They worry one another like mastiffs, scrambling for rank and pay like apes for nuts. — John Adams 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
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
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
I think the fun thing about this franchise [Planet of Apes], as storytellers, is that a lot of the franchises are very… — Matt Reeves Copy Share Image
I believe that this hairless embryo with the aching, oversize brain case and the opposable thumb, this animal barely up from the… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
Within ten days thou wilt seem a god to those to whom thou art now a beast and an ape, if thou… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
It is disturbing to discover in oneself these curious revelations of the validity of the Darwinian theory. If it is true that… — Cornelia Otis Skinner Copy Share Image
Cheetah bit me whenever he could. The [Tarzan movie] apes were all homosexuals, eager to wrap their paws around Johnny Weismuller's thighs.… — Maureen O'Sullivan Copy Share Image
When on my return to England I showed the cast of the cranium to Professor Huxley, he remarked at once that it… — Charles Lyell 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
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
Driven by a wish to save Tomás from a life of penury and misunderstanding, Fermin had decided that he needed to develop… — Carlos Ruiz Zafon Copy Share Image
Courage~ What makes the flag on the mast to wave? What makes the elephant charge his tusk in the misty mist, or… — L. Frank Baum 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
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
Fashion, leader of a chatt'ring train, Whom man for his own hurt permits to reign Who shifts and changes all things but… — William Cowper Copy Share Image
Philosophers and scientists confidently offer up traits said to be uniquely human, and the monkeys and apes casually knock them down --… — Carl Sagan 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
The solution is not to reinvent ourselves, not to ape the Labour Party or the Liberal Democrats. — Malcolm Rifkind Copy Share Image
You can’t, if you can’t feel it, if it never Rises from the soul, and sways The heart of every single hearer,… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Man is man because he chanced to develop intelligence instead of instinct; otherwise he would to this day have remained among the… — Jack London Copy Share Image