Monkey Quotes

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.

I confess freely to you, I could never look long upon a monkey, without very mortifying reflections.

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

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.

It is not so important to be serious as it is to be serious about the important things. The monkey wears an expression of seriousness which would do credit to any college student, but the monkey is serious because he itches.

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

You never monkey with the truth.

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

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

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.

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!

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.

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!'

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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.

I got a pet monkey called Charlie Chan.

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.

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.

When I would be myself, I was being big-headed. I was being egotistical. I was a megalomaniac, when it really was just having not to be a monkey for a few hours a day. And fulfilling the need to be a man.