Monkey Quotes
317 quotes by 264 authors
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God, George Bush makes me want to slash my wrists. He's so embarrassing I have to leave the room when he's on the news. What…
— Margot Kidder
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Every woman's path is difficult, and many mothers were as equipped to raise children as wire monkey mothers. I say that without judgment: It is,…
— Anne Lamott
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Postwar America was a very buttoned-up nation. Radio shows were run by censors, Presidents wore hats, ladies wore girdles. We came straight out of the…
— Jerry Lewis
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When I would be myself, I was being big-headed. I was being egotistical. I was a megalomaniac, when it really was just having not to…
— Jerry Lewis
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Democracy is the art and science of running the circus from the monkey cage.
— H. L. Mencken
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My boyfriend calls me 'princess', but I think of myself more along the lines of 'monkey' and 'retard'.
— Alicia Silverstone
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I swear by that old expression, 'One monkey don't stop no show!' The reality is, we still have some good men out there, and we…
— Angie Stone
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As a child I was the best tree climber in our neighbourhood, I was like a little monkey. I've never been afraid of hurting myself…
— Rachel Weisz
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If you had a million Shakespeares, could they write like a monkey?
— Steven Wright
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Never in all her life had she imagined that this idolized millinery could look, to those who paid for it, like the decorations of an…
— Charlotte Perkins Gilman
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What is Man? Man is a noisome bacillus whom Our Heavenly Father created because he was disappointed in the monkey.
— Mark Twain
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I am burdened with what the Buddhists call the 'monkey mind' -- the thoughts that swing from limb to limb, stopping only to scratch themselves,…
— Elizabeth Gilbert
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Explain me to myself, you’ll make me choke on my lunch. Feel sympathy for me, I’ll puke monkey blood on your understated shoes.
— Don DeLillo
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Stop the nurse like the monkey.
— Jeff Lindsay
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Claim whatever you want. Say you only want a happy family or a successful career or a big house. I say: no, that's not what…
— Maureen Johnson
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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.
— Nick Hornby
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Doctor, I had never had anybody like her in my life, she was the fulfillment of my most lascivious adolescent dreams– but marry her, can…
— Philip Roth
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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…
— Harlan Ellison
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I was about 12 years old and I was sitting watching the television and it was some kind of talent show, you know, and on…
— Nick Cave
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Little red wagon, little red bike, I ain’t no monkey but I know what I like.
— Bob Dylan
Who Wrote These Monkey Quotes
264 authors contributed a total of 317 Monkey Quotes, led by these top contributors: