Alvah Bessie Quotes

If things are crazy in the studio, usually the road is times 10.

I set my monkey on the log, and ordered him to do the Dog. He wagged his tail and shook his head, and he went and did the Cat instead.

I'm a barrel of monkeys, kid, though mostly I figure monkeys stuck in a barrel are just going to be pissed off.

Well, it takes all kinds to make a mess.

If it's just screaming - and I know this sounds so ridiculous - that gets old. But sometimes when there's literal chaos, it's like being in a war zone, and that's kind of exciting. You're just running through the crowd of people chasing after you and no one knows what's going on.

I think life would be so much funnier if every day you saw someone walking down the street getting hit in the head by a monkey, don't you?

Chaos is my natural habitat. I write about chaotic situations and about people finding their way through the chaos, the hope that you can find your way.

If you spend enough time around something like baboons, you start to look at humans differently.

Three reasons problems are inevitable; first, we live in a world of growing complexity and diversity; second, we interact with people; and third, we cannot control all the situation we face.

I don't necessarily agree that all animals are unpredictable. The more you know about an animal, the more you can work with it safely.

Do you think anything else can go wrong tonight?" Kaden turned to look at Nicholas coming up behind her and nodded. "Yes ma'am. I'd say all kinds of things could go wrong.

The devil fools with the best laid plans.

Chaos breeds geniuses. It offers a man something to be a genius about.

"More fun than a barrel of monkeys." Has anyone ever stopped to think how cranky, if not downright vicious, a barrelful of monkeys would be, especially once released from the barrel?

Life isn't nearly as stable as we want it to be.

One trouble with trouble is that it usually starts out like fun.

Possibilities are like cancer. The more I think about them, the more they multiply, and there's no way to stop them. I'm out of control.

There's definitely, definitely, definitely, no logic to human behaviour . . . There's no map And a compass Wouldn't help at all

If it's ka it'll come like a wind, and your plans will stand before it no more than a barn before a cyclone

At noon I feel as though I could devour all the elephants of Hindostan, and then pick my teeth with the spire of Strasburg cathedral; in the evening I become so sentimental that I would fain drink up the Milky Way without reflecting how indigestible I should find the little fixed stars, and by night there is the Devil himself broke loose in my head and no mistake.

There's no system foolproof enough to defeat a sufficiently great fool.

The future is a messy, motley business, little girl.

Life is messy. Would that every puzzle piece fell into place, every word was kind, every accident happy, but such is not the case. Life is messy

There is nothing very 'normal' about nature.

There's no way I can be tossed around like a bottle slapped here and there on the waves.