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Apes Quotes by Terry Pratchett
- I'd rather be a rising ape than a falling angel.
- Humans need fantasy to be human. To be the place where the falling angel meets the rising ape.
- He helped the Librarian up. There was a red glow in the ape's eyes. It had tried to steal his books. This was probably the…
- You have the effrontery to be squeamish, it thought at him. But we were dragons. We were supposed to be cruel, cunning, heartless and terrible.…
- Apes had it worked out. No ape would philosophize, "The mountain is, and is not." They would think, "The banana is. I will eat the…
- ASTONISHING, said Death. REALLY ASTONISHING. LET ME PUT FORWARD ANOTHER SUGGESTION: THAT YOU ARE NOTHING MORE THAN A LUCKY SPECIES OF APE THAT IS TRYING…
More Apes Quotes
- Man, proud man, drest in a little brief authority, most ignorant of what he's most assur d, glassy essence, like an angry… — William Shakespeare
- As the most social apes, we inhabit a mirror-world in which every important relationship, whether with spouse, friend or child, shapes the… — Diane Ackerman
- It is not only visitors to the zoo who are fascinated but uneasy in the presence of chimpanzees; the same is true… — Frans de Waal
- The country is provincial; it becomes ridiculous when it tries to ape Paris. — Honore de Balzac
- Merciful heaven, Thou rather with thy sharp and sulphurous bolt Splits the unwedgeable and gnarled oak Than the soft myrtle; but man,… — William Shakespeare
- Men have a lot less to write about, unless you're somebody like Tom Waits or John Lennon. And the female voice is… — Brandon Boyd
- We are not the only animal that mourns; apes do, and elephants, and dogs. Yet we are the only one that tortures. — Geraldine Brooks
- I think I've still got a bit of a sado-masochistic streak in me, because if I'm not going to be restricted by… — Helena Bonham Carter