Elvin Hayes Quotes

When asked if he was a basketball player he replied No I clean giraffe ears.

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• Gonzo leaps like a giraffe and grabs it.

  

  Jerry Coleman
  • Funny
  • Baseball
  • Humor

• Themistocles replied that a man's discourse was like to a rich Persian carpet, the beautiful figures and patterns of which can only be shown by spreading and extending it out; when it is contracted and folded up, they are obscured and lost.

  

  Plutarch
  • Discourse
  • Carpet
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• He once begged alms of a statue, and, when asked why he did so, replied, "To get practice in being refused."

  

  Diogenes
  • Refused
  • Statue
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• I'm a giraffe. I even walk like a giraffe with a long neck and legs. It's a pretty dumb animal, mind you.

  

  Sofia Villani Scicolone
  • Long
  • Mind
  • Animal

• People can start looking at me as a basketball player and not a patient.

  

  Eddy Curry
  • People
  • Patient
  • Basketball player

• What is the way of human life, the student asked. An open-eyed man falling down a well, the master replied.

  

  Eliot Pattison
  • Master
  • Human Life
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• My favourite animal is the koala, but his life would be boring. I would rather be a giraffe so that I could contemplate the beauty of Africa.

  

  Caterina Murino
  • Animal
  • Boring
  • Favourite

• Whence comes this idea that if what we are doing is fun, it can't be God's will? The God who made giraffes, a baby's fingernails, a puppy's tail, a crooknecked squash, the bobwhite's call, and a young girl's giggle, has a sense of humor. Make no mistake about that.

  

  Catherine Marshall
  • Fun
  • Girl
  • Joy

• Peter Jackson's instincts are extraordinary, as is his stamina.

  

  Christopher Lee

• I think it was interesting to be steeped in that [political] world.

  

  Cynthia Nixon
  • World
  • Thinking
  • Political

• But obviously a state which becomes progressively more and more of a unity will cease to be a state at all. Plurality of numbers is natural in a state; and the farther it moves away from plurality towards unity, the less of a state it becomes and the more a household, and the household in turn an individual.

  

  Aristotle
  • Individual
  • Unity
  • State

• Now, God be praised, that to believing souls gives light in darkness, comfort in despair.

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Believe
  • Giving
  • inspirational

• We are making our case that we're fiscally responsible and socially inclusive and welcoming. And we think we've got on the merits the best ticket of the three parties, if you will, and so, you know, we'd like to get there.

  

  William Weld
  • Thinking
  • Party
  • Responsible

• All of a sudden, making a Spanish-American War joke. I think you sort of had to go to probably to an American high school to have remembered that.

  

  David Mandel
  • School
  • American
  • Remembered

• Not in the knowledge of things without, but in the perfection of the soul within, lies the empire of man aspiring to be more than man.

  

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
  • Soul
  • Knowledge
  • Perfection

• A creative person has to believe in the unseen and the untouched.

  

  Paul Haggis
  • Believe
  • Person
  • Unseen

• That was a great time, the summer of '71 - I can't remember it, but I'll never forget it!

  

  Ian "Lemmy" Kilmister Motörhead
  • Great Time
  • Can't Remember
  • Foreget

• Murder is a crime. Describing Murder is not. Sex is not a crime. Describing sex is.

  

  Gershon Legman
  • Crime
  • Murder
  • Describing

• That's the strength of our offense, no doubt.

  

  Bob Hayes
  • Doubt
  • Strength
  • Offense

• When asked if he was a basketball player he replied No I clean giraffe ears.

  

  Elvin Hayes
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