Quotes About Coconuts

A vendor selling coconuts on the road is a philosopher. He will have ideas on politics, economics, history, sports. This has saved India. The fact that the common Indian is a thinker is vital.

You're more likely to die from a falling coconut than from a shark attack, and more likely to die on your birthday than any other day of the year. The average person falls asleep in seven minutes and, over a lifetime, spends twenty-five years sleeping. About 11 percent of the population are left-handed. The most typical human face on Earth is that of a 28-year-old Chinese man.

Shopping in Thailand is super cheap and generally high quality. Bangkok is also safe. If you see anybody wearing camouflage holding a machete, don't be scared. They sell coconuts.

You know what would be a fun game? If Pac-Man was on a beach, and he was chomping coconuts. You could see how tan you could get your Pac-Man.

150 people die every year from being hit by falling coconuts. Not to worry, drug makers are developing a vaccine.

I want you to see the spring where the water comes from. Be careful of the coconuts. They may fall on your head. If you hear one coming from the trees, you must get out from under fast.

Battles in Micronesia were so pitched and bloody that Gilbertese warriors would outfit themselves head to foot with doormat-thick armor fashioned from coconut hulls. On top of the significant humiliation of making one's entrance onto the battlefield looking like an enormous macramé planter was the fact that the armor was so bulky that it required the assistance of several squires to help maneuver you.

Where'd you get the coconuts?

My wife is on a new diet. Coconuts and bananas. She hasn't lost weight, but can she climb a tree.

Watch out for flying coconuts.

Does the 'palm' of your hand ever share any cocoanuts?

The single greatest invention man ever conceived in the dollar bill, because I don't want to know the conversion rate for coconuts.

Att'y: Are your eyes blue or green? Waitress: Pardon? Att'y: Blue or green? Waitress: They change. Att'y: Like a lizard? Waitress: Like a cat. Att'y: Oh, the lizard changes the color of his skin … Waitress: Want anything to drink? Att'y: Beer. And I have beer in the car. Tons of it. The whole back seat's full of it. Duke: I don't like mixing coconuts up with beer and hamburgers.

So it turns out that if you bang two halves of a horse together, it doesn't make the sound of a coconut.

Coconut shies and

Timely Rain In the jungles of flaming ego, May there be cool iceberg of bodhicitta. On the racetrack of bureaucracy, May there be the walk of the elephant. May the sumptuous castle of arrogance Be destroyed by vajra confidence. In the garden of gentle sanity, May you be bombarded by coconuts of wakefulness.

Are you suggesting coconuts migrate?

I developed a passion for the Middle Ages the same way some people develop a passion for coconuts.

In the garden of gentle sanity May you be bombarded by coconuts of wakefulness. —CHÖGYAM TRUNGPA RINPOCHE

I grew up with coconuts as the main flavor in food in Jamaica. It's part of our culture.