Any ape can reach for a banana, but only humans can reach for the stars.
– VS Ramachandran
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- I want to rip the rest of those ????ons open and climb him like a monkey in a banana tree. Oh God, what I would do with his banana… – Heather M Orgeron
- Beyond the stars you see are other stars, stars beyond stars,’ she told him, ‘and all are dreams, like shoals of fish in the oceans of the night. – Keith Miller
- Humans need fantasy to be human. To be the place where the falling angel meets the rising ape. – Terry Pratchett
- When you reach the mountaintop look upand think of how high you must leap to reach the stars. – Matshona Dhliwayo
- I am going to look at the stars. They are so far away, and their light takes so long to reach us. All we ever see of stars are their old photographs. – Dr Manhattan Watchmen Book
- Let’s not just reach for the stars, but become the stars everyone reaches for. – Robbie Kwia
- God did not create humans to be confused about God, Humans confused humans about God – John LaFaver Sr
- You are Bellman, aren’t you? The genius who sent the sauna ape after me?- Harry nodded toward the Finn. – Jo Nesb
- A book is a mirror: if an ape looks into it an apostle is hardly likely to look out. – Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
- What an ugly beast is the ape, and how like us. – Marcus Tullius Cicero
- No existing form of anthropoid ape is even remotely related to the stock which has given rise to man. – Henry Fairfield Osborn
- It is only natural, of course, that each man should think his own opinions best: the crow loves his fledgling, and the ape his cub. – Thomas More
- He seemed like a walking blasphemy, a blend of the angel and the ape. – GK Chesterton
- Nevertheless, it is even harder for the average ape to believe that he has descended from man. – HL Mencken
- You dumb-ass ape, get your hand off me. What-”are you the first in your family to be born without a tail? – Cherise Sinclair
- Like overzealous religious converts, climbers originally from the lower rungs of society tend to go overboard when they ape the upper class. – Maureen Corrigan
- Even now man is more of an ape than any of the apes. – Friedrich Nietzsche
- A successful self-publisher must fill three roles: Author, Publisher, and Entrepreneur-”or APE. – Guy Kawasaki
- Just being with Nakajima made me feel as if we were detached from history, and had no particular age. – Banana Yoshimoto
- We sat on the floor for dinner. Ananya’s father passed me a banana leaf. I wondered if i had to eat it or wipe my hands with it. – Chetan Bhagat
- And when something awful happens, the goodness stands out even more … – Banana Yoshimoto
- I was kind of tired, I guess, of knowing people are flesh. Flesh and water. – Banana Yoshimoto
- Eating a twin banana does not necessarily mean that you are enjoying a double portion. – Hanimoz Obey
- Are you kidding me? The last time I saw a face like yours, I fed it a banana. – TheFlamingPopsicle
- the song of the deadheavy as rain on the wide banana leaveshard as drums – Antonio Cisneros
- A gorilla does not budge from a banana thrown at it by a monkey. – Suzy Kassem
- Things are just things, they can’t bring back the dead.It just makes me feel better. – Hiiragi – Yoshimoto Banana
- The ritual of our daily lives permeate our very bodies. – Banana Yoshimoto
- Whenever you get something in this world, you lose something too -” that’s just the way things work. – Banana Yoshimoto
- Things are just things. They can’t bring back the dead. it just makes me feel better. – Banana Yoshimoto
- When things get really bad, you take comfort in the placeness of a place. – Banana Yoshimoto
- Why were we so far apart, even when we were together? It was a nice loneliness, like the sensation of washing your face in cold water. – Banana Yoshimoto
- My loneliness was an important part of my own little universe, not some pathological disease that needs to be gotten [sic] rid of. – Banana Yoshimoto
- A particular variety of loneliness, like peering deep into the darkness. It’s only natural, when two separate universes touch. – Banana Yoshimoto
- The thin girl was gulping down one of Richard’s bananas in what was, Richard reflected, the least ?????c display of banana-eating he had ever seen. – Neil Gaiman
- Once you’ve recognized your own limits, you’ve raised yourself to a higher level of being, since you’re closer to the real you… – Banana Yoshimoto
- our two postcard hearts were frightened in unison under the tenacious look of the unfathomable old man who kept on eating one banana after another – Gabriel Garca Mrquez
- I wished my heart would break and get it over with. – Banana Yoshimoto
- To see a man slip on a banana skin is to see a rationally structured system suddenly translated into a whirling machine. – Marshall McLuhan
- Apes or human -“ we all made the same mistake, tempted by shifting leaves or the smell of sex, by music or a ripe banana. – Kathryn Davis