Elephants Quotes - Page 14

• In my family, my fat family, none of us ever say the word 'fat.' 'Fat' is the word you hear shouted on the playground or in the street - it's never allowed over the threshold of the house. My mum won't have that filth in her house. At home together, we are safe. ... There will be no harm to our feelings here because we never acknowledge fat exists. We never refer to our size. We are the elephants in the room.

  Caitlin Moran

  Home, House, Feelings

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• There is no such thing as a perfect leader either in the past or present, in China or elsewhere. If there is one, he is only pretending, like a pig inserting scallions into its nose in an effort to look like an elephant.

  Liu Shaoqi

  Leadership, Past, Pigs

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• Wallowing was for elephants, depressing people and depressing elephants

  Cassandra Clare

  Depressing, People, Wallowing

  Cassandra Clare, Sarah Rees Brennan, Maureen Johnson (2014). “The Bane Chronicles”, p.41, Simon and Schuster

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• The world rests upon a turtle, which itself stands on the back of an elephant!” Alek tried not to laugh. “Then what does the elephant stand on, madam?” “Don’t try to be clever, young man.” She narrowed her eyes. “It’s elephants all the way down!

  Scott Westerfeld

  Clever, Eye, Men

  Scott Westerfeld (2011). “Scott Westerfeld: Leviathan Trilogy: Leviathan; Behemoth; Goliath”, p.577, Simon and Schuster

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• There is little or no magic about them, except the ordinary everyday sort which helps them to disappear quietly and quickly when large stupid folk like you and me come blundering along, making a noise like elephants which they can hear a mile off.

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Stupid, Magic, Everyday

  J.R.R. Tolkien (2012). “The Hobbit”, p.8, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• I shot a wild elephant in Africa thirty yards from me, and it didn't hit the ground until it was right at my feet. I wasn't a bit scared. But a four foot putt scares me to death.

  Sam Snead

  Golf, Feet, Scare

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• The rider evolved to serve to the elephant.

  Jonathan Haidt

  Riders

  Jonathan Haidt (2012). “The Righteous Mind: Why Good People Are Divided by Politics and Religion”, p.49, Vintage

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• I’m not certain you’d know the right sort of man for you if he arrived on our doorstep riding an elephant.” “I would think the elephant would be a fairly good indication that I ought to look elsewhere.

  Julia Quinn

  Men, Thinking, Riding

  Julia Quinn (2005). “It's in his kiss”

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• How hard can it be to find a girl and an elephant for Christ's sake?

  Sara Gruen

  Girl, Sake, Christ

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• I'm an elephant today. I will need to have lots of room and also a bowl of water on the floor.

  Jesse Ball

  Water, Needs, Today

  FaceBook post by Jesse Ball from Aug 05, 2012

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• I had to wait for someone special. Someone who would make my heart feel as if it's been trampled by elephants, thrown into the amazon, and eaten by piranhas.

  Lisa Kleypas

  Heart, Waiting, Special

  Lisa Kleypas (2010). “Love in the Afternoon”, p.165, Macmillan

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• Just in case you thought elephants were all sweetness, I can attest to the fact that this one had the time of her life scaring the bejeezus out of those dudes.

  James Patterson

  Facts, Cases, Sweetness

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• He frowned as he struggled to remember. It was like watching an elephant crochet.

  Val McDermid

  Remember

  Val McDermid (2010). “Kick Back (PI Kate Brannigan, Book 2)”, p.9, HarperCollins UK

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• We have been led to imagine all sorts of things infinitely more marvelous than the imagining of poets and dreamers of the past. It shows that the imagination of nature is far, far greater than the imagination of man. For instance, how much more remarkable it is for us all to be stuck-half of us upside down-by a mysterious attraction, to a spinning ball that has been swinging in space for billions of years, than to be carried on the back of an elephant supported on a tortoise swimming in a bottomless sea.

  Richard P. Feynman

  Swimming, Men, Past

  Richard P. Feynman (2005). “The Pleasure of Finding Things Out: The Best Short Works of Richard P. Feynman”, p.76, Hachette UK

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• Right now I've got just two rules to live by. Rule one: don't taunt elephants. Rule two: don't stand next to anybody who taunts elephants. -Sergeant Schlock

  Howard Tayler

  Two, Rules To Live By, Next

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• Courage~ What makes the flag on the mast to wave? What makes the elephant charge his tusk in the misty mist, or the dusky dusk? What makes the muskrat guard his musk? Courage! What makes the sphinx the seventh wonder? Courage! What makes the dawn come up like thunder? Courage! What makes the Hottentot so hot? What puts the "ape" in apricot?~Cowardly Lion from the Wizard of Oz

  L. Frank Baum

  Dawn, Hot, Sphinx

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• Oh, it's you," Curran's voice said quietly. "I thought it was an elephant.

  Ilona Andrews

  Voice, Said

  Ilona Andrews (2012). “Magic Bites: A Special Edition of the First Kate Daniels Novel”, p.87, Penguin

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• I have not seen any Christian sparrow or Muslim lion or Jewish elephant! Animals are lucky as they have not yet invented the religion!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Christian, Animal, Lucky

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• Do you have any idea how much an elephant drinks?

  Sara Gruen

  Ideas, True Romance, Falling Down

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• The worst place to be is in the middle. When elephants fight, the grass gets trampled.

  Andrew Vachss

  Fighting, Grass, Middle

  Andrew Vachss (2001). “Footsteps of the Hawk”, p.289, Vintage Crime/Black Lizard

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• Knowing what you need doesn't always mean you know how to get it, though. I'd spent a long time hiding in my cave. No matter how much I might want to come out into the light, I knew it would hurt my eyes. I was a fool. A fool, but nevertheless too smart not to know I was the architect of my own demise, that it was time to put my past behind me. It was time to stop allowing the white elephants to stand unspoken of in my living room.

  Megan Hart

  Hurt, Smart, Mean

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• Kat had been picking things up since her third birthday, when Hamish and Angus's father took them all to the circus because he needed to "borrow" an elephant.

  Ally Carter

  Father, Circus, Needed

  Ally Carter (2011). “Heist Society”, p.120, Hachette UK

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• Ella is nervous,” the harpy muttered from her perch on the railing. “The elephant. The elephant is watching Ella.

  Rick Riordan

  Nervous, Harpies, Percy Jackson And The Olympians

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• And that is how Goodwin problems were always fixed. Fix them on the surface but don't go to the root, always ignoring the elephant in the room. I think that morning was when I realized I'd grown up with an elephant in every room of my life. It was practically our family pet.

  Cecelia Ahern

  Morning, Thinking, Roots

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• Elephants can remember, but we are human beings and mercifully human beings can forget.

  Agatha Christie

  Remember, Forget, Humans

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