#gorilla

The more you learn about the dignity of the gorilla, the more you want to avoid people. ↗

— Dian Fossey

#avoid #dignity #gorilla #learn #more

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. ↗

— Jenny McCarthy

#become #children #dialogue #effect #factors

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. ↗

— Joe Biden

#got #hard #medicare #put #room

To be clear, climate change is a true 800 pound gorilla in the room. The effects of global warming threaten global environmental upheaval over the coming century. But for South Florida and the Everglades, it could be our death knell if urgent action is not taken. ↗

— Debbie Wasserman Schultz

#century #change #clear #climate #climate change

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

— Robert Strauss

#like #little #quit #tired #wrestling

I feel more comfortable with gorillas than people. I can anticipate what a gorilla's going to do, and they're purely motivated. ↗

— Dian Fossey

#comfortable #feel #going #gorilla #i

I mean Gorilla was really our first sort of goes at songwriting. ↗

— Neil Innes

#goes #gorilla #i #mean #our

An errand is getting a tank of gas or picking up a carton of milk or something. It is not getting chased by flying purple pyromaniac gorillas hurling incendiary poo! ↗

— Jim Butcher

#errands #incendiary-poo #pyromaniac-gorillas #danger

The keepers would give the gorillas an assortment of fruits and vegetables each afternoon, and on this particular occasion, Judy Sievert tossed Nina an apple, which rolled away. Instead of going to get it, Nina just 'sat there sadly,' in Judy's words. Judy continued her rounds, handing out yams and apples to the other gorillas, but Nina sat there looking appleless and downtrodden. Taking pity, Judy tossed her another apple. As soon as Nina had it, she got up and went over to where the first apple had rolled away, taking it too. ↗

— Eugene Linden

#deception #gorillas #intelligence

The Gorilla Foundation, like a tree or cloud or other thing from nature, seems to mostly present itself only to an ideal, abstract, fully internalized audience—one that does not question sincerity or intent, that does not require justification or meaning, that would rather The Gorilla Foundation not pause (to defend itself, to allow others time to comprehend it) but to continue always with what it’s already doing. In this manner The Gorilla Foundation exists more in actualization of itself than in opposition to something else, which implies, to some degree, that it doesn’t earnestly believe it—or anything—“needs” to exist or is “right” or “wrong,” rather that its “mission” is a temporary concept, created by itself to directionalize itself, that without which [The Gorilla Foundation] wouldn’t exist. ↗

— Tao Lin

#the-gorilla-foundation #nature