Famous Quotes & Sayings

David Hume

How can we satisfy ourselves without going on in infinitum? And, after all, what satisfaction is there in that infinite progression? Let us remember the story of the Indian philosopher and his elephant. It was never more applicable than to the present subject. If the material world rests upon a similar ideal world, this ideal world must rest upon some other; and so on, without end. It were better, therefore, never to look beyond the present material world.

Arthur Mutambara

It is better to own 10% of an elephant than 100% of a rat.

Bill Murray

You know...they say an elephant never forgets. What they don't tell you is, you never forget an elephant.

C. S. Lewis

It is in some ways more troublesome to track and swat an evasive wasp than to shoot, at close range, a wild elephant. But the elephant is more troublesome if you miss.

Charlie Chaplin

Words are cheap. The biggest thing you can say is 'elephant'.

Chanakya

If the bees which seek the liquid oozing from the head of a lust-intoxicated elephant are driven away by the flapping of his ears, then the elephant has lost only the ornament of his head. The bees are quite happy in the lotus filled lake.

Bill Maher

Time magazine put Chris Christie on the cover with the caption, 'The Elephant in the Room.' And People magazine named him 'Sexiest Garbage Truck in a Suit.'

Catherynne M. Valente

I've always had enough, even if my enough and your enough are as different as an elephant and a minaret.

Charles Laughton

I have a face like the behind of an elephant.

Elizabeth Edwards

We were never a family that had a lot. We had enough, but not a lot.

Nigel Lawson

We already have a sabbatical system. It's called opposition, and I've had enough of it.

Terry Pratchett

If you had enough money, you could hardly commit crimes at all. You just perpetrated amusing little peccadilloes.

Alan Watts

We identify in our exerience a differentiation between what we do and what happens to us.

Alan Parker

I'm a pluralist. I've always argued that as many different films as possible should be made.

Chris Burke

I don't like to be different; I would like to be the same.

Eddie Murphy

I'm in a whole different part of show business. I'm not even part of Shakespeare in Love.

Agnes Varda

I cannot say something different to one person and then another.

Charles de Lint

When you're invisible, no one can see that you're different.

Chamique Holdsclaw

I want to be different from anyone ever.

Charlie Munger

Our success has come from the lack of oversight we've provided, and our success will continue to be from a lack of oversight. But if you're going to provide minimal oversight, you have to buy carefully. It's a different model from GE's. GE's works - it's just very different from ours.

Billy West

Robert Mitchum sounded different from John Wayne, and John Wayne sounded different from Clark Gable.