Quotes About Elephant
How is an elephant like a schizophrenic?" "I – what?" "An elephant never forgets." He said nothing. "That's an AI joke," she said after a while.
~ Peter Watts
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An exaggerated clitoris might even drive a woman to an elephant.' This remark – unprecedented in the courts of British justice – elicited loud laughter.
~ Philip Hoare
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No Visit to Thailand is complete without a visit to an elephant sanctuary. We were happy to see well-treated elephants at Nosey Parkers in Ao Nang.
~ Tony Hadley
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I've been shooting with this gentle beast of an elephant for my film 'Haathi Mere Saathi.' During the shoot, I got to know of the various problems they face. We got in touch with a few volunteers who are helping conserve the tusker's habitats and water reservoirs.
~ Pulkit Samrat
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When you have got an elephant by the hind legs and he is trying to run away, it's best to let him run.
~ Abraham Lincoln
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I feel I must have been an elephant in a former life. I love the sensitivity and peaceful force of these creatures.
~ Princess Stephanie of Monaco
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Und dann und wann ein Weiser Elephant
~ Rainer Maria Rilke
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At once the senior pilot arose in his mighty bulk and began to struggle into his coat, with awe-inspiring upheavals. The stranger and I hurried impulsively to his assistance, and directly we laid our hands on him he became perfectly quiescent. We had to raise our arms very high, and to make efforts. It was like caparisoning a docile elephant. With a Thanks, gentlemen, he dived under and squeezed himself through the door in a great hurry.
~ Joseph Conrad
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Instead of a sneeze, what emerged sounded like an elephant strangling on a trumpet.
~ Jude Watson
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What if the cloak wasn't magic at all, like the feather in that story Granny used to tell me about the elephant with the big ears?
~ Wendy Toliver
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I'm fairly bursting tae ken how ye guessed I spoke Scots?' Lymond looked up. Superficial pain, withstood or ignored for quite a long time, had made his eyes heavy, but they were brimming with laughter. 'Well, God,' he said. 'In the water, you were roaring your head off at a bloody bull elephant called Hughie.
~ Dorothy Dunnett
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Faith, thought O'LiamRoe. And not a decent creature among them thought to say that the only rule in it is for a man to have a fine, steady seat for an elephant.
~ Dorothy Dunnett
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Look. If you are having pains, scream. If you are seeing thousand-pound elephant birds with reinforced iron nests, tell us and we shall believe you. If you want to climb up and jump from the roof, let me tell you that we feel exactly the same. Only don't lock your door like a maiden aunt with the gravel.
~ Dorothy Dunnett
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the elephant can remember.
~ Agatha Christie
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An agile, well-trained, brave elephant, ridden by a good mahout, its trunk armed with the kind of sabre known as a qartal and covered with chain mail, while the rest of its body is protected by sheets of bark and iron, surrounded by 500 men to defend it and protect it to the rear, can fight against 6000 men on horseback.
~ Al Masudi
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It was an exceedingly odd thing to see an elephant in a spacesuit.
~ Alastair Reynolds
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A few dozen changes to the genome of a modern elephant - to give it subcutaneous fat, woolly hair and sebaceous glands - might suffice to create a variation that is functionally similar to the mammoth. Returning this keystone species to the tundras could stave off some effects of warming.
~ George M. Church
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On 19 November, the Maharaja and his army entered Peshawar. The next day he rode on an elephant through its bazaars—'the first time in 700 years that the city saw an Indian conqueror ride through its streets'.
~ Rajmohan Gandhi
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There is a connection to all living things, a vibration of Life. Animals were not given a power of choice. A lion does not try to eat legumes nor an elephant meat. We believe the best way to communicate with nature, God, is through a liaison: the animals.
~ Ralph Helfer
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The giant stuffed animals all found homes quickly. A few days later, I learned that one of the animals had been taken by a Carnegie Mellon who, like me, has cancer. After the lecture, she walked up and selected the giant elephant. I love the symbolism of that. She got the elephant in the room.
~ Randy Pausch
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I like incidents of that sort, when forces that are usually so sneaky and hard to point out slither out of the grass and are as obvious as, say, an anaconda that's eaten a cow or an elephant turd on the carpet.
~ Rebecca Solnit
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I like incidents of that sort, when forces that are usually so sneaky and hard to point out slither out of the grass and are as obvious as, say, an anaconda that's eaten a cow or an elephant turd on the carpet.
~ Rebecca Solnit
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You say you have experienced God directly? Well, some people have experienced a pink elephant, but that probably doesn't impress you.
~ Richard Dawkins
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And the elephant sings deep in the forest-maze About a star of deathless and painless peace But no astronomer can find where it is.
~ Ted Hughes
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