If the cuckoo does not sing, kill it.
The beauty of a cuckoo is in its notes, that of a woman in her unalloyed devotion to her husband, that of an ugly person in his scholarship, and that of an ascetic in his forgiveness.
That ain't me, that ain't my face. It wasn't even me when I was trying to be that face. I wasn't even really me them; I was just being the way I looked, the way people wanted.
Have I got a mother-in-law. She's so neat she puts paper under the cuckoo clock.
The course of the seasons is a piece of clockwork, with a cuckoo to call when it is spring.
We were surprised how closely the cuckoo imitated the clock-and yet, of course, it could never have heard a clock.
The duke had a mind that ticked like a clock and, like a clock, it regularly went cuckoo.
I love "30 Rock" because Tina Fey allows me to fly over the cuckoo nest once a week.
To me, the most amazing the most amazing transformation in my lifetime is not the revolution of the Sixties but the counter revolution of the Seventies, where they managed to put the cuckoo clock back together again
The merry cuckow, messenger of Spring, His trumpet shrill hath thrice already sounded.
I want to build a clock that ticks once a year. The century hand advances once every one hundred years, and the cuckoo comes out on the millennium. I want the cuckoo to come out every millennium for the next 10,000 years. If I hurry I should finish the clock in time to see the cuckoo come out for the first time.
There was no immunity to cuckoo ideas on Earth.
When I was seven, I watched One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest with my mom. When Jack Nicholson was strapped to the table getting electroshock treatment, my mom burst into tears. She said it reminded her of her life, and I was stunned, because I didn't know my mom had been nominated for an Oscar.
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest' is a movie that I just find flawless. Jack Nicholson. . . I just saw 'The Shining' again the other day; he's so brilliant. He's such a brilliant actor, just unbelievable.
I had those kind of parents where I watched all of these very sophisticated movies: 'Five Easy Pieces', 'One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest. '
O Cuckoo! shall I call thee bird, Or but a wandering voice?
It seems like cloud cuckoo land. If anyone is suggesting that I would go to Parliament and suggest the abolition of the Pound Sterling - no! We have made it quite clear that we will not have a single currency imposed upon us.
This world… belongs to the strong, my friend! The ritual of our existence is based on the strong getting stronger by devouring the weak.
Owls hoot in B flat, cuckoos in D, but the water ousel sings in the voice of the stream. She builds her nest back of the waterfalls so the water is a lullaby to the little ones. Must be where they learn it.
I’m not a cuckoo, either. I’m a fool is what.
