Making films is about having absolute and foolish confidence; the challenge for all of us is to have the heart of a… — Mira Nair Copy Share Image
Elephants suffer from too much patience. Their exhibitions of it may seem superb,-such power and such restraint, combined, are noble,-but a quality… — Clarence Day Copy Share Image
I'm just getting settled as a responsible man - but if you split the elephant into little mouthfuls it will be fine. — Tom Hardy Copy Share Image
Man is a distance runner as a consequence of hundreds of thousands of years of chasing antelopes, horses, elephants, wild cattle, and… — Paul Shepard Copy Share Image
What is bigger than an elephant? But this also is become man's plaything, and a spectacle at public solemnities; and it learns… — Plutarch Copy Share Image
Southampton's barrage balloons floated gleaming in the moonlight like the ghosts of elephants and hippos. — Elizabeth Wein Copy Share Image
Primate and elephant and even pig societies show considerable evidence of care for others, parent-child bonding, solidarity in the face of danger,… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
A true philosopher is like an elephant; he never puts the second foot down until the first one is solidly in place. — Bernard le Bovier de Fontenelle Copy Share Image
Ignorant have always the tendency to see the donkey as the noble horse, to see the pig as the lion! Ignore the… — Mehmet Murat Ildan Copy Share Image
I was pretty shocked to learn that as many as 30,000 elephants are being killed every year to fuel the ivory trade,… — Ian Somerhalder Copy Share Image
At first, I could lie about my lack of sleep and she'd fall for it, but she started suspecting insomnia when I… — Darynda Jones Copy Share Image
It happened while I was filming “Water for Elephants in which my partner is Reese Witherspoon. We had a scene with elephants… — Robert Pattinson Copy Share Image
My biggest influence growing up was Mad magazine, which is a very text-heavy form of visual satire. I didn’t grow up wanting… — Tom Tomorrow Copy Share Image
Ecologically speaking, a spilt tanker load is like sticking a safety pin into an elephant's foot. The planet barely notices. After the… — Jeremy Clarkson Copy Share Image
I don't have an idea for a play until after I've finished writing it. I write first, and come up with what… — Wallace Shawn Copy Share Image
If you've got a great crew it's intense, but its quite short. 'The Elephant Man' was longer than most, for an independent… — John Hurt Copy Share Image
I cannot tell by what logic we call a toad, a bear, or an elephant ugly; they being created in those outward… — Thomas Browne Copy Share Image
'The Nature of Jade' is about a girl who works with the elephants at the zoo near her home, and who, through… — Deb Caletti Copy Share Image
When people talk about South Africa, it's all about lions and elephants. But when we talk about India, we talk about tigers. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Earlier, 100,000 elephants lived in Kenya and we didn't have any noteworthy problem with it. The problem that we have is not… — Richard Leakey Copy Share Image
The whole idea of being in captivity in such limited space, especially in a zoo, causes elephants to suffer. They develop all… — Lily Tomlin Copy Share Image
At noon I feel as though I could devour all the elephants of Hindostan, and then pick my teeth with the spire… — Heinrich Heine Copy Share Image
General, your tank is a powerful vehicle It smashes down forests and crushes a hundred men. But it has one defect: It… — Bertolt Brecht Copy Share Image
“Ew.' 'Yeah,' Claire said. 'I need a shower.' 'I don't think a shower's going to cut it. Maybe fire hoses, and those… — Rachel Caine Copy Share Image
“The idea for elephant-back safaris was initially that of the photographer, socialite, and Africa hand Peter Beard, who suggested to Moore in… — Paul Theroux Copy Share Image
It's very difficult to move yourself up bit by bit. It's like trying to eat an elephant for God's sake. I can… — Colin Montgomerie Copy Share Image
You can see the rider serving the elephant when people are morally dumbfounded. They have strong gut feelings about what is right… — Jonathan Haidt Copy Share Image
A lot of my dreams have to do with animals I think because I'm such a huge animal lover. I have so… — Paris Hilton Copy Share Image
“But yet, but yet . . . the night he died, they [the elephants] were right there outside his house. And they… — Lawrence Anthony Copy Share Image
I will be doing a film called Whispers, for Disney. It's about elephants, and doesn't have any people in it. It will… — Trevor Rabin Copy Share Image
During his fifteen years in Italy, Hannibal never had enough elephants to suit him. Most of the original group succumbed to the… — Will Cuppy Copy Share Image
Absolute brain size does not tell you everything or possibly sometimes even much. Elephants and whales both have brains larger than ours,… — Bill Bryson Copy Share Image
And that is how Goodwin problems were always fixed. Fix them on the surface but don't go to the root, always ignoring… — Cecelia Ahern Copy Share Image
Be humble as the blade of grass that is being trodden underneath the feet. The little ant tastes joyously the sweetness of… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I'm moved by us, our quirks and mistakes. I find inspiration in everything from a piece of art to the hem of… — Idara Victor Copy Share Image
An elephant is vastly more efficient, metabolically, than a mouse. It's the same for a megacity as opposed to a village. But… — Nassim Nicholas Taleb Copy Share Image
I was never a great reader, but there were two stories I loved best: Kipling's The Elephant's Child and The Jungle Book.… — Michael Morpurgo Copy Share Image
There appears to be a deeply embedded uneasiness in our culture about throwing away junk that can be reused. Perhaps, in part,… — William Booth Copy Share Image
Finish this lecture, go outside, and unexpectedly get gored by an elephant, and you are going to secrete glucocorticoids. There's no way… — Robert M. Sapolsky Copy Share Image
These magnificent species of Africa - elephants, rhino, lions, leopards, cheetah, the great apes (Africa has four of the world's five great… — Patrick Bergin Copy Share Image