Cuckoos Quotations

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.'

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

Switzerland is a small, steep country, much more up and down than sideways, and is all stuck over with large brown hotels built on the cuckoo clock style of architecture.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

But I tried, didn't I? Goddamnit, at least I did that.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

There was no immunity to cuckoo ideas on Earth.

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.

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.

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

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

The first cuckoo's melancholy cry.

If you got a dollar, soak it away, put it in a savings bank, bury it, do anything but spend it. Spending when we didn't have it put us where we are today. Saving when we've got it will get us back to where we was before we went cuckoo.