Ape Quotes

164 quotes by 127 authors

At once I feel that comedy is this amazing sort of transcendent thing, and I'm also open to the fact that maybe it's just an… — Bo Burnham
When I see David Attenborough talking about how chimps live, big apes, I just remember my dad and the way he'd look at you. He… — Richard Griffiths
That's why 60,000 people go ape when the Stones play 'Satisfaction.' The songs are part of their legacy, and you fall back in love with… — Joe Elliott
There is hardly an American male of my generation who has not at one time or another tried to master the victory cry of the… — Gore Vidal
We ape, we mimic, we mock. We act. — Laurence Olivier
There is a rowdy strain in American life, living close to the surface but running very deep. Like an ape behind a mask, it can… — Bruce Catton
The money complex is the demonic, and the demonic is God's ape; the money complex is therefore the heir to and substitute for the religious… — Norman O. Brown
Civilization today reminds me of an ape with a blowtorch playing in a room full of dynamite. It looks like the monkeys are about to… — Vance Havner
In fact I was slightly badly behaved at school and got in trouble. I would get a bee in my bonnet about something I thought… — Olivia Colman
Man is an ape with possibilities. — Roy Chapman Andrews
Merciful heaven, Thou rather with thy sharp and sulphurous bolt Splits the unwedgeable and gnarled oak Than the soft myrtle; but man, proud man, Dressed… — William Shakespeare
ZANY, n. A popular character in old Italian plays, who imitated with ludicrous incompetence the _buffone_, or clown, and was therefore the ape of an… — Ambrose Bierce
The 'missing link' between ape and man will probably never be found- because it was an embryo. — Arthur Koestler
The fact that the apes exist and that we can study them is extremely important and makes us reflect on ourselves and our human nature.… — Frans de Waal
Break the skin of civilization and you find the ape, roaring and red-handed. — Robert E. Howard
Happy Birthday to Fay Wray, a wonderful actress. She was, of course, in the movie 'King Kong' and would have been 99-years-old today. She was… — David Letterman
Most people recognize me from The Shawshank Redemption, but there is this subculture of people who have collected all 13 episodes of Greg The Bunny.… — Bob Gunton
We can no longer communicate with the apes by direct language, nor can we understand, without special study, their modes of communication which we have… — Stephen Leacock
It has actually been suggested that warfare may have been the principle evolutionary pressure that created the huge gap between the human brain and that… — Jane Goodall
Certainly the first true humans were unique by virtue of their large brains. It was because the human brain is so large when compared with… — Jane Goodall

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