Gorilla Quotes
56 quotes by 50 authors
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Social Security's not the hard one to solve. Medicare, that is the gorilla in the room, and you've got to put all of it on…
— Joe Biden
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Watching your daughter being collected by her date feels like handing over a million dollar Stradivarius to a gorilla.
— Jim Bishop
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It will be a killer, and a chiller, and a thriller, when I get the gorilla in Manila.
— Muhammad Ali
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I have no friends. The more you learn about the dignity of the gorilla, the more you want to avoid people.
— Dian Fossey
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I have no patience whatever with these gorilla damnifications of humanity.
— Thomas Carlyle
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Intelligence is a valuable thing, but it is not usually the key to survival. Sheer fecundity ... usually counts. The intelligent gorilla doesn't do as…
— Isaac Asimov
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I wonder whether those of our political masters who have been put in charge of the defence of the country can distinguish a mortar from…
— Sam Manekshaw
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I paid a worker at New York's zoo to re-open it just for me and Robin (his wife). When we got to the gorilla cage…
— Mike Tyson
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Recent discoveries about apes suggest, however, that a gorilla or common chimp stands at least as good a chance being murdered as the average human.
— Jared Diamond
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I was the naughty kid that the teachers liked. I bullied a kid in the 1st year when I was in the 2nd, who then…
— Simon Pegg
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The newspapers do little better. Their coverage of nonhuman animals is dominated by "human interest" events like the birth of a baby gorilla at the…
— Peter Singer
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The need for novelty is the characteristic of an alienated gorilla.
— Emile M. Cioran
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When it comes to global warming, coal is the gorilla in the room.
— Jeff Goodell
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Frazier soaked it all up like a sponge. When they arrived in Manila it was the same story. Ali poured scorn on his opponent. Humiliated…
— Muhammad Ali
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The President is no more than a well-meaning baboon. I went to the White House directly after tea, where I found "The Original Gorilla", about…
— George B. McClellan
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With man gone, will there be hope for gorilla?
— Daniel Quinn
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It never gets easier, you just go faster. To put it another way, training is like fighting with a gorilla. You don’t stop when you’re…
— Greg Henderson
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The problem with object-oriented languages is they've got all this implicit environment that they carry around with them. You wanted a banana but what you…
— Joe Armstrong
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...Humans were the only creatures in the world that ate their food cooked. You'd never find a Gorilla frying up some bananas for dinner or…
— Dick Gregory
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If I'm talking to someone in a crowded room, I try to make this person feel as though we're the only ones present. I shut…
— Mary Kay Ash
Who Wrote These Gorilla Quotes
50 authors contributed a total of 56 Gorilla Quotes, led by these top contributors: