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  • Yeah, I like cars and basketball. But you know what I like more? Bananas. -- Frankie Muniz
  • A stockbroker urged me to buy a stock that would triple its value every year. I told him, 'At my age, I don't even buy green bananas.' -- Claude Pepper
  • What I love is a peanut butter and pickle sandwich. I'll just have peanut butter and bananas, then peanut butter and pickles. Peanut butter and chocolate I don't recommend. -- Dianne Wiest
  • Democrats always like to brag that their guys are smarter than the opponents and Republicans always like to brag that their guys are more moral than the opponents. But if you're looking for morals in politics you're looking for bananas in the cheese department. -- Harry Shearer
  • This is America, not a banana republic. -- Vincent Bugliosi
  • Technology has the shelf life of a banana. -- Scott McNealy
  • Never interrupt me when I'm eating a banana. -- Ryan Stiles
  • Intellectual property has the shelf life of a banana. -- Bill Gates
  • Time flies like an arrow; fruit flies like a banana -- Groucho Marx
  • The adjective is the banana peel of the parts of speech. -- Clifton Fadiman
  • I'm getting so old, I don't even buy green bananas anymore. -- Chi Chi Rodriguez
  • I feel pretty good. My body actually looks like an old banana, but it's fine. -- Mike Piazza
  • I would rather play Chiquita Banana and have my swimming pool than play Bach and starve. -- Xavier Cugat
  • If it were not for me, the Gracies would be selling Bananas in Largo do Machado! -- Carlson Gracie
  • My belief about acting in one foot on a banana peel and the other one in the grave. -- Mark Ruffalo
  • You have to have a certain persona to be a star, you know, and I don't have that. I'm a banana. -- Harvey Korman
  • What a shame it is for a nation to be developing without a sense of beauty, and eating bananas for breakfast. -- Edith Wharton
  • You don't want your credibility banana to turn brown, but you do want to speak out about what you believe in. -- Bradley Whitford
  • I liked the banana-seat bikes with the high handlebars - maybe a card in the wheel could have been part of it. -- Stone Gossard
  • I want to sit down, and I want to laugh. Nothing works better for me than watching somebody slip on a banana peel. -- Diane Lane
  • My family would be supportive if I said I wanted to be a Martian, wear only banana skins, make love to ashtrays, and eat tree bark. -- Casey Affleck
  • I'm like a navigator and I try to encourage our collaboration and find the best way that will produce fruit. I like fruit. I like cherries, I like bananas. -- Jim Jarmusch
  • I think Chris Rock at the Oscars was a great example. I thought that was intellectually hilarious. The Gap starts a war with Banana Republic... That to me was funny. -- Christopher Meloni
  • The Soviet Union at this time was being run by the Communists, a group of men fierce in their dedication to wearing hilariously bad suits. Their leader was Josef Stalin (Russian for "Joey Bananas") -- Dave Barry
  • As great as Ed is, the wisdom out here is that he can't carry a movie. They'll pay him $3 million to be the second banana in Julia Roberts things. But they won't put up $3 million for an Ed Harris movie. -- George A. Romero
  • On a traffic light green means 'go' and yellow means 'yield', but on a banana it's just the opposite. Green means 'hold on,' yellow means 'go ahead,' and red means, 'where the hell did you get that banana at?' -- Mitch Hedberg
  • Last night I snuck an orchestra into the elevator at my apartment. We made elevator music history until Marvin got his oboe caught in the door and Mrs. Hoffstead started singing "Yes We Have No Bananas Today" in the hall so loud the police were called in from Equador. -- Jarod Kintz
  • Everything goes with short hair. It's bananas. -- Ginnifer Goodwin
  • I'm so old, I don't buy green bananas any more. -- Lou Holtz
  • To be honest, I think bananas are a pathetic fruit. -- Andy Murray
  • Singing is my life, and I have to do it, or I'm going to go totally bananas. -- Kathleen Hanna
  • I'm going to buy some green bananas because by the time I get home they'll be ripe. -- Ryan Stiles
  • I was born in the Midwest, where 'salad' was cherry Jell-O with bananas in it. Now children are more aware of healthy foods. -- Candy Crowley
  • I love my kids, they are amazing children, but they drive me bananas sometimes. And sometimes, I want to sell them on eBay... but I'm not going to. -- Katie Aselton
  • The hardest situation to pick up a girl in is ... in church and in Morocco on Ramadan. On Ramadan or one of those religious days? Try to pick up a girl is bananas. -- French Montana
  • There are still some terrible cliches in the presentation of Indian fiction. The lotus flower. The hennaed hands. In mainland Europe, people still slap these images on my books and I go bananas. -- Hari Kunzru
  • Hopefully, if not it's not working right. I'm like a navigator and I try to encourage our collaboration and find the best way that will produce fruit. I like fruit. I like cherries, I like bananas. -- Jim Jarmusch
  • I have a carbohydrate and protein-rich diet. For breakfast, I typically have two slices of bread with butter or jam, four to five eggs - boiled or fried - a few bananas and a glass of milk. -- Vijender Singh
  • From cheesecake on a stick to meat skewers to deep-fried bananas on a stick - there are no plates anymore. In Los Angeles, everything has become a corn dog. Actually, corn dogs still work. But most other food should be stickless. -- Steve Carell
  • My mother made a lot of things because she thought they'd be healthy for us. There were some very unfortunate experiences with whole wheat bread and bananas. I always tried to get rid of that sandwich and eat one of my friends' lunches. -- Alice Waters
  • Every week, I heave open a supermarket skip and find therein a more exotic shopping list of items than I could possibly have invented - Belgian chocolates, ripe bananas, almond croissants, stone-ground raisin bread - often so much it would have fed a hundred people. -- Tristram Stuart
  • In Puerto Rico, we have a lot of traditions. We eat a very typical thing that's called 'pasteles' - it's almost like a tamale made of bananas, and we make it all together. Like, all the women of the family unite, and it's a very big deal, a very big thing. -- Joyce Giraud
  • No, I don't know why Bobby and Peter Farrelly bothered with a 'Three Stooges' movie, either. But if they're anything like some men I know, their love for Moe, Larry, and Curly (and an assortment of fourth bananas) is deep, abiding, and unembarrassable. In other words: How could the Farrellys not? -- Wesley Morris
  • When my kids started preschool, the teachers had to take away all the fake bananas because all the boys would pick them up and pretend that they were guns. Boys find sticks to play swords and anything that looks like a gun to shoot. It's just inside of them. It's who they are. -- Dean Norris
  • There's definitely a luxury to the fluidity of not being a mega-star. I've done a ton of really, really odd, off-the-wall movies. There's this movie I did called 'Queens of Country' a couple of summers ago that is so bananas, and if I was at a certain level, I probably would not have done that movie. -- Lizzy Caplan
  • You know, if you have a zoo you don't want the other creatures to see you. You want them to hang out and act properly and, you know, when the monkeys will come and ask for the bananas, they won't act like monkeys. If you want them to act on what their true nature is, you've got to leave them alone. -- Tarsem Singh
  • I live a healthy lifestyle and I crave healthy food. I love porridge - I have bizarre cravings for it. I love it with brown sugar and bananas, and I'm a huge fan of cinnamon - I put cinnamon on everything. I also have a sweet tooth and I don't like to deprive myself. I think everything in moderation is the key. -- Jessica Lowndes
  • I love KIND bars. My favorites are coconut and almond and the dark chocolate and sea salt because staying fueled helps keep me from getting sick or injured. Bananas have also made a great comeback in my life. My kids eat them all the time on the go, which has inspired my go-to pre-run morning meal of peanut butter and banana on toast. -- Summer Sanders
  • Bananas are great, as I believe them to be the only known cure for existential dread. Also, Mother Teresa said that in India, a woman dying in the street will share her banana with anyone who needs it, whereas in America, people amass and hoard as many bananas as they can to sell for an exorbitant profit. So half of them go bad, anyway. -- Anne Lamott
  • I'm a better person in a relationship, and I'm a happier person. I need to come home at the end of the day and have it not be about me and my freaking hair and makeup and character motivations anymore. And I think my work is more inspired when home is safe and sound and solid, because what I do for a living is so bananas and so insecure. -- Ginnifer Goodwin
  • and the bananas are overdone. -- Simone Elkeles
  • Ms. Sophia was evil bananas. -- Lauren Kate
  • She sounds the way bananas taste. -- Truman Capote
  • Go pick bananas, we'll run the canal. -- Meldrim Thomson, Jr.
  • I always have bananas with me for energy. -- Samantha Bond
  • Goals are like bananas, they come in bunches. -- Brendan Morrison
  • At my age, I dont even buy green bananas. -- Claude Pepper
  • Such a movement would cause the ACLU to go bananas! -- Donald Wildmon
  • Silas consumed only one food, and it was not bananas. -- Neil Gaiman
  • I'm 100 percent clean. I'm doing this off of nuts and bananas. -- Bernard Hopkins
  • A Tom Ford three-piece makes you feel so confident, it's bananas. -- Dwyane Wade
  • I bet you can't eat ten bananas!" "I bet you're right. -- Sarah Dessen
  • You know the black bits in bananas? Are they tarantulas eggs? -- Noel Fielding
  • Me Grandad is 74 and he's football bananas, so me nan gets loads of grief. -- Jamie Redknapp
  • In the whole story of the world, bananas have never once been a special treat. -- Gary D. Schmidt
  • You get bunches of players like you do bananas, though that is a bad comparison. -- Kevin Keegan
  • They travel best in gangs, hanging around like clumps of bananas, thick skinned and yellow. -- Neil Kinnock
  • Umm... So I just realized Ive been peeling bananas wrong my entire life. Thank you animal planet. -- Miles Teller
  • Being called close-minded by religious people is a bit like being called yellow by a bunch of bananas. -- Pat Condell
  • Not a superman who stumbles, but an ape with makeshift manners in whose nickel-plated jungles roam mechanical bananas. -- William Tenn
  • I carry my own food around on tour; I permanently have carrier bags full of cereal and bananas. -- Alison Goldfrapp
  • When it gets into these spikes, with shortages and uproar and so forth, people go bananas, but that's capitalism. -- Charlie Munger
  • I heard you asking questions of each: Who killed the pork chops? What price bananas? Are you my Angel? -- Allen Ginsberg
  • If you try to to take my bananas from me, I will reclaim them from your cold dead hands. -- Terry Pratchett
  • My wife is on a new diet. Coconuts and bananas. She hasn't lost weight, but can she climb a tree. -- Henny Youngman
  • Chimpanzees is hatin but I take it all in stride. Put her in a jungle with bananas on the side. -- Nicki Minaj
  • Believe it or not, bananas do contain a small quantity of Musa Sapientum bananadine, which is a mild, short-lasting psychedelic. -- William Powell
  • Somebody will be exhibiting a bunch of bananas in a gallery, and they'll get me on to talk dirty about it. -- Alexander Stoddart
  • When you get to be my age, you don't buy green bananas because you may not be around to eat them. -- Don Meyer
  • The biggest container ship can carry fifteen thousand boxes. It can hold 746 million bananas, one for every European, on one ship. -- Rose George
  • We cannot think of uniting with others, until after we have first united among ourselves.... One can't unite bananas with scattered leaves. -- Malcolm X
  • We are well on our way to becoming a banana republic in every respect except, of course, that we don't grow bananas. -- Burt Prelutsky
  • I hate bananas. I just hate them. But I also think a banana suit is the funniest fruit costume a person can wear. -- Paul Neilan
  • People ask me how I stay thin, and I'm like, 'When you go to the grocery store, buy more bananas than cookies.' -- Elizabeth Banks
  • I was born in the Midwest, where salad was cherry Jell-O with bananas in it. Now children are more aware of healthy foods. -- Candy Crowley
  • Jose understands winning and losing are twins in a way. When you win you don't gloat and when you lose you don't go bananas. -- Alex Ferguson
  • Is that a ziggurat in your pocket or are you just Mesopotamia? You should know I sell happy-to-see-me's & bananas individually or by the pocketful. -- Jarod Kintz
  • And they have a display of bananas, which are not bananas but called plantains and are more like a potato pretending to be a banana. -- Lauren Child
  • As a World-trekker, go-getter Retirement won't have you stopping You'll be seen where the bananas and mangos come from At the supermarket....doing the shopping -- John Walter Bratton
  • The thin girl was gulping down one of Richard's bananas in what was, Richard reflected, the least erotic display of banana-eating he had ever seen. -- Neil Gaiman
  • If you like to bake with eggs, you can substitute Ener-G egg replacer, bananas, tofu, or many other ingredients. You get the hang of it quickly enough. -- Ingrid Newkirk
  • I never liked bananas much anyway. Two-thirds of the way down even one banana I am willing to concede defeat smilingly and give the rest to the nearest monkey. -- Robert Benchley
  • Buying from a local farmer can mean that he makes a two-hour extra truck drive, which can damage the environment more than a bunch of bananas on a boat. -- Tyler Cowen
  • If you start comparing my practice of law to what I could have been - selling bananas - you'll know why I gave money to the University of Texas. -- Joe Jamail
  • I've heard that fact, that is you eat more than six bananas it will kill you. I saw a bowl with seven bananas in it and I thought, that's dangerous. -- Karl Pilkington
  • What is magic? There is the wizard's explanation... wizards talk about candles, circles, planets, stars, bananas, chants, runes and the importance of having at least four good meals every day. -- Terry Pratchett
  • When we started off, we wanted the girls, the cocaine, the fur coats. It wasn't like it was an act; it was almost like working-class people winning the pools. We went bananas. -- Noel Gallagher
  • Ripe bananas are the mark of a good produce section. A good produce section is the mark of a superior grocery store. A superior grocery store is the mark of a good man. -- Stanley Tucci
  • Angry Black White Boy is bananas! Actually, it's a banana split with razor blades in it. Adam Mansbach is the white Richard Wright, and Angry Black White Boy is our generation's Native Son. -- William Upski Wimsatt
  • Seafarers are used to being exploited. At sea, the captain moans at chandlers who supply ships with green bananas that will never ripen; at fruit that goes moldy obscenely fast; at sub-standard meat. -- Rose George
  • The parrot holds its food for prim consumption as daintily as any debutante, [with] a predilection for pot roast, hashed-brown potatoes, duck skin, butter, hoisin sauce, sesame seed oil, bananas and human thumb. -- Alexander Theroux
  • Personally, I like to juice up several different kinds of fruit and vegetables - which may include various combinations of bananas, red bell peppers, apples, carrots, celery, broccoli, spinach, parsley, tomatoes, cucumbers, etc. -- David H. Murdock
  • [Swiss Armi Man] was a super joyful film to go make. I mean, there was stuff that was, like, totally bananas. But it was kind of par for the course every day with that stuff. -- Paul Dano
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