“You got anything to say to your filthy monkey gods before I food you?”
Darby Conley (1970) American cartoonist
LoserPalooza
Bucky Katt
Message on his answering machine
Others
“You got anything to say to your filthy monkey gods before I food you?”
Darby Conley (1970) American cartoonist
LoserPalooza
Bucky Katt
Sarah McLachlan (1968) Canadian musician, singer, and songwriter
Source: Plenty: A Collection of Sarah McLachlan's Favorite Recipes
Stephen Colbert (1964) American political satirist, writer, comedian, television host, and actor
White House Correspondents' Association Dinner (2006)
Context: Before I get started, if anybody needs anything else at their tables, just speak slowly and clearly into your table numbers. Someone from the NSA will be right over with a cocktail.
“A mathematician may say anything he pleases, but a physicist must be at least partially sane.”
Josiah Willard Gibbs (1839–1903) physicist
Quoted in R. B. Lindsay, "On the Relation of Mathematics and Physics," Scientific Monthly 59, 456 (Dec. 1944)
Attributed
“If you're going to say what you want to say, you're going to hear what you don't want to hear.”
Roberto Bolaño book The Insufferable Gaucho
Source: The Insufferable Gaucho
“You cannot think clearly if you cannot speak and write clearly”
John Rogers Searle (1932) American philosopher
The Storm Over the University (December 6, 1990)
Context: Finally, and perhaps most importantly, you need to acquire the skills of writing and speaking that make for candor, rigor, and clarity. You cannot think clearly if you cannot speak and write clearly.