Monkey Quotes - page 4

I passed on the cocaine, Said bye-bye to my methadone. Put down the bottle for one more day. Backing off of my Tobacco Jones. Still I feel like a hopeless junkie, Like a man who can't say no. I look back and there's that monkey; Rascal won't let go. (James Taylor)
At the hearing I not only described the EST method and the rapid rate of human gene discovery but also voiced by concerns about NIH's patent efforts, a subject I was glad to get out in the open. The room went quiet as many were startled by this discovery and then Watson suddenly shouted that it was "sheer lunacy" to file such patents, adding that "virtually any monkey" could use the EST method and that he was "horrified." As Cook-Deegan, a Duke University genome discussant, described the event, "Watson was lying in wait and took aim with heavy artillery." Cook-Deegan, who was Watson's assistant at the time, told me later that Watson had practiced the lines for a week prior to the hearing. View quote
Craig Venter
I was the green monkey, the pariah. And I had no friends. Not just a few friends, or one good friend, or grudging acceptance by other misfits and outcasts. I was alone. All stinking alone, without even an imaginary playmate. View quote
Harlan Ellison
It's love this and love that but of couse it's so easy to love someone you don't know, whether it's George Clooney or Monkey. Staying civil to someone with whom you've ever shared Christmas turkey- now there's a miracle. View quote
Nick Hornby
Barry, you're over thirty years old. You owe it to your mum and dad not to sing in a group called Sonic Death Monkey. View quote
Nick Hornby
Putting a monkey wrench in machinery is often the only way to force somebody to repair, replace, or redesign the machinery. Especially legal or social machinery. View quote
Larry Niven
We don't merge kernel code just because user space was written by a retarded monkey on crack. View quote
Linus Torvalds
The thing that has always disturbed me about O_DIRECT is that the whole interface is just stupid, and was probably designed by a deranged monkey on some serious mind-controlling substances. [*][*] In other words, it's an Oracleism. View quote
Linus Torvalds
It does get old to have to always be a monkey in a zoo. I don't know what it's like any more to be anonymous. View quote
Kevin Bacon
I confess freely to you, I could never look long upon a monkey, without very mortifying reflections. View quote
William Congreve
You know how in many parts of our troubled world they are yelling 'revolution! revolution!' In Tennessee they are yelling 'evolution... we want our thumbs!' The thing is they see people with thumbs on T. V. all day, boy that's got to drive them hog-wild huh? [mimics monkey] Trailers are shaking. They're nice people they're just, what would you call 'em - rural? Backwoods, country? They're real nice, after a show one of these guys came up to me and said 'hey, you're great, you cracked me up, I was about to spit!'... Sorry? He said 'no I loved it, I'd like you to meet my wife and sister.' And there was one girl standing there... not a thumb between 'em. Goddamnit now what are the odds of that? Okay the girl had a little nub growin' in, but girls evolve quicker than guys. (Bill Hicks)
Little red wagon, little red bike, I ain't no monkey but I know what I like. View quote
Bob Dylan
Tweeter and the Monkey Man were hard up for cash They stayed up all night selling cocaine and hash To an undercover cop who had a sister named Jan Who for reasons unexplained she loved the Monkey Man. View quote
Bob Dylan
Ghostwritten's secret agenda is to offer up eight different answers to the question, "Why do things happen?" so it has the right to monkey about with time and history. number9dreams's secret agenda is to offer eight different answers to the question, "In what space does the mind operate?" View quote
David Mitchell (author)
I think the discomfort that some people feel in going to the monkey cages at the zoo is a warning sign. View quote
Carl Sagan
He had developed in the most wonderful way the distinctive silliness of man without losing one jot of the natural folly of a monkey. View quote
H. G. Wells
Am I the only person who hopes that David Beckham has sex with Brad Pitt? I don't know who's in charge of casting in Hollywood, but make it happen before one of them is out of their prime. Can you imagine those two men together making love? If there's a man in here that's junk doesn't wiggle just a little bit at the thought of those two men together - this has nothing to do with your homophobic sexual preference. At that level it's art, you monkey. You should be honored that you share the same restroom with those Greek gods. View quote
Daniel Tosh
People go to the zoo and they like the lion because it's scary. And the bear because it's intense, but the monkey makes people laugh. View quote
Lorne Michaels
We call the mind that wants to make the way of the Universe clear and to put it into practice the mind that seeks truth. However clever a dog or a monkey may be, they cannot realize the universal mind. Only human beings have the privilege and capacity to realize it. If you have a mind that seeks truth, you are happy because this is the proof that you are a real human being. View quote
Koichi Tohei
Monkeys are superior to men in this: when a monkey looks into a mirror, he sees a monkey. View quote
Malcolm de Chazal
Workin' in the fillin' station - too many tasks. Wipe the windows - check the tires - check the oil - dollar gas! Too much monkey business. Too much monkey business. Don't want your botheration, get away, leave me! Too much monkey business for me! (Chuck Berry)
I got a pet monkey called Charlie Chan. View quote
Jimi Hendrix
Every work of art is the child of its age and, in many cases, the mother of our emotions. It follows that each period of culture produces an art of its own which can never be repeated. Efforts to revive the art-principles of the past will at best produce an art that is still-born. It is impossible for us to live and feel, as did the ancient Greeks. In the same way those who strive to follow the Greek methods in sculpture achieve only a similarity of form, the work remaining soulless for all time. Such imitation is mere aping. Externally the monkey completely resembles a human being; he will sit holding a book in front of his nose, and turn over the pages with a thoughtful aspect, but his actions have for him no real meaning. View quote
Wassily Kandinsky
He was meaner, more irritable, more impatient for the ultimate power which could only be his through the elimination of all rivals; and if he had ever had any scruples, any love at all for even a monkey, a book, or a sword-hilt, all this, and even this, had been cauterized and drowned away. View quote
Mervyn Peake
You never monkey with the truth. View quote
Ben Bradlee
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