Elephants Quotes · Page 3

Do you have any idea how much an elephant drinks?

— Sara Gruen

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

— Dave Soldier

Some women are like elephants. I don't mean size, I mean they never forget.

— Laura Schlessinger

Our elders say that an elephant does not find its own trunk heavy.

— Zakes Mda

How hard can it be to find a girl and an elephant for Christ's sake?

— Sara Gruen

Revitalizing General Motors is like teaching an elephant to tap dance. You find the sensitive spot and start poking.

— Ross Perot

Awake. Be the witness of your thoughts. The elephant hauls himself from the mud. In the same way drag yourself out of…

— Gautama Buddha

Old elephants limp off to the hills to die; old Americans go out to the highway and drive themselves to death with…

— Hunter S. Thompson

We call a thing big or little with reference to what it is wont to be, as we speak of a small…

— D'Arcy Wentworth Thompson

Never let the guy with the broom decide how many elephants can be in the parade.

— Merlin Mann

Let's point out the elephant in the room: Actor bands are not notoriously successful enterprises. I can't think of any.

— Michael Shannon

The circus a place where horses, ponies and elephants are permitted to see men, women and children acting the fool.

— Ambrose Bierce

The whole new Democratic Party is the old Republican Party. We have a whole bunch of elephants running around in donkey's clothes.

— Robert Novak

I feel so guilty when I see orcas performing their stupid tricks in their little swimming pools, and when I see circuses…

— Sam Simon

America is not an elephant. For one thing, elephants never forget, whereas Americans don't really know much to begin with. Ninety per…

— Rick Mercer

It's amazing how quickly human beings adapt, isn't it? It was such a great crew, and David [Lynch] was wonderful to work…

— John Hurt

Surely all God's people, however serious or savage, great or small, like to play. Whales and elephants, dancing, humming gnats, and invisibly…

— John Muir

Kat had been picking things up since her third birthday, when Hamish and Angus's father took them all to the circus because…

— Ally Carter

Large organizations cannot be versatile. A large organization is effective through its mass rather than through its agility. Fleas can jump many…

— Peter Drucker

They [gorillas] are brave and loyal. They help each other. They rival elephants as parents and whales for gentleness. They play and…

— Pat Derby

Helmet was joined to helmet, and spear to spear, and jewels, baggage, and elephants without number went with them, and you would…

— Ferdowsi

I think that the reason that people are so up in arms about movies that have historical inaccuracies is because now that…

— Nicholas Meyer

There were times, especially when I was traveling for 'Eat, Pray, Love,' when, I swear to God, I would feel this weight…

— Elizabeth Gilbert

It wasn't that I hated being asked a bunch of questions. I had nothing against questions. I just didn't like listening to…

— Jack Gantos

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

— Lois Lowry

The mind is divided, like a rider on an elephant, and the rider’s job is to serve the elephant. The rider is…

— Jonathan Haidt

We did a campaign here with New York Times. We had a great ad: "Today in America, someone will kill an elephant…

— Patrick Bergin

Even animals have a conscience. Those in the jungle KILL only to eat, not live to kill. This is why we often…

— Suzy Kassem

“The reader, knowing nothing about the ‘dark continent,’ filled in the blanks. Pictured Stone in a tent, kerosene lamp held up by…

— Abraham Verghese

You see, in a world where elephants are pursued by flying men, people are just naturally going to want to get high.

— Judith Rascoe

Women are like elephants to me: nice to look at, but I wouldn't want to own one.

— WC Fields

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

— Lenny Kravitz

“If you want to change people's minds, you've got to talk to their elephants.”

— jonathan haidt

The elephants were being slaughtered in masses. Some were even killed in the vicinity of big tourist hotels.

— Richard Leakey

So oft in theologic wars, The disputants, I ween, Rail on in utter ignorance Of what each other mean, And prate about…

— John McQuiston II

“So Geographers in Afric-maps With Savage-Pictures fill their Gaps; And o'er uninhabitable Downs Place Elephants for want of Towns”

— Jonathan Swift

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

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

We already live a very long time for mammals, getting three times as many heartbeats as a mouse or elephant. It never…

— David Brin

Do not be thoughtless, always be mindful, watch your thoughts! Draw yourself out of the path of evil, like an elephant sunk…

— Gautama Buddha

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

— Ellen Wittlinger