Simian Quotes

#1. In what appears to have been an unplanned quip, Wilberforce asked Huxley if he thought he was descended from an ape on his father's or mother's side. Huxley retorted that he would rather have simian relatives than claim kinship with a man who used his charisma and authority to quash free debate.

Jonathan Clements

#2. I had a sudden image of myself as a sort of large dark simian something slumped there at the table, or not a something but a nothing, rather, a hole in the room, a palpable absence, a darkness visible.

John Banville

#3. After I arrived in Basel, I initially attempted to continue the project of my days in Dulbecco's laboratory, namely, the transcriptional control of the simian virus 40 genes.

Susumu Tonegawa

#4. I think the actors in 'Greystoke' were amazing. They had a really good performance coach called Peter Elliott who's, of his time, one of the greatest simian performance coaches for actors.

Andy Serkis

#5. Each simian had a much different body suit, so besides trying to define class across species, there was a definite attempt to dress each group in different styles.

Colleen Atwood

#6. Kaderin didn't believe, as a whole, the nymphs were more beautiful than the Valkyrie, but everything about them screamed, "Easy lay! When you don't want to work for it!" And curiously, many males found that more appealing than the Valkyrie's "Do it and die, simian".

Kresley Cole

#7. Let us not doubt, brother. Let us not pry into the holy mysteries of the hen-coop with simian fingers.

Ernest Hemingway,

#8. Ceremonies are no aid to blessedness.

Baruch Spinoza

#9. We're following the evolution of tennis. On the women's side, there has been a very positive change, with the arrival of many new stars.

Stephane Simian

#10. The more I do, the more frightened I get. But that is essential. Otherwise why would I go on doing it?

Judi Dench

#11. I do not believe in a personal connection to God; that's where it gets transcendental.

Orhan Pamuk

#12. Vaults. In due time, the fraud is manifest, and words lose all power to stimulate the understanding or the affections. Hundreds of writers may be found in every long-civilized nation, who for a short time believe,

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#13. Lost in a haunted wood,
Children afraid of the night
Who have never been happy or good.

W. H. Auden

#14. A bad man becomes worse when he apes a saint.

Publilius Syrus

#15. I'm not supposed to be afraid of anything, you know? I'm a confident woman. I own my own business. But he ... he makes me want things I've never wanted.

Maya Banks

#16. Aside from communications satellites, space is devoid of industry.

Lawrence M. Krauss

#17. Quite the mind and the soul will speak.

Ma Jaya

#18. There's nothing beautiful about somebody killing themselves.

Mariel Hemingway

#19. They're so fond of Liberty in this part of the globe, that they buy her and sell her and carry her to market with 'em. They've such a passion for Liberty, that they can't help taking liberties with her.

Charles Dickens

#20. My doctor says, 'You've got one of the hardest ones to treat because it's not bipolar, it's not up and down, you're always just about a quart low in the mood department,

Trent Reznor

#21. Nev was the man in the parlor and the painter in his studio, the banker and the rugby player. The boyfriend who bought her prawn crisps and rubbed her back when she cried. The tender lover. The caged beast who came out to play when they got naked together. He could be any of them.

Ruthie Knox

#22. Once upon a time, there were only three or four dominant women. Now, there are 10 to 15 who can vie for a Grand Slam.

Stephane Simian