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“When I see David Attenborough talking about how chimps live, big apes, I just remember my dad and the way he'd look at you. He couldn't speak, but everything else about him was, 'This is us, a family.' Relationships are just as intense as they are for people who can speak. Probably more so.”

People Way Looks Bigs Remember Speak Talking Dad My Dad Intense Apes Family Relationship

Author:Richard Griffiths

“That's why 60,000 people go ape when the Stones play 'Satisfaction.' The songs are part of their legacy, and you fall back in love with them over the years.”

People Years Play Song Fall Stones Satisfaction Legacy Apes Fall Back

Author:Joe Elliott

“There is hardly an American male of my generation who has not at one time or another tried to master the victory cry of the great ape as it issued from the androgynous chest of Johnny Weissmuller, to the accompaniment of thousands of arms and legs snapping during attempts to swing from tree to tree in the backyards of the Republic.”

Men Generations Tree Cry Masters Arms Victory Males Legs Chests Republic One Time Swings Apes My Generation Backyards Arms And Legs Snapping Androgynous

Book:Reflections Upon a Sinking Ship. (1. Ed.)

Source: Reflections Upon a Sinking Ship. (1. Ed.)

“We ape, we mimic, we mock. We act.”

Author:Laurence Olivier

“Fine writers should split hairs together, and sit side by side, like friendly apes, to pick the fleas from each others fur.”

Should Together Sides Hair Fine Picks Friendly Splits Apes Fur Fleas

Author:Logan Pearsall Smith

“There is a rowdy strain in American life, living close to the surface but running very deep. Like an ape behind a mask, it can display itself suddenly with terrifying effect.”

Running Behinds Effects Surface Mask Display Strain Apes Very Deep American Life Life Living Rowdy

Book:This Hallowed Ground: A History of the Civil War

Source: This Hallowed Ground: A History of the Civil War

“The money complex is the demonic, and the demonic is God's ape; the money complex is therefore the heir to and substitute for the religious complex, an attempt to find God in things.”

Religious Money Complexes Substitutes Apes Heirs Demonic

Book:Life Against Death: The Psychoanalytical Meaning of History

Source: Life Against Death: The Psychoanalytical Meaning of History

“As every parent knows, children go through an adolescent growth spurt, during which they put on inches at an alarming rate. Humans are unique in this respect: most mammalian species, including apes, progress almost directly from infancy to adulthood.”

Knows Humans Children Parent Growth Progress Unique Species Rate Including Inches Adulthood Apes Infancy

Author:Richard Leakey

“We are bipedal apes, and it should not be surprising to see that fact reflected in the way our ancestors lived.”

Way Should Facts Mankind Ancestor Surprising Apes

Book:The Origin Of Humankind

Source: The Origin Of Humankind

“I was a 'Planet of the Apes'-obsessed kid.”

Kids Planets Obsessed Apes

Author:Justin Cronin

“In fact I was slightly badly behaved at school and got in trouble. I would get a bee in my bonnet about something I thought wasn't right, and I would ape about too, to make everybody laugh. That was my way through my girls' school, because I wasn't very academic.”

Way Facts School Girl Laughing Trouble My Way Academic Bees Apes My Girl Bonnets

Author:Olivia Colman