Elephant Quotes · Page 5

Last night I shot an elephant in my pajamas and how he got in my pajamas I'll never know.

— Groucho Marx

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

— Michael Koryta

“Q: How do you tell when there's an elephant in the pit? A: Peanut shells on the floor.”

— Bucky Sinister

One elephant having a trunk was odd; but all elephants having trunks looked like a plot.

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

One morning I shot an elephant in my pajamas. How he got into my pajamas I'll never know.

— Groucho Marx

“When an elephant walks, it kills many small creatures; when we walk, we kill many small creatures; we are all random killers!”

— Mehmet Murat ildan

when there's an elephant in the room, you can't pretend it isn't there and just discuss the ants.

— Ellen Wittlinger

I've always had enough, even if my enough and your enough are as different as an elephant and a minaret.

— Catherynne M. Valente

I’m not certain you’d know the right sort of man for you if he arrived on our doorstep riding an elephant.” “I…

— Julia Quinn

“An elephant trumpeted, raising its trunk into the sky, as they flew overhead. To the untrained eye, it seemed like a greeting.…

— Brian Falkner

I'm not a Republican, but I was one once - when I was 7 years old. Not my fault. The symbol of…

— Hari Kondabolu

How many African American champions have there been over the course of WWE's history? It's something that was the elephant in the…

— Kofi Kingston

We always do a white elephant gift exchange on Christmas Eve, but my mom always gets really nice gifts for it. And…

— Lacey Chabert

I think my approach is best summarised with the colloquial elephant in the room. These elephants are everywhere, but people pretend they…

— Hito Steyerl

In the central Indian state of Orissa, mining has scarred the landscape, and it is already too late to secure most of…

— Mark Shand

I don't know how many lions and leopards I've shot. I've shot two elephants, which was enough - never again. It's a…

— Wilbur Smith

I saw a dead elephant in one of Kenya's natural reserves. Around her were footprints of her baby elephant. This was just…

— Li Bingbing

It is absurd for a man to kill an elephant. It is not brutal, it is not heroic, and certainly it is…

— Beryl Markham

When I started out as a 12-13 year old, it was a stupid idea. I remember when I went to try to…

— Abhinav Bindra

Animals are indeed more ancient, more complex and in many ways more sophisticated than us. They are more perfect because they remain…

— Daphne Sheldrick

The elephant, not only the largest but the most intelligent of animals, provides us with an excellent example. It is faithful and…

— Saint Francis de Sales

“bells. “I accept your kind invitation,” Zelikman said. “My services as a physician ought just to offset my fare.” The elephant gave…

— Michael Chabon

I can watch elephants (and elephants alone) for hours at a time, for sooner or later the elephant will do something very…

— Peter Matthiessen

[Elephants] are less agile and physically less adaptable than ourselves - Nature having developed their bodies in one direction and their brains…

— Beryl Markham

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

— Franklin D. Roosevelt

When you appear on the screen, often enough you become sexy, even if you look like an elephant.

— Vincent Cassel

I like my stationery to be funnier, like, 'Here's my note, and it's an elephant with a lady smoking a cigarette on…

— Kate Spade

“Once there was an elephant, Who tried to use the telephant-- No! No! I mean an elephone, Who tired to use the…

— Anonymous

An elephant is the king of the jungle for the simple reason a lion is only brave when there is loads of…

— Dereck Chisora

Our party's symbol is the elephant, and its weight, size and strength symbolize Uttar Pradesh.

— Mayawati

When I hear someone say 'elephant,' I instantly think they must be talking about me.

— Alison Hammond

“We are so used to the elephant in the room that sometimes we forget it is there”

— Aminatta Forna

“The elephant in the room. It can't be talked about. It can't be ignored.”

— Michael Robotham

The creeping optimism that there might be a route to peace in Syria remains constrained by the elephant in the room -…

— Crispin Blunt

I assume you should make room for the elephant. Boom, where I come from is irrelevant.

— XV

Race in this country is still the elephant in the room that no one wants to discuss.

— Lenny Kravitz

We all have that one friend that is stick thin but eats like an elephant.

— Anonymous

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

— Mehmet Murat Ildan

Seriously, a smaller, leaner, cleaner, tuskless and more secretive elephant is exactly what is needed. It definitely would live longer.

— Lyall Watson

My roommate got a pet elephant. Then it got lost. It's in the apartment somewhere.

— Steven Wright