Elephants Quotes

There's enough sedative in these darts to bring down a werewolf, which is exactly what we're hunting. Why would we want to bring down an elephant if we're not hunting elephants?

I have a spaniel that defrocked a nun last week. He took hold of the cord. I had hold of the leash. It was like elephants holding tails. Imagine me undressing a nun, even second hand.

Mother elephants in the circus cannot help their babies, but we can.

Did I ever say an engagement was an elephant, madam?

I believe in miracles, I believe in the Law of Attraction, but even I don't think I'm big enough to manifest five Asian elephants cloaked in gold.

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.

I had a probing mind and an elephant memory.

Dealing with the State Department is like watching an elephant become pregnant.

Although elephants are far more distantly related to us than the great apes, they seem to have evolved similar social and cognitive capacities.

I wore bell bottoms in elementary school. Never wore elephant bells. Remember, this was middle Oklahoma in the '70s.

I was driving pretty much the way everyone drives in LA, like elephants dancing on each others’ backs at a circus.

A fool-proof method for sculpting an elephant: first, get a huge block of marble; then you chip away everything that doesn't look like an elephant.

All the religions are true, they just see a different part of the elephant.

The world is hollow. It's a lot to take in. Like cracking an egg and finding nothing inside. Or a full grown elephant.

Elephants are so wise and so funny and so endangered and so intelligent. I just think there is a lot to learn from them.

A man would rather be trampled by elephants on fire than tell you he's just not that into you.

They claim a hidden corner of our hearts, all those moments that stay with us unscreamed. That's where loves, like elephants, drag themselves to die. It's the place where pride allows itself to cry.

Right now I've got just two rules to live by. Rule one: don't taunt elephants. Rule two: don't stand next to anybody who taunts elephants. -Sergeant Schlock

Oh, it's you," Curran's voice said quietly. "I thought it was an elephant.

Elephants have the largest brains of any mammal on the face of the Earth. They are creative, altruistic and kind.

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.

I think the lion, besides the elephant, was the one animal that I just started thinking about so much.

As big as an elephant is, a whale is still larger. Everything's relative. Even gods have their spot on the food chain.

There are some people the gestation period is like an elephant's and it's just years and years before they're ready.

I know my Republican friends were glad to see my wife feeding an elephant in India. She gave him sugar and nuts. But of course the elephant wasn't satisfied.

It was six men of Hindustan To learning much inclined, Who went to see the Elephant (Though all of them were blind) That each by observation Might satisfy the mind.

It's amazing how quickly human beings adapt, isn't it? It was such a great crew, and David [Lynch] was wonderful to work with [on 'The Elephant Man']. It was a very thrilling time, actually.

The rider evolved to serve to the elephant.

You see, in a world where elephants are pursued by flying men, people are just naturally going to want to get high.

If the world held magic powerful enough to make the elephant appear, then there must exist, too, magic in equal measure, magic powerful enough to undo what had been done.

Some women are like elephants. I don't mean size, I mean they never forget.

I need to finish this scarf/shawl/blanket thing so I can start something for Emma- a hat, maybe, or a sweater for her stuffed elephant.

This New York thing is being blown out of proportion. Who gives a **** about New York when elephants are being killed?

Any writer who believes in the 'lucky creative accident' in writing is pushing elephants on roller skates up greased ramps.

It may surprise people to learn that one elephant is killed every 15 minutes for its ivory.

He laughed. The laugh could strip the skin off an elephant in seconds.

In America you have the mouse now trying to sit down on the elephant, thinking that he's going somewhere. And it's - and it's absurd.

Publishers are in business to make money, and if your books do well they don't care if you are male, female, or an elephant.

Only those with skin as thick as elephant hide can hope to sail through their teens unscathed by self-doubt and bouts of depression.

A novelist is an elephant, but an elephant who must pretend to forget.

God is not troubled by one who is conservative or liberal, and He certainly never inclines His ear toward a donkey or an elephant.

Not every ant which stays under the elephant's foot dies; the most powerful cannot always kill the weakest!

Elephants don't know anything about the world of ants; the peaks of mountains are oblivious of what is happening on the plains!

Every worm has to turn and every mouse must bite the elephant

Band of Skulls is joining Cage the Elephant as my new musical caffeine.

We...we could be friends.' We COULD be rare specimens of an exotic breed of dancing African elephants, but we're not. At least, I'M not.

Ella is nervous,” the harpy muttered from her perch on the railing. “The elephant. The elephant is watching Ella.

The thing about movie musicals is that there have been some brilliant ones, but when they're bad, they're really bad - big white elephants.

You can eat an elephant if you do it one bite at a time.

I wanted to work with an elephant.