Famous Quotes & Sayings

Carol Buckley

We are pleased that the USDA enforced their regulations. We are also pleased that the elephants were released to the sanctuary where they can live out the remainder of their lives in a more natural setting.

Donald Johanson

If you were to go to the National Museum in Addis Ababa, you would walk into a huge room filled with literally tens of tons of fossils, and most of them would be elephants and rhinos and hippopotamus and monkeys and giraffes and antelopes and so on. Hominids are very rare in the landscape, and it's very rare to find them.

Charlie Chaplin

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

Catherynne M. Valente

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

David Brin

We already live a very long time for mammals, getting three times as many heartbeats as a mouse or elephant. It never seems enough though, does it?

Arthur Mutambara

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

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.'

Charles Laughton

I have a face like the behind of an elephant.

Charles Spurgeon

The moment we glorify ourselves, since there is room for one glory only in the universe, we set ourselves up as rivals to the Most High.

Dennis Ritchie

Oh, I've seen copies [of Linux Journal] around the terminal room at The Labs.

Eileen Caddy

Life is full and overflowing with the new. But it is necessary to empty out the old to make room for the new to enter.

Suzanne Collins

I have a pretty big TV background, and I have clocked so many hours in so many writers' rooms over the years.

Aberjhani

Got just enough room to be a friend of yours. Oh I hope you got room to be a friend of mine.

David H. Murdock

When I open my mouth, the room rings.

Caio Fonseca

My 20s were spent in a room, alone, mixing paints and figuring it all out.

Bryan Ferry

Other bands wanted to wreck hotel rooms; Roxy Music wanted to redecorate them.

Carl Jung

I have always tried to make room for anything that wanted to come to me from within.

Cesare Lombroso

The appearance of a single great genius is more than equivalent to the birth of a hundred mediocrities

Benedict Cumberbatch

There's so much in the 21st century that is stymied by bureaucracy and mediocrity and committee.

Charles Lamb

We encourage one another in mediocrity.

Eddie McGuire

The culture has got to be only the best for Collingwood. I reckon Collingwood accepts defeat far too easily and accepts mediocrity far too easily,

Anton Chekhov

There is nothing more vapid than a philistine petty bourgeois existence with its farthings, victuals, vacuous conversations, and useless conventional virtue.

Baltasar Gracian

Mediocrity obtains more with application than superiority without it.

Blaise Pascal

Mediocrity makes the most of its native possessions.

Boris Pasternak

Gregariousness is always the refuge of mediocrities, whether they swear by Soloviev or Kant or Marx. Only individuals seek the truth, and they shun those whose sole concern is not the truth.

Bruce Henderson

Any corporate policy and plan which is typical of the industry is doomed to mediocrity. Where this is not so, it should be possible to demonstrate that all other competitors are at a distinct disadvantage.