Ham The Chimp Quotes & Sayings

There's a psychological mechanism, I've come to believe, that prevents most of us from imagining the moment of our own death. For if it were possible to imagine fully that instant of passing from consciousness to nonexistence, with all the attendant fear and humiliation of absolute helplessness, it would be very hard to live. It would be unbearably obvious that death is inscribed in everything that constitutes life, that any moment of your existence may be only a breath away from being the last. We would be continuously devastated by the magnitude of that inescapable fact. Still, as we mature into our mortality, we begin to gingerly dip our horror-tingling toes into the void, hoping that our mind will somehow ease itself into dying, that God or some other soothing opiate will remain available as we venture into the darkness of non-being. — Aleksandar Hemon

I love finding - or inventing - ways to categorize people. — Gretchen Rubin

The view of the misery of the damned will double the ardour of the love and gratitude of the saints of heaven. — Jonathan Edwards

With food, you're the artist; you put the colour in it, you present it to the table and it has the ability to knock out the senses. It can look fabulous, be beautifully presented and smell great and taste good as well. — Anthony Warlow

There'll be a man on the moon before Gaylord Perry hits a home run. — Alvin Dark

Without publicity a terrible thing happens: nothing. — P.T. Barnum

We do what we are and we are what we do ... — Abraham Maslow

As for us, during twenty years' reign, we have known much bitterness. — Bao Dai

Life's full of lots of dream-stealers always telling you you need to do something more sensible. I think it doesn't matter what your dream is, just fight the dream-stealers and hold onto it. — Bear Grylls