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Quotes About Monkeys

And recommend them to other people: books for the brokenhearted and the happy, and people excited to be going on vacation, and people who need to know they aren't alone in the universe, and books for children who really like monkeys, and, well, everything really. And to go places where I'm needed.
~ Jenny Colgan
A bunch of monkeys were riding the marshmallow machine straight at us and firing marshmallows at our heads.
~ Andy Griffiths
Wittingly or not, Cynthia's laughter imposed a sort of obligation: smile back or seem hostile. Robin remembered a documentary on monkeys she had watched one night when she was too tired to get up and go to bed: chimps, too, laughed back at each other to signal social cohesion.
~ Robert Galbraith
An infinite number of monkeys have said an infinite number of things about the Hugos this year. People on all sides have said intelligent and insightful things, and people on all sides have said asinine things. The amount of words spent on this makes the Wheel of Time saga look like flash fiction.
~ Jim C. Hines
I like animal sidekicks. They seem to be a pretty cool trope of post-apocalyptic fiction - just because if you're going to have this lone protagonist, they're going to need someone to talk to. Dogs are overused, and cats are dumb. So that leaves monkeys.
~ Brian K. Vaughan
People have always called me Schneider Monkey just because of my energy and mass consumption of bananas. Plus, I just love monkeys, so I thought, 'Well, I love monkeys, I love my fans, why not put the two together?'
~ Max Schneider
We've all heard that millions of monkeys banging on millions of keyboards will eventually reproduce the works of Shakespeare. Now, thanks to the internet, we know this is not true.
~ Robert Wilensky
Don't laugh, Rex," said Mr. Pendanski. "We don't laugh at people's dreams. Someone is going to have to train monkeys for the movies.
~ Louis Sachar
We don't laugh at people's dreams. Someone is going to have to train monkeys for the movies.
~ Louis Sachar
Baloo and Bagheera, for, at the pace the monkeys were going, he knew his friends would be left far behind. It was useless to look down, for he could only see the top sides of the branches, so he stared upward and saw, far away in the blue, Rann, the Kite, balancing and wheeling
~ Rudyard Kipling
We of the jungle have no dealings with them. We do not drink where the monkeys drink; we do not go where the monkeys go;
~ Rudyard Kipling
But no sooner had he walked to the city wall than the monkeys pulled him back, telling him that he did not know how happy he was, and pinching him to make him grateful.
~ Rudyard Kipling
Life could not be entirely devoted to debauchery and monkeys. Magnus had to finance all the drinking somehow.
~ Cassandra Clare
Driven by the hunger for fame and originality, we are like these monkeys, thinking that we are so clever in discovering things and convincing our fellow humans to see what we see, think what we think, driven by ambition to be the savior, the clever one, the seer of all. We have all kinds of small ambitions, such as impressing a girl, or big ambitions, such as landing on Mars. And
~ Dzongsar Jamyang Khyentse
Theory of Evolution (Summary) First, there were some amoebas. Deviant amoebas adapted better to the environment, thus becoming monkeys. Then came Total Quality Management.
~ Scott Adams
No more monkeys jumping on the bed!
~ Eileen Christelow
The reason why the proverbial principles of three wise monkeys fell flat and did not find any acceptance in the world because the people were preached to treat themselves as monkeys.
~ Anuj Somany
I don't envy guards. They're quick little monkeys, those guys.
~ Steven Adams
There are quite a few actors in the business who are much more difficult than kids or monkeys.
~ Paul Hogan
Mother Nature is always speaking. She speaks in a language understood within the peaceful mind of the sincere observer. Leopards, cobras, monkeys, rivers and trees; they all served as my teachers when I lived as a wanderer in the Himalayan foothills.
~ Radhanath Swami
I think probably the scariest thing, as weird as it sounds, was 'The Wizard of Oz' and the flying monkeys with the witch. I remember seeing that - it still seems freaky.
~ Rob Zombie
I saw the 'Wizard of Oz' recently and realized that, all my life, I thought they were real monkeys with wings. That's how scary that movie was for me.
~ Fred Willard
They gave 12 monkeys a typewriter for a week, and after a week, they only used it as a bathroom.
~ Robin Ince
Some say that AIDS came from the monkeys, and I doubt that because we have been living with monkeys from time immemorial, others say it was a curse from God, but I say it cannot be that.
~ Wangari Maathai