Top Elephants Quotes Collection

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Image of Ellen Wittlinger
when there's an elephant in the room, you can't pretend it isn't there and just discuss the ants.
- Ellen Wittlinger
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Image of Karen Joy Fowler
When there is an invisible elephant in the room, one is from time to time bound to trip over a trunk.
- Karen Joy Fowler
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Image of Val McDermid
He frowned as he struggled to remember. It was like watching an elephant crochet.
- Val McDermid
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Image of Spike Milligan
Education isn't everything, for a start it isn't an elephant
- Spike Milligan
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Image of Victor Borge
I do not have a single white note on my piano; my elephant smoked too much.
- Victor Borge
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Image of Howard Tayler
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
- Howard Tayler
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Image of Jesse Ball
I'm an elephant today. I will need to have lots of room and also a bowl of water on the floor.
- Jesse Ball
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Image of Jonathan Winters
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
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Image of John von Neumann
With four parameters I can fit an elephant, and with five I can make him wiggle his trunk.
- John von Neumann
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Image of Chris Bradford
Don’t try to eat an elephant for lunch.
- Chris Bradford
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Image of Randolph Bourne
He who mounts a wild elephant goes where the elephant goes.
- Randolph Bourne
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Image of John Sedgwick
They couldn't hit an elephant at this dist...
- John Sedgwick
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Image of Gene Spafford
The Internet is like a herd of performing elephants with diarrhoea - massive, difficult to re-direct, awe-inspiring, entertaining, and a source of mind-boggling amounts of excrement when you least expect it.
- Gene Spafford
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Image of Emanuel Celler
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
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Image of Bernard le Bovier de Fontenelle
A true philosopher is like an elephant; he never puts the second foot down until the first one is solidly in place.
- Bernard le Bovier de Fontenelle
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Image of Jacques Monod
What is true for E. coli is also true for the elephant.
- Jacques Monod
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Image of Edward Topsell
There is no creature among all the Beasts of the world which hath so great and ample demonstration of the power and wisdom of almighty God as the Elephant.
- Edward Topsell
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Image of Norris Church Mailer
Well, I bought a ticket to the circus. I don't know why I was surprised to see elephants.
- Norris Church Mailer
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Image of A. M. Rosenthal
OK, the rule is, you can [make love to] an elephant if you want to, but if you do you can't cover the circus.
- A. M. Rosenthal
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Image of David Crosby
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.
- David Crosby
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Image of Paul Dickson
Abrams's Advice: When eating an elephant, take one bite at a time.
- Paul Dickson
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Image of Marion Davies
I had a really good time at MGM. And we had no quarrels much, except once in a while, I'd go up to the front office and say I thought I should be doing something big, like washing elephants ... All my life I wanted to have talent ... Finally I had to admit there was nothing there.
- Marion Davies
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Image of Carlo M. Cipolla
As Dr. Chiang puts it, “while Buddha came to China on white elephants, Christ was borne on cannon balls.
- Carlo M. Cipolla
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Image of Merlin Mann
Never let the guy with the broom decide how many elephants can be in the parade.
- Merlin Mann
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Image of Arthur Mutambara
It is better to own 10% of an elephant than 100% of a rat.
- Arthur Mutambara
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Image of Zakes Mda
Our elders say that an elephant does not find its own trunk heavy.
- Zakes Mda
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Image of Enrico Fermi
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
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Image of D'Arcy Wentworth Thompson
We call a thing big or little with reference to what it is wont to be, as we speak of a small elephant or a big rat.
- D'Arcy Wentworth Thompson
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Image of Michael Basman
Every worm has to turn and every mouse must bite the elephant
- Michael Basman
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Image of Gary Reilly
I was driving pretty much the way everyone drives in LA, like elephants dancing on each others’ backs at a circus.
- Gary Reilly
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Image of Ofir Drori
Seized ivory stocks around Africa are recycled back into illegal trade due to corruption. Ivory stocks should be burnt together with the hopes of traffickers for any "legal" way to allow them to slaughter our elephants.
- Ofir Drori
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Image of Gregory Colbert
Every culture from the Egyptians to the Mayans to the American Indians to the Bedouins created bestiaries that enabled them to express their relationship with nature. Ashes and Snow is a 21st-century bestiary filled with species from around the world. Nature’s orchestra includes not just Homo sapiens but elephants, whales, manatees, eagles, cheetahs, orangutans, and many others.
- Gregory Colbert
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Image of 'Little' Jimmy Dickens
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.
- 'Little' Jimmy Dickens
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Image of 'Little' Jimmy Dickens
May an elephant caress you with his toes
- 'Little' Jimmy Dickens
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Image of Robert Christopher Riley
You can eat an elephant if you do it one bite at a time.
- Robert Christopher Riley
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Image of Guy Kawasaki
Eat like a bird, poop like an elephant.
- Guy Kawasaki
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Image of George F. Kennan
The United States should not jump around like an elephant frightened by a mouse.
- George F. Kennan
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Image of Amanda Filipacchi
Making wishes on the elephant is emotionally dangerous, because inevitably one's hopes rise abnormally high, unhealthily high, and when the wish does not come true, one's high hopes get crushed more painfully than if one had not asked for the help of supernatural powers. Therefore, one should always try to make the wish casually and forget about it instantly after making it, which is what I try to do now.
- Amanda Filipacchi
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Image of Yaya Toure
Currently poaching threatens the very existence of the African Elephant, and my worry is that if we do not act NOW, we could be looking at a future in which this iconic species is wiped out.
- Yaya Toure
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Image of Yaya Toure
The illegal wildlife trade threatens not only the survival of entire species, such as elephants and rhinos, but also the livelihoods and, often, the very lives of millions of people across Africa who depend on tourism for a living.
- Yaya Toure
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Image of Li Bingbing
It may surprise people to learn that one elephant is killed every 15 minutes for its ivory.
- Li Bingbing
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Image of Mary Portas
The elephant in the room time and time again when it comes to work and promotions is maternity leave. We need to work with businesses so they work with women and make it easy and supportive for them to come back into the workplace.
- Mary Portas
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Image of Robert Pattinson
I wanted to work with an elephant.
- Robert Pattinson
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Image of Jonathan Haidt
The rider evolved to serve to the elephant.
- Jonathan Haidt
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Image of Jules Verne
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
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Image of L. Frank Baum
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
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Image of Lilith Saintcrow
He laughed. The laugh could strip the skin off an elephant in seconds.
- Lilith Saintcrow
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Image of Enoch Powell
'Helping industry' is the elephant pit of socialism, a deep hole with sharp spikes at the bottom, covered over with twigs and fresh grass.
- Enoch Powell
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Image of Jonathan Swift
So geographers, in Africa maps, With savage pictures fill their gaps, And o'er uninhabitable downs Place elephants for want of towns
- Jonathan Swift
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