Quotes about elephants
elephants tourists tourism
The elephants were being slaughtered in masses. Some were even killed in the vicinity of big tourist hotels. Richard Leakey
elephants play trying
Learning to play with a big amplifier is like trying to control an elephant. Ritchie Blackmore
elephants people too-much
I will be doing a film called Whispers, for Disney. It's about elephants, and doesn't have any people in it. It will be a live action film - I don't know how much I can say about it, since I still don't know too much about it. Trevor Rabin
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 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 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 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 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 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 facts cases
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. James Patterson
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 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 skulls musical
Band of Skulls is joining Cage the Elephant as my new musical caffeine. Michael Koryta
elephants masterpiece great-things
Nature's great masterpiece, an elephant; the only harmless great thing. John Donne
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 laughing skins
He laughed. The laugh could strip the skin off an elephant in seconds. Lilith Saintcrow
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 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 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 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 novelists forget
A novelist is an elephant, but an elephant who must pretend to forget. Mary McCarthy
elephants contagious
Elephants are contagious. Paul Eluard