The elephant, the huge old beast, is slow to mate;

So slowly the hot elephant hearts grow full of desire, and the great beasts mate in secret at last, hiding their fire.

— D. H. Lawrence

Oh, it's you," Curran's voice said quietly. "I thought it was an elephant.

— Ilona Andrews

The knife flaying the elephant does not have to be large, only sharp!

— Andre Norton

The U.N. bureaucracy has grown to elephantine proportions. Now that the Cold War is over, we are asking that elephant to do gymnastics.

— Madeleine Albright

Making films is about having absolute and foolish confidence; the challenge for all of us is to have the heart of a poet and…

— Mira Nair

When you hear the elephant music you're hearing what they mean to make.

— Dave Soldier

I feel as if I go to Africa, I may never come back. I'm just going to live with the animals and adopt an…

— Dianna Agron

Now he saw another elephant emerge from the place where it had stood hidden in the trees. Very slowly it walked to the mutilated…

— Lois Lowry

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

— Ellen Wittlinger

The elephant is never won by anger; nor must that man who would reclaim a lion take him by the teeth.

— John Dryden

No Child Left Behind ... is a giraffe with an elephant's body. ... You can't take the vision of Ted Kennedy and merge it…

— Steve Rauschenberger

And that is how Goodwin problems were always fixed. Fix them on the surface but don't go to the root, always ignoring the elephant…

— Cecelia Ahern

Unlike the primate hand, the elephant's grasping organ is also its nose. Elephants use their trunks not only to reach food but also to…

— Frans de Waal

If you've never seen an elephant ski, then you've never been on acid.

— Eddie Izzard

I watched a film called 'Elephant' recently. Its not stylish in the sense of expensive suits and Italian cars, but the styling on every…

— Tinie Tempah