Gorillas Quotes

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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.

I have no friends. The more you learn about the dignity of the gorilla, the more you want to avoid people.

Hair on a man's chest is thought to denote strength. The gorilla is the most powerful of bipeds and has hair on every place on his body except for his chest.

Gorillas are almost altruistic in nature. There's very little if any 'me-itis.' When I get back to civilization I'm always appalled by 'me, me, me.'

[About gorillas] You take these fine, regal animals. How many (human) fathers have the same sense of paternity? How many human mothers are more caring? The family structure is unbelievably strong.

The world's strongest animals are plant eaters. Gorillas, Buffaloes, Elephants and me.

It will be a killer, and a chiller, and a thriller, when I get the gorilla in Manila.

The need for novelty is the characteristic of an alienated gorilla.

I had never planned to become a savanna baboon when I grew up; instead, I had always assumed I would become a mountain gorilla.

I don't think there's anything I can't do. I have no regrets.

When it comes to global warming, coal is the gorilla in the room.

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 performing.

five severed fingers do not make a hand

Put another way, the chimpanzees' closest relative is not the gorilla but humans.

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.

Five years ago I was a four-stone apology — today I am two separate gorillas.

I think what's going on with gorillas is pretty bad. The fact is that you can buy gorilla meat in London any day you want it.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

I have no patience whatever with these gorilla damnifications of humanity.

We're animals. We're violent. We're criminal. We're not so far away from the gorillas and the apes, those beautiful creatures.

It's hard to put into words. Gorillas are not complainers. We're dreamers, poets, philosophers, nap takers.

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.

Here's where I ask why don't you spend your time doing something safer and more boring. Like maybe administering suppositories to rabid gorillas.

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

"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..."

With man gone, will there be hope for gorilla?

Our social life is literally primal, in the sense that chimpanzees and gorillas, our closest relatives among the primates, are also social.

The 800 pound gorilla just entered the blogosphere, with Google launching its blog search.

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

The more you learn about the dignity of the gorilla, the more you want to avoid people.