#monkey

Big fat hairy monkey, hands a couple of octaves wide? ↗

— Terry Pratchett

#monkey #music #music

I think probably the scariest thing, as weird as it sounds, was 'The Wizard of Oz' and the flying monkeys with the witch. I remember seeing that - it still seems freaky. ↗

— Rob Zombie

#freaky #i #i remember #i think #monkeys

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

— George Carlin

#cause #circus #got #just #left

Monkeys who very sensibly refrain from speech, lest they should be set to earn their livings. ↗

— Kenneth Grahame

#lest #monkeys #refrain #sensibly #set

I got a pet monkey called Charlie Chan. ↗

— Jimi Hendrix

#chan #charlie #got #i #monkey

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

— Robert Hughes

#determined #loafer #machine #monkey #more

With the exception of the New York Times, Fox news, and Lou Dobbs of CNN, and talk radio, the rest of the mainstream media has basically been silenced like a bunch of dumb monkeys. ↗

— Curt Weldon

#been #bunch #cnn #dumb #exception

I mean to say, we all sprang from humble origins. Goodness gracious, who would have thought that a species of monkey would take over the kingdom of the world. … I cannot help but feel that the monkey was not a good choice. Surely one of the cat family would have been much more satisfactory. They have a much less emotional approach to life. ("The Shadmock") ↗

— R. Chetwynd-Hayes

#evolution #monkeys #family

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. ↗

— Jerry Lewis

#anything #blue #came #censors #expecting

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. ↗

— Jerry Lewis

#being #day #egotistical #few #fulfilling