Cuckoos Quotes

53 quotes by 48 authors

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… — Marc Faber
And by the meadow-trenches blow the faint sweet cuckoo-flowers. — Alfred Lord Tennyson
The first cuckoo's melancholy cry. — William Wordsworth
The merry cuckow, messenger of Spring, His trumpet shrill hath thrice already sounded. — Edmund Spenser
The government's living in its own cloud cuckoo land and it's a cloud of greenhouse gases. — Bob Brown
The beauty of a cuckoo is in its notes, that of a woman in her unalloyed devotion to her husband, that of an ugly person… — Chanakya
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?… — Deborah Norville
If you got a dollar, soak it away, put it in a savings bank, bury it, do anything but spend it. Spending when we didn't… — Will Rogers
In Switzerland they had brotherly love, five hundred years of democracy and peace, and what did they produce? The cuckoo clock! — Graham Greene
You know how people say awards don't mean anything? Hello! I think the energy around them makes everyone cuckoo. — Kirsten Dunst
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… — Ernest Hemingway
The cuckoo who is on to himself is halfway out of the clock. — Wilson Mizner
In terms of popular cinema, 'One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest' is as near perfection as I can think of. — Peter Mullan
I had those kind of parents where I watched all of these very sophisticated movies: 'Five Easy Pieces', 'One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest.' — Sam Rockwell
In Italy, for 30 years under the Borgias, they had warfare, terror, murder and bloodshed, but they produced Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci and the Renaissance.… — Orson Welles
The duke had a mind that ticked like a clock and, like a clock, it regularly went cuckoo. — Terry Pratchett
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… — Cassandra Clare
Owls hoot in B flat, cuckoos in D, but the water ousel sings in the voice of the stream. She builds her nest back of… — Karen Joy Fowler
Even in Kyoto/Hearing the cuckoo's cry/I long for Kyoto — Matsuo Basho
There was no immunity to cuckoo ideas on Earth. — Kurt Vonnegut

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