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  • Gorilla tourism is vital to Rwanda's economy: It's the third highest source of income.

  • When it comes to global warming, coal is the gorilla in the room.

    Coal   Gorillas   Rooms  
  • It will be a killer, and a chiller, and a thriller, when I get the gorilla in Manila.

  • The only other animals that would be in the ballpark to be able to do it would be a gorilla, but it's not going to occur to a gorilla to strangle the life out of somebody. They might rip their head off, all right, but it wouldn't occur to a gorilla to just, I'm going to cut off your air.

    Rip   Cutting   Animal  
    "Pulp And Circumstance: Tarantino Rewrites History Listen· 45:04". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. August 27, 2009.
  • Since the white man says he came from the evolution of animals, well, maybe the black man didn't. The white man has made so many errors in the handling of people that maybe he did come from a gorilla or a fish and crawl up on the sand and then into the trees. Of course, evolution doesn't take God into consideration. I don't think people learned to do all the things they do through evolution.

    God   Men   Thinking  
    "Charles Mingus: More Than A Fake Book". Book by Andrew Homzy, November 1, 1991.
  • When you start to do research into gorillas or any kind of apes, if you're going to play them, that's one of the biggest misconceptions. And when I did Kong, you're not doing gorilla movements, you're not doing ape movements, you're looking for a personality. It's like saying okay I'm going to do human movements.

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  • Mirror that lies, mirror that lies, that can't be me in the gorilla disguise.

  • No wonder circus animals do what they do: They tortured them. And you know the only ones they can't control? It's the chimpanzees. You can't control them. That's why you never see a gorilla in a movie, because the gorilla may decide there'll be no filming.

    Animal   May   Gorillas  
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  • The 800 pound gorilla just entered the blogosphere, with Google launching its blog search.

  • I watched the gorilla's eyes again, wise and knowing eyes, and wondered about this business of trying to teach apes language. Our language. Why? There are many members of our own species who live in and with the forest and know it and understand it. We don't listen to them. What is there to suggest we would listen to anything an ape could tell us? Or that it would be able to tell us of its life in a language that hasn't been born of that life? I thought, maybe it is not that they have yet to gain a language, it is that we have lost one.

    Wise   Eye   Lost Ones  
    Douglas Adams, Mark Carwardine (2013). “Last Chance To See”, p.104, Random House
  • ...Humans were the only creatures in the world that ate their food cooked. You'd never find a Gorilla frying up some bananas for dinner or a lion charcoal-broiling a zebra steak. Cats don't often run to the oven with a mouse or bird they've captured, and a dog wouldn't naturally prepare its rabbit dinner in a stew.

    Running   Dog   Zebras  
  • We've got to have major health care reform because that is the 800-pound gorilla. That is the thing that can swamp the boat fiscally for the United States.

    "State of the Union" with John King, www.cnn.com. March 29, 2009.
  • Whatever part of the animal fabric whatever series of muscles, whatever viscera might be selected for comparison the result would be the same the lower Apes and the Gorilla would differ more than the Gorilla and the Man.

    Animal   Men   Would Be  
    Thomas Henry Huxley (2011). “Collected Essays”, p.116, Cambridge University Press
  • Hair on a man's chest is thought to denote strength. The gorilla is the most powerful of bipeds and has hair on every place on his body except for his chest.

    Powerful   Men   Hair  
    "The Devil's Notebook". Book by Anton Szandor LaVey, 1992.
  • ...chimpanzees, bonobos, gorillas, and orangutans are thinking, self-aware beings, capable of planning ahead, who form lasting social bonds with others and have a rich social and emotional life. The great apes are therefore an ideal case for showing the arbitrariness of the species boundary. If we think that all human beings, irrespective of age or mental capacity, have some basic rights, how can we deny that the great apes, who surpass some humans in their capacities, also have these rights?

  • If zoos are like arks, then rare animals are like passengers on a voyage of the damned, never to find a port that will let them dock or a land in which they can live in peace. The real solution, of course, is to preserve the wild nature that created these animals and has the power to sustain them. But if it is really true that we are inevitably moving towards a world in which mountain gorillas can survive only in zoos, then we must ask whether it is really better for them to live in artificial environments of our design than not to be born at all.

    Zoos   Real   Moving  
  • Chimpanzees, gorillas, orangutan shave been living for hundreds of thousands of years in their forest,living fantastic lives, never overpopulating, never destroying the forest. I would say that they have been in a way more successful than us as far as being in harmony with the environment.

    Interview with Virginia Morell, discovermagazine.com. March 28, 2007.
  • five severed fingers do not make a hand

    Daniel Quinn (2009). “Ishmael: A Novel”, p.12, Bantam
  • I was doing comedy in laundry mats in 1992, literally where I would bring a little gorilla amp and a lapel mike and just start performing.

  • I want to make movies just like "King Kong." You know, dinosaurs, big gorillas - it's everything that a nine year-old boy would fall in love with.

    "Peter Jackson's labor of love". "Dateline" with Stone Phillips, www.nbcnews.com. December 2, 2005.
  • I had never planned to become a savanna baboon when I grew up; instead, I had always assumed I would become a mountain gorilla.

    Robert M. Sapolsky (2007). “A Primate's Memoir: A Neuroscientist's Unconventional Life Among the Baboons”, p.13, Simon and Schuster
  • Great people will always be mocked by those who feel smaller than them. However, a lion does not flinch at laughter coming from a hyena. A gorilla does not budge from a banana thrown at it by a monkey. A nightingale does not stop singing its beautiful song at the intrusion of an annoying woodpecker. Whenever you should question your self-worth, remember the lotus flower. Even though it plunges to life from beneath the mud, it does not allow the dirt that surrounds it to affect its growth or beauty.

  • They [gorillas] are brave and loyal. They help each other. They rival elephants as parents and whales for gentleness. They play and have humor and they harm nothing. They are what we should be. I don't know if we'll ever get there.

    Pat Derby, Peter S. Beagle (1976). “The lady and her tiger”, Dutton Books
  • Wild animals are not meant to be owned, any more than human beings are. Nobody has the right to pass a cougar or a gorilla on from hand to hand.

    Freedom   Animal   Hands  
    Pat Derby, Peter S. Beagle (1976). “The lady and her tiger”, Dutton Books
  • Regarded anatomically, the resemblances between the foot of Man and the foot of the Gorilla are far more striking and important than the differences... be the differences between the hand and foot of Man and those of the Gorilla what they may the differences between those of the Gorilla and those of the lower Apes are much greater.

    Men   Hands   Differences  
    "Evidence as to Man's Place in Nature". Book by Thomas Henry Huxley. Chapter 2, p. 110, 1863.
  • "You wanna deliver papers in a big city?" an expert with a bent nose told me, "then you gotta shake the trees to find the gorillas to do it..."

    Media   Cities   Tree  
  • Gorillas are in danger of being wiped out by the Ebola virus. I feel like we have limited time to get to know them and understand them and they're going to disappear - that's terrifically sad. Wouldn't it be great if we could stop that?

  • Saving New York City from bankruptcy is like making love to a gorilla. You don't stop when you're tired; you stop when he's tired.

  • Adult gorillas will fight to the death defending their families. This is why poachers who may be seeking only one infant for the zoo trade must often kill all the adults in the family to capture the baby.

    Baby   Zoos   Fighting  
    Sy Montgomery (2009). “Walking with the Great Apes: Jane Goodall, Dian Fossey, Biruté Galdikas”, p.42, Chelsea Green Publishing
  • When you're wearing an animal costume and something bad happens, your facial expression doesn't change. The animal is deadpan the whole time. If you're skiing in a gorilla suit and you fall, you just see a gorilla who has no emotion. It's just a stoic gorilla, wildly falling down a hill, out of control.

    Interview with Litsa Dremousis, www.believermag.com. February 2006.
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