Black people have this thing about calling themselves apes and monkeys I know they get real (whatever) and I don't blame em'. But I feel like I'm a brute. I am, but I'm smart though. I'm not a dummy.
Only animals have to satisfy instincts! Surely your aims are somewhat higher than theirs! Than monkeys! Pigs!
Some of the films that I have really enjoyed include: The Fifth Element, The Crow, Toys, Seven, Forrest Gump, The Lion King, 12 Monkeys, Doctor Zhivago, Being There, and Trainspotting.
There are any number of things that survive great, and don't need any kind of consciousness, so why bother going through all the trouble of evolving monkeys that don't run very well or climb very fast or have particularly sharp teeth, but have big heads.
I think life would be so much funnier if every day you saw someone walking down the street getting hit in the head by a monkey.
Welcome back, my cheeky wee monkeys.
I'm like a monkey. You don't let go of one branch until you get a hold of the other.
"Softly, softly, catchee monkey," is the West African rendering of a very valuable precept. An awful lot of men fail through lack of patient persistence.
I'll direct any movie starring a monkey or the Olsen Twins. Preferably both.
It is a lot better to come from an evolved monkey than from a fallen angel.
The poor monkey, quietly seated on the ground, seemed to be in sore trouble at this display of anger.
But then, after all, we are all alike, for we are all derived from the monkey.
I rather wonder what I am doing here. I enjoy city life, you know. The glittering lights, the constant companionship, the liquid entertainment. The lack of sudden monkeys.
Moreover, I wish to assure you both that I did not make any amorous advances on female monkeys.
Harlow would later write, "If monkeys have taught us anything, it's that you've got to learn how to love before you learn how to live.
People might say, What's so great about the Arctic Monkeys? I've never even seen them. Well, you've never seen God either. You're gonna tell me he's not awesome?
God likes a little humor, as is evidence by the fact that he made the monkeys, the parrot -- and some of you people.
Artists are not helper monkeys; they’re not in it to visualize 'your' story, because it stopped being 'your' story the moment you engaged in a collaborative medium. From here on in, it’s also the artist’s story, and if you’re working with an illustrator who’s any good at all, you as a writer have to tamp down any control-freak tendencies you suffer under and relax into the process.
If you pay peanuts, you get monkeys.
In Africa, you know, if you're poor, at least you can go to the forest and share some mangoes with the gorillas and monkey.