Banana Peel Quotes

#1. A glazed banana peel is not for eating, it's for innuendo.

Jarod Kintz

#2. Like slipping on a banana peel around a corner at eighty miles an hour. Piece of cake.

Brandon Sanderson

#3. You have to give people permission to laugh. That's why they would always cut to the banana peel in the Laurel and Hardy movies.

Danny DeVito

#4. Anything can happen. The great banana peel of existence is always on the floor somewhere.

Robert Fulghum

#5. In the vast majority of cases, however, getting into trouble has nothing to do with one's self-esteem. It usually has much more to do with whatever is causing the trouble - a monster, a bus driver, a banana peel, killer bees, the school principal - than what you think of yourself.

Lemony Snicket

#6. My belief about acting in one foot on a banana peel and the other one in the grave.

Mark Ruffalo

#7. To explain why a man slipped on a banana peel, we do not need a general theory of slipping.

Sidney Morgenbesser

#8. I am truly at my happiest not when I am writing an aria for an actor or making a grand political or social point. I am at my happiest when I've figured out a fun way for somebody to slip on a banana peel.

Aaron Sorkin

#9. I want to sit down, and I want to laugh. Nothing works better for me than watching somebody slip on a banana peel.

Diane Lane

#10. In a banana republic, one might slip on a banana peel but things do work - now and then for the people, albeit inefficiently and unreliably.

George Ayittey

#11. Dramatic and emotional trading experiences tend to be negative. Pride is a great banana peel, as are hope, fear, and greed. My biggest slip-ups occurred shortly after I got emotionally involved with positions.

Ed Seykota

#12. In a pinch, when my leather shoes need a quick shine, I take the inside of a banana peel and rub it on the leather like I would a shoe wax. Then I spit-shine it and buff it with a cloth, and my shoes look great.

Chris Diamantopoulos

#13. When you slip on a banana peel, people laugh at you; but when you tell people you slipped on a banana peel, it's your laugh. So you become the hero rather than the victim of the joke.

Nora Ephron

#14. Liberty," he continued, wrinkling his nose at the used condom that lay on the bottom flight of steps, toeing it to the side of the stairs with distaste. "Someone could slip on that. Break their necks," he muttered, interrupting himself. "Like a banana peel, only with bad taste and irony thrown in.

Neil Gaiman

#15. People ... need a time to laugh. It's up to us to bonk ourselves on the head and slip on a banana peel so the average guy can say, 'I may be bad, honey, but I'm not as much of an idiot as that guy on the screen.'

Chris Farley

#16. As the soil of a garden is richer and as the harvest of the garden bears healthier nourishment from the decay of leaf matter and banana peel and egg shell and human hair and chicken bone and fireplace ash, so the accumulation of death in teh ground of a city implants therein energies and powers.

Tim Gilmore

#17. I look at you and wham, I'm head over heals. I guess that love is like a banana peel.

Elvis Presley

#18. There is no need for hyperbole. I did NOT dump you. I peeled your mask off like a banana peel, did not like what was inside, and tossed it in the trash.

Donna Lynn Hope

#19. The thing is to be brave and move the audience with you, instead of cater to the lowest common denominator, you know, slipping on a banana peel and falling on your ass. You got to move the audience a little further ahead in terms of their appreciation of what is comedy. It's complicated.

Mel Brooks

#20. He was on the verge on insanity with one foot on a banana peel ...

James Patterson

#21. I always say, 'If you can't give a reason for the banana peel being in the alley, then don't have the comic slide over it.' Do you understand what I mean? First explain how the banana peel got there quickly. And then there's a reason for all the comedy.

Elaine Stritch

#22. His venture sounds like a banana peel awaiting its victim.

Charlotte Curtis

#23. The adjective is the banana peel of the parts of speech.

Clifton Fadiman

#24. Indeed it is possible to stand with one foot on the inevitable 'banana peel' of life with both eyes peering into the Great Beyond, and still be happy, comfortable, and serene - if we will even so much as smile.

Douglas Fairbanks

#25. Oh, yeah, you like that banana? Are you going to turn into banana pudding soon? You going to lose your peel?

Meghan Quinn

#26. What is it about her? he wondered hopelessly. What did she offer him that he couldn't find elsewhere? Why did he persist in seeking her out, thinking about her, wanting her, when she was exactly wrong for him in nearly every way?

Rebecca Coleman

#27. They judge with their eyes alone. There is nothing wrong with you. There is something very wrong with them.

Sara Wolf

#28. You think you know your possibilities.
Then other people come into your life
and suddenly there are so many more.

David Levithan

#29. There's no question that as science, knowledge and technology advance, that we will attempt to do more significant things. And there's no question that we will always have to temper those things with ethics.

Ben Carson

#30. Beautifully indeed! But she does everything well. Have you seen her peel a banana? It is like listening to a symphony.

Ben H. Winters

#31. I think that if writers don't speak about real life, it's because they don't know it.

Michel Houellebecq

#32. Love is a banana. First you peel it, and then you roll on the condom.

Dark Jar Tin Zoo

#33. I don't know anything about this engagement stuff. I never thought I was going to get engaged.

Seann William Scott

#34. Strangely enough, through all those school years I decided at 13 or 14 I was going to be a musician and so school was just something to get out of the way, a waste of time and not to bother with it.

Alvin Lee