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Cuckoo Quotes & Sayings

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

In Switzerland they had brotherly love, five hundred years of democracy and peace, and what did they produce? The cuckoo clock! — Graham Greene

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

She's cuckoo, laying her egg in my nest. — Paula Hawkins

Everyone else said I was cuckoo for Cocoa Puffs. — Penny Reid

In terms of popular cinema, 'One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest' is as near perfection as I can think of. — Peter Mullan

The cage door opened and the cuckoo bird fell, fell, fell, until finally her stunted wings opened, and she found that she could fly. — Kate Morton

Barbara Stanwyck movies drove me nuts, like 'Ball of Fire' and 'Double Indemnity.' I used to go cuckoo when I would see those films. — Richard LaGravenese

No jewel hold a candle to the cuckoo spit hung from the blade of grass at your ear. No chandelier see you better lit than here. — Carol Ann Duffy

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

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

They're out there...One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest — Ken Kesey

This is the weather the cuckoo likes,
And so do I;
When showers betumble the chestnut spikes,
And nestlings fly — Thomas Hardy

I don't seem able to get it straight in my mind.... — Ken Kesey

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

The call of the yellow-billed cuckoo of North America is often mistaken for a bloodhound drinking a bowl of milk. He goes coulp coulp coulp. — Will Cuppy

Perhaps, if I make a friend
of the mountain cuckoo
in this world,
he will talk to me
when we cross the mountain of death — Izumi Shikibu

Even in Kyoto when I hear the cuckoo I long for Kyoto. — Richard Flanagan

The only walls that talk, are the white ones. — Anthony Liccione

I'm not a cuckoo, either. I'm a fool is what. — Daniel Handler

You know how people say awards don't mean anything? Hello! I think the energy around them makes everyone cuckoo. — Kirsten Dunst

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

He knows that there's no better way in the world to aggravate somebody who's trying to make it hard for you than by acting like you're not bothered. — Ken Kesey

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

They're out there. First line of One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest. — Ken Kesey

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

I think there are some groups of stocks that are highly vulnerable because they're in cuckoo land in terms of valuations, — Marc Faber

And by the meadow-trenches blow the faint sweet cuckoo-flowers. — Alfred Lord Tennyson

Changelings are fish you're supposed to throw back. A cuckoo raised by sparrows. They don't quite fit anywhere. (pg. 134) — Holly Black

Is life worth living? Yes, so long
As Spring revives the year,
And hails us with the cuckoo's song,
To show that she is here; — Alfred Austin

The first cuckoo's melancholy cry. — William Wordsworth

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

Tockytock, tockytock
clumped our Alpine, Edwardian cuckoo clock,
slung with strangled, wooden game. — Robert Lowell

Human society is based on want. Life is based on want. Wild-eyed visionaries may dream of a world without need. Cloud-cuckoo-land. It can't be done. — H.G.Wells

The government's living in its own cloud cuckoo land and it's a cloud of greenhouse gases. — Bob Brown

The behavior of the pigeon
is beyond reproach,
but the mountain cuckoo? — Yosa Buson

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

You come in all tall, dark, and deadly and my lady parts go all cuckoo for cocoa puffs and shit. — Amelia Hutchins

One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest in the nurse's office? I know it'd be a tight fit, but it would be sort of perfect. — Robyn Schneider

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

You're making sense, old man, a sense of your own. You're not crazy the way they think. Yes ... I see ... — Ken Kesey

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

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

You can't write a story about a mental hospital in the United States without facing the grand example of 'Cuckoo's Nest.' — Victor LaValle