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Image of Robert M. Sapolsky
Finish this lecture, go outside, and unexpectedly get gored by an elephant, and you are going to secrete glucocorticoids. There's no way out of it. You cannot psychologically reframe your experience and decide you did not like the shirt, here's an excuse to throw it out - that sort of thing.
- Robert M. Sapolsky
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Image of Randy Pausch
When there’s an elephant in the room introduce him.
- Randy Pausch
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Image of Patrick Rothfuss
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
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Image of Catherynne M. Valente
I've always had enough, even if my enough and your enough are as different as an elephant and a minaret.
- Catherynne M. Valente
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Image of James Patterson
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
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Image of William Faulkner
Pointless. . . . Like giving caviar to an elephant.
- William Faulkner
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Image of Antoine de Saint-Exupery
I showed the grown ups my maasterpiece, andI asked them if my drawing scared them. They answered why be scared of a hat? My drawing was not a picture of a hat. It was a picture of a boa constrictor digesting an elephant.
- Antoine de Saint-Exupery
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Image of Antoine de Saint-Exupery
My drawing was not a picture of a hat. It was a picture of a boa constrictor digesting an elephant.
- Antoine de Saint-Exupery
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Image of John Owen
In the divine Scriptures, there are shallows and there are deeps; shallows where the lamb may wade, and deeps where the elephant may swim.
- John Owen
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Image of Mike Tyson
Hannibal rode elephants into cartilage
- Mike Tyson
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Image of Rick Riordan
Ella is nervous,” the harpy muttered from her perch on the railing. “The elephant. The elephant is watching Ella.
- Rick Riordan
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Image of Ilona Andrews
Oh, it's you," Curran's voice said quietly. "I thought it was an elephant.
- Ilona Andrews
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Image of Desmond Tutu
There is only one way to eat an elephant, a bite at a time.
- Desmond Tutu
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Image of Thom Yorke
When I was four I read the story of horton hears a who and I cried. I wanted to eat that elephant.
- Thom Yorke
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Image of William Shakespeare
The elephant hath joints, but none for courtesy; his legs are legs for necessity, not for flexure.
- William Shakespeare
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Image of Kevin Spacey
Mediocrity is the elephant in the room.
- Kevin Spacey
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Image of Elizabeth Wein
Southampton's barrage balloons floated gleaming in the moonlight like the ghosts of elephants and hippos.
- Elizabeth Wein
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Image of Wyndham Lewis
Elephants are VERY BIG. Motor cars go quickly.
- Wyndham Lewis
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Image of Agatha Christie
Elephants can remember, but we are human beings and mercifully human beings can forget.
- Agatha Christie
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Image of Charlie Chaplin
Words are cheap. The biggest thing you can say is "elephant".
- Charlie Chaplin
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Image of Gilbert K. Chesterton
One elephant having a trunk was odd; but all elephants having trunks looked like a plot.
- Gilbert K. Chesterton
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Image of Bernard le Bovier de Fontenelle
Les vrais philosophes sont comme les e le phants, qui en marchant ne posent jamais le second pied a' terre que le premier ne soit bien affermi. True philosophers are like elephants, who when walking never placetheir second footontheground untilthefirst is steady.
- Bernard le Bovier de Fontenelle
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Image of Red Buttons
Noah's wife, who said to Noah, Don't let the elephants watch the rabbits. Never got a dinner!
- Red Buttons
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Image of Chanakya
If the bees which seek the liquid oozing from the head of a lust-intoxicated elephant are driven away by the flapping of his ears, then the elephant has lost only the ornament of his head. The bees are quite happy in the lotus filled lake.
- Chanakya
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Image of Anton Chekhov
I have the feeling that I've seen everything, but failed to notice the elephants.
- Anton Chekhov
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Image of Johann Georg Ritter von Zimmermann
In the sallies of badinage a polite fool shines; but in gravity he is as awkward as an elephant disporting.
- Johann Georg Ritter von Zimmermann
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Image of Dinesh D'Souza
Life after death is the elephant in the living room, the one that we are not supposed to notice.
- Dinesh D'Souza
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Image of Ray Comfort
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.
- Ray Comfort
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Image of Clarence Day
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.
- Clarence Day
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Image of Richard Dawkins
I am trying to call attention to the elephant in the room that everybody is too polite - or too devout - to notice: religion, and specifically the devaluing effect that religion has on human life.
- Richard Dawkins
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Image of Laurie Halse Anderson
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.
- Laurie Halse Anderson
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Image of Peter Senge
Dividing an elephant in half does not produce two small elephants.
- Peter Senge
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Image of Isak Dinesen
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
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Image of Wayne Pacelle
China cares about its reputation and doesn't want to be known as the nation whose preferences drove the extinction of elephants.
- Wayne Pacelle
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Image of Gautama Buddha
Awake. Be the witness of your thoughts. The elephant hauls himself from the mud. In the same way drag yourself out of your sloth.
- Gautama Buddha
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Image of Ani DiFranco
Patriarchy is like the elephant in the room that we don't talk about, but how could it not affect the planet radically when it's the superstructure of human society?
- Ani DiFranco
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Image of Peter Drucker
Large organizations cannot be versatile. A large organization is effective through its mass rather than through its agility. Fleas can jump many times their own height, but not an elephant.
- Peter Drucker
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Image of Aziz Ansari
I'm like an elephant, ok? If I walk into a room, it's like, OK, he's in there.
- Aziz Ansari
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Image of Suzy Kassem
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.
- Suzy Kassem
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Image of Sara Gruen
Although there are times I'd give anything to have her back, I'm glad she went first. Losing her was like being cleft down the middle. It was the moment it all ended for me, and I wouldn't have wanted her to go through that.
- Sara Gruen
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Image of Sara Gruen
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)
- Sara Gruen
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Image of Sara Gruen
Life goes on with fragile normalcy.
- Sara Gruen
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Image of Sara Gruen
Do you have any idea how much an elephant drinks?
- Sara Gruen
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Image of Temple Grandin
Whereas an elephant that was scared to death that diesel powered equipment, equipment that ran on a gas engine, was just fine. Because somebody had attacked it with construction equipment. But if it had a diesel engine, it was bad.
- Temple Grandin
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Image of Rahul Gandhi
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.
- Rahul Gandhi
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Image of Elizabeth Gaskell
Did I ever say an engagement was an elephant, madam?
- Elizabeth Gaskell
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Image of Thomas Friedman
The Arab awakening was like watching elephants fly: something you didn't expect, something you haven't seen before, "Wow, elephants fly."
- Thomas Friedman
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Image of Robert A. Heinlein
We came here for a small, informal meeting. We find you've turned it into a circus. Well, if you're going to have a circus, you've got to have elephants.
- Robert A. Heinlein
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