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Quotes About Monkey

haunches, looking dejected. "Where's the other monkey?" I asked him. Carl looked up. The monkey was in a tree. "What's he doing there?" Carl shrugged. "This was a stupid idea," I said to Diesel. "Yeah, but at least you walked off your sausage-and-egg sandwich. It would have gone straight to your ass." "I'm going back to Gail's house, and then
~ Janet Evanovich
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.
~ Franz Grillparzer
This is the monkey mind of which Zen speaks: the mind that worries, doubts, frets about the past, makes lists, all the time chattering like a monkey.
~ Patricia Monaghan
At the market I ate a piece of a grilled monkey—it looked like a naked child.
~ Werner Herzog
The poor monkey, quietly seated on the ground, seemed to be in sore trouble at this display of anger.
~ Henry Walter Bates
They'd never get here in time. It's easy. A lobotomized monkey could do it." "And where are we going to find a lobotomized monkey at this time of night?
~ Jasper Fforde
Twitter can no more produce analysis than a monkey can type out a work of Shakespeare.
~ Eric Schmidt
Scarlet's Dancing Monkey of Fiery Doom
~ Tui T. Sutherland
You're like a monkey," Swordtail panted, catching up to her when she stopped to wait for them. "I mean — in a good way — like a — very fast — jumps — good jumps — not foodishly — I mean, not in a dinner way — just, so fast." He wheezed to a stop.
~ Tui T. Sutherland
It looked a little bit like a monkey, but bigger and not quite so hairy, apart from a patch of floppy brown fur on top of its head. It had nimble little paws, which were holding something that it was gazing at intently. Parts of it were wrapped in something like a cocoon made of jaguar fur and deep red silk.
~ Tui T. Sutherland
Never hold discussions with the monkey when the organ grinder is in the room.
~ Winston Churchill
Monkey now produced his staff and the two of them did their best to kill each other, like the affectionate in-laws they were.
~ Wu Cheng'en
It was just a kiss – " "Yeah, and King Kong was just a monkey.
~ Linda Howard
Stop the nurse like the monkey.
~ Jeff Lindsay
Books that hadn't been cracked since they were shelved. Give money to a monkey and he'll fill his cage with bananas. Give the same money to a dim American and he'll build a show library every time.
~ Jess Walter
1950's monkey kidney tissue was used because that was standard laboratory practice. Researchers didn't realise that one of the viruses commonly found in monkey kidney cells can cause cancer in humans.
~ Unknown
Cable cars are fun - everyone gets on board and becomes a rhesus monkey.
~ Eddie Izzard
Malcolm stared back calmly, though he felt anything but calm: if that monkey had a name, it might be Malice, he thought.
~ Philip Pullman
Sunlight shining on the fur of a golden monkey…
~ Philip Pullman
Hand-to-hand combat with three hundred pounds of screaming monkey menace is not my idea of a fair fight. My idea of a fair fight is one unarmed, toothless, nearsighted old monkey versus me with a Blackhawk attack helicopter.
~ Dean Koontz
Poor old Sheba regarded Connolly with much the same amazement and delight as you or I would a monkey who strolled out of the rain forest and asked for a gin and tonic.
~ Zoë Heller
It depends on whether the monkey is more intelligent than we are." "I'm rather afraid of the answer," Harry replied dryly. - Beatrix & Harry
~ Lisa Kleypas
it's cold enough to freeze the nuts off a brass monkey," Mikey said. The kids giggled. "Mikey said nuts," Nina said. Kate held up a hand, the sign for silence. "The saying comes from the Civil War days, when the cannonballs were stacked in a pyramid formation called a brass monkey. When it got extremely cold outside they'd crack and break off. Breaking the nuts off the brass monkey. Get it?
~ Jill Shalvis
Do you want your blood to stay where it is sochar-lar? Tavi lifted both eyebrows at the unfamiliar word, and glanced at Varg. Monkey, Varg supplied, in Aleran. And male-child. He called me monkey boy? Tavi asked.
~ Jim Butcher