Denied Quote by Ambrose Bierce

PROBOSCIS, n. The rudimentary organ of an elephant which serves him in place of the knife-and-fork that Evolution has as yet denied him. For…

— Ambrose Bierce

“An elephant trunk is a metaphor for a penis. But not just any penis—my penis.”

— Jarod Kintz

“Ectoplasm is shapeless, it is “informe,” a kind of primordial paste—and to show itself as this, it annexes semiotic markers that designate intermediate spirit…

— Marina Warner

“The Greek word for kernel is karys, so the word used to describe creatures without a nucleus is prokaryotic—the name, originally procariotique, was coined…

— William Rosen

What do you mean 'we,' flesh-tube?

— Bender (The Cartoon Character

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

— Zakes Mda

What is an epigram? A dwarfish whole, its body brevity, and wit its soul.

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

In talking of evolution, it is common to have in mind a tree.

— Russell Stannard

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

“It was the call for animals that have two horns that brought out the snail”

— Ikechukwu Joseph

The text moves like a small crustacean with compound eye and complex nervous system; throbbing, involuted, it becomes a parasite on a different body,…

— Nicole Brossard

A closed mouth gathers no foot. A conclusion is simply the place where someone got tired of thinking. A fool-proof method for sculpting an…

— David Gries