#banana

This is America, not a banana republic. ↗

— Vincent Bugliosi

#banana #republic

A stockbroker urged me to buy a stock that would triple its value every year. I told him, "At my age, I don't even buy green bananas." ↗

— Claude Pepper

#age #bananas #buy #even #every

This is what it means to be loved... when someone wants to touch you, to be tender... ↗

— Banana Yoshimoto

#love #tenderness #the-lake #touch #love

Everything in my life revolves around people playing at being something. ↗

— Banana Yoshimoto

#inspirational #japanese #life #personal #inspirational

I would rather play Chiquita Banana and have my swimming pool than play Bach and starve. ↗

— Xavier Cugat

#banana #i #play #pool #rather

We would be driving down the street in a place like Zaire, now the Democratic Republic of Congo, and started to see, my gosh, the only people that have shoes are men. Why does that woman have a baby in her belly and one on her back, and she's carrying a huge load of bananas? You start to ask these questions. ↗

— Melinda Gates

#baby #back #bananas #belly #carrying

Silas consumed only one food, and it was not bananas. ↗

— Neil Gaiman

#blood #book #fantasy #food #funny

I feel pretty good. My body actually looks like an old banana, but it's fine. ↗

— Mike Piazza

#actually #banana #body #feel #fine

As great as Ed is, the wisdom out here is that he can't carry a movie. They'll pay him $3 million to be the second banana in Julia Roberts things. But they won't put up $3 million for an Ed Harris movie. ↗

— George A. Romero

#carry #ed #ed harris #great #harris

My family would be supportive if I said I wanted to be a Martian, wear only banana skins, make love to ashtrays, and eat tree bark. ↗

— Casey Affleck

#bark #eat #family #i #love