "You know, people are always saying that you're cuckoo. Looney Tunes. Off the freaking edge. But I tell 'em, no, she's okay. She's got some...anger management issues. But you know what? They're right. You're nuts.

  Karen Chance

  Nuts, Issues, People

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• WEATHERS This is the weather the cuckoo likes, And so do I; When showers betumble the chestnut spikes, And nestlings fly; And the little brown nightingale bills his best, And they sit outside at 'The Traveller's Rest,' And maids come forth sprig-muslin drest, And citizens dream of the south and west, And so do I. This is the weather the shepherd shuns, And so do I; When beeches drip in browns and duns, And thresh and ply; And hill-hid tides throb, throe on throe, And meadow rivulets overflow, And drops on gate bars hang in a row, And rooks in families homeward go, And so do I.

  Thomas Hardy

  Dream, Weather, Shepherds

  Late Lyrics and Earlier (1922) "Weathers"

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• No, that nurse ain't some kinda monster chicken, buddy, what she is is a ball-cutter. I've seen a thousand of 'em, old and young, men and women. Seen 'em all over the country and in the homes- people who try to make you weak so they can get you to toe the line, to follow their rules, to live like they want you to. And the best way to do this, to get you to knuckle under, is to weaken you by gettin' you where it hurts the worst.

  Ken Kesey

  Country, Hurt, Home

  Ken Kesey (2016). “One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest”, p.31, Hamilton Books

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• But I tried, didn't I? Goddamnit, at least I did that.

  Ken Kesey

  Mcmurphy, Effort, Trying

  "Fictional character: R.P. McMurphy". One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, www.imdb.com. 1975.

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• You’re just a young kid. What are you doin’ here? You oughta be out in a convertible, why… bird-doggin’ chicks and bangin’ beaver. What are ya doin’ here, for Christ’s sake? What’s funny about that? Jesus, I mean, you guys do nothin’ but complain about how you can’t stand it in this place here and then you haven’t got the guts just to walk out!

  Ken Kesey

  Jesus, Mean, Kids

  "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest". Book by Ken Kesey, 1962.

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• What the Chronics are - or most of us - are machines with flaws inside that can't be repaired, flaws born in, or flaws beat in over so many years of the guy running head-on into solid things that by the time the hospital found him he was bleeding rust in some vacant lot.

  Ken Kesey

  Running, Years, Guy

  Ken Kesey (2016). “One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest”, p.7, Hamilton Books

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• But the rest are even scared to open up and laugh. You know, that's the first thing that got me about this place, that there wasn't anybody laughing. I haven't heard a real laugh since I came through that door, do you know that? Man, when you lose your laugh you lose your footing.

  Ken Kesey

  Real, Men, Doors

  Ken Kesey (2016). “One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest”, p.36, Hamilton Books

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• The flock gets sight of a spot of blood on some chicken and they all go to peckin' at it, see, till they rip the chicken to shreds, blood and bones and feathers. But usually a couple of the flock gets spotted in the fracas, then it's their turn. And a few more gets spots and gets pecked to death, and more and more. Oh, a peckin' party can wipe out the whole flock in a matter of a few hours, buddy, I seen it. A mighty awesome sight. The only way to prevent it—with chickens—is to clip blinders on them. So's they can't see.

  Ken Kesey

  Couple, Rip, Party

  Ken Kesey (2002). “One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (SparkNotes Literature Guide)”, SparkNotes

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