Quotes about elephants
elephants trying rooms
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. Richard Dawkins
elephants nervous harpies
Ella is nervous,” the harpy muttered from her perch on the railing. “The elephant. The elephant is watching Ella. Rick Riordan
elephants water looks
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
elephants goes-on normalcy
Life goes on with fragile normalcy.
elephants car bigs
Elephants are VERY BIG. Motor cars go quickly. Wyndham Lewis
elephants
What is true for E. coli is also true for the elephant. Jacques Monod
elephants government states
Dealing with the State Department is like watching an elephant become pregnant. Franklin D. Roosevelt
elephants moved process sanctuary scenario soon wish work
The best-case scenario is that the organizations can work cooperatively, that elephants can be moved as stress-free as possible, and they can get to the sanctuary as soon as possible, ... I'm not as enthusiastic about this process as I wish I could be.
elephants tree uprooting
Yes, I could see these enormous elephants, whose trunks were tearing down large boughs, and working in and out the trees like a legion of serpents. I could hear the sounds of the mighty tusks uprooting huge trees! Jules Verne
elephants novelists forget
A novelist is an elephant, but an elephant who must pretend to forget. Mary McCarthy
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 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 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. Rahul Gandhi
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 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 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 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
elephants healthier
Our elephants are healthier now than they have been for many years.
elephants bulls ass
I couldn't hit an elephant's ass with a bull fiddle. Babe Didrikson Zaharias
elephants rooms walks
I'm like an elephant, ok? If I walk into a room, it's like, OK, he's in there. Aziz Ansari
elephants rooms life-after-death
Life after death is the elephant in the living room, the one that we are not supposed to notice. Dinesh D'Souza
elephants knives size
The knife flaying the elephant does not have to be large, only sharp! Andre Norton