Brendan Morrison
Musician
"Goals are like bananas, they come in bunches."
Bananas quotes
Bananas
88 quotes on this topic — from poets, philosophers, and thinkers across history.
Demetri Martin
Comedian, Actor
"Whenever I try to spell 'banana,' I feel stupid because I don't know when to end it."
Edith Wharton
Novelist, Short Story Writer
"What a shame it is for a nation to be developing without a sense of beauty, and eating bananas for breakfast."
Charlie Munger
Investor, Businessman
"When it gets into these spikes, with shortages and uproar and so forth, people go bananas, but that's capitalism."
Elvis Presley
Singer, Actor
"I look at you and wham, I'm head over heals. I guess that love is like a banana peel."
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"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."
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"Well, it's nice being top banana in the shock department."
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"I will get married when I build a house in Banana Island"
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"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."
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"If someone throws a banana at me in the street, I will go to prison because I will kill him."
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"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."
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"A good banana daiquiri is hard to come by. I've only ever found one place in this country that makes a proper one, and that's in Leeds."
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"Banana daiquiris aren't knock-'em-back-by-the-flagon."
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"and the bananas are overdone."
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"Isn't it interesting that eating a banana is somehow comical."
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"If you try to to take my bananas from me, I will reclaim them from your cold dead hands."
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"Nanny Ogg knew how to start spelling 'banana', but didn't know how you stopped."
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"To be honest, I think bananas are a pathetic fruit."
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"Where the banana grows man is sensual and cruel."
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"He could not understand why he had needed so many words to explain what he felt in war because one was enough: fear. ~Jose Aracadio Segundo Buendia After the second banana slaughter"
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