Trunk Quotes

180 quotes by 162 authors

I was on top of Keanu Reeves, he was on his back and I was on my trunk, and I was breathing down his neck… — Hugo Weaving
I always thought jazz was like the trunk of a tree. After the tree has grown, many branches have spread out. They're all with different… — Earl Hines
Like a child exploring the attic of an old house on a rainy day, discovering a trunk full of treasure and then calling all his… — Eugene H. Peterson
I remember my friend Johnny von Neumann used to say, 'with four parameters I can fit an elephant and with five I can make him… — Enrico Fermi
One thing that worried me was how writers get categorized and so they end up having to write the same kind of book again and… — Justin Cronin
Our elders say that an elephant does not find its own trunk heavy. — Zakes Mda
A lawyer I once knew told me of a strange case, a suffragette who had never married. After her death, he opened her trunk and… — Marguerite Young
We treat this world of ours as though we have a spare in the trunk. — Al Bernstein
Growth is the surviving influence in all our lives. The tree will send up its trunk in thick profusion from land burned black by atom… — Chester Himes
You can date the evolving life of a mind, like the age of a tree, by the rings of friendship formed by the expanding central… — Mary McCarthy
The mind is like a trunk: if well-packed, it holds almost every thing; if ill-packed, next to nothing. — Augustus William Hare
The evocative power of the drum can be compared to the Trinity. The drum's frame comes from the trunk of a tree, and that tree… — Babatunde Olatunji
What is a memory? Not a storehouse, not a trunk in the attic, but an instrument that constantly refines the past into a narrative, accessible… — Stanley Kauffmann
Trunk steady knocking/ Floating through the sky, Mary Poppins. — Riff Raff
When there is an invisible elephant in the room, one is from time to time bound to trip over a trunk. — Karen Joy Fowler
Art need not be intended. It comes inevitably as the tree from the root, the branch from the trunk, the blossom from the twig. None… — Robert Henri
I know now that he who hopes to be universal in his art must plant in his own soil. Great art is like a tree,… — Diego Rivera
A tree nowhere offers a straight line or a regular curve, but who doubts that root, trunk, boughs, and leaves embody geometry? — George Iles
No bit of the natural world is more valuable or more vulnerable than the tree bit. Nothing is more like ourselves, standing upright, caught between… — Seamus Heaney
Even as a tree has a single trunk, but many branches and leaves, there is one religion but any number of faiths. — Mahatma Gandhi

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