Cuckoos famous quotes

The beauty of a cuckoo is in its notes, that of a woman in her unalloyed devotion to her husband, that of an ugly person in his scholarship, and that of an ascetic in his forgiveness.
-- Chanakya

#Husband #Cuckoos #Ugly

I want to build a clock that ticks once a year. The century hand advances once every one hundred years, and the cuckoo comes out on the millennium. I want the cuckoo to come out every millennium for the next 10,000 years. If I hurry I should finish the clock in time to see the cuckoo come out for the first time.
-- Danny Hillis

#Hands #Years #Cuckoos

An international team of psychiatrists has flown to Redmond, WA in an attempt to discover exactly what makes Bill Gates tick. And, more especially, what makes him go cuckoo every half hour.
-- David Pogue

#Team #Bills #Cuckoos

The belief that you have a great idea is not worth cuckoo spit. Ideas are ten a penny while the ability to execute counts for a great deal more.
-- Felix Dennis

#Ideas #Cuckoos #Pennies

Nothing is so pregnant as cruelty; so multifarious, so rapid, so ever teeming a mother is unknown to the animal kingdom; each of her experiments provokes another and refines upon the last; though always progressive, yet always remote from the end.
-- Johann Kaspar Lavater

#Mother #Animal #Cuckoos

There was no immunity to cuckoo ideas on Earth.
-- Kurt Vonnegut

#Ideas #Cuckoos #Earth

In the economy of the cuckoo people that populate central banks, everything is possible. What you have is gigantic bubbles, the NASDAQ in 2000, then the housing bubble and then commodities in 2008 when oil went from $78 to $147 before plunging to $32 within six months.
-- Marc Faber

#Oil #People #Cuckoos

Even in Kyoto/Hearing the cuckoo's cry/I long for Kyoto
-- Matsuo Basho

#Kyoto #Long #Cuckoos

One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest' is a movie that I just find flawless. Jack Nicholson... I just saw 'The Shining' again the other day; he's so brilliant. He's such a brilliant actor, just unbelievable.
-- Michael Biehn

#Shining #Cuckoos #Actors

If the cuckoo does not sing, kill it.
-- Oda Nobunaga

#Doe #Cuckoos

I had those kind of parents where I watched all of these very sophisticated movies: 'Five Easy Pieces', 'One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest.'
-- Sam Rockwell

#Parent #Cuckoos #Pieces

The duke had a mind that ticked like a clock and, like a clock, it regularly went cuckoo.
-- Terry Pratchett

#Mind #Dukes #Cuckoos

The Attic warbler pours her throat, Responsive to the cuckoo's note, The untaught harmony of spring.
-- Thomas Gray

#Spring #Cuckoos #Harmony

I love 30 Rock because Tina Fey allows me to fly over the cuckoo nest once a week.
-- Tracy Morgan

#Rocks #Cuckoos #Nests

O Cuckoo! shall I call thee bird, Or but a wandering voice?
-- William Wordsworth

#Voice #Bird #Cuckoos

The cuckoo who is on to himself is halfway out of the clock.
-- Wilson Mizner

#Bird #Cuckoos #Clock

We ought never to sport with pain and distress in any of our amusements, or treat even the meanest insect with wanton cruelty.
-- Hugh Blair

#Sports #Pain #Cuckoos