Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jared Diamond

Put another way, the chimpanzees' closest relative is not the gorilla but humans.

Clay Shirky

Our social life is literally primal, in the sense that chimpanzees and gorillas, our closest relatives among the primates, are also social.

Dane Cook

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.

Jim Butcher

Here's where I ask why don't you spend your time doing something safer and more boring. Like maybe administering suppositories to rabid gorillas.

Jane Lynch

I waved to you outside but then I realized it was just one of those inflatable parking lot gorillas.

Jeff Goodell

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

Emile M. Cioran

The need for novelty is the characteristic of an alienated gorilla.

Emmanuel Jal

In Africa, you know, if you're poor, at least you can go to the forest and share some mangoes with the gorillas and monkey.

Charles Dickens

Novelties please less than they impress.

David Hume

Such is the nature of novelty that where anything pleases it becomes doubly agreeable if new; but if it displeases, it is doubly displeasing on that very account.

Edward Norton

A lot of why I do something is just the novelty of the experience.

Mike Short

We're not going to get them just because they're a novelty item. We have to be responsible with our budget.

Anthony Zuiker

This won't be a novelty stunt where he opens the show up and disappears.

Andre Maurois

Novelty, the most potent of all attractions, is also the most perishable.

Denis Diderot

Only God and some few rare geniuses can keep forging ahead into novelty.

Jessica Savitch

Being a novelty had its advantages.

Honore de Balzac

Novelty is both delightful and deceptive.

Evangeline Lilly

I'm not a girl who needs to put on a whole face of make-up before I leave the house.

Frank Jordan

We daily share emotions, our personal and shared needs and hope.

C. S. Lewis

Only a bad person needs to repent: only a good person can repent perfectly.

C. S. Lewis

If He who in Himself can lack nothing, chooses to need us, it is because we need to be needed.

Carrie Mae Weems

Sometimes my work needs to be photographic, sometimes it needs words, sometimes it needs to have a relationship with music, sometimes it needs all three and become a video projection.

Carrie Brownstein

I need a template of a template

Carrie Underwood

I say what I need to, not a whole lot more.

Carl Rogers

The elements in a relationship which seem impossible to share, the secretly disturbing, dissatisfying elements, are the most rewarding to share. This is a hard, risky, frightening thing to learn, and it needs to be re-learned over and over.

Carl Sagan

The Big Bang is our modern scientific creation myth. It comes from the same human need to solve the cosmological riddle [Where did the universe come from?]