Mediocrity is the elephant in the room.

“As I remarked before, the Asiatic elephant is smaller than the African, which is frequently twelve feet high, and its tusks are in proportion.…

— Jules Verne

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

I think success is a relative term. If you're a caveman, success is capturing an elephant. Success is achieving better than the norm. Success…

— Jon Taffer

“How much does an elephant weigh? ”

— Rhonda Patton

“Money, you could say, was the elephant in The Room .”

— Greg Sestero

“The best way to eat an elephant is one bite at a time.”

— Wayne Nakoneczny high school track coach

I've been told I looked like I swallowed an elephant or a pig, whichever was more fitting that day.

— Katelyn Ohashi

My first experience with film was through a still camera. I would sit, very much against my will, with my father in the game…

— Gavid Hood

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

— Eddie Izzard

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

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

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

— Kate Spade

“It was the size of an ox, of a bull elephant, of a lifetime. It stared at them, and it paused for a hundred…

— Neil Gaiman

While I had often said that I wanted to die in bed, what I really meant was that in my old age I wanted…

— Roger Zelazny

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