Top 100 Quotes About Apes
#1. I'm a big, big movie fan. I watch 'The Ten Commandments' and the original 'Planet of the Apes' every night.
Tracy Morgan
#2. In a weird way, if you look at all the 'Apes' movies, they all seem like different stories in the same universe. 'Beneath the Planet of the Apes' is definitely a continuation, but the other ones jump all around chronologically.
Matt Reeves
#3. ADVERSE REVERSE
Advanced technology has regressed us into warmongering apes with superior weapons
Kamil Ali
Kamil Ali
#5. Sometimes I believe evolution is an insult to the apes.
Tonya Johnson
#6. I would love to direct an 'Apes' movie. It would be in the spirit of where I'm going with my career - avatars played by actors to say something about the human condition.
Andy Serkis
#7. People still don't get how astounding Darwinism is. People think what shocked everybody was that Charles Darwin seemed to be saying we had descended from apes.
Stephen Fry
#8. She is your treasure, she must have a husband;
I must dance bare-foot on her wedding day
And for your love to her lead apes in hell.
Talk not to me: I will go sit and weep
Till I can find occasion of revenge.
William Shakespeare
#9. As the body rolled to the ground Tarzan of the Apes placed his foot upon the neck of his lifelong enemy and, raising his eyes to the full moon, threw back his fierce young head and voiced the wild and terrible cry of his people.
Edgar Rice Burroughs
#10. Meet the bonobos, the rare and marvelous "make love not war" great apes who swing through the trees as well as with each other.
Susan Block
#11. Perfection is the natural consequence of eternity: wait long enough, and anything will realize its potential. Coal becomes diamonds, sand becomes pearls, apes become men. It's simply not given to us, in one lifetime, to see those consummations, and so every failure becomes a reminder of death.
Ian Caldwell
#12. Sid rolled her eyes. "You need to see more movies, Apes. You read too much." "There's no such thing as reading too much!
Brenna Aubrey
#13. Philosophers and scientists confidently offer up traits said to be uniquely human, and the monkeys and apes casually knock them down
toppling the pretension that humans constitute some sort of biological aristocracy among the beings on Earth.
Carl Sagan
#14. It's crazy when you think about the 'Apes' franchise and how dark all of the endings are and how dark the movies are, and yet there's something very pleasurable about these movies. It really comes down to the potency of this idea, of seeing intelligent apes.
Matt Reeves
#15. The hypothetical aquatic phase of the ancestral apes during the fossil gap would have been brief, a matter of two or three million years.
Elaine Morgan
#16. Apart from the soul, the brewing of tea is the only thing that sets us apart from the great apes.
Alan Bradley
#17. The fact that the apes exist and that we can study them is extremely important and makes us reflect on ourselves and our human nature. In that sense alone, you need to protect the apes.
Frans De Waal
#18. Don't fall.
It seems we've
struggled
for so long.
We've trampled
on the backs
of apes to
clutch the
muddied
hems of
angels.
Alan Moore
#19. I thought if I could understand why apes get mean and horrible and aggressive when they grow up, maybe I could understand why people get mean and horrible and aggressive and have wars.
Sue Savage-Rumbaugh
#20. Love lost is a special kind of failure, I think. It's a reminder that some consummations, no matter how devoutly wished for, never come; that some apes will never be men, not in all the world's ages.
Ian Caldwell
#21. Apes. The moon woke them
round the world's navel revolved
prayer wheels of steps.
Dag Hammarskjold
#22. We were born of risen apes, not fallen angels, and the apes were armed killers besides. And so what shall we wonder at? Our murders and massacres and missiles, and our irreconcilable regiments?
Robert Ardrey
#23. With the exception of humans, all the great apes today are facing oblivion.
Elizabeth Kolbert
#24. You have evolved from worm to man, but much within you is still worm. Once you were apes, yet even now man is more of an ape than any of the apes.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#25. Men have a lot less to write about, unless you're somebody like Tom Waits or John Lennon. And the female voice is much more suited to melody. Men have this barky thing - we're domesticated apes with a microphone.
Brandon Boyd
#26. It is well known that apes in the wild offer spontaneous assistance to each other, defending against leopards, say, or consoling distressed companions with tender embraces.
Frans De Waal
#27. you clever apes, smart enough to destroy everything around you, never smart enough to understand what it is you are losing in the process . . .
Terry Pratchett
#28. If man evolved from monkeys and apes, why do we still have monkeys and apes?
Steven Wright
#29. 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
#30. Much like the French (or like ourselves, their apes),Who with strange habit do disguise their shapes;Who loving novels, full of affectation,Receive the manners of each other nation.
Guillaume De Salluste Du Bartas
#31. It disturbs me no more to find men base, unjust, or selfish than to see apes mischievous, wolves savage, or the vulture ravenous.
Jean-Paul Sartre
#32. Thou hast been with the Monkey People - the gray apes - the people without a law - the eaters of everything.
Rudyard Kipling
#33. I don't understand why women get upset when you compare them to one of the monkeys from Planet of the Apes, even one of the heroic ones, like Dr. Zera.
David James
#34. I was pretty young when I saw the original 'Planet of the Apes', and for a time in the seventies, I was pretty obsessed with it.
Gregory Keyes
#35. Life existed on Earth for nearly four billion years before anything remotely resembling a human being showed up. And even then, when we started to branch off from other apes about 10,000,000 years ago, our ancestors looked pretty different.
Neil DeGrasse Tyson
#36. Didn't we learn our lesson from Planet of the Apes?
Zach Braff
#37. Since Serengeti-scale savanna scenes are only one or two million years old, our earliest after-the-apes ancestors didn't move into this scene so much as they evolved with it, as the slower climate changes and uplift produced more grass and less forest.
William H. Calvin
#38. Gape long enough into a looking glass and you'll eventually see beauty. The same can be said of self-analysis, and as soon as one apes oneself, a second monkey is born.
Anthony Marais
#39. On Planet of the Apes, I had a very knowledgeable team who knew good materials, but I had one main source person who worked online and on the street continually looking for the proper materials.
Colleen Atwood
#40. Human beings were not, as the eighteenth-century philosophers supposed, wise and virtuous: they were apes.
Aldous Huxley
#41. The idea that war should be conducted within a moral framework may seem like a quaint medieval practice, but as speech separates humans from the apes, so morality separates civilisation from the barbarians.
Eric Corley
#42. I've read that male dolphins try to have sex with humans, and female apes solicit sex from humans. What is wrong with giving them what they want, if that's what turns you on, or even just to gratify them?
Richard Stallman
#43. Gorillas are the largest of the great apes. A mature male may be six feet tall and weigh 400 pounds or more; his enormous arms can span eight feet.
Dian Fossey
#44. Fine writers should split hairs together, and sit side by side, like friendly apes, to pick the fleas from each others fur.
Logan Pearsall Smith
#45. One of the best movies of the year was 'Rise of the Planet of the Apes.' That's not just an action movie - it's a prison film.
Sam Worthington
#46. I did but prompt the age to quit their clogs
By the known rules of ancient liberty,
When straight a barbarous noise environs me
Of owls and cuckoos, asses, apes and dogs.
John Milton
#47. Men prefer to believe that they are degenerated angels, rather than elevated apes.
William Winwood Reade
#48. We are spawn of woodland apes. No code has been undone. Neither faith nor reason will deliver us. We must look to the trees.
Sam Lipsyte
#49. The fly lands on the swatter.
The movie runs backwards
and catches fire in the projector.
This species apes us well
by talking only about itself
Billy Collins
#50. And the uncles, the aunts, the cousins, the nieces, the nephews, that lived in those walls, the gibbering pack of tree apes that said nothing, nothing, nothing and said it loud, loud, loud.
Ray Bradbury
#51. Even in the important matter of cranial capacity, Men differ more widely from one another than they do from the Apes; while the lowest Apes differ as much, in proportion, from the highest, as the latter does from Man.
Thomas Huxley
#52. I thought this was the most incredible opportunity. Because 'Planet Of The Apes,' aside from the fantasy element of talking apes, is such an amazing franchise, because under the surface of that genre, you're actually looking at human nature.
Matt Reeves
#53. It is not important at all that we were all once an ape! The important thing is that how very much we evolved and how far we got away from the apes!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#54. John!" cried Lady Greystoke, running toward him, "how could I have been mistaken? I-" but the rest of the sentence was lost as Tarzan of the Apes sprang into the room and taking his mate in his arms covered her lips with kisses.
Edgar Rice Burroughs
#55. Almost all theological thought is anthropocentric and I just cannot buy into the anthropocentric ideology. Basically we're a bunch of conceited apes.
Paul Watson
#56. This book [...] demonstrates something we had already suspected on the grounds of the close connection between apes and man: that the social organization of chimpanzees is almost too human to be true.
Frans De Waal
#58. Tis in our power
(unless we fear that apes can tutor's) to
Be masters of our manners. What need I
Affect another's gait, which is not catching
Where there is faith, or to be found upon
Another's way of speech, when by mine own
I may be reasonably conceived
William Shakespeare
#59. Females of domestic reputation lounged upon the balconies they passed with faces gotten up in indigo and almagre gaudy as the rumps of apes and they peered from behind their fans with a kind of lurid coyness like transvestites in a madhouse.
Cormac McCarthy
#60. There never was a time when we were created perfect and fell into sin and needed to be rescued. We are evolving people; we are not fallen people. We are not a little lower than the angels. We're a little higher than the apes. It's a very different perspective.
John Shelby Spong
#61. And now the state was about to bring the law back, proving conclusively that the danger for Tennesseans isn't so much that they may be descended from apes as overtaken by them.
Bill Bryson
#62. As far back as I can remember, I've utterly destroyed within myself the pride of being human. And I saunter to the periphery of the Race like a timorous monster, lacking the energy to claim kinship with some other band of apes.
Emil M. Cioran
#63. Do I think men are complicated? People are complicated! I don't know that there is one particular aspect of men in general that I don't understand - other than why do they have nipples? I thought we decided that men are just big, hairy apes.
Scarlett Johansson
#64. The library is what keeps us a step ahead of the apes.
Dana Stabenow
#65. It's weird ... people say they're not like apes. Now how do you explain football then?
Mitch Hedberg
#66. It's complicated. On the one hand we're killer apes, and on the other hand we have this metaphysical longing.
Simon Critchley
#67. Any academic skill is quickly achievable if charged with clear purpose and an appeal to enthusiastic self-interest. Tarzan of the Apes only needed about twenty minutes to figure out how to read the beautiful Jane Porter's cursive writing.
T.K. Naliaka
#68. We are not the only animal that mourns; apes do, and elephants, and dogs. Yet we are the only one that tortures.
Geraldine Brooks
#69. That's called being honest. Wanderers are to wizards what apes are to Wanderers.
Stewart Anderson
#70. As he drank, I remembered that there's a reason we English are ruled more by tea than by Buckingham Palace or His Majesty's Government: Apart from the soul, the brewing of tea is the only thing that sets us apart from the great apes
or so the Vicar had remarked to Father ...
Alan Bradley
#71. Apes are apes, though clothed in scarlet.
Ben Jonson
#72. Snicker on hearing his name: 'the gentleman who thinks we are descended from the apes.'
Gustave Flaubert
#73. I do, however, get along fine with apes and I have worked sack of potatoes in front of the camera. Trainers tell me they like my voice and that because I treat them as people they like me. Well, it's easy to do, since some of them are people and easier to work with than some - people, I mean actors.
Vincent Price
#74. I have seen apes only at the fair, they must perform tricks, are chained up, a bitter fate, no human has one so hard
Alfred Doblin
#75. It's as if we're higher apes who had a language faculty inserted.
Noam Chomsky
#76. The missing link between humans and apes? It's certainly those brutes who haven't yet learned to respect privacy.
Raheel Farooq
#77. Although elephants are far more distantly related to us than the great apes, they seem to have evolved similar social and cognitive capacities.
Frans De Waal
#78. It wasn't a monkey on my back, it was Planet of the Apes.
Mick McCarthy
#79. Apes had it worked out. No ape would philosophize, "The mountain is, and is not." They would think, "The banana is. I will eat the banana. There is no banana. I want another banana.
Terry Pratchett
#80. The grin got bigger. Shadow found himself remembering a PBS show he had seen as a teenager, about chimpanzees. The show claimed that when apes and chimps smile it's only to bare their teeth in a grimace of hate or aggression or terror. When a chimp grins, it's a threat. This grin was one of those.
Neil Gaiman
#81. In our society leaving baby with Daddy is just one step above leaving the kids to be raised by wolves or apes.
Al Roker
#82. For a bunch of hairless apes, we've actually managed to invent some pretty incredible things.
Ernest Cline
#83. Thus the evidence given by those five new thigh bones of the morphological and functional distinctness of Pithecanthropus erectus furnishes proof, at the same time, of its close affinity with the gibbon group of anthropoid apes.
Eugene Dubois
#84. Thin-lipped wisdom spoke at her from the worn chair, hinted at prudence, quoted from that book of cowardice whose author apes the name of common sense.
Oscar Wilde
#85. I'd have to, if on Sunday I wanted to run
off with some "slack-jawed Suzy," some "invertebrate," a "post-pubescent
wasteoid who imagines the Khmer Rouge to be makeup and Guerrilla Warfare
to be that rivalry which occurs between apes.
Marisha Pessl
#86. I am one of those people who is not very patient in the makeup chair. I have been offered movies like 'Planet of the Apes' and stuff like 'The Grinch Who Stole Christmas' and I turned them down.
John C. Reilly
#87. Paleontologists do not have to search for famous "missing link" from which humans supposedly came, and current great apes. This link is simply the socialist - because he has both monkey genes.
Janusz Korwin-Mikke
#88. Everywhere men have unlocked the prisoners within, and from under the disguising skins the apes have leapt joyfully out.
Osbert Sitwell
#89. Planet Ay The Apes hus insinuated hissel intae the company. The thought ay that cunt shaggin wee Maria Anderson is not aesthetically appealing. The thought ay that cunt shaggin anybody isnae aesthetically appealing. If he tries tae talk tae ma Ma, ah'll gless the fucker's primate pus.
Irvine Welsh
#90. Even stranger things have happened; and perhaps the strangest of all is the marvel that mathematics should be possible to a race akin to the apes.
Eric Temple Bell
#91. All gods have good points, just as have all priests. Personally, I attach much importance to Hanuman , and am kind to his people the great gray apes of the hills. One never knows when one may want a friend.
Rudyard Kipling
#92. If Charles Darwin reappeared today, he might be surprised to learn that humans are descended from viruses as well as from apes.
Robin A. Weiss
#93. While the rest of the species is descended from apes, redheads are descended from cats.
Mark Twain
#94. We are random animals. That is who we are, and we have only ourselves, nothing more-there is no greater relationship. Long before Darwin, a priest lucid in his madness encountered four chimpanzees on a forlorn island in Africa and hit upon a great truth: We are risen apes, not fallen angels.
Yann Martel
#95. Some people will bring up evolutionary biology and apes, how female apes bow to male apes - that sort of thing. But the point is this: we are not apes. Apes also live in trees and eat earthworms. We do not.
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
#96. Caught Beauty , held to light, now apes A good, now evil, thing the shifting sign And spectrum of archaic, psychic shapes.
Philip Jose Farmer
#97. Apes in their own habitat are less sexually driven than those in captivity. It must be that captivity, boredom, breeds lustfulness.
Saul Bellow
#98. I looked for great men, but all I found were the apes of their ideals.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#99. I would rather be the offspring of two apes than be a man and afraid to face the truth.
Thomas Huxley
#100. I wanted to explore the possibility that this could have become 'Planet of the Humans and the Apes' instead of just 'Planet of the Apes,' so I wanted there to be this hope of connection as well as this inexorable pull towards what we know the series becomes.
Matt Reeves
