Bipedal Quotes

#1. Humans were still just a bunch of bipedal apes, divided into arbitrary tribes that were constantly at war over their ruined planet's dwindling natural resources.

Ernest Cline

#2. You don't just magically flip some evolutionary switch somewhere and transmute a quadruped into an upright-walking bipedal human.

Donald Johanson

#3. Paul grasped humor only imperfectly, but supposed he could see the absurdity of it from a human perspective. "Yes, and you are a very charming bipedal bladder of fluid," he said. "Nicest thing anyone's said to me all day!

Jim Cleaveland

#4. carbon-based bipedal

Douglas Adams

#5. We have changed. We are no longer, as I said, bipedal monkeys. We are instead a kind of cybernetic coral reef of organic components and inorganic technological components.

Terence McKenna

#6. Practical in our expectations of the Criminal Law. ... [For] we have merely to imagine, by some trick of time travel, meeting our earliest hominid ancestor, Adam, a proto-man, short of stature, luxuriantly furred, newly bipedal, foraging about on the African

William Landay

#7. We are bipedal apes, and it should not be surprising to see that fact reflected in the way our ancestors lived.

Richard Leakey

#8. Distinguishing the first true birds from their feathered dinosaur relations has become increasingly difficult. If we define birds as warm-blooded, feathered, bipedal animals that lay eggs, then many coelurosaurs are birds, so we have to take another approach.

Brian Switek

#9. A carbon-based bipedal life form descended from an ape.

Douglas Adams

#10. bipedal, oxygen-breathing carboniform

Iain M. Banks

#11. For those that don't know, a human is a real bipedal life form of midrange intelligence, living a largely deluded existence on a small, waterlogged planet in a very lonely corner of the universe.

Matt Haig

#12. Each of the humans chests are always rising and falling; and they sway minutely in place as they perform a constant balancing act to stay bipedal.

Daniel H. Wilson

#13. I was touched that he has considered the fact that there would be two of us, and prepared for it - concrete evidence that I had entered his consciousness at a time when I was not standing in front of him. A thrilling discovery - like seeing a chimp make tools.

Meg Rosoff

#14. Phantasm, a pink-palmed jinn, a ghost from one of the drowned cities.

Diana Abu-Jaber

#15. I wish I were a horse.

Jandy Nelson

#16. So we see that what looks like a dead, uninteresting thing - a glass of water with a cover, that has been sitting there for perhaps twenty years - really contains a dynamic and interesting phenomenon which is going on all the time. To

Richard Feynman

#17. It feels presumptuous to think of writing for adults.

Gail Carson Levine

#18. Learn, only to live. Live, only to learn.

Matshona Dhliwayo

#19. Walk with me to the beach. We need privacy," he said quietly, his voice a seductive whisper against her ear.

Katie Reus