Quotes about elephants
elephants plot odd
One elephant having a trunk was odd; but all elephants having trunks looked like a plot. Gilbert K. Chesterton
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 healthier
Our elephants are healthier now than they have been for many years.
elephants human nice
Elephants aren't human but they are very nice people. Robert A. Heinlein
elephants kenya lived problem
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. Richard Leakey
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 united-states should
The United States should not jump around like an elephant frightened by a mouse. George F. Kennan
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 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 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 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 bird poop
Eat like a bird, poop like an elephant Guy Kawasaki
elephants tree saws
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. Lois Lowry
elephants riders
The rider evolved to serve to the elephant. Jonathan Haidt
elephants different
All the religions are true, they just see a different part of the elephant. George Lucas
elephants competition politics
We can't have these great corporations crowding competition off the sidewalks. It's like an elephant saying, "Everyone for himself," as he dances among the chickens. Emanuel Celler
elephants engagement
Did I ever say an engagement was an elephant, madam? Elizabeth Gaskell
elephants laughing skins
He laughed. The laugh could strip the skin off an elephant in seconds. Lilith Saintcrow
elephants two half
Dividing an elephant in half does not produce two small elephants. Peter Senge
elephants rooms invisible
When there is an invisible elephant in the room, one is from time to time bound to trip over a trunk. Karen Joy Fowler
elephants worry dodge
It is the little bits of things that fret and worry us; we can dodge a elephant, but we can't dodge a fly. Josh Billings
elephants advice eating
Abrams's Advice: When eating an elephant, take one bite at a time. Paul Dickson
elephants sheep yorkshire
I don't do impersonations. I can do a wounded elephant! I can do a really good cow! And because of the amount of time I spent in North Yorkshire, I do a variety of sheep. All of which I will be happy to roll out for you! Patrick Stewart
elephants contagious
Elephants are contagious. Paul Eluard
elephants novelists forget
A novelist is an elephant, but an elephant who must pretend to forget. Mary McCarthy
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 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 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