Monkeys Quotes
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Our ancestors were very rich and eminent people, and they left us an enormous inheritance, which we have completely forgotten, especially since the time when we began to consider ourselves the descendants of a monkey.
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Watch them clamber, these swift monkeys! They clamber over one another and thus drag one another into the mud and the depth. They all want to get to the throne: that is their madness — as if happiness sat on the throne. Often, mud sits on the throne — and often the throne also on mud. Mad they all appear to me, clambering monkeys and overardent. Foul smells their idol, the cold monster: foul, they smell to me altogether, these idolators.
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Nor do I think we came from monkeys, by the wayThat's another piece of garbage. What the hell's it based on? We couldn't've come from anything-fish, maybe, but not monkeys. I don't believe in the evolution of fish to monkeys to men. Why aren't monkeys changing into men now? It's absolute garbage. It's absolutely irrational garbage, as mad as the ones who believe the world was made only four thousand years ago, the fundamentalists.
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My voice speaking is a monkey's mouth making little mouth noises that are carrying agree-upon meaning, and it is meaning that matters. Without the meaning one has only little mouth noises
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There is an angel within the monkey struggling to get free, and this is what the historical crisis is all about.
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If me and King Kong went into an alley, only one of us would come out. And it wouldn't be the monkey.
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We are consciousness. We may not always be monkeys.
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Nutty as 12 monkeys in a 10 monkey barrel.
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Some in management positions operate as if they are in a tree of monkeys. They make sure that everyone at the top of the tree looking down sees only smiles. But all too often, those at the bottom looking up see only asses.
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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.
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People will always work harder if they're getting well paid and if they're afraid of losing a job which they know will be hard to equal. As is well known, if you pay peanuts, you get monkeys.
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Even monkeys fall out of trees.
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I wish Monkeys could Skype. Maybe one day.
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The work on [polio] prevention was long delayed by... misleading experimental models of the disease in monkeys
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Darwinian man, though well-behaved, at best is only a monkey shaved.
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The experiments of the infants and the monkeys, I think, make it extremely likely that these abilities are inborn.
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I think with the work we do with these drugs we are the earliest pioneers in what over the next 100 years will lead to an understanding of consciousness almost as a thing apart from the monkey body and brain.
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Southerners ask intimate questions in the way monkeys groom each other for lice, not to pry but to make you feel cared for.
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My big break was back in the third grade playing the third monkey in 'Horton Hears a Who.
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Rhesus monkeys as well as human adults and older children living in a remote Amazon village have been given comparison and addition tasks using arrays of dots, and they show the same abilities we find in 5- year- old Boston children.
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And out of a desire essentially to imitate what I was reading, I began to write, like a clever monkey.
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Men give up one thing to take up another, but in spite of numerous changes they do not find peace. They are no better than monkeys who let go one bough to take hold of another, only to let it go again.
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We have changed. We are no longer, as I said, bipedal monkeys. We are instead a kind of cybernetic coral reef of organic components and inorganic technological components.
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Your soul is like the souls of a thousand monkeys on crack, all smushed together.
