Laughing at ourselves is possible when we are able to see humanity as it is - a little lower than the angels… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
When I see David Attenborough talking about how chimps live, big apes, I just remember my dad and the way he'd look… — Richard Griffiths Copy Share Image
The question is this - Is man an ape or an angel? My Lord, I am on the side of the angels.… — Benjamin Disraeli Copy Share Image
Then, of course, through the umbilical link we all tumble backwards down the spiralling DNA staircase to one common ancestor in Africa,… — Russell Brand 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
Even stranger things have happened; and perhaps the strangest of all is the marvel that mathematics should be possible to a race… — Eric Temple Bell Copy Share Image
Of course you're nervous, but we're really excited to be able to share what we're going to share. And it's cool, because… — Matt Reeves 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
Caesar [from the Rise of the Planet of the Apes] was brought up with human beings and because of the drug he… — Andy Serkis 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
As if to demonstrate, by a striking example, the impossibility of erecting any cerebral barrier between man and the apes, Nature has… — Thomas Huxley Copy Share Image
At once I feel that comedy is this amazing sort of transcendent thing, and I'm also open to the fact that maybe… — Bo Burnham Copy Share Image
Thin-lipped wisdom spoke at her from the worn chair, hinted at prudence, quoted from that book of cowardice whose author apes the… — Oscar Wilde 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
A man has no reason to be ashamed of having an ape for his grandfather. If there were an ancestor whom I… — Thomas Huxley Copy Share Image
“Hominids are all the Neanderthals, australopithecines, Homo habili, Homo erecti, etc., the upright-walking apes of which we are the only surviving species.” — Joe Quirk Copy Share Image
Man appears to be the missing link between anthropoid apes and human beings. — Konrad Lorenz Copy Share Image
The problem is that the Enlightenment dream may make too many demands on poor African apes like us. We may just not… — Dale Jamieson Copy Share Image
What I thought was so great about Rise [of the Planet of the Apes ] was that it wasn't a retelling; it… — Matt Reeves Copy Share Image
Do you take me for a sponge, my lord? hamlet: Ay, sir; that soaks up the king's countenance, his rewards, his authorities.… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
The disappointed one speaks. I searched for great human beings; I always found only the apes of their ideals. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image