Monkey Quotes

Just cause you got the monkey off your back doesn't mean the circus has left town.

You never monkey with the truth.

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

As a child I was the best tree climber in our neighbourhood, I was like a little monkey. I've never been afraid of hurting myself or a little physical discomfort.

Too much free time is certainly a monkey's paw in disguise. Most people can't handle a structureless life.

It was hard enough to drive those heavy old cars back then under normal circumstances, but with a crazed monkey clawing you at the same time, it becomes nearly impossible!

Monkeys are superior to men in this: when a monkey looks into a mirror, he sees a monkey.

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 most temperamental costar I've had. It would throw tantrums like you wouldn't believe.

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

It does get old to have to always be a monkey in a zoo. I don't know what it's like any more to be anonymous.

There are domains in which expertise is not possible. Stock picking is a good example. And in long-term political strategic forecasting, it's been shown that experts are just not better than a dice-throwing monkey.

The surest way to make a monkey of a man is to quote him.

Never hold discussions with the monkey when the organ grinder is in the room.

My boyfriend calls me 'princess', but I think of myself more along the lines of 'monkey' and 'retard'.

I swear by that old expression, 'One monkey don't stop no show!' The reality is, we still have some good men out there, and we should hail those men as the kings they are.

The president is here, strong and firm as a monkey's tail.

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.

A father and two sons run Adelphia. It's a cable company. And they took from that company a billion dollars. A billion. Three people - three people took a billion dollars. What were they gonna do, start their own space program? 'Let's send the monkey to Mars, Dad!'

Postwar America was a very buttoned-up nation. Radio shows were run by censors, Presidents wore hats, ladies wore girdles. We came straight out of the blue - nobody was expecting anything like Martin and Lewis. A sexy guy and a monkey is how some people saw us.

I wrote the very first stories in science fiction which dealt with homosexuality, The World Well Lost and Affair With a Green Monkey.

Democracy is the art and science of running the circus from the monkey cage.

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.

I learned the way a monkey learns - by watching its parents.

A determined soul will do more with a rusty monkey wrench than a loafer will accomplish with all the tools in a machine shop.

Frank's audience doesn't care if a girl singer, a comic or an organ grinder with a monkey opens the show. They are there to see HIM.

An American monkey, after getting drunk on brandy, would never touch it again, and thus is much wiser than most men.

In January of 1995, my family and I moved to Seattle. Pearl Jam did the first of their live radio broadcasts, Monkey Wrench Radio, along with many other Seattle musicians.

I love going into the centre of London because people don't give a monkey's about you or who you are. You can be in a restaurant and no one notices you or if they do they won't show it.

Yes, I've kissed a lot of guys. I like to kiss, but that's it. I don't go home with anyone. I sleep with my animals, like my baby monkey, Brigitte Bardot.

God, George Bush makes me want to slash my wrists. He's so embarrassing I have to leave the room when he's on the news. What a monkey.