Top 231 Apes Quotes & Sayings - Page 2
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Last updated on April 21, 2025.
Like apes, we breed, sleep, and die. Yet like God we say, "I am." We are ontological oxymorons.
There are five kinds of great apes: bonobos, chimpanzees, orangutans, gorillas, and the one which people always think of last: Humans!
I watched Picasso visit the Planet of the Apes, as the masters rot on walls and the angels eat the grapes.
We are not the only animal that mourns; apes do, and elephants, and dogs. Yet we are the only one that tortures.
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.
I can't imagine childhood without 'Planet of the Apes.' I was nine or ten when the first one came out.
While the rest of the species is descended from apes, redheads are descended from cats.
I think the problem we have as apes is we're asking far bigger questions than we could possibly process.
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.
I call the notion that we are nothing but killer apes the Beethoven fallacy. Beethoven was disorganized and messy, and yet his music is the epitome of order.
Quinquireme of Nineveh from distant Ophir, Rowing home to haven in sunny Palestine, With a cargo of ivory, And apes and peacocks, Sandalwood, cedarwood, and sweet white wine.
The great thing about this jungle of ours is that anyone of you could grow up to be Lord of the apes.
Almost all theological thought is anthropocentric and I just cannot buy into the anthropocentric ideology. Basically we're a bunch of conceited apes.
My guilty pleasures tend to be weird, old shows that I find on channel 20 that I've never seen before like 'Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea' or the 'Planet of the Apes' TV show.
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.
With massive doses of eye-popping special effects I applaud the visual achievements in 'Dawn of the Planet of the Apes.'
I take seriously the idea that we are African Apes who (at least for the moment) dominate the planet, but our psychology is pretty much what it was when we were living in small groups on the savanna.
If apes are given the right to humane treatment, it just might become harder to deny that same right to their human cousins.
Fine writers should split hairs together, and sit side by side, like friendly apes, to pick the fleas from each others fur.
We are bipedal apes, and it should not be surprising to see that fact reflected in the way our ancestors lived.
They worry one another like mastiffs, scrambling for rank and pay like apes for nuts.
When I was 16 my dad taught me to drive too. Furiously. Unable to understand why I couldn't already do it - for driving, to him, was innate in the human. It was what separated us from the apes. And from the French, who weren't much good at it either.
The disappointed one speaks. I searched for great human beings; I always found only the apes of their ideals.
I would rather be the offspring of two apes than be a man and afraid to face the truth.
The nasty little apes that call themselves human beings can do nothing except run and hide.
Men prefer to believe that they are degenerated angels, rather than elevated apes.
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.
Ask, 'How are we different from the great apes?' We have culture, we have civilisation, and we have language to be celebrated as part of being human.
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.
Planet of the Apes was a gigantic challenge, making the clothes work so people could do stunts and action in the clothes. I really learned a lot about that in that movie.
There is something about the state putting the power to bully into the hands of subnormal, sadistic apes that makes my blood boil.
When I first was offered the role on Rise [of the Planet of the Apes], I always played Caesar as a human being within ape skin.
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.
Although elephants are far more distantly related to us than the great apes, they seem to have evolved similar social and cognitive capacities.
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.
I actually liked Rise of the Planet of the Apes. I remember just watching it and being pleasantly surprised with that movie. I didn't think it would be as good as it was, so I love that movie.
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.
Does anyone remember how we used to get cash before ATM's? Did we have to go inside the bank? Then what? We lived like apes!
The problem is that the Enlightenment dream may make too many demands on poor African apes like us. We may just not be up to it.
I'm a big, big movie fan. I watch 'The Ten Commandments' and the original 'Planet of the Apes' every night.
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.
Black people have this thing about calling themselves apes and monkeys I know they get real (whatever) and I don't blame em'. But I feel like I'm a brute. I am, but I'm smart though. I'm not a dummy.
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.
It's weird... people say they're not like apes. Now how do you explain football then?
We're animals. We're violent. We're criminal. We're not so far away from the gorillas and the apes, those beautiful creatures.
It was really strange to see all these apes standing around eating popcorn, smoking, wearing sunglasses.
I mean, I'm not hoping for the apes and the monolith. I'm hoping for controlled chaos to assist us.
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.
Laughing at ourselves is possible when we are able to see humanity as it is - a little lower than the angels and at times only slightly higher than the apes.
If Darwin's theories are true, then we have within us the physical memory of when we were fish or apes.
Caught Beauty , held to light, now apes A good, now evil, thing the shifting sign And spectrum of archaic, psychic shapes.
In our society leaving baby with Daddy is just one step above leaving the kids to be raised by wolves or apes.
It's complicated. On the one hand we're killer apes, and on the other hand we have this metaphysical longing.
It disturbs me no more to find men base, unjust, or selfish than to see apes mischievous, wolves savage, or the vulture ravenous.
I'd say probably the most expensive costumes I've ever made were the costumes in 'The Planet of the Apes,' because of the research and development that went into them and the amount of layers.
'Battle For The Planet Of The Apes', was just a film for kids and didn't have any deep meaning.
Everywhere men have unlocked the prisoners within, and from under the disguising skins the apes have leapt joyfully out.
There is always that potential in the same way - Roddy McDowall ended up playing Cornelius to Caesar [in the Planet of the Apes]. Two different characters. That's the joy of the craft. Bring it on I say.
It was their individuality combined with the shyness of their behavior that remained the most captivating impression of this first encounter with the greatest of the great apes.
That movie [War for the Planet of the Apes] is incredibly engaging; it's what drives the emotion of all these films. So tonight, we're going to show a long sequence that's actually going to be.
