Elephant Quotes

• Aunt Agatha is like an elephant-not so much to look at, for in appearance she resembles more a well-bred vulture, but because she never forgets.

  

  P. G. Wodehouse
  • She
  • Aunt
  • Elephant

• Elephant populations in India and also in the whole of Asia are under severe stress. The captive ones are rendered jobless due to changes in the mode of transport and lifestyle of people. The ones in the wild are also no better off, as the forests are shrinking.

  

  Mark Shand
  • People
  • Stress
  • Elephant

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

  

  Li Bingbing
  • People
  • May
  • Surprise

• Starting with a party scene for 600 cast and end up singing on top of a giant elephant...does it get any better than this?

  

  Ewan McGregor
  • Party
  • Singing
  • Giant

• They say that vegetable food is not sufficiently nutritious. But chemistry proves the contrary. So does physiology. So does experience....And again: the largest and strongest animals in the world are those which eat no flesh-food of any kind - the elephant and the rhinoceros.

  

  Russel Trall,
  • World
  • Experience
  • Food

• 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
  • May
  • Elephant

• I certainly think that there's a very serious question about the economic viability of the Freedom Tower. The prospect that the Freedom Tower would be built and would sit there vacant as essentially a white elephant that would sap the entire cash available to build the other buildings, is something that is very problematic.

  

  Eliot Spitzer
  • Freedom
  • Question
  • Serious

• People are so difficult. Give me an elephant any day.

  

  Mark Shand
  • People
  • Elephant

• Race and hip hop is kind of the elephant in the room.

  

  Martin Johnson Boys Like Girls
  • Race
  • Hip Hop
  • Elephant

• 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.

  

  Dalai Lama
  • People
  • Good
  • Long

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

  

  William Faulkner
  • Elephant
  • Pointless
  • Caviar

• It is trifling to believe in what you do or in what others do. You should avoid simulacra and even 'realities'; you should take up a position external to everything and everyone, drive off or grind down your appetites, live, according to a Hindu adage, with as few desires as a 'solitary elephant.

  

  Emil Cioran
  • Up
  • Believe
  • Live

• The world is not a burden; we make it a burden by our desires. When the desires are removed, the world is as light as a feather on an elephant's back.

  

  Baba Hari Dass
  • World
  • Light
  • Desire

• We're adding a billion people every decade. We're just spin doctors. Whatever we do is supposedly great, and yet it's always at the expense of diversity and nature. We're like elephants. The ecology of the elephant is more similar to human than any other.

  

  Peter Beard
  • People
  • Great
  • Nature

• I feel like, if there's an elephant in the room, I'd really like to start off by introducing the elephant in the room. And sometimes it's funny.

  

  Louis Theroux
  • Funny
  • Elephant

• 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
  • Small
  • Littles
  • Elephants

• A lot of people are afraid of the idea of enslavement, and that's because it's tied to so much shame and guilt... That is the big elephant in the room, but a part of why we're afraid to attack that subject matter is because of the way we've been taught about it.

  

  Aldis Hodge
  • People
  • Why
  • Elephant

• With four parameters I can fit an elephant, and with five I can make him wiggle his trunk.

  

  John von Neumann
  • Elephant

• It's funny: in the middle of making 'The Muse,' I was offered, at the time, the first 'Ice Age,' the part that Ray Romano took: I was offered the elephant. And I couldn't even stop to breathe, so I didn't do it. They've made, like, six of them. And in the animation business, for a voice actor, that's what you want. You want six, you know?

  

  Albert Brooks
  • Time
  • Business
  • Age

• I am so personally hurt with losses. I really am an elephant like that. I don't forget. I can still feel the pain and sting of it (last year's loss to Tennessee). So when you consider the length of the season and when you can be a little tired, I am not. I am just fueled by what could have been.

  

  C. Vivian Stringer
  • Consider
  • Elephant
  • Losses

• Jackie had a keen eye for talent, and like an elephant never forgot. And, he was always right on the mark.

  

  Audrey Meadows
  • Elephant

• I think theater ought to be theatrical ... you know, shuffling the pack in different ways so that it's -- there's always some kind of ambush involved in the experience. You're being ambushed by an unexpected word, or by an elephant falling out of the cupboard, whatever it is.

  

  Tom Stoppard
  • Different
  • Thinking
  • Experience

• I do not mean to call an elephant a vulgar animal, but if you think about him carefully, you will find that his nonvulgarity consists in such gentleness as is possible to elephantine nature-not in his insensitive hide, nor in his clumsy foot, but in the way he will lift his foot if a child lies in his way; and in his sensitive trunk, and still more sensitive mind, and capability of pique on points of honor.

  

  John Ruskin
  • Animal
  • Child
  • Honor

• Well, every one for himself, and Providence for us all-as the elephant said when he danced among the chickens.

  

  Charles Reade
  • Elephant

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