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  • 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.

    Mother   Animal   Cuckoos  
  • You know how people say awards don't mean anything? Hello! I think the energy around them makes everyone cuckoo.

    Mean   Thinking   Awards  
  • I loved the movie theater so I always saw a lot of movies. And then there was a play, I saw in the local paper, they were having auditions for a play of a book I had read. Which was One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest by Ken Kesey. So I said, "oh, I've read this, so I'm perfect for the part of the lead." His name is escaping me.

    Book   Escaping   Play  
    Source: collider.com
  • Being daily swallowed by men's eyes, They surfeited with honey and began To loathe the taste of sweetness, whereof a little More than a little is by much too much. So, when he had occasion to be seen, He was but as the cuckoo is in June. Heard, not regarded.

    Eye   Men   June  
    'Henry IV, Part 1' (1597) act 3, sc. 2, l. 70
  • In terms of popular cinema, 'One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest' is as near perfection as I can think of.

  • Since both its national products, snow and chocolate, melt, the cuckoo clock was invented solely in order to give tourists something solid to remember it by.

    Funny   Humor   Order  
    Alan Coren (2008). “Chocolate and Cuckoo Clocks: The Essential Alan Coren”, p.184, Canongate Books
  • I been silent so long now it’s gonna roar out of me like floodwaters and you think the guy telling this is ranting and raving my God; you think this is too horrible to have really happened, this is too awful to be the truth! But, please. It’s still hard for me to have a clear mind thinking on it. But it’s the truth even if it didn’t happen.

    Truth   Thinking   Long  
    Ken Kesey (2012). “One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest: 50th Anniversary Edition”, p.15, Penguin
  • We have been distracted into unnatural motivations: money, prestige, power. Listening to the cuckoo is not going to give you money. Listening to the cuckoo is not going to give you power, prestige. Watching the butterfly is not going to help you economically, politically, socially. These things are not paying, but these things make you happy.

  • You’re just a young kid. What are you doin’ here? You oughta be out in a convertible, why… bird-doggin’ chicks and bangin’ beaver. What are ya doin’ here, for Christ’s sake? What’s funny about that? Jesus, I mean, you guys do nothin’ but complain about how you can’t stand it in this place here and then you haven’t got the guts just to walk out!

    Jesus   Mean   Kids  
    "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest". Book by Ken Kesey, 1962.
  • There was no immunity to cuckoo ideas on Earth.

    Ideas   Cuckoos   Earth  
    Kurt Vonnegut (1999). “Breakfast of Champions: Or, Goodbye Blue Monday!”, CNIB, 197
  • 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.

    Dream   Clouds   Land  
  • He knows that you have to laugh at the things that hurt you just to keep yourself in balance, just to keep the world from running you plumb crazy.

    Life   Running   Hurt  
    Ken Kesey (2016). “One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest”, p.128, Hamilton Books
  • The cuckoo who is on to himself is halfway out of the clock.

  • 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.

    Song   Spring   Years  
    Alfred Austin, “Is Life Worth LIVIng?”
  • The government's living in its own cloud cuckoo land and it's a cloud of greenhouse gases.

  • An international team of psychiatrists has flown to Redmond, WA in an attempt to discover exactly what makes Bill Gates tick. And, more especially, what makes him go cuckoo every half hour.

    Team   Half   Bills  
  • But I tried, didn't I? Goddamnit, at least I did that.

    "Fictional character: R.P. McMurphy". One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, www.imdb.com. 1975.
  • He rolled his eyes. "First, my Dad's Korean and my mom was Swedish. Second, I totally suck at math. I don't like cuckoo clocks or skiing or fancy chocolate either." I sputtered a laugh. "I think that's Swiss.

    Mom   Dad   Eye  
    Kelley Armstrong (2008). “The Summoning: Number 1 in series”, p.196, Hachette UK
  • 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.

    Clouds   Land   Cuckoos  
    Margaret Thatcher, Iain Dale (1997). “As I said to Denis--: the Margaret Thatcher book of quotations”, Robson Book Ltd
  • 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.'

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

    'Ode on the Spring' (1748) l. 5
  • Negative? Moi? I think realistic might be a better word. You mean to tell me we can drive all the way here from L.A. and see maybe ten thousand square miles of shopping malls, and you don't have maybe just the weentsiest inkling that something, somewhere has gone very very cuckoo?

    Mean   Thinking   Squares  
  • Man, when you lose your laugh you lose your footing.

    Ken Kesey (2016). “One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest”, p.36, Hamilton Books
  • He was met even now As mad as the vex'd sea; singing aloud; Crown'd with rank fumiter and furrow-weeds, With bur-docks, hemlock, nettles, cuckoo-flowers, Darnel, and all the idle weeds that grow In our sustaining corn.

    Weed   Flower   Sea  
    William Shakespeare (1866). “The Works of William Shakespeare”, p.376
  • the breed is more than the pasture. As you know, the cuckoo lays her eggs in any bird's nest; it may be hatched among blackbirds or robins or thrushes, but it is always a cuckoo. ... a man cannot deliver himself from his ancestors.

    Men   Past   Eggs  
    Amelia E. Barr (2009). “The Belle of Bowling Green”, p.50, Wildside Press LLC
  • When I was thirteen, I had a nervous breakdown, and I was put into this grown-up mental hospital with all these 50-, 60-year-old men and women. This big, Victorian mental house. There were like five boys in there, all my age, looked after by this woman who was 22 or 23. And it was like "Empire of the Sun" meets "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest"-type of arrangement where you've got this young boy overcoming and becoming heroic in the face of this awful place.

    Boys   Men   Years  
    Source: www.indiewire.com
  • The April rain, the April rain, Comes slanting down in fitful showers, Then from the furrow shoots the grain, And banks are fledged with nestling flowers; And in grey shawl and woodland bowers The cuckoo through the April rain Calls once again.

    Spring   Rain   Flower  
    Mathilde Blind, “April Rain”
  • I’m not a cuckoo, either. I’m a fool is what.

    Cuckoos   Fool  
    Daniel Handler (2012). “Why We Broke Up”, p.136, Egmont UK
  • 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.

    Toronto Star Weekly 4 Mar. 1922, in William White By-line: Ernest Hemingway (1967) p. 18 See also F. Scott Fitzgerald (6.20)
  • No, that nurse ain't some kinda monster chicken, buddy, what she is is a ball-cutter. I've seen a thousand of 'em, old and young, men and women. Seen 'em all over the country and in the homes- people who try to make you weak so they can get you to toe the line, to follow their rules, to live like they want you to. And the best way to do this, to get you to knuckle under, is to weaken you by gettin' you where it hurts the worst.

    Country   Hurt   Home  
    Ken Kesey (2016). “One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest”, p.31, Hamilton Books
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