Best Elephant Wisdom
268 Elephant quotes by 215 unique authors
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I’m not certain you’d know the right sort of man for you if he arrived on our doorstep riding an elephant.” “I would think the…
— Julia Quinn
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You've got to shake your fists at lightning now, you've got to roar like forest fire You've got to spread your light like blazes all…
— Joni Mitchell
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General, your tank is a powerful vehicle It smashes down forests and crushes a hundred men. But it has one defect: It needs a driver.…
— Bertolt Brecht
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How hard can it be to find a girl and an elephant for Christ's sake?
— Sara Gruen
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Courage~ What makes the flag on the mast to wave? What makes the elephant charge his tusk in the misty mist, or the dusky dusk?…
— L. Frank Baum
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Frank stared at him. "Unfair? You can breathe underwater and blow up glaciers and summon freaking hurricanes-and it's unfair that I can be an elephant?"…
— Rick Riordan
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Oh, it's you," Curran's voice said quietly. "I thought it was an elephant.
— Ilona Andrews
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Guess who has PE first hour? This is so unfair. I start the day off perspiring like an elephant in heat. Don't the people who…
— Becca Fitzpatrick
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My drawing was not a picture of a hat. It was a picture of a boa constrictor digesting an elephant.
— Antoine de Saint-Exupery
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We have been led to imagine all sorts of things infinitely more marvelous than the imagining of poets and dreamers of the past. It shows…
— Richard P. Feynman
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He frowned as he struggled to remember. It was like watching an elephant crochet.
— Val McDermid
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I'm an elephant today. I will need to have lots of room and also a bowl of water on the floor.
— Jesse Ball
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Onyx is angry," Damian says. "Onyx has a right to be angry. You've got to remember, for many elephants, their life is that of a…
— Deb Caletti
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Ella is nervous,” the harpy muttered from her perch on the railing. “The elephant. The elephant is watching Ella.
— Rick Riordan
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Kat had been picking things up since her third birthday, when Hamish and Angus's father took them all to the circus because he needed to…
— Ally Carter
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It wasn't that I hated being asked a bunch of questions. I had nothing against questions. I just didn't like listening to them, because some…
— Jack Gantos
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She is the elephant’s eyebrows,” Evie whispered appreciatively. “Those jewels! How her neck must ache.” “That’s why Bayer makes aspirin,” Mabel whispered back, and Evie…
— Libba Bray
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How can we satisfy ourselves without going on in infinitum? And, after all, what satisfaction is there in that infinite progression? Let us remember the…
— David Hume
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The world rests upon a turtle, which itself stands on the back of an elephant!” Alek tried not to laugh. “Then what does the elephant…
— Scott Westerfeld
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There is no such thing as a perfect leader either in the past or present, in China or elsewhere. If there is one, he is…
— Unknown Author
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~I'm not someone who [lives] like, 'OK, this is a museum and you can't sit here and you can't touch this and everything has to…
— Heidi Klum
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There is only one way to eat an elephant, a bite at a time.
— Desmond Tutu
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Revitalizing General Motors is like teaching an elephant to tap dance. You find the sensitive spot and start poking.
— Ross Perot
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It is the little bits of things that fret and worry us; we can dodge a elephant, but we can't dodge a fly.
— Josh Billings
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It is curious how there seems to be an instinctive disgust in Man for his nearest ancestors and relations. If only Darwin could conscientiously have…
— Havelock Ellis
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