Top 100 Banana Quotes
#1. Intellectual property has the shelf life of a banana.
Bill Gates
#2. 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
#3. Hey, maybe instead of going to college, you should drop out and I could quit my job and we can form an all-girl band with Lane, you know, like Bananarama. We could call it Tangerinarama or Banana-fana-fo-fana-rama ... or something.
Daniel Palladino
#4. For lunch my colleagues and I each ate the equivalent of a double banana split. I told my wife I had two bananas for lunch...I failed to mention I had to eat my way through five pounds of ice cream to get to those bananas.
Dan Adams
#5. And they have a display of bananas, which are not bananas but called plantains and are more like a potato pretending to be a banana.
Lauren Child
#6. Lady Ponsonby was right. The forbidden fruit isn't shaped like an apple. It's shaped like a banana.
Michelle Marcos
#7. My biggest thing is banana pudding, but it's the devil! So no one is allowed to bring it into my house. Because I can't control myself. So why put it in my domain?
Jennifer Hudson
#8. If this Government cannot get the adjustment, get manufacturing going again, and keep moderate wage outcomes and a sensible economic policy, then Australia is basically done for. We will end up being a third rate economy ... a banana republic.
Paul Keating
#9. I am Amaxon Corazon Junia Principia Delgado the Third, and I bent over my meal and wept luxurious tears into my green banana porridge. It was a perfect decoction, and it now would not satisfy me.
Nalo Hopkinson
#10. You don't want your credibility banana to turn brown, but you do want to speak out about what you believe in.
Bradley Whitford
#11. With an animated show you can make a banana purple. You can put three hats on a cowboy. That would require several days of stitching, in live-action, that you wouldn't be able to afford. I mean, you can just do tons and tons and tons.
Dan Harmon
#13. If you can't think because you can't chew, try a banana.
Lee Kuan Yew
#14. 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
#15. 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
#17. We are well on our way to becoming a banana republic in every respect except, of course, that we don't grow bananas.
Burt Prelutsky
#18. The thin girl was gulping down one of Richard's bananas in what was, Richard reflected, the least erotic display of banana-eating he had ever seen.
Neil Gaiman
#19. Time flies like an arrow - but fruit flies like a banana.
Terry Wogan
#20. He could not understand why he had needed so many words to explain what he felt in war because one was enough: fear.
~Jose Aracadio Segundo Buendia
After the second banana slaughter
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
#21. Look, you know i don't wanna come on ungrateful, but that warren report, you know as well as me, just didn't make it. You know, like they might as well have asked some banana salesman from des moines, who was up in toronto on the big day, if he saw anyone around looking suspicious/ ...
Bob Dylan
#22. That ticks me off!" She snapped. "Since when could you bribe me with treats like a fucking child."
I groaned, pinching the bridge of my nose. "So no smoothie then?"
"Mango, banana, orange and extra kiwi," she replied before hanging up.
J.J. McAvoy
#24. If I had a choice, I love making smoothies, or having some fresh fruit and some good snacks. A smoothie with banana, kale, blueberries and almond milk is so good.
Katia Winter
#25. I love making smoothies post-workout. My favorite - depending on the day - is either a chocolate whey protein shake with banana and peanut butter, or one with vanilla and berries.
Parker Young
#26. Cas whistled. "You are a sight for sore eyes, Anna Banana.
Jennifer Rush
#27. How to defend yourself against a banana
John Cleese
#28. the Buddha whimsically pointed out that seeking happiness in one's material desires is as absurd as "suffering because a banana tree will not bear mangoes.
Rolf Potts
#29. Above Hilo, broad lands sweeping up cloudwards, with their sugar cane, kalo, melons, pine-apples, and banana groves suggest the boundless liberality of Nature.
Isabella Bird
#30. In the history of show business, there probably never was a straighter straight man than banana-yellow Bert, the paper clip collector and pigeon fancier.
Michael Davis
#31. That's the van? It looks like a rotting banana.
This was undeniable - Eric had painted the van a neon shade of yellow, and it was blotched with dings and rust like splotches of decay.
Cassandra Clare
#32. Jeeves' eyes had taken on the look of cautious reserve which you see in those of parrots, when offered half a banana by a stranger of whose bona fides they are not convinced.
P.G. Wodehouse
#33. Gussie and I, as I say, had rather lost touch, but all the same I was exercised about the poor fish, as I am about all my pals, close or distant, who find themselves treading upon Life's banana skins.
P.G. Wodehouse
#34. You're a natural, my love," Charlie said. "Where did you learn how to do that? Did you practice on a banana or something?
Elena Kincaid
#35. Is that a banana in your lunch box, or are you just pleased to see me?
H.M. Forester
#36. You get to have some mischief before you're basically a blackened banana, impotent, and nothing to be afraid of.
Guy Maddin
#37. I'm positive and I smile a lot, and I'm kind of a banana, but serious work just seems to find me, so I'm not going to argue with it.
Mireille Enos
#38. Morals; the pathetic answer to authority
Seen two gorillas sharing a banana?
M. Cochet M.
#39. There he is, tall, tanned, Italian, sophisticated. So what do you do?"
I said, "Er, leap on him and snog him within an inch of his life? Taking care not to strangle myself on his false beard, or disturb his banana.
Louise Rennison
#40. Overall, the shack was too miserable to serve as a storage space for old banana peels, let alone as a home for three young people, and I confess that if I had been told that it was my home I probably would have lain on the bales of hay and thrown a temper tantrum.
Lemony Snicket
#41. Our two postcard hearts were frightened in unison under the tenacious look of the unfathomable old man who kept on eating one banana after another
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
#42. 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
#43. The na at the end of banana annoys me as much as it would you if it were bananana.
Lance Manion
#44. You should see what she's wearing, Callie. It's velvet. Canary yellow velvet. Turban to match. She looks like a furry banana.
Sarah MacLean
#45. Something will pop up in my head. It could be like the weirdest thing. Like all'a sudden like I have like a jumping banana in my head.
Ryan Lochte
#46. Rincewind had been his assistant and his friend, and was a good man when it came to peeling a banana. He had also been uniquely good at running away from things. He was not, the Librarian considered, the type to be easily caught. There
Terry Pratchett
#47. We were fighting for them in wars against people that we had more in common with than with the United States of Banana.
Giannina Braschi
#48. You can't teach calculus to a chimpanzee. So just share your banana.
John Rachel
#49. Obama might think of himself as one, but he is not a dictator. We are not a banana republic yet. This is not an authoritarian form of government. This is a constitutional republic, and the president doesn't allow or disallow. The president can't buy or purchase.
Rush Limbaugh
#50. The cross. He held one in his hand, gold and shiny in the morning sun. This, too, drove the vampires away.
Why? Was there a logical answer, something he could accept without slipping on banana skins of mysticism?
Richard Matheson
#51. I liked the banana-seat bikes with the high handlebars - maybe a card in the wheel could have been part of it.
Stone Gossard
#52. A lion does not flinch at laughter coming from a hyena. A gorilla does not budge from a banana thrown at it by a monkey. A nightingale does not stop singing its beautiful song at the intrusion of an annoying woodpecker.
Suzy Kassem
#53. Since early morning he had been like a monkey with the key to the banana plantation after discovering he was breathing the same air as the greatest hero of all time.
Terry Pratchett
#54. To begin ... To begin ... How to start? I'm hungry. I should get coffee. Coffee would help me think. Maybe I should write something first, then reward myself with coffee. Coffee and a muffin. Okay, so I need to establish the themes. Maybe a banana-nut. That's a good muffin.
Charlie Kaufman
#55. Going to do it to you sweet banana, like it's never been done, and we'll get high, high, high, in the mid-day sun.
Paul McCartney
#56. 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
#57. 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
#58. When did he pass out lastnight?" Eric asked Myrna.
"After he swallowed my banana and I forced him to consume my fluids.
Olivia Cunning
#59. The house had a name. The Banana House. It was carved onto a piece of sandstone above the front door. It made no sense to anyone.
Hilary McKay
#60. I think Chris Rock at the Oscars was a great example. I thought that was intellectually hilarious. The Gap starts a war with Banana Republic ... That to me was funny.
Christopher Meloni
#62. I blow up fireworks all the time, and I love making milkshakes and banana splits.
Chris Isaak
#63. This is perhaps what has made some suspect that the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil was really a banana.
Jane Grigson
#64. To see a man slip on a banana skin is to see a rationally structured system suddenly translated into a whirling machine.
Marshall McLuhan
#65. Love is a banana. First you peel it, and then you roll on the condom.
Dark Jar Tin Zoo
#66. We sat on the floor for dinner. Ananya's father passed me a banana leaf. I wondered if i had to eat it or wipe my hands with it.
Chetan Bhagat
#67. The chairman of the state board of medical examiners was a retired physician who thought that President Teddy Roosevelt was the only other man in the world besides himself who had not been made from a banana.
John Irving
#68. It really drives me banana sangwich.
Dane Cook
#69. Then I strip the pants away from each leg, like peeling a banana. That's it, the perfect metaphor: peeling a banana.
Rick Yancey
#70. I don't want you running around with a little banana-handler!
Scott Parker
#71. No seriously. She looks like a banana. She's wearing bright yellow and brown. It's making me hungry just looking at her.
Jane Green
#72. I would bet the most perfect peanut-butter-and-banana sandwich ever assembled that there are more well-adjusted people around today than people who aren't and I think it is damn tragic more of us do not appear in books. 3 symbiosis, n.
Glendon Swarthout
#74. When a banana gets rotten people love to tell you that you can make banana bread out of it. I have never seen anyone actually do it.
Greg Fitzsimmons
#75. I mostly eat peanut butter sandwiches. Peanut butter and banana, peanut butter and jelly, peanut butter and potato chips, peanut butter and olives, and peanut butter and marshmallow goo. So sue me, I like peanut butter.
Janet Evanovich
#76. I'd put a banana on my tray, too. That, at least, didn't
remind me of anything trying to kill me. Could you kill someone with a banana? It didn't seem
possible. Maybe a possessed banana. I'd seen possessed pets before, but not possessed fruit. But
I'll bet it's out there somewhere.
Lili St. Crow
#77. Somebody give me a banana. I'm playing like a monkey, so I might as well eat like one.
Chi Chi Rodriguez
#78. Before the military coup in Chile, we had the idea that military coups happen in Banana Republics, somewhere in Central America. It would never happen in Chile. Chile was such a solid democracy. And when it happened, it had brutal characteristics.
Isabel Allende
#79. Anything can happen. The great banana peel of existence is always on the floor somewhere.
Robert Fulghum
#80. My mother always used to say, The older you get, the better you get. Unless you're a banana.
Betty White
#81. How complicated can ice cream flavors be? How much can you put in there? I mean, when the flavor's something like banana ice cream with caramel, fudge chunks, cheddar goldfish and pennies - you've got to draw a line there.
Marc Maron
#83. I've realized that the world is, in essence, full of banana peels - loaded with things that may unwittingly trip an internal wire in my mind, opening a floodgate of fears without warning.
Amanda Lindhout
#84. 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
#85. I know how birth control works, big brother, and - spoiler alert - putting a wrapper on the banana is ninety-nine percent effective.
Penny Reid
#86. And why is an orange the only fruit that has to share its name with its color? A banana isn't called yellow. It's not fair. If I were an orange, I would complain.
Wendy Mass
#87. I'm all over the place with muffins. Carrots are great. Banana, chocolate chip, they rock, too.
Shawn Mendes
#88. Leave it to me: I'm always top banana in the shock department.
Truman Capote
#90. I put my little yellow ball earrings in and wore my hair pulled up and back with a yellow banana clip holding it loosely.
Charlaine Harris
#91. Other good reading from Japan includes Banana Yoshimoto's Kitchen, with its heroine who finds whatever comfort she can in food; Miyuki
Nancy Pearl
#92. I'm trying to photosynthesize like a plant. I'm off eating. Although I am making a lot of banana daiquiries in my room in the blender I've got, with lots of powdered vitamins in them. This tour I'm going to get some Afghani hangings and put them in my room, so that my hotel rooms look like mosques.
Jimmy Page
#93. Never say, and never take seriously anyone who says, 'I cannot believe that so-and-so could have evolved by gradual selection.' I have dubbed this kind of fallacy 'the Argument from Personal Incredulity.' Time and again, it has proven the prelude to an intellectual banana-skin experience.
Richard Dawkins
#94. Sexual fulfillment is the banana life dangles in front of us just to keep us running.
Jobriath
#95. While it's true that you may lose your religion during the course of a lifetime, you never lose your salvation. Once you let Jesus in your kitchen, he just keeps on making peanut butter and banana sandwiches, and he never leaves.
Cathleen Falsani
#96. I banana the softest banana in the world; it's a new game, seeing just how soft I can banana while still banana-ing.
Kate Ellison
#97. Any ape can reach for a banana, but only humans can reach for the stars.
V.S. Ramachandran
#98. Scientists tracking mirror neurons noticed that a monkey will get excited not just when holding a banana, but also when seeing someone else holding a banana.
Sara Genn
#99. He was banana bread and holding hands. He was soft smiles and warm touches. He was whispered words and solemn declarations. He was love. He was home. He was forever.
A Meredith Walters
#100. If you get hungry mid-day, a banana is the best snack at your desk, after a workout, or in between classes. Fruit is a very good snack in general.
Marcus Samuelsson
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