Famous Quotes & Sayings

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

I showed the grown ups my maasterpiece, andI asked them if my drawing scared them. They answered why be scared of a hat? My drawing was not a picture of a hat. It was a picture of a boa constrictor digesting an elephant.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

My drawing was not a picture of a hat. It was a picture of a boa constrictor digesting an elephant.

Aziz Ansari

I'm like an elephant, ok? If I walk into a room, it's like, OK, he's in there.

Babe Didrikson Zaharias

I couldn't hit an elephant's ass with a bull fiddle.

Arthur Laurents

Psychoanalysts and elephants, they never forget.

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.

Agatha Christie

Elephants can remember, but we are human beings and mercifully human beings can forget.

Ferdowsi

Helmet was joined to helmet, and spear to spear, and jewels, baggage, and elephants without number went with them, and you would have said it was a host that none could understand.

Clifford Geertz

There is an Indian story -- at least I heard it as an Indian story -- about an Englishman who, having been told that the world rested on a platform which rested on the back of an elephant which rested in turn on the back of a turtle, asked (perhaps he was an ethnographer; it is the way they behave), what did the turtle rest on? Another turtle. And that turtle? 'Ah, Sahib, after that it is turtles all the way down

Dave Barry

I will spare you a gushy description of the dive itself, except to say that when you finally see what goes on underwater, you realize that you've been missing the whole point of the ocean. Staying on the surface all the time is like going to the circus and staring at the outside of the tent.

Ray Moyer

I was proud of the kids. We kept our heads when that circus was going on.

Matt Allen

I think it tastes like a circus peanut.

Harper Lee

I think Ill be a clown when I get grown.. Yes, sir, a clown. There aint one thing in this world I can do about folks except laugh, so Im gonna join the circus and laugh my head off Im gonna stand in the middle of the ring and laugh at the folks. Just looka yonder, every one of em oughta be ridin a broomstick.

Jeremy Roenick

I think it's going to be a circus for them,

Jimmy Buffett

I love a great show. This is a great show. This is the circus coming to town and it's great to see (Glenn) do that,

Jim Smith

He's going to turn the courtroom into a circus and we can't have it.

Jeff Morrow

Oh, wow. All you can say is, 'Wow.' It was like a circus, but a fun circus to watch.

Gary Neville

The players do not have to lift themselves, they know their responsibilities. I am sure we will hear a lot over the next few days about how we are not going to be playing European football after Christmas. There will be a circus but we have to remove ourselves from that.

Richard D. James

Well, I just bought a massive bank and I've moved into it on my own.

Burt Reynolds

I can sing as well as Fred Astaire can act.

Carrot Top

Comics don't like to see other comics do well.

Alan Lightman

As I understand it, a universe is a ... well, a totality. A universe is everything that is, as far as the inside of the thing.

David Nicholls

Happyish. Well, happyish isn't so bad.' 'It's the most we can hope for.

Abraham Lincoln

Never do anything for anyone who can just as well do it themself

Deniece Schofield

Even an organized person has days that aren't efficient and well-managed.

Edgar Allan Poe

I have no words alas! to tell the loveliness of loving well

Aristotle

Love well, be loved and do something of value.