Monkeys Quotes
420 quotes by 348 authors
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There is an angel within the monkey struggling to get free, and this is what the historical crisis is all about.
— Terence McKenna
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I believe that the totemic image for the future is the octopus. This is because the squids and octopi have perfected a form of communication…
— Terence McKenna
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Don't sell your soul to buy peanuts for the monkeys.
— Dorothy Salisbury Davis
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Don't throw a monkey-wrench into the machinery.
— Philander Chase Johnson
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Slowly, slowly, catch the monkey.
— Sylvia Plath
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A century ago, people laughed at the notion that we were descended from monkeys. Today, the individuals most offended by that claim are the monkeys.
— Jacob M. Appel
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When you're dealing with monkeys, you've got to expect some wrenches.
— Alvah Bessie
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I have been dating someone that treats my heart like it's monkey meat. I feel like a delusional, invisible person half the time so I…
— Hannah
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Charles Darwin wrote a famous book in 18 gibberish. And that book was an interesting book, cuz it was called "Monkey-Monkey-Monkey-Monkey-Monkey-Monkey-You"
— Eddie Izzard
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Visualize yourself confronted with the task of killing, one after the other, a cabbage, a fly, a fish, a lizard, a guinea pig, a cat,…
— Konrad Lorenz
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Let your monkey do it.
— Ina May Gaskin
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A meeting is an event at which the minutes are kept and the hours are lost. She should go far. The sooner she starts, the…
— Joseph Stilwell
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"Softly, softly, catchee monkey," is the West African rendering of a very valuable precept. An awful lot of men fail through lack of patient persistence.
— Robert Baden-Powell
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If an army of monkeys were strumming on typewriters, they might write all the books in the British Museum.
— Arthur Eddington
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Man is the Reasoning Animal. Such is the claim. I think it is open to dispute. Indeed, my experiments have proven to me that he…
— Mark Twain
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There's a statistical theory that if you gave a million monkeys typewriters and set them to work, they'd eventually come up with the complete works…
— Ian Hart
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We worship not the Graces, nor the Parcae, but Fashion. She spins and weaves and cuts with full authority. The head monkey at Paris puts…
— Henry David Thoreau
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Most films I've worked on have had large casts, but they've been wonderful people. I think the monkey in Pirates of the Caribbean is the…
— Geoffrey Rush
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Never noticed a female monkey not climbing as well as a male, have you?
— Don Whillans
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If the monkeys had been concerned only with monkey Beings they would never have become men.
— Harry Hooton
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