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elephants had-enough different
I've always had enough, even if my enough and your enough are as different as an elephant and a minaret. Catherynne M. Valente
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 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 long doe
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? David Brin
elephants rats
It is better to own 10% of an elephant than 100% of a rat. Arthur Mutambara
elephants never-forget forget
You know...they say an elephant never forgets. What they don't tell you is, you never forget an elephant. Bill Murray
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
ivory-tower mud towers
Strategy should evolve out of the mud of the marketplace, not in the antiseptic environment of an ivory tower. Al Ries
ivory people flesh
Your people eat dry and tasteless flesh but it is off plates as smooth as ivory and as round as the sun. C. S. Lewis
ivory-tower important towers
Smooth shapes are very rare in the wild but extremely important in the ivory tower and the factory Benoit Mandelbrot
ivory-tower want towers
I don't want to live in an ivory tower, being the songwriter who just turns inward. Billie Joe Armstrong
ivory-tower towers needs
Even ivory towers need central heating. Breyten Breytenbach
ivory-tower games ideas
It used to be that readers were relegated because they considered themselves far above society, and so the metaphor of the ivory tower developed. Now there's still this idea that the reader doesn't take part in the social game and in politics, the res publica, but for other reasons: he doesn't do it because he's not making any money. Alberto Manguel
ivory-tower voice differences
I'm not a believer in putting designers off in an ivory tower. They need to have a voice at the table so they can identify where and why design can make a difference. We also need to understand the business issues. If we don't make our numbers this quarter, we don't earn the right to do something cool the next time. Chuck Jones
ivory way legs
He tapped one of the ivory spikes between his legs and said, 'There be as good a way to lose your manhood as ever I've seen'. Christopher Paolini
ivory pleasant-surprises ends
It's such a pleasant surprise when you come on set and you find someone in charge like Ken Branagh or James Ivory. You know that you're going to do a day's work and at the end of it, it's going to be good. Anthony Hopkins
people may medical
It is astonishing how much more anxious people are to lengthen life than to improve it; and as misers often lose large sums of money in attempting to make more, so do hypochondriacs squander large sums of time in search of nostrums by which they vainly hope they may get more time to squander. Charles Caleb Colton
people solitude multitudes
A multitude of people and yet solitude. Charles Dickens
people governing whole
My faith in the people governing is, on the whole, infinitesimal; my faith in the people governed is, on the whole, illimitable. Charles Dickens
people words-of-wisdom selfishness
Others had been a little wild, which was not to be wondered at, and not very blamable; but, he had made a lamentation and uproar which it was dangerous for the people to hear, as there is always contagion in weakness and selfishness. Charles Dickens
people words-of-wisdom want
Mrs. Boffin and me, ma'am, are plain people, and we don't want to pretend to anything, nor yet to go round and round at anything because there's always a straight way to everything. Charles Dickens
people next cleanliness
Cleanliness is next to Godliness, and some people do the same by their religion. Charles Dickens
people scary alive
I have heard it said that as we keep our birthdays when we are alive, so the ghosts of dead people, who are not easy in their graves, keep the day they died upon. Charles Dickens
people enemy
Some people are nobody's enemies but their own Charles Dickens
people romance wonder-woman
Superman/Wonder Woman, people expected, I guess, a lot of romance, or maybe something that wasnt emotionally deep. Who knows? Charles Soule