Elephants Quotes

No Child Left Behind ... is a giraffe with an elephant's body. ... You can't take the vision of Ted Kennedy and merge it to the public policy of George Bush and come out with anything that works.

When millions of tons of angry elephant come spinning through the sky, and there was no one there to hear it, does it - philosopically speaking - make a noise

I cannot tell by what logic we call a toad, a bear, or an elephant ugly; they being created in those outward shapes and figures which best express the actions of their inward forms.

If you want to shoot rare, fast-moving elephants, you should always carry a loaded gun.

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

My biggest concern and main engagement with UNEP is focused on endangered species and illegal wildlife trade - mostly elephants, rhinos, etc.

The whole thing's illusion, [Jacob], and there's nothing wrong with that. It's what people want from us. It's what they expect.

I'm like an elephant, ok? If I walk into a room, it's like, OK, he's in there.

When you hear the elephant music you're hearing what they mean to make.

Life after death is the elephant in the living room, the one that we are not supposed to notice.

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.

Once there was an elephant Who tried to use the telephant. No! no! I mean an elephone Who tried to use the telephone. Dear me, I am not certain quite That even now I've got it right.

I had to wait for someone special. Someone who would make my heart feel as if it's been trampled by elephants, thrown into the amazon, and eaten by piranhas.

The U.N. bureaucracy has grown to elephantine proportions. Now that the Cold War is over, we are asking that elephant to do gymnastics.

When the elephant decides to walk through the village, all the dogs come out and bark.

Hannibal rode elephants into cartilage

Well, I bought a ticket to the circus. I don't know why I was surprised to see elephants.

What is bigger than an elephant? But this also is become man's plaything, and a spectacle at public solemnities; and it learns to skip, dance, and kneel

Dear God. Not only am I unemployed and homeless, but I also have a pregnant woman, bereaved dog, elephant, and eleven horses to take care of.

I am ninety. Or ninety-three. One or the other.

When you are hunting elephants, don't get distracted chasing rabbits.

He frowned as he struggled to remember. It was like watching an elephant crochet.

Pointless. . . . Like giving caviar to an elephant.

To be without God is to be a snake / who wants to swallow an elephant.

My drawing was not a picture of a hat. It was a picture of a boa constrictor digesting an elephant.

Elephants suffer from too much patience. Their exhibitions of it may seem superb,-such power and such restraint, combined, are noble,-but a quality carried to excess defeats itself.

There is only one way to eat an elephant, a bite at a time.

If you offer them some sugarcane, even elephants can do this, sometimes on the first try.

What ever happened to freak shows? Back in the twenties when elephant man was born at least he had a job waiting for him.

It's estimated that across Africa 100 elephants are killed for their tusks every day. It takes nothing more than simple math to get to what that adds up to in a year, and it's a distressing figure.

I'm one of those people who sees Frank Zappa in a cup of coffee, or elephants wrestling in clouds. But also, conscious creation of all kinds moves me.

'The Elephant Man' was hugely enjoyable to do. I thought the one stage, when Chris Tucker did the first makeup and it took 12 hours, I thought they'd actually found a way for me not to enjoy filming.

Not, like, that, boychik, you sound like a herd of elephants charging through a music store.

Race in this country is still the elephant in the room that no one wants to discuss.

If anyone wants to know what elephants are like, they are like people only more so.

China is referred to as the 'dragon' and India as an 'elephant'. But we are not an elephant, we are a 'beehive'.

I feel like a carton of eggs holding up an elephant.

It does not matter if you vote for the left or right, you are not an elephant or donkey. You are a truthful lion who stands only for your conscience.

I could not extrapolate some emotion from any song after 1997 so I bought a drum machine and popped pills. The pink ones make me funny like elephants!

I imagine the film ["300"] as if I was a Spartan and I had never seen an immortal or a Persian, or an elephant or a rhino for that matter.

Southampton's barrage balloons floated gleaming in the moonlight like the ghosts of elephants and hippos.

Kat had been picking things up since her third birthday, when Hamish and Angus's father took them all to the circus because he needed to "borrow" an elephant.

The knife flaying the elephant does not have to be large, only sharp!

Time magazine put Chris Christie on the cover with the caption, 'The Elephant in the Room.' And People magazine named him 'Sexiest Garbage Truck in a Suit.'

Q: What's the difference between a tweaker and an elephant? A: The elephant will eat all your peanut butter.

I've always had enough, even if my enough and your enough are as different as an elephant and a minaret.

I worked next to an elephant. And considering that she could step on your toes, it's a good idea to keep a certain distance. It's also a good idea to befriend the trainer.

The elephant, the huge old beast, is slow to mate

So slowly the hot elephant hearts grow full of desire, and the great beasts mate in secret at last, hiding their fire.

Media people should have long noses like an elephant to smell out politicians, mayors, prime ministers and businessmen. We need to know the reality, the good and the bad, not just the appearance.