Quotes about gorilla (16 Quotes)


    Anybody who tries to sabotage Katie had better be well-armed, because she is the 500-pound gorilla. She's not somebody who is sitting next to Dan (Rather) or sitting next to Harry (Reasoner). ... She is the anchor of the CBS Evening News , and you sabotage her at your peril.


    Novell knew that marketing needed a lot more emphasis and they put the investment behind it in terms of really sharp people and the actual messages and how they're reaching the target customers. They're definitely proactive now, taking the lead and not just being reactive to Microsoft they want to keep the gorilla in the mist and keep Novell out in the clear.

    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.






    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.

    The person with the institutional authority is always the 800-pound gorilla. People who go to work thinking they'll out-wrestle the big monkey will lose every time.

    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.


    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.


    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.




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