A Quote by Clifton Fadiman

The adjective is the banana peel of the parts of speech.

Clifton Fadiman

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Banana Parts Parts Of Speech Peel Speech

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Clifton Fadiman
American - Writer
May 15, 1904 - June 20, 1999

When you slip on a banana peel, people laugh at you; but when you tell people you slipped on a banana peel, it's your laugh. So you become the hero rather than the victim of the joke.

Nora Ephron

I always say, 'If you can't give a reason for the banana peel being in the alley, then don't have the comic slide over it.' Do you understand what I mean? First explain how the banana peel got there quickly. And then there's a reason for all the comedy.

Elaine Stritch

When you slip on a banana peel, people laugh at you. But when you tell people you slipped on a banana peel, it's your laugh.

Nora Ephron

In a banana republic, one might slip on a banana peel but things do work - now and then for the people, albeit inefficiently and unreliably.

George Ayittey

If you bite and chew the peel of a banana, then eat the fruit of the banana itself, you will find that it tastes like a tomato. I swear.

Mae Martin

All the words in the English language are divided into nine great classes. These classes are called the Parts of Speech. They are Article, Noun, Adjective, Pronoun, Verb, Adverb, Preposition, Conjunction and Interjection.

Joseph Devlin

I've got one foot in the grave and another on a banana peel.

Ralphie May

During a fight with Anderson Silva, I slipped on an imaginary banana peel.

Forrest Griffin

My belief about acting in one foot on a banana peel and the other one in the grave.

Mark Ruffalo

My next book's title is going to be, 'I Have One Foot in the Grave and Another on a Banana Peel.'

Teri Garr

Anything can happen. The great banana peel of existence is always on the floor somewhere.

Robert Fulghum

The integers of language are sentences, and their organs are the parts of speech. Linguistic organization, then, consists in the differentiation of the parts of speech and the integration of the sentence.

John Wesley Powell

To explain why a man slipped on a banana peel, we do not need a general theory of slipping.

Sidney Morgenbesser

I look at you and wham, I'm head over heals. I guess that love is like a banana peel.

Elvis Presley

Apes had it worked out. No ape would philosophize, "The mountain is, and is not." They would think, "The banana is. I will eat the banana. There is no banana. I want another banana.