Famous Quotes & Sayings

Russell Hoban

The zoo is a prison for animals who have been sentenced without trial and I feel guilty because I do nothing about it. I wanted to see an oyster-catcher, so I was no better than the people who caged the oyster-catcher for me to see.

Vance Havner

Civilization today reminds me of an ape with a blowtorch playing in a room full of dynamite. It looks like the monkeys are about to operate the zoo, and the inmates are taking over the asylum.

Robin Williams

I've actually gone to the zoo and had monkeys shout to me from their cages, "I'm in here when you're walking around like that?"

Rodney Dangerfield

I live in a tough neighborhood. They got a children's zoo. Last week, four kids escaped.

Rodney Dangerfield

Oh, I was an ugly kid. My old man took me to the zoo. They thanked him for returning me.

Robert Solow

I remember once reading that it is still not understood how the giraffe manages to pump an adequate blood supply all the way up to its head; but it is hard to imagine that anyone would conclude tht giraffes do not have long necks. At least not anyone who had ever been to a zoo

Will Rogers

Politics is the best show in America. I love animals and I love politicians, and I like to watch both of 'em at play, either back home in their native state, or after they've been captured and sent to a zoo, or to Washington.

Winston Churchill

A baboon in a forest is a matter of legitimate speculation; a baboon in a zoo is an object of public curiosity; but a baboon in your wife’s bed is a cause of the gravest concern.

Yann Martel

...if you fall into a lion's pit, the reason the lion will tear you to pieces is not because it's hungry-be assured, zoo animals are amply fed-or because it's bloodthirsty, but because you've invaded it's territory.

Bobby Vinton

I wrote that song 'Melody Of Love', the one with the Polish lyrics, because over the years I had gone to Italy, Germany, South America.

Pavle Jovanovic

He keeps us on our toes, because you can be gone one race to the next no matter the outcome.

John Montgomery

Hard Rock has this cachet and image that can't be under-valued. I think if it had gone to Vail, for example, which already has a number of world-class hotels, the impact wouldn't have been as great.

Sonya Berzett

Her numbers have been pretty consistent. They've gone up every year, for the most part.

Robert Redford

God, it was great to play a guy like him, gone to seed, surly,

Patrick Griffet

For members and Scotty Zion followers, we're having a freebie day on Aug. 16. We don't have much in the kitchen and when it's gone it's gone. I picked that night to include Scotty Zion and his wife.

Pat Perez

He's always gone by Joe. I was surprised he used Ignacio.

Ian Foster

He's got a very sore shoulder and he's not looking good. It didn't dislocate but it looks like there's something serious gone on there.

Herbert Greene

He's just such a great kid. He's just as good as they come. I'm proud of him and the way he's gone over there and played.

James Cook

Allowing liberals to manage economic policy is like hiring monkeys to be aircraft mechanics.

Eric Schmidt

Twitter can no more produce analysis than a monkey can type out a work of Shakespeare.

Cassandra Clare

Hello," Magnus said to the monkey. The monkey did not reply. "I shall call you Ragnor.

Kim Clijsters

Well, there's no monkey on my back,

Eli Roth

I'll direct any movie starring a monkey or the Olsen Twins. Preferably both.

Terrence Howard

If evolution works, why are monkeys still around?

Terence McKenna

We are consciousness. We may not always be monkeys.

Sebastian Arcelus

My big break was back in the third grade playing the third monkey in 'Horton Hears a Who.

Karl Pilkington

It wouldn't happen... There hasn't been one publication by a monkey