Elephants Quotes - Page 3

• I have a face like the behind of an elephant.

  Charles Laughton

  Complaining, Faces, Complaints

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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• I couldn't hit an elephant's ass with a bull fiddle.

  Babe Didrikson Zaharias

  Bulls, Ass, Fiddle

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• I do believe that the party has a bunch of elephants running around in donkey clothes.

  Al Sharpton

  Running, Party, Believe

  Interview with Robert Novak, January 2003.

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• But my mother loved The Elephant Man, and my father gave David Lynch a scholarship to study in Rome.

  Isabella Rossellini

  Mother, Father, Men

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• We have to be aggressive when those we stick up for have no voice. I don't consider it radical to say cruelty is wrong and that animals should be respected. I consider it radical to eat corpses, put electrodes in animals' heads, make elephants live in chains in the circus, and poison animals we consider a nuisance.

  Ingrid Newkirk

  Animal, Voice, Poison

  Veg Family, March 2003.

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• We'll be back to our nature documentary, 'Baggy the Anorexic Elephant' in just a second.

  Colin Mochrie

  Documentaries, Anorexics

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• One morning I shot an elephant in my pajamas. How he got into my pajamas I'll never know.

  Groucho Marx

  Funny, Good Morning, Witty

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• I don't do impersonations. I can do a wounded elephant! I can do a really good cow! And because of the amount of time I spent in North Yorkshire, I do a variety of sheep. All of which I will be happy to roll out for you!

  Patrick Stewart

  Sheep, Yorkshire, Cows

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• The whole new Democratic Party is the old Republican Party. We have a whole bunch of elephants running around in donkey's clothes.

  Robert Novak

  Running, Party, Clothes

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• Elephants and grandchildren never forget.

  Andy Rooney

  Grandmother, Grandchildren, Grandpa

  Andrew A. Rooney (2010). “Andy Rooney: 60 Years of Wisdom and Wit”, p.182, PublicAffairs

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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 call it that, one is affected by every twitch and grunt.

  Pierre Trudeau

  Sleep, Friendly, Matter

  Pierre Trudeau's address to the Press Club in Washington, D.C., March 25, 1969.

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• I really wanted to work with David Lynch. I was a big fan of The Elephant Man and Eraserhead.

  Sting

  Men, Fans, Bigs

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• I don't know where I learned elephants like their tongues slapped. Whatever turns you on.

  Betty White

  Tongue, Turns, Knows

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• PROBOSCIS, n. The rudimentary organ of an elephant which serves him in place of the knife-and-fork that Evolution has as yet denied him. For purposes of humor it is popularly called a trunk.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Science, Knives, Purpose

  Ambrose Bierce (2016). “The Devil's Dictionary: The Devil World”, p.171, 谷月社

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• I look after those who look after me." He smacks his lips, stares at me, and adds, "I also look after those who don't." - Sara Gruen (Water for Elephants)

  Sara Gruen

  Water, Add, Looks

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• There is no creature among all the Beasts of the world which hath so great and ample demonstration of the power and wisdom of almighty God as the Elephant.

  Edward Topsell

  World, Beast, Almighty

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• But perhaps the most important lesson I learned is that there are no walls between humans and the elephants except those that we put up ourselves, and that until we allow not only elephants, but all living creatures their place in the sun, we can never be whole ourselves.

  Lawrence Anthony

  Inspirational, Motivational, Wall

  Anthony Lawrence, Lawrence Anthony, Graham Spence (2009). “The Elephant Whisperer: Learning About Life, Loyalty and Freedom From a Remarkable Herd of Elephants”, p.365, Pan Macmillan

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• Life goes on with fragile normalcy.

  Sara Gruen

  Normalcy, Goes On, Fragile

  Sara Gruen (2016). “The Sara Gruen Collection: Water for Elephants - At the Water's Edge - Ape House”, p.264, Hachette UK

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• If anyone wants to know what elephants are like, they are like people only more so.

  Pierre Corneille

  Animal, People, Want

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• What is the elephant in all our rooms? It is the global triumph of capitalism. Democracy is fiercely disputed. Freedom is under threat even in old-established democracies such as Britain. Western supremacy is on the skids. But everyone does capitalism. Americans and Europeans do it. Indians do it. Russian oligarchs and Saudi princes do it. Even Chinese communists do it... Karl Marx would be turning in his grave. Or perhaps not, since some of his writings eerily foreshadowed our era of globalised capitalism. His prescription failed but his description was prescient.

  Timothy Garton Ash

  Writing, Chinese, Democracy

  "Global capitalism now has no serious rivals. But it could destroy itself" by Timothy Garton Ash, www.theguardian.com. February 21, 2007.

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• But as the work proceeded I was continually reminded of the fable about the elephant and the tortoise. Having constructed an elephant upon which the mathematical world could rest, I found the elephant tottering, and proceeded to construct a tortoise to keep the elephant from falling. But the tortoise was not more secure than the elephant, and after some twenty years of very arduous toil, I came to the conclusion that there was nothing more that I could do in the way of making mathematical knowledge indubitable.

  Bertrand Russell

  Fall, Years, World

  Bertrand Russell (1998). “Autobiography”, p.725, Psychology Press

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• Sybil's female forebears had valiantly backed up their husbands as distant embassies were besieged, had given birth on a camel or in the shade of a stricken elephant, had handed around the little gold chocolates while trolls were trying to break into the compound, or had merely stayed at home and nursed such bits of husbands and sons as made it back from endless little wars. The result was a species of woman who, when duty called, turned into solid steel.

  Terry Pratchett

  Husband, War, Home

  "Thud!".

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• I have a memory like an elephant. In fact, elephants often consult me.

  Noel Coward

  Memories, Facts

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• So I went home and I told my mom that I wanted to quit and be an actress and she said, “Huh, that sounds fascinating. It’s wonderful!” And I told my father and he literally said, “I don’t care if you want to be an elephant trainer if it makes you happy.”

  Gena Rowlands

  Mom, Father, Home

  Interview with Colleen Kelsey, www.interviewmagazine.com. July 13, 2016.

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• What is true for E. coli is also true for the elephant.

  Jacques Monod

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