Apes Quote by Will Cuppy Download Open image “Orangutans teach us that looks are not everything-but warned near it.” — Will Cuppy ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.1 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare Apes Looks Orangutans Teach
Most of the things at the zoo don't look like us. We're one design that works. Our chimp pals sort of look like us,… — Seth Shostak Copy Share Image
I'm not interested in showing the wish of what it looks like to be human. I'm interested in showing what it actually looks like. — Maggie Gyllenhaal Copy Share Image
In the jungle, you learn about the other beauties in life. In everyday life, it's all about looking perfect, but in there, there's none… — Emily Atack Copy Share Image
Beauty, thou wild fantastic ape Who dost in every country change thy shape! — Abraham Cowley Copy Share Image
It is rather an unpleasant fact, that the ugliest and awkwardest of brute animals have the greatest resemblance to man: the monkey and the bear. The monkey is ugly too (so we think) because he is like man--as the bear is awkward, because the cumbrous action of its huge paws seems to be a preposterous imitation of the motions of… — Charles Lamb Copy Share
It is doubtful whether anyone who has travelled widely has found anywhere in the world regions more ugly than in the human face. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Never give in to what they say. Seriously, if we all looked like what others think we do, well, well then there would only… — Ashley Audacity Copy Share Image
If you have seen nothing but the beauty of their markings and limbs, their true beauty is hidden from you. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Hatshepsut has been called the first great woman of history. She simply appointed herself King of Egypt and that was all there was to it. To show her subjects that she was properly qualified, Hatshepsut set up many statues and portraits representing herself as a regular male Pharaoh with a beard. This fooled nobody, but it was legal proof because… — Will Cuppy Copy Share
“Intelligence is the capacity to know what we are doing and instinct is just instinct. The results are about the same.” — Will Cuppy Copy Share Image
Henry VIII had so many wives because his dynastic sense was very strong whenever he saw a maid of honour. — Will Cuppy Copy Share Image
[Footnote:] Pliny the Elder described a Whale called "Balaena or Whirlpool, which is so long and broad as to take up more in length and breadth than two acres of ground." This brings up again the old question: Are the classics doomed? Our ancestors believed that four years of this sort of information would inevitably produce a President, or at… — Will Cuppy Copy Share
Frogs will eat red-flannel worms fed to them by biologists; this proves a great deal about both parties concerned. — Will Cuppy Copy Share Image
Even as a child back in Indiana, whenever I took a Butterbelly off the hook I used to ask myself, "Does this fish think?"… — Will Cuppy Copy Share Image
“Would it not be downright cruel to keep him in semi-captivity in a town or city, where the opportunities for wreaking havoc and destruction… — Will Cuppy Copy Share Image
Alexander III of Macedon is known as Alexander the Great because he killed more people of more different kinds than any other man of… — Will Cuppy Copy Share Image
“The average sparrow is something of a bore and the trouble is that all sparrows are average.” — Will Cuppy Copy Share Image
I don't like to boast, but I have probably skipped more poetry than any other person of my age and weight in this country. — Will Cuppy Copy Share Image
“All modern men are descended from wormlike creatures, but it shows more on some people.” — Will Cuppy Copy Share Image
[Footnote:] The female of any species is generally regarded as a relatively anabolic organism, more passive than the male, who is relatively katabolic and… — Will Cuppy Copy Share Image
Television's perfect. You turn a few knobs, a few of those mechanical adjustments at which the higher apes are so proficient, and lean back and drain your mind of all thought. And there you are watching the bubbles in the primeval ooze. You don't have to concentrate. You don't have to react. You don't have to remember. You don't miss… — Raymond Chandler Copy Share
Perhaps no order of mammals presents us with so extraordinary a series of gradations as this [step by step, from humans to apes to monkeys to lemurs] - leading us insensibly from the crown and summit of the animal creation down to creatures, from which there is but a step, as it seems, to the lowest, smallest, and least intelligent… — Thomas Huxley Copy Share
As nature made every man with a nose and eyes of his own, she gave him a character of his own, too; and yet… — William Makepeace Thackeray Copy Share Image
And the Devil did grin, for his darling sin is pride that apes humility. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
Battle For The Planet Of The Apes', was just a film for kids and didn't have any deep meaning. — J. Lee Thompson Copy Share Image
Far out in the uncharted backwaters of the unfashionable end of the western spiral arm of the Galaxy lies a small unregarded yellow sun.… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
The idea that war should be conducted within a moral framework may seem like a quaint medieval practice, but as speech separates humans from… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Mass ought to be in Latin, unless you could do it in Greek or Chinese. In fact, any abracadabra that no bloody member of… — Ezra Pound Copy Share Image
Lower your gaze because you become less of a human every time you stare at a woman and you stare at her like she's a piece of meat, like she's an animal. That just means you've lost respect for a fellow human being. You're looking at her like an ape looks at a female ape, like a dog looks at… — Nouman Ali Khan Copy Share
It was their individuality combined with the shyness of their behavior that remained the most captivating impression of this first encounter with the greatest… — Dian Fossey Copy Share Image
Apes had it worked out. No ape would philosophize, "The mountain is, and is not." They would think, "The banana is. I will eat… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image