“My way of learning is to heave a wild and unpredictable monkey-wrench into the machinery.”
Source: The Maltese Falcon
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Dashiell Hammett 39
American writer 1894–1961Related quotes
A Tree Telling of Orpheus (1968)
Context: And I
in terror
but not in doubt of
what I must do
in anguish, in haste,
wrenched from the earth root after root,
the soil heaving and cracking, the moss tearing asunder —
and behind me the others: my brothers
forgotten since dawn. In the forest
they too had heard,
and were pulling their roots in pain
out of a thousand years' layers of dead leaves,
rolling the rocks away,
breaking themselves
out of
their depths.
“that books were mirrors, reflective in sometimes unpredictable ways.”
Source: I Know This Much Is True
“The surest way to make a monkey of a man is to quote him.”
Source: "Quick Quotations" in My Ten Years in a Quandary and How They Grew (1936)
Context: The surest way to make a monkey of a man is to quote him. That remark in itself wouldn’t make any sense if quoted as it stands.
"The Amnesia-ville Horror", in all-creatures.org (June 2012) https://www.all-creatures.org/articles/ar-jw-amnesia.html.
“Those monkey-thumbs were meant for dogs. Give me my thumbs, you fu**ing monkeys!”
Source: The Art of Racing in the Rain
“She wants to sell my monkey!”
Quoted in Frank D, "Mike Langeisms," http://www.pensburgh.com/2008/2/11/161116/612 PensBurgh.com (2008-02-11)
“Welcome back, my naughty monkeys.”
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The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson (2005–2014), "Welcome Back" variations
Variant: Welcome back, my frisky badgers