Gorillas famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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Gorillas are still wild creatures. That's made very clear when you observe them in nature. They charge and perform other displays that are terrifying by design. But they don't attack unless they feel threatened.
-- Andy Serkis -
Gorilla tourism is vital to Rwanda's economy: It's the third highest source of income.
-- Andy Serkis -
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 -
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 -
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 -
Our social life is literally primal, in the sense that chimpanzees and gorillas, our closest relatives among the primates, are also social.
-- Clay Shirky -
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.
-- Dane Cook -
With man gone, will there be hope for gorilla?
-- Daniel Quinn -
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 -
I have no friends. The more you learn about the dignity of the gorilla, the more you want to avoid people.
-- Dian Fossey -
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.'
-- Dian Fossey -
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 -
I waved to you outside but then I realized it was just one of those inflatable parking lot gorillas.
-- Jane Lynch -
Put another way, the chimpanzees' closest relative is not the gorilla but humans.
-- Jared Diamond -
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 -
When it comes to global warming, coal is the gorilla in the room.
-- Jeff Goodell -
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 got was a gorilla holding the banana and the entire jungle.
-- Joe Armstrong -
It's hard to put into words. Gorillas are not complainers. We're dreamers, poets, philosophers, nap takers.
-- Katherine Applegate -
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 -
We admit that we are like apes, but we seldom realise that we are apes. Our common ancestor with the chimpanzees and gorillas is much more recent than their common ancestor with the Asian apes--the gibbons and orangutans. There is no natural category that includes chimpanzees, gorillas and orangutans but excludes humans.
-- Richard Dawkins -
I had never planned to become a savanna baboon when I grew up; instead, I had always assumed I would become a mountain gorilla.
-- Robert M. Sapolsky -
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 understand them and they're going to disappear - that's terrifically sad. Wouldn't it be great if we could stop that?
-- Sara Gruen
