Elephants Quotes
when there's an elephant in the room, you can't pretend it isn't there and just discuss the ants.
Diplomacy is much like the "lovemaking of elephants", which is accompanied with a lot of bellowing and other sound effects, but no one can be sure of the consequences for at least the next two years
I shot a wild elephant in Africa thirty yards from me, and it didn't hit the ground until it was right at my feet. I wasn't a bit scared. But a four foot putt scares me to death.
The pointes for girls, I always say, have to be like an elephant's trunk; strong and yet flexible and soft.
I look after those who look after me." He smacks his lips, stares at me, and adds, "I also look after those who don't." - Sara Gruen (Water for Elephants)
Then it is dark; it is a night where kings in golden suits ride elephants over the mountains.
Even the elephant carries but a small trunk on his journeys. The perfection of traveling is to travel without baggage.
Awake. Be the witness of your thoughts. The elephant hauls himself from the mud. In the same way drag yourself out of your sloth.
We'll be back to our nature documentary, 'Baggy the Anorexic Elephant' in just a second.
You know...they say an elephant never forgets. What they don't tell you is, you never forget an elephant.
The stars you see at night are the unblinking eyes of sleeping elephants, who sleep with one eye open to best keep watch over us.
Leo couldn't help smiling. "That could be fun." "Fun" she said unhappily. "Blue elephants." "Blue elephants." "Kiss me you fool." "You fool.
Noah's wife, who said to Noah, Don't let the elephants watch the rabbits. Never got a dinner!
If he be so resolved, I can o'ersway him; for he loves to hear That unicorns may be betrayed with trees And bears with glasses, elephants with holes, Lions with toils, and men with flatterers
The Arab awakening was like watching elephants fly: something you didn't expect, something you haven't seen before, "Wow, elephants fly."
I went to University in 1991, and I remember, nobody thought of India. I remember conversations where people would laugh and say, "Do you have elephants on the road?" Nobody is saying that today.
And the elephant sings deep in the forest-maze About a star of deathless and painless peace But no astronomer can find where it is.
To achieve this density of a neutron star at home, just cram a herd of 50 million elephants into the volume of a thimble.
Writers, like elephants, have long, vicious memories. There are things I wish I could forget.
Let's point out the elephant in the room: Actor bands are not notoriously successful enterprises. I can't think of any.
I doubt if a charging elephant, or a rhino, is as determined or hard to check as a socially ambitious mother.
When there is an invisible elephant in the room, one is from time to time bound to trip over a trunk.
If thou art of elephant-strength or of lion-claw, still peace is, in my opinion, better than strife.
It's hard for the donkeys to win the race if they're going to carry the elephants on their backs.
It's no good telling somebody they're trying too hard. It's very much like ordering a child to go stand in a corner for a half hour and never once think about elephants.
I want to go to Africa and find a really great hotel with good food right above a water hole where I can sit, have breakfast, and just watch the elephants play in the water.
Employers ganging up against workers is like raising an army of elephants against ants.
May the bird of paradise fly up your nose, may an elephant caress you with his toes, may your wife be plagued with runners in her hose.
Women are like elephants to me. I like to look at them, but I wouldn't want to own one.
One: Don't play leapfrog with elephants. Two: Don't pet a tiger unless his tail is wagging. Three: Never, ever, mess with the Ladies Auxiliary. -Mayberry Rules for a Long, Happy Life
Revitalizing General Motors is like teaching an elephant to tap dance. You find the sensitive spot and start poking.
It is the little bits of things that fret and worry us; we can dodge a elephant, but we can't dodge a fly.
Books were my window on the world. Growing up at the Elephant and Castle, which was very rough, my paradise was the library.
The circus a place where horses, ponies and elephants are permitted to see men, women and children acting the fool.
Living next to you is in some ways like sleeping with an elephant. No matter how friendly and even-tempered is the beast, if I can call it that, one is affected by every twitch and grunt.
I have family in Tanzania. I can't even explain the joy of riding through the Tanzania national park and seeing giraffes run across the road and elephants over in a pond and baboons running.
As an elephant in the battlefield withstands arrows shot from bows all around, even so shall I endure abuse.
A blind, anemic, weak-kneed flea on crutches would have a greater chance of defeating a herd of a thousand wild stampeding elephants, than the enemy has of defeating God.
Loyalty was a great thing, but no lieutenants should be forced to choose between their leader and a circus with elephants.
As a toy fruit or a toy elephant reminds one of the real fruit and the living animal, so do the images that are worshipped remind one of the God who is formless and eternal.
