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Cats and monkeys; monkeys and cats; all human life is there.

Henry James

Before every action ask yourself. Will this bring more monkeys on my back. Will the result of my action be a blessing or a heavy burden?

Alfred A. Montapert

If an army of monkeys were strumming on typewriters, they might write all the books in the British Museum.

Sir Arthur Eddington

To this day, images of apes and monkeys are used as a way to depict black people. It's what it will always mean. You can't just dress monkeys up like people and not conjure Jim Crow.

Susan Morris

You are quite correct in saying that I banned the export of monkeys on a humanitarian basis and not because the number was lessening.

Morarji Desai

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

Jean Claude Duvalier

Dory: [dreaming] Uhhh... the sea monkeys have my money... yes, I'm a natural blue...

Finding Nemo

Nutty as 12 monkeys in a 10 monkey barrel.

Daisy Donovan

I think it forced us to [be more creative]. It's like, 'Let's take the guns off the table and see what else we can think of.' Then you come up with an idea like, 'I'd rather see him attacked by a bunch of sex-crazed monkeys than a bunch of bullets,'.

Peter Berg

We were asked if there were any drug-related side-effects, and this was not one of them. The temporary swollen glands in the monkeys were not un-foreseen.

Thomas Hanke

Now that we have found that the principle applies in owls as well as monkeys, we can figure out the mechanisms of how the brain manages attention.

Daniel Winkowski

It's so cold today even the brass monkeys have stayed home!

Red Barber

My dad would trade monkeys for an alligator -- zoo-to-zoo deals; you'd find someone who needed what you had.

Robert Kirk

Monkeys resonate with consumers because we can all relate to office situations that are difficult.

Richard Castellini

They work together to chase monkeys, and they're quite effective when they chase them together.

Brian Hare

What's happened is that Arctic Monkeys have come along and taken all his fans away with one fell swoop.

Paul Rees

You used to look down from Meredith, and it was a wasteland from us to 10th Street. We could see the Principal building. It was like Oz. But we had flying monkeys above us, and we couldn't get there.

Art Slusark

Some say that AIDS came from the monkeys, and I doubt that because we have been living with monkeys from time immemorial, others say it was a curse from God, but I say it cannot be that.

Wangari Maathai

It's a big wakeup call to all the record companies, the establishment, if you like. This lot caught them all napping. We are living in a completely different era, which the Arctic Monkeys have done an awful lot to bring about.

David Sinclair

To keep it out is anti-education. ... You can't just tell children that they come from monkeys and to forget all about any other theory for how life began and the incredible design of the universe and the human body.

Randy Thomasson

It almost seems like the monkey's off our back. This is something to be proud of.

Sam Huff

The experiments of the infants and the monkeys, I think, make it extremely likely that these abilities are inborn.

Elizabeth Spelke

Guns don't kill people, people kill people, and monkeys do too (if they have a gun).

Eddie Izzard