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
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
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
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
"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
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
I hadn't done a comedy for a while. I had directed a very low budget movie called The Ape and it was… — Seth Rogen Copy Share Image
Man has lost the basic skill of the ape, the ability to scratch its back. Which gave it extraordinary independence, and the… — Jean Baudrillard Copy Share Image
All gods have good points, just as have all priests. Personally, I attach much importance to Hanuman , and am kind to… — Rudyard Kipling Copy Share Image
Father was afraid of laughter and joy. He was particularly afraid of ridicule. He was afraid that someone would say that humans… — Guus Kuijer Copy Share Image
Of course, the plea for respect for nonhuman life goes far beyond the scientific delight of familiarity with our planet mates. The… — Lynn Margulis Copy Share Image
Since Serengeti-scale savanna scenes are only one or two million years old, our earliest after-the-apes ancestors didn't move into this scene so… — William H. Calvin Copy Share Image
“As the anthropologist Marshall Sahlins puts the matter: “We are the only people who assume that we have ascended from apes. Everybody… — Ray Kurzweil Copy Share Image
If 'Star Wars' wasn't enough to prepare me for a dark future, there was the 'Planet of the Apes' franchise, conveniently repeated… — Greg van Eekhout 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
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
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
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
“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
“Cast in the mold of humanity, they were distinctly not men. They were winged and of heroic proportions; not a branch on… — Robert E. Howard Copy Share Image
“Because that DNA is the whole reason we exist, still preserved long after most of humanity ascended into super-intelligent human-robot hybrids. Humans… — Samuel Peralta 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
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
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
“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
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
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
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
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
“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
There are five kinds of great apes: bonobos, chimpanzees, orangutans, gorillas, and the one which people always think of last: Humans! — Andy Dunn 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
Quinquireme of Nineveh from distant Ophir, Rowing home to haven in sunny Palestine, With a cargo of ivory, And apes and peacocks,… — John Masefield Copy Share Image
I was pretty young when I saw the original 'Planet of the Apes', and for a time in the seventies, I was… — Gregory Keyes Copy Share Image