Gorilla Quotes - page 2

I look like a gorilla, just the way I'm built. (Dave Bautista)
When it comes to global warming, coal is the gorilla in the room. View quote
Jeff Goodell
When they get a 50-inch waist and a gorilla butt, it's ugly looking - and I think bodybuilding has become ugly looking. View quote
Joe Gold
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. View quote
Kent Conrad
It's a little like wrestling a gorilla. You don't quit when you're tired - you quit when the gorilla is tired. View quote
Robert Strauss
I don't know if any genuine meaningful change could ever result from a song. It's kind of like throwing peanuts at a gorilla. View quote
Tom Waits
Gorilla tourism is vital to Rwanda's economy: It's the third highest source of income. View quote
Andy Serkis
What is missing from today's dialogue is the effect autism is having on families, our society and what the unknown factors are. The 300lb. gorilla in the room is that our children with autism today will soon become adults with autism. View quote
Jenny McCarthy
...but it's all about ‘a gorilla and a fox are walking thru the woods.' How often does that happen? View quote
Karl Pilkington
I came face-to-face with a gorilla which was quite good, but it was a 10-hour trek in bad weather, up hills, covered in mud, with mosquitoes everywhere and when we got there the gorilla's just sat there doing nowt. View quote
Karl Pilkington
I should like to see any kind of a man, distinguishable from a gorilla, that some good and even pretty woman could not shape a husband out of. (Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.)
It will be a killer, and a chiller, and a thriller, when I get the gorilla in Manila. View quote
Muhammad Ali
Frazier soaked it all up like a sponge. When they arrived in Manila it was the same story. Ali poured scorn on his opponent. Humiliated him. Joe had the heart of a lion but verbally he was out of his depth when Ali got going. One time, as fight day approached, Ali spotted Frazier on a hotel balcony, grabbed a security guard's gun and fired some rounds at him. Everybody knew it wasn't live ammo but it still startled the hell out of Joe. Go back in your hole, Gorilla, ... You gonna scare the people Come out again and I'm gonna kill ya before time. View quote
Muhammad Ali
Social Security's not the hard one to solve. Medicare, that is the gorilla in the room, and you've got to put all of it on the table. View quote
Joe Biden
I paid a worker at New York's zoo to re-open it just for me and Robin Tyson's wife. When we got to the gorilla cage there was 1 big silverback gorilla there just bullying all the other gorillas. They were so powerful but their eyes were like an innocent infant. I offered the attendant 10,000 to open the cage and let smash that silverback's snotbox He declined. View quote
Mike Tyson
There's more shootings than I can literally count. You can't even go to the goddamn zoo without seeing a shooting nowadays. They shot a gorilla at my local zoo. And the Cincinnati police said, "Shooting that gorilla was the toughest decision this department ever had to make." I said, "Well, you're about to see a lot of niggas in gorilla costumes in Cincinnati." View quote
Dave Chappelle
Once in a generation, a Wallace may be found physically, mentally, and morally qualified to wander unscathed through the tropical wilds of America and of Asia; to form magnificent collections as he wanders; and withal to think out sagaciously the conclusions suggested by his collections: but, to the ordinary explorer or collector, the dense forests of equatorial Asia and Africa, which constitute the favourite habitation of the Orang, the Chimpanzee, and the Gorilla, present difficulties of no ordinary magnitude: and the man who risks his life by even a short visit to the malarious shores of those regions may well be excused if he shrinks from facing the dangers of the interior; if he contents himself with stimulating the industry of the better seasoned natives, and collecting and collating the more or less mythical reports and traditions with which they are too ready to supply him. In such a manner most of the earlier accounts of the habits of the man-like Apes originated... View quote
Thomas Henry Huxley