Purpose Quote by Seneca

“When elephants fight, the grass suffers.”

— Nnedi Okorafor

“The white hunter was laughing happily, his adoring girl was open-mouthed in admiration for his nerve, I was sweating with dismay and outrage, and…

— Martha Gellhorn

“All in all, it was the goldarndest, Barnum-and-Baileyest, rib-stickinest, rough-and-tumblest infernal foofaraw of a media circus anybody had seen since grandpaw chased the possum…

— John Varley

“The dog hunts rabbits. Hercule Poirot hunts murderers.”

— Agatha Christie

“It is the tame elephants who enjoy capturing the wild ones.”

— George Bernard Shaw

“Were we to be engaged in a war . . we should become absolutely destitute of elephants. . .What would our children do without…

— Paul Chambers

“The elephants are dancing on the graves of squeeling mice.”

— Cream

“When an elephant walks, it kills many small creatures; when we walk, we kill many small creatures; we are all random killers!”

— Mehmet Murat ildan

“It was the size of an ox, of a bull elephant, of a lifetime. It stared at them, and it paused for a hundred…

— Neil Gaiman

“People steal elephants. It happens all the time.”

— Jonathan Franzen

“A lion's greater talents are revealed in the jungle, not in the circus.”

— Matshona Dhliwayo

“The novel is a kind of elephant. But I like to make that elephant dance on a quarter.”

— John Banville