Cuckoos Quotes
53 quotes by 48 authors
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Men capable of governing empires fail to control a small white ball, which presents no difficulties whetever to others with one ounce more brain than…
— P.G. Wodehouse
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As one sits here in summertime and listens to the cuckoo and all the other bird songs, the crackling and buzzing of insects, as one…
— Carl Linnaeus
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I aspire to be Jack Nicholson. I love his every single mannerism. I used to try and be him in virtually everything I did, I…
— Robert Pattinson
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I love 30 Rock because Tina Fey allows me to fly over the cuckoo nest once a week.
— Tracy Morgan
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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…
— William Shakespeare
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Since both its national products, snow and chocolate, melt, the cuckoo clock was invented solely in order to give tourists something solid to remember it…
— Alan Coren
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I`m kind of like one of those people that picks up small and interesting bits of wood and doesn`t want to let go of them.…
— Joe Strummer
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I get all my ideas in Switzerland near the Forka Pass. There is a little town called Gletch, and two thousand feet up above Gletch…
— Dr. Seuss
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I think there are some groups of stocks that are highly vulnerable because they're in cuckoo land in terms of valuations,
— Marc Faber
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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…
— Danny Hillis
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O Cuckoo! shall I call thee bird, Or but a wandering voice?
— William Wordsworth
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If the cuckoo does not sing, kill it.
— Oda Nobunaga
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We were surprised how closely the cuckoo imitated the clock-and yet, of course, it could never have heard a clock.
— Mark Twain
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Being daily swallowed by men's eyes, They surfeited with honey and began To loathe the taste of sweetness, whereof a little More than a little…
— William Shakespeare
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The cuckoos remain silent for a long time (for several seasons) until they are able to sing sweetly (in the Spring) so as to give…
— Chanakya
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The belief that you have a great idea is not worth cuckoo spit. Ideas are ten a penny while the ability to execute counts for…
— Felix Dennis
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If you say you've had a nervous breakdown or things aren't right mentally, people run away from you. They think you're from 'One Flew Over…
— Frank Bruno
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Human society is based on want. Life is based on want. Wild-eyed visionaries may dream of a world without need. Cloud-cuckoo-land. It can't be done.
— H.G. Wells
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I never thought about writing. I was married young, I was still in college, as we did then, and I had two babies before I…
— Judy Blume
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One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest' is a movie that I just find flawless. Jack Nicholson... I just saw 'The Shining' again the other day;…
— Michael Biehn
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