Best Gorillas Quotes
75 Gorillas quotes by 59 unique authors
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With man gone, will there be hope for gorilla?
— Daniel Quinn
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Five years ago I was a four-stone apology — today I am two separate gorillas.
— Vivian Stanshall
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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…
— Unknown Author
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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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[My] excursions provided a unique opportunity for observing [the gorillas' behavior] in their natural habitat... Then, all too soon, the infants were demanded for their…
— Dian Fossey
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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
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Fossey, Fossey, you cranky difficult strong-arming self-destructive misanthrope, mediocre scientist, deceiver of earnest college students, probable cause of more deaths of the gorillas than if…
— Robert M. Sapolsky
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I shall never forget my first encounter with gorillas. Sound preceded sight. Odor preceded sound in the form of an overwhelming, musky-barnyard, humanlike scent. The…
— Dian Fossey
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Wild animals are not meant to be owned, any more than human beings are. Nobody has the right to pass a cougar or a gorilla…
— Pat Derby
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Gorillas are in danger of being wiped out by the Ebola virus. I feel like we have limited time to get to know them and…
— Sara Gruen
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When I got my very first phone call that I'd hit the 'New York Times' list, I had a small rush of 'I've made it!'…
— Lisa Gardner
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Mirror that lies, mirror that lies, that can't be me in the gorilla disguise.
— Jimmy Buffett
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Saving New York City from bankruptcy is like making love to a gorilla. You don't stop when you're tired; you stop when he's tired.
— Felix Rohatyn
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I don't know if any genuine, meaningful change could ever result from a song. It's kind of like throwing peanuts at a gorilla.
— Tom Waits
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In Africa, you know, if you're poor, at least you can go to the forest and share some mangoes with the gorillas and monkey.
— Emmanuel Jal
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I think a lot guys get laid pretending to be Shaggy 2 Dope because without his paint he's a lot more unrecognizable. He's not a…
— Joseph Bruce
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Shave a gorilla and it would be almost impossible, at twenty paces, to distinguish him from a heavyweight champion of the world. Skin a chimpanzee,…
— H. L. Mencken
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The world's strongest animals are plant eaters. Gorillas, Buffaloes, Elephants and me.
— Patrik Baboumian
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I feel more comfortable with gorillas than people. I can anticipate what a gorilla's going to do, and they're purely motivated.
— Dian Fossey
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Chimpanzees, gorillas, orangutans have been living for hundreds of thousands of years in their forest, living fantastic lives, never overpopulating, never destroying the forest. I…
— Jane Goodall
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I was doing comedy in laundry mats in 1992, literally where I would bring a little gorilla amp and a lapel mike and just start…
— Dane Cook
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What is missing from today's dialogue is the effect autism is having on families, our society and what the unknown factors are. The 300lb. gorilla…
— Jenny McCarthy
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I came face-to-face with a gorilla which was quite good, but it was a 10-hour trek in bad weather, up hills, covered in mud, with…
— Karl Pilkington
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To be clear, climate change is a true 800 pound gorilla in the room. The effects of global warming threaten global environmental upheaval over the…
— Debbie Wasserman Schultz
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