Apes Quotes

234 quotes by 174 authors

Being abroad makes you conscious of the whole imitative side of human behavior. The ape in man. — Mary McCarthy
Didn't we learn our lesson from Planet of the Apes? — Zach Braff
I've read that male dolphins try to have sex with humans, and female apes solicit sex from humans. What is wrong with giving them what… — Richard Stallman
Thus the evidence given by those five new thigh bones of the morphological and functional distinctness of Pithecanthropus erectus furnishes proof, at the same time,… — Unknown Author
I'd like to see animals removed from the entertainment business. Chimpanzees and apes won't perform unless you beat them. Circuses keep elephants in chains 90… — Bob Barker
The normal citizen looked at us and saw a mixture of gangster, hippy, criminal and ape. Once somebody rang us up with a nice voice… — Unknown Author
It took nature 100 million years to make the ape stand up and become Homo sapiens. It took us only 10,000 to make knowing obsolete. — Sugata Mitra
Everywhere men have unlocked the prisoners within, and from under the disguising skins the apes have leapt joyfully out. — Osbert Sitwell
Cheetah bit me whenever he could. The [Tarzan movie] apes were all homosexuals, eager to wrap their paws around Johnny Weismuller's thighs. They were jealous… — Maureen O'Sullivan
It's interesting to think that my ancestors used to live in the trees, like apes, until finally they got the nerve to head out onto… — Jack Handey
Mass ought to be in Latin, unless you could do it in Greek or Chinese. In fact, any abracadabra that no bloody member of the… — Ezra Pound
Laughing at ourselves is possible when we are able to see humanity as it is - a little lower than the angels and at times… — Thomas Mullen
What would you do, sir, if terrorists were killing 45,000 people every year in this country? Well, the current health care system, the insurance companies,… — Keith Olbermann
Darwin was wrong. Man's still an ape — Jerome Lawrence
We may prefer to think of ourselves as fallen angels, but in reality we are rising apes. — Desmond Morris
I went to a place recently I think is one of the most f**ked up places I've ever been to. I'm convinced this place is… — Aziz Ansari
Love lost is a special kind of failure, I think. It's a reminder that some consummations, no matter how devoutly wished for, never come; that… — Ian Caldwell
If we keep demanding that God yield up His answers, perhaps some day we will understand them. And then we will be something more than… — Mary Doria Russell
The poor man is ruined as soon as he begins to ape the rich. — Publilius Syrus
On Planet of the Apes, I had a very knowledgeable team who knew good materials, but I had one main source person who worked online… — Colleen Atwood

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