#banana

Everything in my life revolves around people playing at being something. ↗

— Banana Yoshimoto

#inspirational #japanese #life #personal #inspirational

I would rather play Chiquita Banana and have my swimming pool than play Bach and starve. ↗

— Xavier Cugat

#banana #i #play #pool #rather

We would be driving down the street in a place like Zaire, now the Democratic Republic of Congo, and started to see, my gosh, the only people that have shoes are men. Why does that woman have a baby in her belly and one on her back, and she's carrying a huge load of bananas? You start to ask these questions. ↗

— Melinda Gates

#baby #back #bananas #belly #carrying

Silas consumed only one food, and it was not bananas. ↗

— Neil Gaiman

#blood #book #fantasy #food #funny

I feel pretty good. My body actually looks like an old banana, but it's fine. ↗

— Mike Piazza

#actually #banana #body #feel #fine

As great as Ed is, the wisdom out here is that he can't carry a movie. They'll pay him $3 million to be the second banana in Julia Roberts things. But they won't put up $3 million for an Ed Harris movie. ↗

— George A. Romero

#carry #ed #ed harris #great #harris

My family would be supportive if I said I wanted to be a Martian, wear only banana skins, make love to ashtrays, and eat tree bark. ↗

— Casey Affleck

#bark #eat #family #i #love

You can't teach calculus to a chimpanzee. So just share your banana. ↗

— John Rachel

#calculus #chimpanzee #education #golden-rule #lyme-disease

You have to have a certain persona to be a star, you know, and I don't have that. I'm a banana. ↗

— Harvey Korman

#certain #i #know #persona #star

Of course, I'm not often the top dog, but sometimes it's better not to be top dog, because you last longer. If a movie or play flops, you always blame the lead. They say, 'He couldn't carry it.' They always blame him. But they rarely blame the second or third banana. ↗

— Charles Durning

#banana #because #better #blame #carry