Gorilla Quotations

It's a little like wrestling a gorilla. You don't quit when you're tired - you quit when the gorilla is tired.

A gorilla with a cellphone riding a bicycle is bound to generate some clever captions.

We didn't ever want 'Tarzan' to feel like he was just a man. We didn't want him to stand up straight or wave good-bye. We wanted to make sure he always had that piece of gorilla in him, that he always had an animal attitude about him.

I had the humble beginnings. 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.

Climate change is the 800-pound gorilla in the living room that the media dances around. But in the scientific community, it's a settled question: 95 percent of scientists believe this is happening with 100 percent confidence temperatures are rising.

We still think content is really going to be ultimately what gets paid for on the Internet, and this is the big gorilla of content already, ... And as we see them roll out broadband more ... you'll see the revenue per customer go up and you'll continue to see the number of customers increase.

Sitting on the market has been this 800-pound gorilla, King Kong of the Federal Reserve, and when you remove this gorilla ... I think stocks can work their way higher.

No one goes in there thinking, 'Oh, we've got another road game. The seniors are almost looking forward to road trips so we can get that gorilla off our backs.

No offense intended...Most people online are gorillas. When a gorilla walks into an experiment, what they say is 'What do I do now? Where's the banana?'

One of the catalysts that will assist in that is the Mendocino-EMC relationship. Hopefully, the giant gorilla that is EMC can help put some pressure on the application vendors to work with the concept of CDP. Up to this point they really haven't.

China is the 800-pound gorilla overshadowing all of the U.S. economic relations.

Given the fact that the Olympics is an 800-pound gorilla for the next two weeks, we're happy to see that we can perform against them.

When I am free to train and free to move, I feel like a gorilla in the jungle. Then, when there are a bunch of media obligations, I feel like I have been captured and am being kept on display.

The only thing I think can happen is that (Congress enacts) a very large, across-the-board cut, ... and nobody is talking about that. Every major program has an 800-pound gorilla protecting it.

It is a Big Gorilla off our back. Obviously, we didn't do well on the road.

I think the uranium enrichment program is the 800-pound gorilla in the negotiating room. You can't solve a problem if you deny that it exists or if you wish it away.

Physically, he's almost perfect. Behaviorally, I think they're pretty close. It was like a gorilla that was overacting. You don't see that range of emotion very often from a gorilla.

The 800-pound gorilla just entered the blogosphere, ... the secret sauce to Google's blog-search success.

We've known for years that there are some easy things on paper. But it's politically hard to limit the budgetary footprint of the federal government. Any item you try and cut, you're going to tick off an 800-pound gorilla that fights with a sledgehammer.

We like Sun. It's another gorilla in the space. And I think Sun has been very affective in moving to other areas including storage, which I think is one of the themes that we have in our technology fund.

We have finally become the 800-pound gorilla in Washington D.C., but all that will be thrown out the window if anyone screws up.

To be 5m from a silverback gorilla makes you feel extraordinarily alive.

The Gorilla has meant so much to the city of Phoenix, and he has taken on a life of his own. The community loves the Gorilla, and we're honored to see him inducted today.

What Peter and Fran and Philippa have been able to do is create all of these nuances that never existed. It's not just a giant gorilla and a damsel in distress.

Blue Cross - they are the 800-pound gorilla of the insurance industry, they are able to get significant discounts.

There's no question that 600-pound gorilla was in the room that no one wanted to talk about. If you keep going innings without scoring runs, everybody tries to do too much in one at-bat, and that's when you start to get into trouble. That's when it becomes a team slump. It was nice to answer in the first inning.

I understand there's been some interest in talking to me over the last couple of days, as evidenced by the cameras outside my house and the fact that I left in a gorilla suit the other day, ... That thing's getting itchy, so I thought I would just come here and try to answer your questions today.

The Zoo Atlanta family is elated at the news of twin gorilla babies. We are proud to do our part to support a species that is experiencing such catastrophic decline in the wild.

They all came to the conclusion that the one big, 800-pound gorilla in the room that nobody wanted to talk about was teacher pay. We never did get to the national average. We got within 4 percent of it.

I've played a baby panda bear to a gorilla to an alien, but Austin Powers 2 is definitely my biggest role ever. Hopefully, it's not my last!

Property taxes have become an 800-pound gorilla on the back of North Dakota property owners and renters. Property taxes have become so out of balance that they threaten the ability of seniors to stay in their homes, and threaten the dream of home ownership for our young people and working families.

No question it's like the 600-pound gorilla in the room. No one wants to talk about it. ... I'll be worried if it's still this way after two months. I'll be worried after one month, but we're not going to change anything. We've got established players. We'll be all right.

Somebody said monkey, but gorilla is the right word. Hopefully, we go out there and win another one.

This is chump change to Merrill. Merrill can be an 800 pound gorilla and demand money and sue, but it hurts their chances in the future of acquiring firms and competing for brokers in the marketplace.

This is the first time that Ebola has been identified as a widespread threat to gorilla and chimp populations in the region.

American industry spends a lot of time on cost accounting, and they do so because it gives them so much more control. But the health system rewards inefficiency. It's not a competitive system where the supplier names the price -- as a doctor, you can't determine the price, Medicare quotes it for you.... When the one saying it is as big a gorilla as Medicare, you say, 'I'll take it.'

as natural as a gorilla beating his chest.

It was already the 100 pound gorilla in the space, now it is the 1,000 pound gorilla.

It's a little like wrestling a gorilla. You don't quit when you're tired-you quit when the gorilla is tired.

I told the guys it was like getting a monkey, and then I said a gorilla off our back.

It's the 900-pound gorilla that's weightless. It's an empty symbol. It's almost as if the nominee is a hologram.

It's the 800-pound gorilla in the room, and no one's talking about it. Hardware manufacturers have to produce and sell a lot more units at a lower price to keep up on the revenue treadmill. Units are up almost 30 percent at Dell ( DELL : Research , Estimates ), but revenues were only up 18 percent.

It's like a a gorilla has been taken off my back because the fans and the city wanted it so badly because it has been 23 years. This is what we all wanted.

It's like the 800-pound gorilla in the room. The theme of my campaign is focused on the next generation.

It's like that 600-pound gorilla sitting in the room that nobody wants to talk about. If you keep going too many innings without scoring runs, everybody starts trying to do too much in one bat. And that's when you get in trouble.

It's not a matter of can we take on foreign retailers, but how big a gorilla you are.

In one fell swoop they have become the 800 pound gorilla in another interactive entertainment industry.

Cisco reports tomorrow (Tuesday) and Cisco is the 800-pound gorilla of technology nowadays. People are reasonably confident that it ought to be a pretty good number and that has set the tone for the tech group as a whole. More than half of the Dow's gains are in technology stocks.

Cisco is the 800-pound gorilla of technology nowadays. People are reasonably confident that it ought to be a pretty good number and that has set the tone for the tech group as a whole. More than half of the Dow's gains are in technology stocks.

Government is the 800-pound gorilla in the room the problem with getting in bed with it, it sometimes rolls over on you. Federal money always comes with strings.

The highway district is basically acting like a 900 pound gorilla with a $55 million plus budget trying to squish a small irrigation district.

The drug tour he had hoped would be unique, his own, ... was apparently a widely known trip down a well-traveled path, in the sort of full-color brochure that also described gorilla encounters in Africa and white-water rafting on the Ganges and treks to the Everest base camp and birding in Mongolia.

The market is going to sort of tread water until we hear the results of the (Fed) meeting and what the Fed has to say about their decision. That's the 500-pound gorilla of events next week.