Famous Quotes & Sayings

Richard Dawkins

I am trying to call attention to the elephant in the room that everybody is too polite - or too devout - to notice: religion, and specifically the devaluing effect that religion has on human life.

Rick Riordan

Ella is nervous,” the harpy muttered from her perch on the railing. “The elephant. The elephant is watching Ella.

Sara Gruen

I look after those who look after me." He smacks his lips, stares at me, and adds, "I also look after those who don't." - Sara Gruen (Water for Elephants)

Sara Gruen

Life goes on with fragile normalcy.

William Faulkner

Pointless. . . . Like giving caviar to an elephant.

Saint Francis de Sales

Nothing appeases an enraged elephant so much as the sight of a little lamb.

Wyndham Lewis

Elephants are VERY BIG. Motor cars go quickly.

Yaya Toure

My biggest concern and main engagement with UNEP is focused on endangered species and illegal wildlife trade - mostly elephants, rhinos, etc.

Yaya Toure

Currently poaching threatens the very existence of the African Elephant, and my worry is that if we do not act NOW, we could be looking at a future in which this iconic species is wiped out.

Mike Ford

Recently, the news has been filled with big jackpots and winners. Wouldn't you love to be part of the winning?

Ruth Reichl

If you go back in American history, oysters were the food of poor people. New York was filled with oyster saloons in the 1800s.

Harry Parmar

In India, people fly kites from their roof tops and terraces. Sometimes, the sky seemed filled with kites.

Graeme Souness

The dressing-room has to be filled with good characters. This is his football club.

Scott Walker

We had some guys who really picked it up for us. I was very pleased with the way the guys filled in around the edges.

Sean Hennessey

It's not fancy, but it is right and it has been filled since opening day.

Bruce Lee

The void is that which stands right in the middle of 'this' and 'that'. The void is all-inclusive, having no opposite - there is nothing which it excludes or opposses. It is living void, because all forms come out of it and whosoever realizes the void is filled with life and power and the love of all things.

Ray Brown

They did a great job of scheming. I was surprised at some of the looks we got. They filled (the gaps) a different way with their linebackers that we didn't anticipate. I don't think we did a good job of adjusting.

Bob Schindler

They are tractor tubes that we cut, filled with sand and wired up the ends. Hopefully that will help.

Neil Anderson

It's going to be a tremendous new addition. With the giraffes and the new lions, this should be a great year.

Joanna Lumley

Giraffes are completely tranquil - they have no predators as adults because there's not an animal in the jungle stupid enough to go for them.

Chris Coste

Kirby was the first name on everyone's list. That smile and that magnetic personality. He was a huge role model for so many people in that area. He was a huge influence in the way that I hit.

Bud Keene

Kelly really pushed the limits of women's riding by going huge and super technical.

Doc Scheppler

Just returning to the team was a huge lift for us.

Ben Howland

Josh Shipp was huge tonight. I mean, having not played 13 weeks, for him to do what he did tonight was just miraculous.

Brian Fanelli

I think it's a huge accomplishment for her.

Mike Szabo

He just stepped up and made a play. That was a huge play.

Robert Russell

There are such huge, huge issues out there, that to get sidetracked (on this topic) ... to me, it's just tragic, frustrating, hopeless.

James Abbott

There are six people in the race. There are jumps, turns and rollers and some huge jumps.

Sven Eriksson

He seems like a different player and very mature in his way of playing. He's a huge talent and has been doing very well for us

Bill Turnage

He literally got it with 10 seconds to spare.

Drew Houston

With something like Dropbox, it was immediately like, 'Wow, this is literally something that anyone with an Internet connection could use.' Everyone needs something like this; they just don't realize it yet.

Skip Snow

It could be literally thousands. It could be a number I don't want to know. It could be scary.

Matt Brown

I was working literally in the streets of the neighborhoods and I saw what people were up against,

Wayne Shelor

Right there, right on the curb, literally right there.

Jose Antonio Vargas

In Tagalog, we call undocumented people 'TNT,' which means tago ng tago, which means 'hiding and hiding.' So that's literally what undocumented means in Tagalog. And that kind of tells you how Filipinos think of this issue, and really any culture, right?

Damien Chazelle

I like the idea of working my way up. I don't feel impatient to immediately jump into something that could literally bring down a studio if I don't do it well.

Tracy Spiridakos

I literally came to L.A. like every actor does from this little town with this big dream, and I'm living in it now. It's mind-blowing.

Mary Jo White

I'm literally an independent. Apolitical. So that I am not always going to be with the Left's perceived interests or the Right's perceived interests.

Wilhelm Steinitz

Have you ever seen a monkey examining a watch?

James Cook

Allowing liberals to manage economic policy is like hiring monkeys to be aircraft mechanics.

Eric Schmidt

Twitter can no more produce analysis than a monkey can type out a work of Shakespeare.

Cassandra Clare

Hello," Magnus said to the monkey. The monkey did not reply. "I shall call you Ragnor.

Kim Clijsters

Well, there's no monkey on my back,

Eli Roth

I'll direct any movie starring a monkey or the Olsen Twins. Preferably both.

Terrence Howard

If evolution works, why are monkeys still around?

Terence McKenna

We are consciousness. We may not always be monkeys.

Sebastian Arcelus

My big break was back in the third grade playing the third monkey in 'Horton Hears a Who.

Renzo Piano

A museum is a place where one should lose one's head.

Vivienne Westwood

I do not approve of museums trying just to get people to come in. Whistler was very, very clear on this.

Wayne White

Puppets are pure form then ideas for performance come out of that. It's always the form and the visuals and that's why I like to make puppets in a gallery or museum. They're not often in those contexts.

Salvador Dali

Instead of stubbornly attempting to use surrealism for purposes of subversion, it is necessary to try to make of surrealism something as solid, complete and classic as the works of museums.

Tony Stewart

DEI without Dale Earnhardt Jr. is a museum.

Willard Van Orman Quine

Uncritical semantics is the myth of a museum in which the exhibits are meanings and the words are labels. To switch languages is to change the labels.

Zaha Hadid

There are so many great galleries and museums in London, but they can be very crowded during the day.

Zaha Hadid

I don't particularly like showing furniture on pedestals, but for whatever reasons you always have to in museums.

Yogi Berra

I'm lucky. Usually you're dead to get your own museum, but I'm still alive to see mine.

Bill Richardson

is used for national supply emergencies for a really rainy day.

Ted Dexter

The whole of our national sport is not doing very well.

Tanya Chaplin

I think that when they went out they were a little tight because they were trying too hard. But that's actually not surprising to me in that every single one of them, this is the first national championships.

Aldo Radamus

It is Julia's first year on the national team, and she's been successful in downhill.

Ward Grant

He was so proud of his heritage, and his national pride is legendary.

Mark Grindstaff

He has wrestled in many, many national competitions.

Sean Dockery

He doesn't get the national props he deserves. Without him, we would not be sitting here today.

Wallace Stegner

That is all the National Parks are about. Use, but do no harm.

Bruce Bartlett

Remember, personal savings is only a small portion of total national savings,

Jim Boeheim

His side of the room was always neat,

Peter Max

When I am in New York, you know, my studio is big, about 20,000 to 25,000 square feet, and I have painting rooms and rooms I do etching in, rooms I do lithographs.

Jim Martin

When he spoke, the room was quiet. It was very moving.

Bob Geldof

We've got to go up to the room now.

Brian Leetch

I think a week off and then a week skating together, and we'll be back in the video room and seeing the things we've done positive. We know where we've been before and we don't want to be back there.

Heather Taylor

It has a lot of room for mischief, ... loophole laden.

Rosie Jones

Laura's never been in our team room so I don't know how she can say that.

Gordie Kerkman

He does so many things. We put stickers on the players' lockers, and we're running out of room on his.

Richard Baxter

Christ leads me through no darker rooms than He went through before.

Rob Lowe

I'm perfectly flawed... I've got tons of flaws.

Russ Diamond

There's tons more to come. This is just the first wave.

Mary Rowland

It does really well, and we have tons of different publications.