Gorillas Quotes - Page 4

• Gorillas would be less scary with bunny ears. Actually, what isn't less scary with bunny ears? Osama Bin Laden with bunny ears. Ha! So cute.

  Dana Gould

  Cute, Scary, Ears

  FaceBook post by Dana Gould from Jun 20, 2013

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• I want to make movies just like "King Kong." You know, dinosaurs, big gorillas - it's everything that a nine year-old boy would fall in love with.

  Peter Jackson

  Falling In Love, Kings, Boys

  "Peter Jackson's labor of love". "Dateline" with Stone Phillips, www.nbcnews.com. December 2, 2005.

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• The only other animals that would be in the ballpark to be able to do it would be a gorilla, but it's not going to occur to a gorilla to strangle the life out of somebody. They might rip their head off, all right, but it wouldn't occur to a gorilla to just, I'm going to cut off your air.

  Quentin Tarantino

  Rip, Cutting, Animal

  "Pulp And Circumstance: Tarantino Rewrites History Listen· 45:04". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. August 27, 2009.

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• Actually, scientists don't know exactly how lice jumped from gorillas to our human ancestors. They speculate that we may have eaten them or perhaps slept in their nests.

  Ziya Tong

  Lice, May, Nests

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• "You wanna deliver papers in a big city?" an expert with a bent nose told me, "then you gotta shake the trees to find the gorillas to do it..."

  Edwin Diamond

  Media, Cities, Tree

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• I want a girl who looks good when she wakes up in the morning. We could take her face and dip it in dough and she'll make some nice-face cookies. Some girls wake up, man, you could put their face in dough and you'll get a gorilla cookie, for real!

  Flavor Flav

  Girl, Morning, Real

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• That there is a continuous link from humans to gorillas, with the intermediate species merely long dead, is beyond the understanding of speciesists. Tie the label Homo sapiens even to a tiny piece of insensible embryonic tissue, and its life suddenly leaps to infinite, incomputable value.... Self-styled pro-lifers, and others that indulge in footling debates about exactly when in its development a foetus becomes human, exhibit the same discontinuous mentality. Human, to the discontinuous mind, is an absolutist concept. There can be no half measures. And from this flows much evil.

  Richard Dawkins

  Self, Indulge In, Ties

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• I actually taught perceptual psychology at N.Y.U. when I was younger. I was interested in the aesthetic impulse in lower primates. But what really interested me in Dian Fossey was that she made a difference - she saved the gorillas.

  Arne Glimcher

  Differences, Psychology, Taught

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I waved to you outside but then I realized it was just one of those inflatable parking lot gorillas.

  Jane Lynch

  Parking, I Realized, Just One

  "Surprise! Tom Arnold 'Roasts' Roseanne Barr" by Brett Malec, www.today.com. August 6, 2012.

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• ... They paid some madman who thought he was a decorator a lot of money to make the place look hip and unique. May be it's my lack of fashion sense talking, but I thought they should have held out for one of those gorillas who has learned to paint. The results would have been of similar quality, and they could have paid in fresh produce. - Harry Dresden, Small Favor, Jim Butcher

  Jim Butcher

  Fashion, Unique, Talking

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• Worrying about a large institution, especially when it has computers, is like worrying about a large gorilla, especially when it's on fire.

  Bruce Sterling

  Fire, Worry, Computer

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• Much of the rest of the world has already learned some English. They pretty much understand the American way of doing things, because our culture has been ubiquitous and has been the 500-pound gorilla in the global economy. But the world is far more interrelated than ever before, and no one culture can thrive without the knowledge of how to function in other cultures.

  Bill Vaughan

  Other Cultures, Way, Pounds

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• It is in the stomach of plants that development begins, and ends in the circles of the universe. 'Tis a long scale from the gorilla to the gentleman,--from the gorilla to Plato, Newton, Shakespeare,--to the sanctities of religion, the refinements of legislation, the summit of science, art, and poetry. The beginnings are slow and infirm, but it is an always accelerated march.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Art, Plato, Circles

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1905). “The Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson”

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• Did you hear the one about the woman who is attacked on the street by a gorilla, beaten senseless, raped repeatedly, and left to die? When she finally regains consciousness and tries to speak, her doctor leans over to hear her sigh contently and to feebly ask, 'Where is that marvelous ape?'

  John McCain

  Doctors, Trying, Apes

  "McCain Ape Rape Joke Recalled By Sources" by Sam Stein, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 23, 2008.

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• I hate superheroes. I always hated superheroes. From the time I was a little kid, I could believe in a 50-foot gorilla trashing New York City before I could believe a guy would put on long tights and bat ears and go and fight crime. Like, the fantasy never made sense to me, on a basic level.

  Stephen R. Bissette

  New York, Hate, Believe

  Interview with Chris Dahlen, www.avclub.com. July 23, 2009.

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• The fact that all our ape cousins - chimpanzees, gorillas and orangutans - can acquire signs - is powerful evidence that our hominid ancestors' first language was gestural and that the vocal version of language was a relatively recent development. My own guess is that vocal language began emerging about 200,000 years ago.

  Roger Fouts

  Cousin, Powerful, Years

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• Traveling across the United States, it's easy to see why Americans are often thought of as stupid. At the San Diego Zoo, right near the primate habitats, there's a display featuring half a dozen life-size gorillas made out of bronze. Posted nearby is a sign reading CAUTION: GORILLA STATUES MAY BE HOT. Everywhere you turn, the obvious is being stated. CANNON MAY BE LOUD. MOVING SIDEWALK IS ABOUT TO END. To people who don't run around suing one another, such signs suggest a crippling lack of intelligence.

  David Sedaris

  Running, Zoos, Stupid

  David Sedaris (2000). “Me talk pretty one day”

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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 the table.

  Joe Biden

  Tables, Rooms, Social

  "Meet the Candidates" with Tim Russert, www.nbcnews.com. April 29, 2007.

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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, and it would take an autopsy to prove he was not a theologian.

  H. L. Mencken

  Funny, Humor, Champion

  Baltimore Evening Sun, April 4, 1927.

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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

  Meaningful, Song, Kind

  "Off beat". Interview with Sean O'Hagan, www.theguardian.com. October 28, 2006.

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• Gorilla tourism is vital to Rwanda's economy: It's the third highest source of income.

  Andy Serkis

  Tourism, Income, Economy

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• Football is a game for trained apes. That, in fact, is what most of the players are -- retarded gorillas wearing helmets and uniforms. The only thing more debased is the surrounding mob of drunken monkeys howling the gorillas on.

  Edward Abbey

  Football, Player, Games

  Edward Abbey (2015). “A Voice Crying in the Wilderness”, p.38, RosettaBooks

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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 zoo, or by threats to endangered species; but developments in farming techniques that deprive millions of animals of freedom of movement go unreported.

  Peter Singer

  Baby, Zoos, Animal

  Peter Singer (1975). “Animal liberation: a new ethics for our treatment of animals”

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• No wonder circus animals do what they do: They tortured them. And you know the only ones they can't control? It's the chimpanzees. You can't control them. That's why you never see a gorilla in a movie, because the gorilla may decide there'll be no filming.

  Paul Mooney

  Animal, May, Circus

  Source: www.avclub.com

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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 hit puberty like a plane crash and grew into a gorilla who bullied me when he was in the 4th year and I was in the 5th. That's Karma.

  Simon Pegg

  Karma, Teacher, Kids

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