“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
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
It was really strange to see all these apes standing around eating popcorn, smoking, wearing sunglasses. — Estella Warren 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
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
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
The solution is not to reinvent ourselves, not to ape the Labour Party or the Liberal Democrats. — Malcolm Rifkind 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
“Cheaters never prosper, we tell ourselves. But the ape in us knows it's not true. Clumsy, untutored, cheats never prosper. They are… — Mark Rowlands 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
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
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
“I was reading about animals a while back and there was this motherfucking scientist in France back in the thirties or forties… — Cheryl Strayed 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
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
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
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
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
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
“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
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
A mind is a terrible thing. All this evolution nonsense is making me feel like a complete APE! — Berkeley Breathed 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
“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
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
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
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
“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
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