Quotes about elephants
elephants drawing hats
My drawing was not a picture of a hat. It was a picture of a boa constrictor digesting an elephant. Antoine de Saint-Exupery
elephants bird poop
Eat like a bird, poop like an elephant Guy Kawasaki
elephants four remember
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.' Enrico Fermi
elephants creative brain
Elephants have the largest brains of any mammal on the face of the Earth. They are creative, altruistic and kind. Ingrid Newkirk
elephants healthier
Our elephants are healthier now than they have been for many years.
elephants world forests
I had seen a herd of Elephant travelling through dense native forest ... pacing along as if they had an appointment at the end of the world. Isak Dinesen
elephants eggs world
The world is hollow. It's a lot to take in. Like cracking an egg and finding nothing inside. Or a full grown elephant. Geraldine McCaughrean
elephants novelists forget
A novelist is an elephant, but an elephant who must pretend to forget. Mary McCarthy
elephants obscurity poodles
Be wary of passing the judgment: obscure. To find something obscure poses no difficult, elephants and poodles find many things obscure. Georg C. Lichtenberg
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 rooms introducing
When there’s an elephant in the room introduce him. Randy Pausch
elephants skulls musical
Band of Skulls is joining Cage the Elephant as my new musical caffeine. Michael Koryta
elephants rest-of-life pandas
The sad thing about destroying the environment is that we're going to take the rest of life with us. The bluebirds will be gone, and the elephants will be gone, and the tigers will be gone, and the pandas will be gone. Ted Turner
elephants impact worry
Soft fantasy worlds have a much looser cause-and-effect relationship. Alchemists can turn lead into gold and nobody wonders about how it will impact the currency system. Someone waves a wand and turns an elephant into a mouse and nobody worries about conservation of mass. Patrick Rothfuss
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 common-sense challenges
If elephants didn't exist, you couldn't invent one. They belong to a small group of living things so unlikely they challenge credulity and common sense. Lyall Watson
elephants contagious
Elephants are contagious. Paul Eluard
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 cells body
But what humans forget, cells remember. The body, that elephant Jeffrey Eugenides
elephants jet-planes camels
A camel makes an elephant feel like a jet plane. Jackie Kennedy
elephants hunt near parks villages
Already elephants are migrating out of the parks to the periphery near villages to hunt for water.
elephants purpose gone
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. Jonathan Winters
elephants rooms mediocrity
Mediocrity is the elephant in the room. Kevin Spacey
elephants maps want
So geographers, in Africa maps, With savage pictures fill their gaps, And o'er uninhabitable downs Place elephants for want of towns Jonathan Swift
elephants united-states should
The United States should not jump around like an elephant frightened by a mouse. George F. Kennan
elephants pits helping
'Helping industry' is the elephant pit of socialism, a deep hole with sharp spikes at the bottom, covered over with twigs and fresh grass. Enoch Powell
elephants
What is true for E. coli is also true for the elephant. Jacques Monod
elephants
Hannibal rode elephants into cartilage Mike Tyson
elephants four fit
With four parameters I can fit an elephant, and with five I can make him wiggle his trunk. John von Neumann
elephants government states
Dealing with the State Department is like watching an elephant become pregnant. Franklin D. Roosevelt
elephants ears conservative
God is not troubled by one who is conservative or liberal, and He certainly never inclines His ear toward a donkey or an elephant. Max Lucado
elephants lambs depth
Shallows where a lamb could wade and depths where an elephant would drown. Matthew Henry
elephants sitting rooms
Plastic surgery is like a big elephant sitting in the Hollywood living room. Patricia Heaton