Famous Quotes & Sayings

Part of the problem with the elephant is, we need to know how much space they really need.

I've known elephants with broken hearts, others with depression.

Elephants love to play around. They are very intelligent animals. They have a strong bond, at times stretching to several decades, with their mahouts.

William Shakespeare

The elephant hath joints, but none for courtesy; his legs are legs for necessity, not for flexure.

James Patterson

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.

John Donne

Nature's great masterpiece, an elephant; the only harmless great thing.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

One elephant having a trunk was odd; but all elephants having trunks looked like a plot.

Jonathan Winters

Now the freaks are on television, the freaks are in the movies. And it's no longer the sideshow, it's the whole show. The colorful circus and the clowns and the elephants, for all intents and purposes, are gone, and we're dealing only with the freaks.

Kevin Spacey

Mediocrity is the elephant in the room.

Jonathan Swift

So geographers, in Africa maps, With savage pictures fill their gaps, And o'er uninhabitable downs Place elephants for want of towns

Our elephants are healthier now than they have been for many years.

Robert A. Heinlein

Elephants aren't human but they are very nice people.

Richard Leakey

Earlier, 100,000 elephants lived in Kenya and we didn't have any noteworthy problem with it. The problem that we have is not that there are now more elephants.

Martin Johnson

Race and hip hop is kind of the elephant in the room.

Groucho Marx

Did I ever tell you how I shot a wild elephant in my pyjamas? How he got into my pyjamas I'll never know.

Jonathan Agnew

This is the first time I rode on an elephant and I thoroughly enjoyed the safari.

Jeffrey Eugenides

But what humans forget, cells remember. The body, that elephant

Jackie Kennedy

A camel makes an elephant feel like a jet plane.

George F. Kennan

The United States should not jump around like an elephant frightened by a mouse.

Because immigration ? when you talk about Mexico in the United States ? that's the pink elephant in the room.

That's how an elephant reacts to something they would perceive as a threat.

Daniel Bard

You try to keep it on the back of your mind and do what you can to keep the team first. I think we've all done that. But it's always there, kind of that big elephant in the room that nobody talks about.

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.

That is always the elephant in the room with J&J. Everyone wants to know what is going on in M&A, and they're not saying.

Jules Verne

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!

Georg C. Lichtenberg

Be wary of passing the judgment: obscure. To find something obscure poses no difficult, elephants and poodles find many things obscure.

Enrico Fermi

I remember my friend Johnny von Neumann used to say, 'with four parameters I can fit an elephant and with five I can make him wiggle his trunk.'

Ingrid Newkirk

Elephants have the largest brains of any mammal on the face of the Earth. They are creative, altruistic and kind.

Guy Kawasaki

Eat like a bird, poop like an elephant

Dan Bartlett

It is the elephant in the room when it comes to the energy issue.

It's like trying to shoot an elephant with a BB gun,

It's kind of like the elephant in the room. I haven't really been talking about it. I knew it was gonna come sooner or later. When it happened, it was kind of more of a relief than anything.

Lois Lowry

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.