“During the Vietnam War, Abbie Hoffman announced that the new high was banana peels taken rectally. So then FBI scientists stuffed banana peels up their asses to find out if this was true or not.”

“Sometimes when you feed on another’s word you must eat it like a banana – you peel it first.”

Eugene J. Martin (1938–2005) American artist

“Apes had it worked out. No ape would philosophize, "The mountain is, and is not." They would think, "The banana is. I will eat the banana. There is no banana. I want another banana.”

Terry Pratchett book Unseen Academicals

“You know the man who told me about it on the bus,
as it went up the hill out of Scranton, Pennsylvania,
he shrugged his shoulders, he shook his head,
and he said (and this is exactly what he said)
"Boy that sure must've been something.
Just imagine thirty thousand pounds of bananas.
Yes, there were thirty thousand pounds of mashed bananas.
Of bananas. Just bananas. Thirty thousand pounds.
of Bananas—not no driver now. Just bananas!"”

Harry Chapin (1942–1981) American musician

“My friend asked me if I wanted a frozen banana, I said "No, but I want a regular banana later, so … yeah."”

Mitch Hedberg (1968–2005) American stand-up comedian

“I could carve a better man out of a banana. ”

Theodore Roosevelt (1858–1919) American politician, 26th president of the United States

“Electrical banana
Is gonna be a sudden craze
Electrical banana
Is bound to be the very next phase…”

Donovan (1946) Scottish singer, songwriter and guitarist

“… have a banana!”

Bill Bailey (1965) English comedian, musician, actor, TV and radio presenter and author

“So you're sayin that it's easy to send somat up to space, but you don't believe there's a little banana machine?”

Karl Pilkington (1972) English television personality, social commentator, actor, author and former radio producer

“I was walking down the street the other day when this guy asked if I wanted a frozen banana…I said 'no' but then thought I might want a regular banana later, so…yeah.”

Mitch Hedberg (1968–2005) American stand-up comedian