Monkeys Quotes - Page 12

• Well, there's no monkey on my back.

  Kim Clijsters

  Wells

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• We are bored in the city, there is no longer any Temple of the Sun. Between the legs of the women walking by, the dadaists imagined a monkey wrench and the surrealists a crystal cup. That's lost. We know how to read every promise in faces-the latest stage of morphology. The poetry of the billboards lasted twenty years. We are bored in the city, we really have to strain to still discover mysteries on the sidewalk billboards, the latest state of humor and poetry.

  Ivan Chtcheglov

  Years, Cities, Bored

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• Humans in space suits make monkeys nervous.

  Richard Preston

  Space, Suits, Nervous

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• 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

  Mind, Stronger, Contemplation

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• My mother went to a school called 'The Club of the Three Wise Monkeys'. And my grandmother, my father's mother, had a gold charm for her made with the speak no, see no, hear no evil monkeys. And I was fascinated by that charm. I'd sit in my mother's lap and play with it all the time.

  Mackenzie Phillips

  Wise, Mother, Father

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• You can look at a monkey and see that there is more than a five percent difference in DNA.

  Bob Enyart

  Dna, Differences, Looks

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• I just don't know when we all decided that if it doesn't fit in a Happy Meal box, it's not for kids. I remember flying monkeys in the Wizard of Oz, and I grew up watching Monty Python. I think that kids can handle a lot more than we give them credit for, especially when it comes to the absurd.

  Gore Verbinski

  Kids, Thinking, Python

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• We're all just bags of bones and muscle and hormones; I'll never understand what makes our minds do the things we do. It's like that statue of the monkey holding a skull. We're trying to use a thing we don't understand to understand ourselves.

  Meshell Ndegeocello

  Skulls, Mind, Trying

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• I once threw myself a surprise party on Twitter because I was lonely. It was awesome. Thousands of people showed up and then Wil Wheaton and I made a bunch of monkey-ponies. It was the most successful surprise party I've ever thrown in my life. It was also the only surprise party I've ever thrown in my whole life.

  Jenny Lawson

  Lonely, Party, Successful

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• Civilization today reminds me of an ape with a blowtorch playing in a room full of dynamite. It looks like the monkeys are about to operate the zoo, and the inmates are taking over the asylum.

  Vance Havner

  Zoos, Civilization, Looks

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• I get burned out on standup. But I like acting. I do like it. But sometimes you just feel like a monkey. You just feel like a complete tool. But I like it. I do like it. Stand-up is just more free. A lot more freedom because you just do what you want to do.

  Zach Galifianakis

  Acting, Want, Tools

  "Zack Galifianakis On Set Interview - THE HANGOVER". Interview with Steve ‘Frosty’ Weintraub, collider.com. April 27, 2009.

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• I think it is very important to conserve and protect the natural world. I’ve just come back from Costa Rica and they are really big on eco tourism. They have lots of reserves, and they are really into protecting wildlife. I visited a reserve called Cabo Blanco. You walk into the reserve and there are capucine monkeys swinging from the trees and sloths. I am big into nature, and seeing animals in their natural habitats. I love it.

  Colin Morgan

  Thinking, Animal, Tree

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• Before every action ask yourself. Will this bring more monkeys on my back. Will the result of my action be a blessing or a heavy burden?

  Alfred Armand Montapert

  Blessing, Action, Burden

  Alfred Armand Montapert (1986). “Pray to Win!: A Blueprint for Success”, Value Pub.

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• If you pay peanuts, you wind up hiring monkeys.

  Unknown

  Wind, Pay, Peanuts

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• I love it here in Boston and I love studying medicine. But it’s not home. Dublin is home. Being back with you felt like home. I miss my best friend. I’ve met some great guys here, but I didn’t grow up with any of them playing cops and robbers in my back garden. I don’t feel like they are real friends. I haven’t kicked them in the shins, stayed up all night on Santa watch with them, hung from trees pretending to be monkeys, played hotel, or laughed my heart out as their stomachs were pumped. It’s kind of hard to beat that.

  Cecelia Ahern

  Growing Up, Real, Home

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• In times of widespread chaos and confusion, it has been the duty of more advanced human beings--artists, scientists, clowns and philosophers--to create order. In times such as ours, however, when there is too much order, too much management, too much programming and control, it becomes the duty of superior men and women to fling their favorite monkey wrenches into the machinery. To relive the repression of the human spirit, they must sow doubt and disruption.

  Tom Robbins

  Men, Artist, Order

  Tom Robbins (2003). “Even Cowgirls Get the Blues”, p.215, Bantam

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• So…that’s like your pet monkey?” – Nick (The tiny horse snorted flames and whinnied at him.) “Easy, girl. You’d do well to show her respect. She can understand you, and she doesn’t take well to insults.” – Death “Sorry, Flicka. Didn’t mean to rattle your bridle.” – Nick

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Girl, Horse, Sorry

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• Everything in the universe is everything else. A man is a killer is a saint is a monkey is a cockroach is a goldfish is a whale, and the Devil is just the angel who asked for More.

  Craig Clevenger

  Angel, Men, Whales

  Craig Clevenger (2005). “Dermaphoria: A Novel”, Macadam Cage Pub

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• I'm a barrel of monkeys, kid, though mostly I figure monkeys stuck in a barrel are just going to be pissed off.

  Nora Roberts

  Kids, Pissed Off, Figures

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• The monkeys solved the puzzle simply because they found it gratifying to solve puzzles. They enjoyed it. The joy of the task was its own reward.

  Daniel H. Pink

  Inspirational, Joy, Tasks

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• I swear, sometimes it feels like there's this monkey in my head who runs around turning the dials and changing channels on me. One minute I'm sitting around eating chocolate chip cookies and then all of a sudden I'm thinking about bears.

  Michael Thomas Ford

  Running, Thinking, Chocolate

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• The monkey body has carried us to this moment of release, but we are coming more and more to exist in a world made by the human imagination.

  Terence McKenna

  Imagination, World, Body

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• Football is a game for trained apes. That, in fact, is what most of the players are -- retarded gorillas wearing helmets and uniforms. The only thing more debased is the surrounding mob of drunken monkeys howling the gorillas on.

  Edward Abbey

  Football, Player, Games

  Edward Abbey (2015). “A Voice Crying in the Wilderness”, p.38, RosettaBooks

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• I'm not fighting with myself. Oh, my God. That's how I am. You know, the story of the hippo? The hippo comes to the monkey and said, listen, I'm not a hippo. So, he paint himself like a zebra. He said but he's still a hippo. He said but look at you, you're painted like a zebra but you are a hippo. So then he goes, you know, like I want be a little parrot. So, he put the colours on him and he comes to the monkey and said but, sorry, you are a hippo. So, in the end, you know, he comes and said I'm happy to be a hippo. This is who I am. So, I have to be who I am and he's happy being a hippo.

  Marat Safin

  Zebras, Sorry, Fighting

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• I don't think we came from monkeys. I think that's ridiculous. I haven't seen a half-monkey, half-person yet.

  Glenn Beck

  Thinking, Half, Ridiculous

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