Matsuo Basho
Poet
"Even in Kyoto/Hearing the cuckoo's cry/I long for Kyoto"
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Cuckoos
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Terry Pratchett
Author
"The duke had a mind that ticked like a clock and, like a clock, it regularly went cuckoo."
William Wordsworth
Poet
"O Cuckoo! shall I call thee bird, Or but a wandering voice?"
William Wordsworth
Poet
"The first cuckoo's melancholy cry."
Margaret Thatcher
Politician
"It seems like cloud cuckoo land. If anyone is suggesting that I would go to Parliament and suggest the abolition of the Pound Sterling - no! We have made it quite clear that we will not have a single currency imposed upon us."
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"We were surprised how closely the cuckoo imitated the clock-and yet, of course, it could never have heard a clock."
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"To me, the most amazing the most amazing transformation in my lifetime is not the revolution of the Sixties but the counter revolution of the Seventies, where they managed to put the cuckoo clock back together again"
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"I love "30 Rock" because Tina Fey allows me to fly over the cuckoo nest once a week."
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"There was no immunity to cuckoo ideas on Earth."
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