Monkeys Quotes
420 quotes by 348 authors
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We start out postulating sharp boundaries, such as between humans and apes, or between apes and monkeys, but are in fact dealing with sand castles…
— Frans de Waal
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The puma is, with the exception of some monkeys, the most playful animal in existence.
— William Henry Hudson
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You never monkey with the truth.
— Ben Bradlee
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The philosophic spirit of inquiry may be traced to brute curiosity, and that to the habit of examining all things in search of food. Artistic…
— William Winwood Reade
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I'm tempted to say, 'Writing treatments is like designing a film by hiring six million monkeys to tear out pages of an encyclopedia, then you…
— Terry Rossio
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In January of 1995, my family and I moved to Seattle. Pearl Jam did the first of their live radio broadcasts, Monkey Wrench Radio, along…
— Jack Irons
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That's the thing about this game -- you get a little monkey on your back. You go 0-for-3, you go 0-for-6, pretty soon you start…
— Mike Candrea
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If one puts an infinite number of monkeys in front of typewriters, and lets them clap away, there is a certainty that one of them…
— Nassim Nicholas Taleb
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There is no logical reason to believe in God. There are emotional reasons, certainly, but I cannot have faith that nothing is something simply because…
— Andrew Davidson
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God cursed those who are the sons of Israel, through David and Jesus, the son of Mary. Those people, God made monkeys and pigs.
— Sami Al-Arian
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And there is something profoundly humbling about knowing God. I’m not talking about the trinket God or the genie-in-a-lamp God. I mean the God who…
— Donald Miller
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There are people who are like monkeys in a cage just hitting the coke button. They don't really get that for [musicians and artists] to…
— Maynard James Keenan
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You monkeys only think you’re running things,
— Dennis McKenna
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I really don't know why we need a whole month dedicated to blacks. It's not like they're the only ones that suffered. I mean, what…
— Zach Braff
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An infinite number of monkeys typing into GNU emacs would never make a good program.
— Linus Torvalds
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The sort of man who likes to spend his time watching a cage of monkeys chase one another, or a lion gnaw its tail, or…
— H. L. Mencken
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You are quite correct in saying that I banned the export of monkeys on a humanitarian basis and not because the number was lessening. I…
— Morarji Desai
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I've actually gone to the zoo and had monkeys shout to me from their cages, "I'm in here when you're walking around like that?"
— Robin Williams
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Some determined advocates of the vegetable system maintain, that the teeth and stomach of the monkey correspond, in structure, very closely with that of man,…
— Sarah Josepha Hale
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The tale of the Monkey Girl gave me wat I needed most at a critical time in my life: the image of the creative and…
— Midori Snyder
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