Break the skin of civilization and you find the ape, roaring and red-handed. — Robert E. Howard Copy Share Image
Once you were apes, yet even now man is more of an ape than any of the apes. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“Treat each other like human beings? But the other great apes have no class hierarchy.” — Bauvard Copy Share Image
The simplicity of meditation means just experiencing the ape instinct of ego. — Chogyam Trungpa Copy Share Image
There was an ape in the days that were earlier, Centuries passed and his hair became curlier; Centuries more gave a thumb… — Mortimer Collins Copy Share Image
“Apes have a wide variety of sexual arrangements. That means, by the way, that there is no such thing as an “ape… — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
Telling me to relax or smile when I'm angry is like bringing a birthday cake into an ape sanctuary. You're just asking… — Amy Poehler Copy Share Image
There is a rowdy strain in American life, living close to the surface but running very deep. Like an ape behind a… — Bruce Catton Copy Share Image
Although elephants are far more distantly related to us than the great apes, they seem to have evolved similar social and cognitive… — Frans de Waal Copy Share Image
A poor degenerate from the ape, Whose hands are four, whose tail's a limb, I contemplate my flaccid shape And know I… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
Not a superman who stumbles, but an ape with makeshift manners in whose nickel-plated jungles roam mechanical bananas. — William Tenn Copy Share Image
The solution is not to reinvent ourselves, not to ape the Labour Party or the Liberal Democrats. — Malcolm Rifkind Copy Share Image
Whatever part of the animal fabric whatever series of muscles, whatever viscera might be selected for comparison the result would be the… — Thomas Huxley Copy Share Image
Love lost is a special kind of failure, I think. It's a reminder that some consummations, no matter how devoutly wished for,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“We humans, as species, are interested in communication with extraterrestrial intelligence. Would not a good beginning be improved communication with terrestral intelligence,… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
“Darwin may have been quite correct in his theory that man descended from the apes of the forest, but surely woman rose… — Margot Datz Copy Share Image
Football is a game for trained apes. That, in fact, is what most of the players are -- retarded gorillas wearing helmets… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
Certainly the first true humans were unique by virtue of their large brains. It was because the human brain is so large… — Jane Goodall Copy Share Image
There's a common criticism of evolutionary psychology that it's fatalistic and it dooms us to eternal strife, 'Why even try to work… — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
“As far as I’m concerned they’re no better than the apes. That’s not right, though. They’re worse. At least the apes have… — Dennis Freeman Copy Share Image
The Jewish sages also tell us that God dances when His children defeat Him in argument, when they stand on their feet… — Mary Doria Russell Copy Share Image
Every word I say has chains round its ankles; every thought I think is weighted with heavy weights. Since I was born,… — Jean Rhys Copy Share Image
“But once an original book has been written-and no more than one or two appear in a century-men of letters imitate it,… — Pierre Boulle Copy Share Image
I've found out why people laugh. They laugh because it hurts so much... because it's the only thing that'll make it stop… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
ZANY, n. A popular character in old Italian plays, who imitated with ludicrous incompetence the _buffone_, or clown, and was therefore the… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
Television's perfect. You turn a few knobs, a few of those mechanical adjustments at which the higher apes are so proficient, and… — Raymond Chandler Copy Share Image
The Spaniards are perfectly right to govern these barbarians of the New World and adjacent islands; they are in prudence, ingenuity, virtue,… — Juan Gines de Sepulveda Copy Share Image
I did some writing for that movie. The remake of Planet of the Apes. I didn't write the script. But I wrote… — Brian Regan Copy Share Image
It disturbs me no more to find men base, unjust, or selfish than to see apes mischievous, wolves savage, or the vulture… — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
I mean, I'm not hoping for the apes and the monolith. I'm hoping for controlled chaos to assist us. — Jon Stewart Copy Share Image
“Apes in their own habitat are less sexually driven than those in captivity. It must be that captivity, boredom, breeds lustfulness.” — Saul Bellow Copy Share Image
A mind is a terrible thing. All this evolution nonsense is making me feel like a complete APE! — Berkeley Breathed Copy Share Image
If we keep demanding that God yield up His answers, perhaps some day we will understand them. And then we will be… — Mary Doria Russell Copy Share Image
There is something about the state putting the power to bully into the hands of subnormal, sadistic apes that makes my blood… — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
Battle For The Planet Of The Apes', was just a film for kids and didn't have any deep meaning. — J. Lee Thompson Copy Share Image
The illegal trade in apes has little to do with poverty. It is instead generated by the rich and powerful. — Ofir Drori Copy Share Image
The process of acting is no different [playing human or ape]. You're embodying the character. You're creating the psychology and the physicality.… — Andy Serkis Copy Share Image
"Slightly lower than the angels" is a whole lot better than slightly higher than the apes. Let's get the order straight. God,… — Stuart Briscoe Copy Share Image