Quotes tagged ‘monkeys’

“When exposed to a moving toy or a strange room, babies with cloth mothers rushed to them, buried their faces in the soft fabric and relaxed. Their peers, with only wire mothers, shook in terror against the wall. Left alone for months with only wire mothers, they pined away, staring at the world with…”

— Barbara Smuts, nytimes.com

“People. Animals are not like that. They're always cleaning themselves. Did you ever see, umm... pigeons? Well, he's always picking on himself and his friends. They're always picking bugs out of their hair all the time. Monkeys, too. Except they do something out in the open that I don't go for.”

— Carole Eastman, Bob Rafelson, Palm Apodaca, Helena Kallianiotes, imdb.com

“This is a thousand monkeys working at a thousand typewriters. Soon, they will have written the greatest novel known to man. 'It was the best of times, it was the 'blurst' of times?' You stupid monkey!”

— Wallace Wolodarsky, Jay Kogen, Mr. Burns, Christopher Collins, imdb.com

“I...I was nice today, nice to all those insipid little monkeys!, answering all their stupid letters!”

— John Kricfalusi, Ren Höek (voice), John Kricfalusi, imdb.com

“Sam Weir: What am I gonna say to Cindy? Bill Haverchuck: Don't say anything. Be dominant. It's all, all about dominance. I saw this monkey show on PBS, if you talk to her first, it's a sign of weakness and she will not pick you to be her mate. Sam Weir: Are you drunk? Bill Haverchuck: I think so, ye…”

— Judd Apatow, J. Elvis Weinstein, Bill Haverchuck, Martin Starr, imdb.com

“We are just an advanced breed of monkeys on a minor planet of a very average star. But we can understand the Universe. That makes us something very special.”

— Stephen Hawking, books.google.com