Quotes About Monkeys On Your Back

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

Eric Thomas

#2. What I will say is that Naz and I are not together just because we like to hang out. The purpose is finding someone that you can spend the rest of your life with, for me anyways.

Miguel

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

Mick McCarthy

#4. You stay elite by constantly moving forward.

Bob Myers

#5. MARRIAGE. The final frontier. Steven went first. He was kind of our test subject. Like those monkeys that NASA sent off into space in the fifties, knowing they'd never make it back alive.

Emma Chase

#6. 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

#7. Before every action ask yourself. Will this bring more monkeys on my back. Will the result of my action be a blessing or a heavy burden?

Alfred Armand Montapert

#8. The only response
to a child's grave is
to lie down before it and play dead.

Bill Knott

#9. Her mother was a Rutherford. The family came over in the ark, and were connected by marriage with Henry the VIII. On her father's side they date back further than Adam. On the topmost branches of her family tree there's a superior breed of monkeys with very fine silky hair and extra long tails.

Jean Webster

#10. When I'm writing, I like to seal everything off and face the wall, not to look outside the window. The only way out is through the sentences.

E.L. Doctorow

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

Stefan Cherneski

#12. Fear, greed, and ego are very expensive monkeys to have on your back while trading.

Steve Burns

#13. The monkeys ignored him completely as they discussed wind currents and angle of approach, and even the Lion seemed to have forgotten he was there. He might as well be back in that field tied to a post for all the good the Wizard's gifts were doing him.

Danielle Paige

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

Kim Clijsters

#15. Evolution was far more thrilling to me than the biblical account. Who would not rather be a rising ape than a falling angel? To my juvenile eyes, Darwin was proved true every day. It doesn't take much to make us flip back into monkeys again.

Terry Pratchett

#16. Soon the maroon-throated howls would echo back from the other trees, father down the beach, until the whole jungle filled with roaring trees. As it was in the beginning, so it is every morning of the world.

Barbara Kingsolver

#17. In the end it's all very simple. Either we give ourselves to Silence or we don't.

Adyashanti

#18. Much of your thinking, focus, and reactions, comes from your mindset. Your "mindset" is the image and identity you hold, of your qualities and characteristics and whether you can intentionally ReThink and change your mindset.

Tony Dovale

#19. It's your call, but just because you got three monkeys off your back doesn't mean the simians have left the island.

Charles Locks

#20. "Face the brutes." That is a lesson for all life-face the terrible, face it boldly. Like the monkeys, the hardships of life fall back when we cease to flee before them.

Swami Vivekananda

#21. Welcome back, my cheeky wee monkeys.

Craig Ferguson

#22. I've never been to China. I only know what the West is telling me about China.

Ayshay

#23. Let us think often that our only business in this life is to please God. Perhaps all besides is but folly and vanity.

Brother Lawrence

#24. You will find the Americans much as the Greeks found the Romans: great, big, vulgar, bustling people more vigorous than we are and also more idle, with more unspoiled virtues but also more corrupt.

Harold Macmillan

#25. Anything that's memorable about a movie is often what a test audience will object to because they're being asked to be experts. They just compare the film they finished watching to all of the other films that they've seen.

Andrew Dominik