Quotes About Gorilla

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

Psychedelics are almost irrelevant in a town where you can wander into a casino any time of the day or night and witness the crucifixion of a gorilla - on a flaming neon cross that suddenly turns into a pinwheel, spinning the beast around in wild circles above the crowded gambling action.

Although I'm great at political commentary and journalism, it's not my passion. 'Gorilla Mindset' is.

Perhaps best known is the case of Koko, the gorilla to whom the Gorilla Foundation taught American Sign Language. Koko learned more than a thousand signs, created compound signs to convey new information, and showed a significant understanding of spoken English.9

Do you remember that big speech I made in your garage?" "Which one?" I sighed. "You've made several. I'm contemplating installing a personal soapbox with your name on it." "The one where I said you would beg to climb into my bed?" "Ah. That one. How could I forget? I kept waiting for you to pound your chest like a silverback gorilla.

I worked at the zoo for three months, and I got to be very close with the 400 pound gorilla. And I was one of three people in the world that could touch him.

I mean Gorilla was really our first sort of goes at songwriting.

Force me to choose my best book, and I always come back to 'Gorilla.' It was the first time I felt I understood what picture books could do.

In the early '50s, my great-grandmother and grandfather raised a baby gorilla named Bobo who wore clothes and played with the neighborhood kids.

I should like to see any kind of a man distinguishable from a gorilla that some good and even pretty woman could not shape a husband out of.

as if Nature had intended to make a gorilla, and had changed its mind at the last moment

It was as if Nature had intended to make a gorilla, and had changed its mind at the last moment.

Quite recently the human descent theory has been stigmatized as the 'gorilla theory of human ancestry.' All this despite the fact that Darwin himself, in the days when not a single bit of evidence regarding the fossil ancestors of man was recognized, distinctly stated that none of the known anthropoid apes, much less any of the known monkeys, should be considered in any way as ancestral to the human stock.

You came to a strip club with a woman who is not your fiancée, and a gorilla on your wedding day.

Looking at him I felt as if I had just met a powerful gorilla while at the same time being in possession of the world's last banana.

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

The man who once famously pronounced "I know words, I have the best words" scorched through the primaries using the vocabulary of a signing gorilla ("China—money—bad!").