Famous Quotes & Sayings

Bo Burnham

At once I feel that comedy is this amazing sort of transcendent thing, and I'm also open to the fact that maybe it's just an evolutionary hiccup, something that upright apes do in their free time.

Steve Irwin

My field is with apex predators, hence your crocodiles, your snakes, your spiders.

Lynn Coady

There was a time when I thought dudes had friendship all figured out. The focus on eating things in front of giant screens, pretending to punch one another, competing over who can utter the grossest and most profane personal insults imaginable - this struck me as the very apex of human social exchange.

Tim Roth

One of the guys who worked at the Ape School became my stunt double so we just kept working on different things and just play around.

Louis MacNeice

Broadcasting is plastic; while it can ape the press, it can also emulate the arts.

If Apex goes to a new fair in the region, we are interested in participating.

Gary Bauer

Today's children are taught by our culture that we are a cosmic accident. Something slithered out of the primal slime and over billions of years evolved into a human being. We are cousins, ten times removed, to the ape at the zoo eating his own excrement.

Aesop

It is absurd to ape our betters.

Nadine Velazquez

Really hairy backs on men turn me off. I'm not into the ape thing at all. Or beer bellies and flabby arms, either. Also, one random nose hair which is longer than the others... that's gross.

Sue Savage-Rumbaugh

There is no reason to teach an ape to become human. There are many reasons to teach some apes and some humans to transition the worlds between the species boundaries, especially when our genetics are so similar as to make us 'siblings.' It is the way to learn how we become that which we are.

Desmond Morris

There are 193 species of monkeys and apes, 192 of them are covered with hair. The exception is a naked ape self-named Homo sapiens.

With dramatic construction cost increases and a drying land supply, Apex may finally see some substantial development activity. Time is now on its side.

Benjamin Franklin

It is as truly folly for the poor to ape the rich, as for the frog to swell, in order to equal the ox

Man, as we know him, is a poor creature; but he is halfway between an ape and a god and he is travelling in the right direction.

It is not surprising that because of the combined effect of the double-whammy, falling assets/rising liabilities, average state pension funding levels, as of June 30, 2004, had fallen to approximately 84 percent of their previous apex four years earlier.

Sebastian Stan

The thing that sticks to me most about theater is that because it's such an ape crazy nonstop experience, you really don't have time to think about anything else. You're just really present; you have to be, or else, you know, you can't stop the play.

Mahesh Rangarajan

It does indicate a fair level of paralysis at the apex of the party and the government. They didn't see this coming and they didn't react.

Helena Bonham Carter

On corsets: I said, You have got to be kidding. I am an ape and yet I am still expected to squeeze myself into one of those damn things.

Sarah Hall

Apex predators are good for an environment in terms of biodiversity and trophic cascade - we have very few. But realistically, only a few areas could sustain free-roaming wolves in Britain, mostly in Scotland.

Tim Johnson

Apex opened our eyes to the fact that we need to do a better job of selling ourselves and our company in other markets. We need to get out in front of people.

Reading it will help explain why small-town elections are best-served tending to their own knitting and not trying to ape the national stage.

This corner has several different apexes. It is good for passing. You can enter tight or you can enter wide and try to cross over your buddy and super late apex it over here.

George Santayana

The irrational in the human has something about it altogether repulsive and terrible, as we see in the maniac, the miser, the drunkard or the ape.

Francis Bacon

Habit, if wisely and skillfully formed, becomes truly a second nature; but unskillfully and unmethodically depicted, it will be as it were an ape of nature, which imitates nothing to the life, but only clumsily and awkwardly

Gregory Keyes

My degrees are in anthropology, and I have friends who have worked with apes.

Friedrich Nietzsche

The disappointed one speaks. I searched for great human beings; I always found only the apes of their ideals.

Every corner, every exit, every apex was perfect...I definitely couldn't have done it better.

So they, who climb to wealth, forgetThe friends in darker fortunes tried.I copied them -- but I regretThat I should ape the ways of pride.

Thanks to the media's work in notifying the community, Crime Stoppers further assisted us in bringing the suspect to justice. Raleigh and Apex police departments were also supportive in executing the warrant.

That penetrating gaze, that intelligence; it's hard not to be anthropomorphic when you're looking at a great ape - at any primate - but especially with gorillas. They're just so magnificent.

Joe Elliott

That's why 60,000 people go ape when the Stones play 'Satisfaction.' The songs are part of their legacy, and you fall back in love with them over the years.

There's one place, and one place only, to see polar bears in America. You have to travel to the country's northernmost point, the very apex of Alaska's North Slope, to the permafrost shores that stretch out on either side from the Inupiat town of Kaktovik.

Ape cultures are real. I think it's time to stop doubting that they exist.