Monkeys Quotes - Page 16

• My company is called Talking Monkey, Inc. It's because that's what I think all people are: talking monkeys.

  Joe Rogan

  Thinking, Talking, People

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• You see the button with the guy with the tray, and you push it, and he arrives with a sandwich! And you think: "Yes! Yes! I control sandwich monkey! I live in magic land, magic land, magic land"

  Dylan Moran

  Funny, Humor, Thinking

  "Monster". Documentary, Comedy, 2004.

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• My son, I do not say these are foals and those asses, these little monkeys and those great baboons, as you would have me do. As I told you from the first, I regard them as earth's heroes. But I do not wish to believe them without cause, nor to accept those propositions whose antitheses (as you must have understood if you are not both blind and deaf) are so compellingly true.

  Giordano Bruno

  Believe, Hero, Son

  Giordano Bruno (1962). “Cause, Principle, and Unity: Five Dialogues”

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• Dogs, monkeys, and parrots are a thousand times less miserable than we are.

  Voltaire

  Dog, Candide, Miserable

  Voltaire (2006). “Candide: Or Optimism”, p.69, Yale University Press

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• If living on fruits and water is of superior merit, monkeys and fish will go to heaven before men.

  Meera

  Buddhism, Men, Water

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• I drew pictures rapidly and with few lines, because I had to write most of the pieces, too, and couldn't monkey long with the drawings. The divine urge was no higher than that.

  James Thurber

  Writing, Drawing, Long

  James Thurber, Harrison Kinney, Rosemary A. Thurber (2002). “The Thurber letters: the wit, wisdom, and surprising life of James Thurber”, Simon and Schuster

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• Well, here's the thing with relationships on 'True Blood': Once they happen then you have to throw a monkey-wrench into them, because to have people be happy is not that exciting.

  Alan Ball

  Blood, People, Exciting

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• In a way, fasting is like the "calming of the monkey mind" effected by the rosary prayer: both are means of stilling the effervescence of relatively superficial preoccupations.

  Robert Barron

  Prayer, Mean, Mind

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• For me, two of my favourite science fiction films are Blade Runner, which is fantastic, and Terry Gilliam's Twelve Monkeys. Both of those were smart science fiction films hitting more of a medium budget, and I desperately hope there is an audience for that kind of film because I would love that to be my next film, on that kind of scale.

  Duncan Jones

  Smart, Two, Blade Runner

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• In Africa, you know, if you're poor, at least you can go to the forest and share some mangoes with the gorillas and monkey.

  Emmanuel Jal

  Gorillas, Forests, Poor

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• It is the simple truth that man does differ from the brutes in kind and not in degree; and the proof of it is here; that it sounds like a truism to say that the most primitive man drew a picture of a monkey and that it sounds like a joke to say that the most intelligent monkey drew a picture of a man. Something of division and disproportion has appeared; and it is unique. Art is the signature of man.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Art, Intelligent, Unique

  "The Everlasting Man". Book by Gilbert K. Chesterton, Part I: On the Creature Called Man, 1925.

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• As the monkey climbs the tree, more people can see his bottom.

  Jean-Louis Gassee

  People, Tree, Bottom

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• I dreamed a place where I have come to dwell Cold Mountain says it all Monkeys scream, the valley fog is cold My door blends with the color of the peaks I gather leaves and thatch a hut among the pines Dig a pond and lead a trickle from the brook Long ago I left the world behind Eating ferns I pass the years in peace

  Hanshan

  Fog, Doors, Long Ago

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• Artistic genius is an expansion of monkey imitativeness.

  William Winwood Reade

  Expansion, Genius, Artistic

  William Winwood Reade (1874). “The Martyrdom of Man”, p.394

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• I looked like a monkey trying to wrestle a football.

  Sam Snead

  Football, Trying

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• Everybody knows that fanaticism is religion caricatured; bears, indeed, about the same relation to it that a monkey bears to a man; yet, with many, contempt of fanaticism is received as a sure sign of hostility to religion.

  Edwin Percy Whipple

  Men, Bears, Relation

  Edwin Percy Whipple (1851). “Literature and life, lects”, p.68

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• I know that in many things I am not like others, but I do not know what I really am like. Man cannot compare himself with any other creature; he is not a monkey, not a cow, not a tree. I am a man. But what is it to be that? Like every other being, I am a splinter of the infinite deity, but I cannot contrast myself with any animal, any plant or any stone. Only a mythical being has a range greater than man's. How then can man form any definite opinions about himself?.

  Carl Jung

  Animal, Men, Tree

  Carl Gustav Jung (1973). “Memories, dreams, reflections”, Random House Inc

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• Some tribes [of monkeys] have taken to washing potatoes in the river before eating them, others have not. Sometimes migrating groups of potato-washers meet non-washers, and the two groups watch each other's strange behavior with apparent bewilderment. But unlike the inhabitants of Lilliput, who fought holy crusades over the question at which end to break the egg, the potato-washing monkeys do not go to war with the non-washers, because the poor creatures have no language which would enable them to declare washing a diving commandment and eating unwashed potatoes a deadly heresy.

  Arthur Koestler

  War, Taken, Eggs

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• Coolidge is a better example of evolution than either Bryan or Darrow, for he knows when not to talk, which is the biggest asset the monkey possesses over the human.

  Will Rogers

  Teaching, Science, Example

  In 'Saturday Review' 25 August 1962 'A Rogers Thesaurus'

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• You're not really drinking coffee unless you drink it black, don't you think? Oh, no? You like to monkey with it?

  David Letterman

  Drinking, Coffee, Thinking

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• I wouldn't give my troubles to a monkey on a rock.

  David Letterman

  Rocks, Giving, Trouble

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• Evolution is fundamentally creative, and when we align ourselves with the evolutionary movements of consciousness, the universe itself puts wind in our sails. Quantum thinking goes beyond the thoughts we're aware of; it includes unconscious processing, which doesn't just expand our boundaries, but can also free us from the suffering that conscious processing (sometimes known as 'the monkey mind') creates.

  Amit Goswami

  Inspirational, Thinking, Wind

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• But then, after all, we are all alike, for we are all derived from the monkey.

  Albert Einstein

  William Hermanns, Albert Einstein (1983). “Einstein and the Poet: In Search of the Cosmic Man”, Branden Publishing Company

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• It is rather an unpleasant fact, that the ugliest and awkwardest of brute animals have the greatest resemblance to man: the monkey and the bear. The monkey is ugly too (so we think) because he is like man--as the bear is awkward, because the cumbrous action of its huge paws seems to be a preposterous imitation of the motions of human hands. Men and apes are the only animals that have hairs on the under eye-lid. Let kings know this.

  Charles Lamb

  Kings, Eye, Thinking

  Charles Lamb, Mary Lamb (2017). “Delphi Complete Works of Charles and Mary Lamb (Illustrated)”, p.1492, Delphi Classics

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• Some of the films that I have really enjoyed include: The Fifth Element, The Crow, Toys, Seven, Forrest Gump, The Lion King, 12 Monkeys, Doctor Zhivago, Being There, and Trainspotting.

  Frederick Lenz

  Kings, Doctors, Crow

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