Monkey Quotations

It was hard enough to drive those heavy old cars back then under normal circumstances, but with a crazed monkey clawing you at the same time, it becomes nearly impossible!

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'Friend Monkey' is really my favorite of all my books because the Hindu myth on which it is based is my favorite - the myth of the Monkey Lord who loved so much that he created chaos wherever he went.

I started making monkey bridges, like kids do, and climbing and rappelling with ropes. Very naturally, I needed some knots. At the very beginning, I didn't care, I didn't know, and then slowly I started to know, and I started to care. I wanted to know more knots or the right knot for the special action.

The character of the monkey just grew from something out of his face and my granddad's personality. They fused, and that's what I ended up with! The monkey belonged to a friend of mine, and I saw that it had such a little beguiling face and it grew from there.

For a while, the world for me was like a set of monkey bars. I swung from one place to the next, sometimes backward, sometimes forward, capitalizing on my own momentum, knowing that at some point my arms... would give out, and I'd fall to the ground.

Our society spends a lot of money on prison bars. For the sake of our kids, let's invest in monkey bars.

I wish the Legislature would give us the latitude to take these raises at a later date or take a smaller amount. It really puts the monkey on our backs. If we don't take the raise, we run the risk of not receiving another one for four or five years. But if we take them, there's always going to be this perception from the public that we're stuffing our pockets full of money when we have bills to pay.

Somebody mentioned we hadn't won here in a long time. It was nice to get the monkey off our back and continue to play the way we've been playing.

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Maybe the monkey was on our back and maybe that bull's eye was a little difficult to handle. But you know, we certainly won't have to worry about that after this game.

No, I have no problem with their management. After we did the first show in Boston, I had an email from Rod Smallwood saying that Bruce was concerned that the front rows of the audience weren't really MAIDEN fans and so I kept a couple of rows of seats clear every night so that we could bring in MAIDEN fans in MAIDEN T-shirts to make the band feel comfortable. I was the mug who did this for four weeks. And then this is how Monkey Boy repays me.

If they want to treat me like a monkey then I'll dance like one.

We need to beat them. You always want to get a monkey off your back. This season we got the 20-win monkey off of our back. Last season, we got to Cleveland. This season, we got the (first-round) bye. We need to just keep taking monkeys off of our back.

God bless my daddy, ... He was the genius who created this wonderful menagerie of characters. A monkey could do my job with the characters I have to work with. He left me this cast of characters and this dominant gene.

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We've finally got a monkey off our back we've been waiting for. That was the biggest win I could've used, I'll tell you that much.

We've got to get that monkey off our back. Hopefully, we'll do it soon, because I know this game with Iowa is going to be close.

We look at this as a step toward the Big East title. It's big to come here and win. It's the first time in history. It's definitely a monkey off our backs, but we can't put everything on this one game.

I am glad to get the monkey off my back. The program needed the 20 wins more than anything to take that next jump. It's big for us.

(Hitting) is very contagious. It's kind of like monkey see, monkey do.

We can exhale now. It feels like we got a little monkey off our back and we can gear up for Sunday.

terrorism and anthrax and monkey pox and a pox on everybody's houses. So no thank you.

Somehow, some way we got it done. I told the kids we got the monkey off our back and I don't care how we did it. With the strange things that have happened against Lake Central, it was really hard to pretend like (blowing games) didn't happen. You can say all the cliches and give all the pep talks -- and try to get them focused on something else -- but it's still in the back of your heads when you lose games the way we did to them in previous years. It was tough tonight, but we got through it. It was ugly, but we'll take the win.

Some of the guys mentioned we haven't won here in a long time. We just had to keep grinding. We were trying to get that monkey off our back, get two points and continue the roll we're on.

Man is, they say, a monkey that has lost its tail; well, he must lose many more attributes of the monkey before he is entitled to call himself Man. He must dedicate his thought, word and deed to God and surrender to His Will. Then only is this animal entitled to become a Man in whom the Divine is enshrined.

It is difficult. We're looking at a team of all but two seniors that, I hope, have some great expectations of what we would like to accomplish in the future. I'd like to see this team take it to a different level, play with the monkey off their back and have some fun.

I thought it was the right decision. It's a monkey off our backs.

Our season goes up and down and we are going to find a way to get it back. We don't have a monkey on our back. We have a gorilla.

Our game plan was to go back to the triangle-and-two that we used when we beat them last time and obviously not having him on the floor threw a monkey wrench into that. We didn't get the job done on defense tonight.

I was the first to say we got the monkey off our backs. Everybody was really happy about that win.

It feels like we got that monkey off of our back. Now we can start playing and building momentum for the Pac-10 tournament.

It feels like we got the monkey off our backs. We had been losing so many close games, but we finally pulled one through.

It feels good and is kind of a monkey off of our back. We've been fighting hard and playing well, but we couldn't seem to get that first win. They were a little tight pushing a little too hard and it cost us some goals, but they fought back. Once we got behind, we tended to go into a bit of a shell, so hopefully this will be a learning experience and not back off when we get down.

It feels good that we got the monkey off our backs. Now we have to build on this momentum. The fact we never quit shows the guts of this team.

It felt like the monkey is off my back. When I hit that ball, it was a great feeling. Coach Butler (hitting coach Todd Butler) told me, 'You can't go 0- for-the-rest-of-your-life.' I know that. I experienced it last year. I was 0 for awhile then finished the year strong.

It feels good to have that monkey off our back. It's a joyous locker room.

It has been a while, but it was huge to get the monkey off of our backs.

I think we were more determined today, and we just fed off the momentum. I'm just happy we got this win before we go to Dallas. Now, everyone's equal again. This gets a huge monkey off our back.

I think it feels very good to get the win. We've played very hard lately but we haven't been able to get results. We were able to get the monkey off our back.

I wasn't trying to defend my monkey one way or the other.

the ancient craft to its rightful place as an art form. In the show, he takes us on a multi-dimensional journey that combines his skills with a parade of characters that range from a subversive monkey to a withering tennis ball.

You can go down there and get as many at-bats as you want, but until you get that first one out of the way back in the big leagues, it's tough. You have a little bit of self doubt. You're wondering, 'Am I ready?' And once that first one happens for you, that monkey gets off your back.

That win got the monkey off our backs. Now, we're starting to feel good about ourselves.

We got the monkey off our back. Anywhere you go in the game of basketball there's pressure to win. For me, this is a sigh of relief.

We got the monkey off our back. It feels great.

We finally got that monkey off our back.

We finally got the monkey off our back. It feels good.

We finally got the monkey off our backs. We're ready to pick it up now.

We finally got the monkey off our back. We played looser and I think that helped. We made quite a few mental mistakes early, but our bats were hot and our pitching is coming around.

We finally got the monkey off our back with this win. We had a great week of practice and now we finally know we can play at this level. We still have strides to take and we know we can improve. We have to come in every week and practice like we did this week. We needed this win.

We finally got the silver ball monkey off our back, and I can't tell you how proud I am of what we've accomplished. It's these kids' championship, and those 32 minutes was theirs to come out and to earn something special.

That was nice. I said, 'You want us to get that ball for you?' I'm sure the monkey is lifted off his back. Hopefully this will open up the floodgates for him.

That was definitely a monkey off our backs. Now that fear against Duke is gone.

We've taken the monkey off our back. Now, Sandpoint is beatable.

We got one goal and could have gotten some more, but we did not have any luck hitting the post, ... This may be the game to get the monkey off our back with this stadium.

When I got here, people would do the monkey noises and chants and stuff like that. I just kind of laugh it off.

The day the monkey is destined to die, all the trees get slippery

We said amongst the coaches that the monkey was off our back Tuesday.

There is no monkey business going on. This is not an exemption that swallows the rule.

We still need to be more consistent on offense. But at least the road monkey is off our back. This gives us some momentum and a lot of confidence.

Where's a *!$#&!* Flying Monkey when you need one?

We're ready to try to get this monkey off our back. We got one monkey off our back with the Gonzaga win, so hopefully we can do it again.

We let them do stuff that kids typically do at a playground -- push ups, pull ups -- they're basically playing on monkey bars. We're not trying to put them in a squat rack and have them squat 200 pounds.

Earnings season is always volatile and we're just going to have to watch it. What companies say can throw a monkey wrench into market action or be a catalyst, and we have a lot of big companies reporting in the next few days.

Even though it's not the regular season, it gets the monkey off his back, ... You could see once he scored his first goal how excited he got, how much confidence he got.

It would be huge to get that monkey off our backs.

The trend for reduced unemployment rates is pleasing but as a government, we still have more work to do to with our industrial relation reforms and changes to unfair dismissal laws, which will remove the monkey on the back of small business,

The thirst of a thoughtless man grows like a creeper; he runs from life to life, like a monkey seeking fruit in the forest.

I've no doubt Jenson will get the monkey off his back this year. By the end of the year he'll have won at least one race and hopefully a number of them.

These are the games that count. We are about due for a win. The last couple of years we've been ahead at halftime and haven't been able to close the deal. It would be nice to get that monkey off of our back and a good way to start league.

This throws a monkey wrench in the administration's strategy of standing down (U.S. troops) as the Iraqis stand up, because it suggests that many Iraqis are standing up to fight other Iraqis.

This one is a huge monkey off our back, competing against a district rival and getting a win. And then just getting a win in general in a very tough district we're back in the race.

To be honest, I'm kind of shocked. They just threw a monkey up in here or something like that.

Boomer obviously threw a monkey wrench in everybody?s plans.

People have always called me Schneider Monkey just because of my energy and mass consumption of bananas. Plus, I just love monkeys, so I thought, 'Well, I love monkeys, I love my fans, why not put the two together?'

I wanted that TD. I didn't know it was going to open up that much. L.T. was kidding me about having a monkey on my back.

Extol has a platform that can literally cut the time required to integrate these applications by literally 50 percent to 90 percent. I've got people in your organization with a mentality oriented toward manual coding. Until you get that monkey off your back, it's going to limit your business opportunities.

Extol has a platform that literally can cut the time required to integrate these applications by 50% to 90%. If you're a CIO, the hairy problem is that you've got people in your organization with a mentality oriented toward manual coding. Until you get that monkey off your back, it's going to limit your business opportunities.

Finally, that big monkey is off our backs,

We wanted to finish the year off right. We know we've been so close, and for us to get a win like this feels good - especially finishing 2005 off with a win. But we've won back-to-back games once this year, so I don't think we're going to get too high. I mean, we're still trying to build some consistency as a team. Hopefully, we got the monkey off our back.

Sacred Heart Cathedral is a great team, but we finally played 32 minutes of basketball. Finally got 32 minutes to get this monkey off our back.

Ryan did a nice job scoring points for us. He got the monkey off his back by qualifying. He was a state alternate at South, so for him to get down there was a big deal. Ryan wrestled his heart out. The two matches he lost in overtime were heartbreakers. He was one match away from placing.

The monkey had grown into a full-fledged gorilla. This was our goal all along, and we played with a desire to win.

The monkey is kinda off our back. The first win is always the most important. To be so close to it so many games prior, it gnawed at their insides and finally they got a chance to win. It's great for them.

The monkey is off our back. Five wins is the pedestal that we were looking at, hopefully that will get us in (the playoffs).

The monkey is off our back. It was really tough playing Duke. They constantly beat us. We finally got that win, and I think that mentally that fear against Duke is just gone.

The monkey is off our back. Mentally, that fear against Duke is just gone.

The monkey is off our back. We have been struggling for three games. This is our first home game in a long time. The girls were excited to play at home. They came out and played Cougar basketball. They have been trying hard.

The monkey was off our back. We played a home game the following week, and I remember telling the team, 'Guys, we have to find our goalpost.' It was kind of crooked, but we had it up by the next week.

No matter how far you go in anything, you have to take that first step and, sometimes, that first step can be a big one. They hadn't played for two weeks, but there's no monkey on their back ... and they came in really relaxed.

That game got the monkey off our backs. The fear against Duke is just gone.

That's good for his confidence because we know he's a good player and we want him to be on the pitch. That will definitely help his morale and spirit to finally get that monkey off his back. Now he can go out and play good soccer instead of worrying about scoring goals.

They're used to it, but then it's also a different kind of pressure they're putting on themselves. There's kind of a monkey on their back.

They sort of got the monkey off their back today. We had a chance to come back in the fourth quarter, and they didn't allow it. That's a good football team.

Right now we need to put 40 minutes of intense basketball together. Right now that's the biggest monkey on our back.

Even if a monkey wears a golden ring, he remains an ugly thing.

Essentially, a parrot is a monkey with wings.

The person with the institutional authority is always the 800-pound gorilla. People who go to work thinking they'll out-wrestle the big monkey will lose every time.

This was a great win. The monkey is off our back. Now we can step forward and do the things that we need to do.