Elephants Quote by Roman Jakobson Download Open image “What's next? Shall we appoint elephants to teach zoology?” — Roman Jakobson ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.5 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare Elephants Next Teach Teaching Zoology
Studying elephants is like going back into prehistoric times. In size, elephants are the closest thigns we have to dinosaurs. There are days when… — Roland Smith Copy Share Image
Elephants are living treasures. Nature's gardeners. Nature's great teachers. Tragically some people don't give a damn. They prefer the dead treasure to the living… — Virginia McKenna Copy Share Image
“Were we to be engaged in a war . . we should become absolutely destitute of elephants. . .What would our children do without… — Paul Chambers Copy Share Image
Do you know what else thinks? Elephants. Thats right elephants. You know they have the largest brain in the animal kingdom. — Bagwell (from Prisom Break Copy Share Image
Elephants are so wise and so funny and so endangered and so intelligent. I just think there is a lot to learn from them. — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
To be well used, creatures and places must be used sympathetically, just as they must be known sympathetically to be well known...The "animal scientist"… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
I had seen a herd of Elephant travelling through dense native forest ... pacing along as if they had an appointment at the end… — Isak Dinesen Copy Share Image
Elephants are not human, of course. They are something much more ancient and primordial, living on a different plane of existence. Long before we… — Alex Shoumatoff Copy Share Image
What if man were required to educate his children without the help of talking animals. — Robert Breault Copy Share Image
Currently poaching threatens the very existence of the African Elephant, and my worry is that if we do not act NOW, we could be… — Yaya Toure 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 carried to… — Clarence Day Copy Share Image
Remember that the pharynx is at a crossroads from which leads off, at the top, the passage to the mouth cavity and the passage… — Roman Jakobson Copy Share Image
It is once again the vexing problem of identity within variety; without a solution to this disturbing problem there can be no system, no… — Roman Jakobson Copy Share Image
A new era in the physiological investigation of linguistic sounds was opened up by X-ray photography. — Roman Jakobson Copy Share Image
A linguist deaf to the poetic functions of language and a literary scholar indifferent to linguistics are equally flagrant anachronisms. — Roman Jakobson Copy Share Image
The poetic function is the set towards the message itself, focus on the message for its own sake which by promoting the palpability of… — Roman Jakobson Copy Share Image
At first acoustics attributed to the different sounds only a limited number of characteristic features. — Roman Jakobson Copy Share Image
Speech sounds cannot be understood, delimited, classified and explained except in the light of the tasks which they perform in language. — Roman Jakobson Copy Share Image
From a strictly articulatory point of view there is no succession of sounds. — Roman Jakobson Copy Share Image
Instead of following one another the sounds overlap; a sound which is acoustically perceived as coming after another one can be articulated simultaneously with… — Roman Jakobson Copy Share Image
In poetic language, in which the sign as such takes on an autonomous value, this sound symbolism becomes an actual factor and creates a… — Roman Jakobson Copy Share Image
I have a memory like an elephant. I remember every elephant I've ever met. — Herb Caen Copy Share Image
I remember my friend Johnny von Neumann used to say, 'with four parameters I can fit an elephant and with five I can make… — Enrico Fermi Copy Share Image
There's a place in Botswana where there are 100,000 elephants living in a single population. Think of the amount of space they need. Remember,… — Patrick Bergin Copy Share Image
Despite the reams of paperwork, obstacles worthy of a horse show, and a wait that can rival an elephant's gestation, adoption feels no different… — Scott Simon Copy Share Image
I watched a film called 'Elephant' recently. Its not stylish in the sense of expensive suits and Italian cars, but the styling on every… — Tinie Tempah Copy Share Image
'Helping industry' is the elephant pit of socialism, a deep hole with sharp spikes at the bottom, covered over with twigs and fresh grass. — Enoch Powell Copy Share Image
I returned to New Orleans and my problems with pari-mutuel windows and a dark-haired, milk-skinned wife from Martinique who went home with men from… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
If you've never seen an elephant ski, then you've never been on acid. — Eddie Izzard Copy Share Image
Soft fantasy worlds have a much looser cause-and-effect relationship. Alchemists can turn lead into gold and nobody wonders about how it will impact the… — Patrick Rothfuss 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 and wrong,… — Jonathan Haidt Copy Share Image
The world is not a burden; we make it a burden by our desires. When the desires are removed, the world is as light… — Baba Hari Dass Copy Share Image
If thou art of elephant-strength or of lion-claw, still peace is, in my opinion, better than strife. — Saadi Copy Share Image
