Cuckoos Quotes

If the cuckoo does not sing, kill it.

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

The merry cuckow, messenger of Spring, His trumpet shrill hath thrice already sounded.

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.

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

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.

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

Have I got a mother-in-law. She's so neat she puts paper under the cuckoo clock.

This world… belongs to the strong, my friend! The ritual of our existence is based on the strong getting stronger by devouring the weak.

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

The first cuckoo's melancholy cry.

They can't tell so much about you if you got your eyes closed.

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.'

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

We were surprised how closely the cuckoo imitated the clock-and yet, of course, it could never have heard a clock.

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.

When I was seven, I watched One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest with my mom. When Jack Nicholson was strapped to the table getting electroshock treatment, my mom burst into tears. She said it reminded her of her life, and I was stunned, because I didn't know my mom had been nominated for an Oscar.

That ain't me, that ain't my face. It wasn't even me when I was trying to be that face. I wasn't even really me them; I was just being the way I looked, the way people wanted.

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.

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

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.

Cruelty is no more the cure of crimes than it is the cure of sufferings; compassion, in the first instance, is good for both; I have known it to bring compunction when nothing else would.

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

There was no immunity to cuckoo ideas on Earth.

Cruelty in all countries is the companion of anger; but there is only one, and never was another on the globe, where she coquets both with anger and mirth.

The course of the seasons is a piece of clockwork, with a cuckoo to call when it is spring.

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

I’m not a cuckoo, either. I’m a fool is what.