Famous Quotes & Sayings

Bo Burnham

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.

Francis Bacon

Habit, if wisely and skillfully formed, becomes truly a second nature; but unskillfully and unmethodically depicted, it will be as it were an ape of nature, which imitates nothing to the life, but only clumsily and awkwardly

George Santayana

The irrational in the human has something about it altogether repulsive and terrible, as we see in the maniac, the miser, the drunkard or the ape.

Laurence Olivier

We ape, we mimic, we mock. We act.

Noam Chomsky

It's as if we're higher apes who had a language faculty inserted.

Gregory Keyes

My degrees are in anthropology, and I have friends who have worked with apes.

Friedrich Nietzsche

The disappointed one speaks. I searched for great human beings; I always found only the apes of their ideals.

George Herbert

The higher the Ape goes, the more he shewes his taile. [The higher the ape goes, the more he shows his tail.]

Quintus Ennius

The ape, vilest of beasts, how like to us.

Jeremy Solomon

The policy is very clear. We still don't have all the facts of what took place.

Francis Alys

I have no problem twisting the facts if it's the only way I can be true to the moment.

Javier Solana

We still don't know the facts. Prosecutors are looking into it, but it's hard to comment.

Richard Brinsley Sheridan

He is indebted to his memory for his jests and to his imagination for his facts.

Peter Fisher

We have the public support. We have the facts on our side.

Ludwig von Mises

A nation cannot prosper if its members are not fully aware of the fact that what alone can improve their condition s is more and better production. And this can only be brought about by increased saving and capital accumulation.

Paul Hoffman

Those knowledgeable about the issues and facts relating to the proceeding are not going to be able to give all of you in the media information, and they and you won't be able to give information to the public.

Sidney Jones

We must wait for more facts before we can make that conclusion.

Ken Starr

We must know that thewitness is telling the truth. Give us transparency. Give us the facts.

Marilyn vos Savant

Be able to hiccup silently, or at least without alerting neighbors to your situation. The first hiccup is an exception.

Inga Muscio

Masturbation is an absolutely peerless cure for the hiccups