Quotes About Three Monkeys

#1. The practice of meditation is represented by the three monkeys, who cover their eyes, ears and mouths so as to avoid the phenomenal world.

Wei Wu Wei

#2. 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

#3. Moral, adj. Conforming to a local and mutable standard of right. Having the quality of general expediency.

Ambrose Bierce

#4. Perhaps over time we can adjust our default setting to one of greater mindfulness rather than of mindlessness and being lost in thought. As

Jon Kabat-Zinn

#5. Rian Malan was one of the first younger writers to perceive and write about a darkness in the South African psyche that goes deeper than mere politics. To some extent, that's my territory, too.

Damon Galgut

#6. Actually, observed Lucette, wiping the long envelope which a drop of soda had stained,- Bergson is only for very young people or very unhappy people, such as this available rousse.

Vladimir Nabokov

#7. From the walls of Baidi high in the coloured dawn To Jiangling by night-fall is three hundred miles, Yet monkeys are still calling on both banks behind me To my boat these ten thousand mountains away.

Li Bai

#8. As a child, I was never drawn toward depraved or extreme situations; I really wanted a normal little childhood. Unfortunately, that's just not what happened.

Augusten Burroughs

#9. Denzel's quality, I think, is his faith. You have all the action in your head and you have to believe in it and just do it. That's what he does and that's what he taught me to do.

Derek Luke

#10. It sends out a very clear message: Mess with us and we'll do something worse than kill you. We'll kill your children.

Suzanne Collins

#11. To be well turned out, a woman should turn her thoughts in.

Mainbocher

#12. Our share of the vote overall rose by less than 1 per cent - yes, that's right: less than 1 per cent.

Francis Maude

#13. 'Monkeys' is made up of nine short stories that tell an overall story. 'Folly' is a series of vignettes all put together to tell a larger story. In 'Lust and Other Stories,' there are nine stories - three, three, three; the beginnings of love, the middles, and the afters.

Susan Minot

#14. I became fascinated with the concept of speak no, see no, hear no evil. And - and the actual depiction of three wise monkeys. And I began collecting it over the years. And I kind of figured that I might be the - the fourth monkey, the feel no evil monkey.

Mackenzie Phillips

#15. One of my most laughable moments was when we visited the monkeys in Ubud - they really seemed to like me and at one point, I had three males on my head and shoulders.

Carolyn Murphy

#16. My mother went to a school called 'The Club of the Three Wise Monkeys'. And my grandmother, my father's mother, had a gold charm for her made with the speak no, see no, hear no evil monkeys. And I was fascinated by that charm. I'd sit in my mother's lap and play with it all the time.

Mackenzie Phillips

#17. But what is it that makes a person want to stay here on this earth anyway, and go on suffering the most awful pain just for the sake of getting to stay? I used to think it was because people fear death. But now I think it is because people can't bear saying goodbye.

Cynthia Rylant

#18. Sometimes people hurt more than they can handle ... And sometimes they don't know how to ask for help. They're so caught up in their own pain, they end up hurting everyone around them.

Rebecca Donovan

#19. I hardly ever belted; I was a soprano and a comedienne and intended on doing mostly soprano legit roles but my first equity show, to my surprise, was Blues in The Night at The Cleveland Playhouse.

Erica Schroeder

#20. People only speak to get something.

David Mamet

#21. I traveled the world as a DJ, as a singer, as a songwriter, as a producer.

Al Walser

#22. There are one hundred and ninety-three living species of monkeys and apes. One hundred and ninety-two of them are covered with hair. The exception is a naked ape self-named Homo sapiens. The zoologist now has to start making comparisons. Where else is nudity at a premium.

Desmond Morris

#23. Many people, meeting Aziraphale for the first time, formed three impressions: that he was English, that he was intelligent, and that he was gayer than a treeful of monkeys on nitrous oxide.

Terry Pratchett

#24. But the physical danger was judged to be less important than the psychological stresses. Eight humans, crowded together like monkeys for almost three Terran years, had better get along much better than humans usually did.

Robert A. Heinlein

#25. The onus of Connecting rightly, Conceiving brightly, Conveying quietly, and Concluding wisely are the capatencies (capacity and competence) of man

Priyavrat Thareja