Gorillas are the largest of the great apes. A mature male may be six feet tall and weigh 400 pounds or more;… — Dian Fossey Copy Share Image
“Don't fall. It seems we've struggled for so long. We've trampled on the backs of apes to clutch the muddied hems of… — Alan Moore Copy Share Image
On corsets: I said, You have got to be kidding. I am an ape and yet I am still expected to squeeze… — Helena Bonham Carter Copy Share Image
“For a bunch of hairless apes, we've actually managed to invent some pretty incredible things.” — Ernest Cline Copy Share Image
I would love to direct an 'Apes' movie. It would be in the spirit of where I'm going with my career -… — Andy Serkis Copy Share Image
So they, who climb to wealth, forget The friends in darker fortunes tried. I copied them--but I regret That I should ape… — William C. Bryant Copy Share Image
We are bipedal apes, and it should not be surprising to see that fact reflected in the way our ancestors lived. — Richard Leakey Copy Share Image
You can do something that walks a line, and invariably, whatever that line is, it will be crossed by people who don't… — David Fincher Copy Share Image
Thus the evidence given by those five new thigh bones of the morphological and functional distinctness of Pithecanthropus erectus furnishes proof, at… — Eugene Dubois Copy Share Image
And there I was, 225 pounds, perpetually lost and confused, short legs, ape-like upper body, all chest, no neck, head too large,… — Charles Bukowski Copy Share Image
There is hardly an American male of my generation who has not at one time or another tried to master the victory… — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
As the body rolled to the ground Tarzan of the Apes placed his foot upon the neck of his lifelong enemy and,… — Edgar Rice Burroughs Copy Share Image
None of the three great apes is considered ancestral to modern man, Homo sapiens, but they remain the only other type of… — Dian Fossey Copy Share Image
When I went to high school in Australia, I was exposed to textbooks that outlined evolutionary ideas - such as ape-like creatures… — Ken Ham Copy Share Image
ASTONISHING, said Death. REALLY ASTONISHING. LET ME PUT FORWARD ANOTHER SUGGESTION: THAT YOU ARE NOTHING MORE THAN A LUCKY SPECIES OF APE… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
He helped the Librarian up. There was a red glow in the ape's eyes. It had tried to steal his books. This… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
The US is also unusual in the enormous scale of religious fundamentalism. The impact on understanding of the world is extraordinary. In… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
For a moment she turned in a circle, staring at her hands, which she held high and useless, close to her breast.… — Peter S. Beagle Copy Share Image
What right do we have to claim, as some might, that human beings are the only inhabitants of our planet blessed with… — Roger Penrose Copy Share Image
Stupefaction overrode all other emotion when I saw this creature on the lookout, lying in wait for the game. For it was… — Pierre Boulle Copy Share Image
I'd like to see animals removed from the entertainment business. Chimpanzees and apes won't perform unless you beat them. Circuses keep elephants… — Bob Barker Copy Share Image
Lower your gaze because you become less of a human every time you stare at a woman and you stare at her… — Nouman Ali Khan Copy Share Image
There can be no doubt that the difference between the mind of the lowest man and that of the highest animal is… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The normal citizen looked at us and saw a mixture of gangster, hippy, criminal and ape. Once somebody rang us up with… — Chris Karrer Copy Share Image
“No existing form of anthropoid ape is even remotely related to the stock which has given rise to man.” — Henry Fairfield Osborn Copy Share Image
Like apes, we breed, sleep, and die. Yet like God we say, "I am." We are ontological oxymorons. — Peter Kreeft Copy Share Image
It is not important at all that we were all once an ape! The important thing is that how very much we… — Mehmet Murat Ildan Copy Share Image
It's interesting to think that my ancestors used to live in the trees, like apes, until finally they got the nerve to… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The quizzical expression of the monkey at the zoo comes from his wondering whether he is his brother's keeper, or his keeper's… — Evan Esar Copy Share Image
The unparalleled extravagance of English rule has demented the rajas and the maharajas who, unmindful of consequences, ape it and grind their… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
It took a couple of hundred million years to develop a thinking ape and you want a smart one in a lousy… — Spider Robinson Copy Share Image
One ape's hallucination is another ape's religious experience - it just depends on which one’s god module is overactive at the time. — Charles Stross Copy Share Image
Everywhere men have unlocked the prisoners within, and from under the disguising skins the apes have leapt joyfully out. — Osbert Sitwell Copy Share Image
The feat represents immense achievement for the neotenic ape, species Homo sapiens. But behind this lie twooldattributesoftheapetribalismandinquisitiveness. — Brian Aldiss Copy Share Image
I demand of you, and of the whole world, that you show me a generic character... by which to distinguish between Man… — Carl Linnaeus Copy Share Image
Fine writers should split hairs together, and sit side by side, like friendly apes, to pick the fleas from each others fur. — Logan Pearsall Smith Copy Share Image
When I first was offered the role on Rise [of the Planet of the Apes], I always played Caesar as a human… — Andy Serkis Copy Share Image
That's why 60,000 people go ape when the Stones play 'Satisfaction.' The songs are part of their legacy, and you fall back… — Joe Elliott Copy Share Image
“Apart from the soul, the brewing of tea is the only thing that sets us apart from the great apes.” — Alan Bradley Copy Share Image
Civilization is only possible for deeply unpleasant animals. It is only an ape that can be truly civilized. — Mark Rowlands Copy Share Image