Quotes About Monkey

The label derives from comparative psychology, the name of a field that traditionally has viewed animals as mere stand-ins for humans: a monkey is a simplified human, a rat a simplified monkey, and so

Poetry, it is often said and loudly so, is life's true mirror. But a monkey looking into a work of literature looks in vain for Socrates.

Our names and titles are assigned randomly by a small monkey who has been fed an exceedingly large amount of gin.

Giving her ten thousand Lifeless is enough to make even me consider my drunk-monkey theory." "The one who chooses names and titles of the Returned?" "Exactly," Lightsong said. "I've actually considered expanding the theory. I am now proposing to believe that God-or the universe, or time, or whatever you think controls all of this-is all really just a drunk monkey.

Well, that was a thrilling adventure, Max! I can hardly believe we were buried alive by a band of gassy-smelling pirates." "Yeah, Sam -- good thing the monkey dug us up to rifle through our wallets." "You don't even carry a wallet, Max." "No, but now I can fashion one out of this handsome monkey scalp. Mmm -- it's still warm!

Hey! I'm still fuckin' this monkey. She's just here to take pictures.

I swear, sometimes it feels like there's this monkey in my head who runs around turning the dials and changing channels on me. One minute I'm sitting around eating chocolate chip cookies and then all of a sudden I'm thinking about bears.

Love's like a junkie, addiction's a fact. Passion's a monkey, you can't keep off your back.

The mind is like a monkey swinging from branch to branch through a forest, says the Sutra.

It wouldn't happen... There hasn't been one publication by a monkey

A southwest blow on ye and blister you all o'er!' 'The red plague rid you!' 'Toads, beetles, bats, light on you!' 'As wicked dew as e'er my mother brushed with raven's feather from unwholesome fen drop on you.' 'Strange stuff' 'Thou jesting monkey thou' 'Apes with foreheads villainous low' 'Pied ninny' 'Blind mole...' -The Caliban Curses

Common sense is completely worthless and irrelevant when trying to understand reality. This is probably why people who like to boast about their common sense tend to rail against the fact that they share a common ancestor with a monkey.

The rest of his toilet was soon achieved, and he proudly marched out of the room, wrapped up in his great pilot monkey jacket, and sporting his harpoon like a marshal's baton.

The motions of the average mind, say the Hindus, are about as orderly as those of a crazed monkey cavorting about its cage. Nay, more; like the prancing of a drunk, crazed monkey. Even so we have not conveyed its restlessness; the mind is like a drunken, crazed monkey that has St. Vitus' Dance. To do justice to our theme, however, we must go a final step. The mind is like a drunken crazed monkey with St. Vitus' Dance who has just been stung by a wasp.

The poor monkey, quietly seated on the ground, seemed to be in sore trouble at this display of anger.

Won't you take me to Monkey-Town?

I concluded to myself that if I were the hunter, I would shoot the monkey so that it would no longer have the chance to put other hunters in the same predicament.

People go to the zoo and they like the lion because it's scary. And the bear because it's intense, but the monkey makes people laugh.

The quizzical expression of the monkey at the zoo comes from his wondering whether he is his brother's keeper, or his keeper's brother.

A un mono americano, un ateles, que se embriagó con coñac , nunca más se le pudo hacer que lo volviese a probar, en lo que obraba con mayor cordura que muchos hombres El Origen del Hombre

Wife indeed! laughed Monkey. You haven't got a wife now. There are some sorts of Taoists that are family men; but who ever heard of a Buddhist priest calmly talking about his 'wife'?

The inquisitive monkey gets a bullet in the face.

I really like the Caribbean. Anyplace in the Caribbean. I get there, and I feel like a monkey - the perfect state.

And out of a desire essentially to imitate what I was reading, I began to write, like a clever monkey.