Quotes about elephant
elephants novelists forget
A novelist is an elephant, but an elephant who must pretend to forget. Mary McCarthy
elephants impact worry
Soft fantasy worlds have a much looser cause-and-effect relationship. Alchemists can turn lead into gold and nobody wonders about how it will impact the currency system. Someone waves a wand and turns an elephant into a mouse and nobody worries about conservation of mass. Patrick Rothfuss
elephants hot sphinx
Courage~ What makes the flag on the mast to wave? What makes the elephant charge his tusk in the misty mist, or the dusky dusk? What makes the muskrat guard his musk? Courage! What makes the sphinx the seventh wonder? Courage! What makes the dawn come up like thunder? Courage! What makes the Hottentot so hot? What puts the "ape" in apricot?~Cowardly Lion from the Wizard of Oz L. Frank Baum
elephants
He who mounts a wild elephant goes where the elephant goes. Randolph Bourne
elephants ivory people
It may surprise people to learn that one elephant is killed every 15 minutes for its ivory. Li Bingbing
elephants laughing skins
He laughed. The laugh could strip the skin off an elephant in seconds. Lilith Saintcrow
elephants two half
Dividing an elephant in half does not produce two small elephants. Peter Senge
elephants dragons india
China is referred to as the 'dragon' and India as an 'elephant'. But we are not an elephant, we are a 'beehive'. Rahul Gandhi
elephants people laughing
I went to University in 1991, and I remember, nobody thought of India. I remember conversations where people would laugh and say, "Do you have elephants on the road?" Nobody is saying that today.
elephants sweaters scarves
I need to finish this scarf/shawl/blanket thing so I can start something for Emma- a hat, maybe, or a sweater for her stuffed elephant. Laurie Halse Anderson
elephants four stories
When I was four I read the story of horton hears a who and I cried. I wanted to eat that elephant. Thom Yorke
elephants worry dodge
It is the little bits of things that fret and worry us; we can dodge a elephant, but we can't dodge a fly. Josh Billings
elephants advice eating
Abrams's Advice: When eating an elephant, take one bite at a time. Paul Dickson
elephants sheep yorkshire
I don't do impersonations. I can do a wounded elephant! I can do a really good cow! And because of the amount of time I spent in North Yorkshire, I do a variety of sheep. All of which I will be happy to roll out for you! Patrick Stewart
elephants rooms invisible
When there is an invisible elephant in the room, one is from time to time bound to trip over a trunk. Karen Joy Fowler
elephants competition politics
We can't have these great corporations crowding competition off the sidewalks. It's like an elephant saying, "Everyone for himself," as he dances among the chickens. Emanuel Celler
elephants engagement
Did I ever say an engagement was an elephant, madam? Elizabeth Gaskell
elephants tree saws
Now he saw another elephant emerge from the place where it had stood hidden in the trees. Very slowly it walked to the mutilated body and looked down. With its sinuous trunk it struck the huge corpse; then it reached up, broke some leafy branches with a snap, and draped them over the mass of torn thick flesh. Finally it tilted its massive head, raised its trunk, and roared into the empty landscape. Lois Lowry
elephants riders
The rider evolved to serve to the elephant. Jonathan Haidt
elephants masterpiece great-things
Nature's great masterpiece, an elephant; the only harmless great thing. John Donne
elephants facts cases
Just in case you thought elephants were all sweetness, I can attest to the fact that this one had the time of her life scaring the bejeezus out of those dudes. James Patterson
elephants plot odd
One elephant having a trunk was odd; but all elephants having trunks looked like a plot. Gilbert K. Chesterton
elephants different
All the religions are true, they just see a different part of the elephant. George Lucas
elephant energy room
It is the elephant in the room when it comes to the energy issue. Dan Bartlett
elephants looks stories
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. David Hume
elephants rats
It is better to own 10% of an elephant than 100% of a rat. Arthur Mutambara
elephants track missing
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. C. S. Lewis
elephants wicked-world
Words are cheap. The biggest thing you can say is 'elephant'. Charlie Chaplin
elephants lakes lust
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. Chanakya
elephants people magazines
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.' Bill Maher
elephants faces complaining
I have a face like the behind of an elephant. Charles Laughton
elephants tongue turns
I don't know where I learned elephants like their tongues slapped. Whatever turns you on. Betty White
elephant missing virtual
What's missing is the elephant in the room: all the freebies, the wining and dining, the virtual bribing of doctors,