Misha Green

I was familiar with Lovecraft, I also was familiar with his history as a person. So I had read his stories but I wasn't bananas like I think that a lot of people get bananas. I was like, they're good and I can definitely see the influences - but I can definitely read them and see the parts where you're being racist right there in your own stories.

American Writer

Ginnifer Goodwin

I'm a better person in a relationship, and I'm a happier person. I need to come home at the end of the day and have it not be about me and my freaking hair and makeup and character motivations anymore. And I think my work is more inspired when home is safe and sound and solid, because what I do for a living is so bananas and so insecure.

American Actress

Benson Henderson

I like getting my hand raised and I'll take it any way I can get it. Slipping on a banana peel, by the skin of my teeth. By any means, you know?

American Mixed Martial Artist

Mitch Hedberg

My friend asked me if I wanted a frozen banana. I said 'No, but I want a regular banana later, so... yeah.

American Comedian

Kathleen Hanna

Singing is my life, and I have to do it, or I'm going to go totally bananas.

American Musician

Bill Gates

Intellectual property has the shelf life of a banana.

American Businessman

Daphne Guinness

Life is full of banana skins. You slip, you carry on.

British Artist

Emily Compagno

I've never had a proper banana split in my life.

American Lawyer

Lou Holtz

I'm so old, I don't buy green bananas any more.

American Coach

Hasan Minhaj

American Actor

Banana refers to the edible fruit that's very common worldwide, often eaten raw.

Common Fruit

Bananas are green before they ripen. They turn yellow when ready to eat.

Yellow When Ripe

Always peel off the outer skin of a banana before eating the soft flesh inside.

Peel Before Eating

Banana can describe a country with an economy heavily reliant on agriculture, often unstable.

Political Term

This term is usually negative, suggesting economic and political weakness.

Negative Connotation

As an adjective, banana can slangily mean crazy or absurd in American English.

Slang for Crazy

Use 'banana' as slang only in informal settings; it's not appropriate for formal use.

Informal Expression

In the UK, calling someone a 'banana' can mean they're acting silly or energetic.

British Slang

This usage can be a friendly, playful way to describe someone's exuberant behavior.

Playful Insult

In the US, 'banana' can refer to an Asian person who has adopted Western ways.

Cultural Identity

Be cautious: this term can be offensive and shouldn't be used carelessly.

Derogatory Term

 actually be quite gentle particularly the small or a small youngster or something do gorillas eat bananas so i guess the short answer is yes they do out in the wild they're more likely to eat banana so they're but the bananas they have there are less high in sugars they're less cultivated for our palette like the ones

Why Do Gorillas Have...

 Someone doing the same thing over and over, or building up a false image of themself and the world, or not adapting to reality by just noticing the banana peel on the ground -- this is automatism, ignorance of one's own mindless rigidity, and it's dangerous but also laughable and comic ridicule helps correct it.

What's the definition of...

 your own life and this is what I did with my garden my garden has everything from bananas and strawberries and apples and oranges and watermelons and in collard greens I can't seem to figure out why the watermill watermelons and the collard greens they always come up

Break out of food...

 endearing to us humans it uh it's possibly to do with a trick of light that white reflects the green that comes through the leaf and makes them blend in perfectly now this structure is actually quite simple um it's a leaf of a plant that's in the banana

Bizarre Bat Moments PIPE...

 And our left hemisphere thinks in language. It's that ongoing brain chatter that connects me and my internal world to my external world. It's that little voice that says to me, "Hey, you've got to remember to pick up bananas on your way home.

My stroke of insight PIPE...

 You have to understand that we don't live in Newton's clockwork universe anymore. We live in a banana peel universe, and we won't ever be able to know everything or control everything or predict everything. Nature is like a self-driving car.

How I made friends with...

 teeth shortening their life the shamans aim is true although he's only performed tooth filing once before with the spirits guiding his hand the task is soon completed along he bites on green bananas to dull the pain relieved

Teeth Chiseling PIPE...

 So now give me this banana." No chimpanzee will ever believe such a story. Only humans believe such stories, which is why we control the world, whereas the chimpanzees are locked up in zoos and research laboratories.

Why humans run the world...

 Even bananas contain trace amounts of a radioactive potassium isotope. So if we live in a world of radiation, how can we escape its dangerous effects? To start, not all radiation is hazardous.

Is radiation dangerous?...

 Can you guess what you’re looking at? Is it a fuzzy sock? An overripe banana? A moldy tube of toothpaste? In fact, this is the humble sea cucumber, and while it might look odd,