Elephants Quotes
364 Elephants quotes by 293 unique authors
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We'll be back to our nature documentary, 'Baggy the Anorexic Elephant' in just a second.
— Colin Mochrie
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Making films is about having absolute and foolish confidence; the challenge for all of us is to have the heart of a poet and the…
— Mira Nair
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Elephants have the largest brains of any mammal on the face of the Earth. They are creative, altruistic and kind.
— Ingrid Newkirk
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God is really only another artist. He invented the giraffe, the elephant and the cat. He has no real style, He just goes on trying…
— Pablo Picasso
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Love will draw an elephant through a key-hole.
— Samuel Richardson
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Elephants and grandchildren never forget.
— Andy Rooney
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There's a lot of films that have relatively rigid road maps because they have a script and others that are less rigid because they have…
— Gus Van Sant
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I had to wear a fat suit to play Mma Ramotswe in 'The No 1 Ladies' Detective Agency.' She's described as being like a small…
— Jill Scott
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I really wanted to work with David Lynch. I was a big fan of The Elephant Man and Eraserhead.
— Sting
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Living next to you is in some ways like sleeping with an elephant. No matter how friendly and even-tempered is the beast, if I can…
— Pierre Trudeau
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If you are neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor. If an elephant has its foot on the tail…
— Desmond Tutu
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I don't know where I learned elephants like their tongues slapped. Whatever turns you on.
— Betty White
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My roommate got a pet elephant. Then it got lost. It's in the apartment somewhere.
— Steven Wright
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While I had often said that I wanted to die in bed, what I really meant was that in my old age I wanted to…
— Roger Zelazny
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Although elephants are far more distantly related to us than the great apes, they seem to have evolved similar social and cognitive capacities.
— Frans de Waal
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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 sniff…
— Frans de Waal
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I feel like a carton of eggs holding up an elephant.
— Sherman Alexie
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But what humans forget, cells remember. The body, that elephant
— Jeffrey Eugenides
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A capacity for inferiority in the growing adult is threatened by the temptation by squander that capacity ruthlessly, to revel in hallowness. The syndrom especially…
— Gregory Maguire
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When there’s an elephant in the room introduce him.
— Randy Pausch
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The Enemy wants to bring the man to a state of mind in which he could design the best cathedral in the world, and know…
— C.S. Lewis
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It is in some ways more troublesome to track and swat an evasive wasp than to shoot, at close range, a wild elephant. But the…
— C.S. Lewis
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Then it is dark; it is a night where kings in golden suits ride elephants over the mountains.
— John Cheever
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You are obvious, boy. You are difficult to miss. If you came to me in company with a purple lion, a green elephant, and a…
— Neil Gaiman
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We came here for a small, informal meeting. We find you've turned it into a circus. Well, if you're going to have a circus, you've…
— Robert A. Heinlein
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