Famous Quotes & Sayings

Some growers have lost their entire banana plantations.

It feels a little bit more like we're in a banana republic than sort of the leading country in the world with a 7 percent move up, 3 percent moves down last week. So it's certainly not a market that investors can do a whole lot with in a methodical, systematic, thoughtful way.

I think I might have to cruise into Barrington tomorrow morning, ... and put a banana in his tailpipe.

Ryan Giggs

It is definitely a bit of a banana skin,

Diane Lane

Josh was mortified in the beginning, but now he's completely hooked. I want to sit down, and I want to laugh. Nothing works better for me than watching somebody slip on a banana peel.

Sherwood Schwartz

He was a complex man. He was not a guy who just slipped on banana peels. He knew most people thought of him as a funny guy who could do funny things. But he was really an intellectual at heart.

He needs to keep eating those bananas or whatever health food that is.

Dick Vitale

When you can go on the road and get 35 at Kansas with the rock-chalk Jayhawk crowd going bananas and you make big plays to help your club leave with a win on the road like that, you've got talent. So, he's got talent.

Kacy Catanzaro

Usually I like to work out in the morning before I eat. After the workout, I like to eat a banana and definitely some oatmeal for a little bit extra boost.

Rose George

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.

When I get all the bananas and oranges, I'll let you know.

Nalo Hopkinson

I am Amaxon Corazon Junia Principia Delgado the Third, and I bent over my meal and wept luxurious tears into my green banana porridge. It was a perfect decoction, and it now would not satisfy me.

Dwyane Wade

A Tom Ford three-piece makes you feel so confident, it's bananas.

Isabel Allende

Before the military coup in Chile, we had the idea that military coups happen in Banana Republics, somewhere in Central America. It would never happen in Chile. Chile was such a solid democracy. And when it happened, it had brutal characteristics.

Dikembe Mutombo

I was not very strong growing up, and my uncle used to look at me, like, 'This kid is not growing up, he is growing tall but he can be broken like a banana.' The banana in Congo is called 'Dikembe.' So my uncle start calling me, 'Dikembe, Dikembe, look at you Dikembe, you cannot even stand up.' It took a long time for me to walk.

Gail Simmons

I cannot go to Montreal without going to Beauty's, my favorite place for breakfast, where I have the Mish-Mash omelet with hot dogs, salami, eggs, green peppers, and onions, and the best banana bread in the world. It's legendary!

Gary Jennings

When I was living in Mexico and writing a book called 'Aztec,' I had to make a deliberate effort to ignore a lot of the 'typically Mexican landscape' around me - banana and citrus groves, roses and carnations, burros and toros - because they did not exist in Mexico in the 15th century, the time of my book.

We believe it will have similar price points and target the same demographic as Banana Republic and J. Crew.

Riders said they were thrilled that someone had donated bananas at the museum when they stopped. They were surprised to learn that they had gone to that effort for the bikers. What started as a small, little welcome really blossomed into a marketing event.

Parker Young

I love making smoothies post-workout. My favorite - depending on the day - is either a chocolate whey protein shake with banana and peanut butter, or one with vanilla and berries.

Clifton Fadiman

The adjective is the banana peel of the parts of speech.

Dane Cook

It really drives me banana sangwich.

Terry Zwigoff

When I went around promoting 'Crumb,' there would be days I'd wake up in, like, Houston or Cleveland, and I'd step outside the hotel and get no idea where I was. It all looks the same: one big corporate, consumer theme park. It's all, 'Here's the Starbucks, and here's the Gap, and we'll go over to Banana Republic and the Cineplex.'

When we cut the price for bananas by 1 ruble, we sell 100 tons a day more... There are people who live within their budget.

Edith Wharton

What a shame it is for a nation to be developing without a sense of beauty, and eating bananas for breakfast.

We had no idea who he was. But he took on this project and he?s got the kids here all going bananas about it.

William Daley

We're hopeful that there will be progress. The fact of the matter is that the banana dispute is about defending the rules-based system of the WTO, ... We've gone through two panels. We've been successful. There must be a conclusion to these types of cases. They cannot go on forever. The losing party can't keep looking for further relief if they lose the panel.

Mitch Hedberg

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...

It takes two hours to get it all into the banana split. They come out in droves for that.

I haven't seen any Caribbean bananas around here since before Christmas.

I probably had a bottle of water on every hole and then ate a couple of bananas and energy bars.

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.

Guy Maddin

You get to have some mischief before you're basically a blackened banana, impotent, and nothing to be afraid of.