Quotes About Monkey On Your Back

#1. That's the thing about this game
you get a little monkey on your back. You go 0-for-3, you go 0-for-6, pretty soon you start pressing. You keep trying a little harder, and the harder you try, the worse it gets. So, anytime you can break out of it by getting a base hit, it feeds confidence.

Mike Candrea

#2. The story is even Bill Wilson, a founder of Alcoholics Anonymous, couldn't overcome the sex monkey on his back, and spent his sober life cheating on his wife and filled with guilt.

Chuck Palahniuk

#3. It's kind of good to get that evil monkey off my back!

Stefan Cherneski

#4. Just cause you got the monkey off your back doesn't mean the circus has left town.

George Carlin

#5. Those fateful words We are now at war with Germany, and for several hours felt strangely numb. She tried to phone Pamela

Kate Atkinson

#6. If you have talent, but no morality-monkey riding upon your back, then, of course, this is where you should stop.

Kat Lowe

#7. Anand, look at the back of my hands. No hair. The sign of an advanced race, boy. And look at yours. No hair either. But you never know. With some of your mother's bad blood flowing in your veins you could wake up one morning and find yourself hairy like a monkey

V.S. Naipaul

#8. Sometimes directors may not give you words, you know? They may not talk at all! You've just got to use your radar to figure out how you can get to the center and not lose yourself, but still be directed at the same time.

Faith Prince

#9. Shaun couldn't hold the sigh back. The disgustingly shaded contents of the pint glass were going to be his only company. His misery was going to have to make good friends with his Monkey Brains.

Sharon Stevenson

#10. I was full time on 'Party of Five' for one year, then more like a creative consultant for two years, where I was in the writing rotation but didn't have to go in every day or cover the set until midnight.

Susannah Grant

#11. If I'm not on tour or in the studio, I'm in nature somewhere, usually some kind of ocean. Playing music has afforded me that. It's not lost on me that it's a tremendous opportunity to be able to spend your life being surrounded by nature.

Eddie Vedder

#12. This explains why, whenever a person says sie to me, I generally try to kill him, if a stranger.

Mark Twain

#13. School life is like being on a monkey mountain ... monkeys in the same gang constantly fight and get back together again ... and a hierarchy gets established.

Shouko Akira

#14. It wasn't a monkey on my back, it was Planet of the Apes.

Mick McCarthy

#15. You do something wrong, you learn from it, you move on.

Britney Spears

#16. So, to start with, you might be wondering how this chick with a monkey on her back about the size
of King Kong is running about staking nasties and whatnot. Well, truth be told, I've been stretching the
truth like it was a big handful of raspberry-flavored saltwater taffy.

Kathleen Tierney

#17. So." Noah said carefully. I was sitting up cross-legged and tangled in my sheets.
"So." I said back
"Would you like to hear about Curious George's new adventures?"
I shook my head.
"Are you sure?" Noah asked. "He's been such a naughty monkey."
"Pass.

Michelle Hodkin

#18. Thank God I never hooked on anything. I never had a monkey on my back. I just wanted to self-medicate, to numb myself through liquor. It's how I dealt with life, reality, stress, change, sadness, memories. The list goes on. I was really trying to feel nothing.

Johnny Depp

#19. So here's the rules - keep quiet, keep close, and if we're spotted, climb like a goddamned monkey ... If I get picked off, you don't come back for me. If I see you get picked off, I aint coming back for you. Life's hard. Death's easy

Cherie Priest

#20. Monkey. I went along for the ride because I'd got some very safe money on him not doing it, and didn't want him coming back with fake evidence.

Douglas Adams

#21. The evening ended with dancing. On its being proposed, Anne offered her services, as usual, and though her eyes would sometimes fill with tears as she sat at the instrument, she was extremely glad to be employed, and desired nothing in return but to be unobserved.

Jane Austen

#22. How did he get here? What drew him back? Easy answer: the monkey bars. Not-so-easy answer ... What took him away in the first place? Gyroscopic deflections are only partly to blame. Who can stop a revolving planet? Who can predict where on the table a spinning quarter will fall flat?

Jay Nichols

#23. Well, there's no monkey on my back,

Kim Clijsters

#24. They put money into attack, by calling it defence.

Craig Stone

#25. Yeah, we call that mulling around. Okay guys, come on now. What we're going to do early in this game is mull around, okay? And later, we're going call that monkey-off-our-back play.

Les Miles

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Paul Ryan

#27. This is one of the reasons I need Ky, I realize. Because when I am with him, I feel.

Ally Condie

#28. I am with fire between my teeth and still nothing but my blank page.

Monique Wittig

#29. I really like photography, and I'd like to do more of that kind of thing. If I had to choose a different job within the industry and do it well, I would love to do cinematography.

Sarah Snook

#30. God, she was two seconds from jumping on his back like a monkey and strangling him.

Jennifer L. Armentrout

#31. Well, we're going to start in a couple weeks with our budget adjustment bill. The first step is we're going to deal with collective bargaining for all public employee unions, because you use divide and conquer.

Scott Walker

#32. What if I really am alone?"
"Baby, you aren't alone. I'm here.

Karina Halle

#33. You can get the monkey off your back, but the circus never leaves town

Anne Lamott

#34. For a brief second, I entertained the idea of ripping off my gloves, rushing down the hall, and jumping on Dustin's back like a psychotic monkey.

Jennifer L. Armentrout

#35. 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!

Tim Flock

#36. Kara turned just in time to see the elevator with chimp 5M51 disappear back into the ground.
'Well there goes one monkey I'm not going to miss',she muttered to herself.

Kim Richardson

#37. Come back with a healthy monkey, or don't come back at all.

Brian K. Vaughan

#38. My big break was back in the third grade playing the third monkey in 'Horton Hears a Who.'

Sebastian Arcelus

#39. Once I finished, I got that procrastination monkey off my back! And I started seeing doors opening.

Eric Thomas

#40. Love's like a junkie, addiction's a fact. Passion's a monkey, you can't keep off your back.

Elton John