Quotes About Elephant

The reason I know about 'Tomb Raider' is from when I was researching 'Elephant.' It was 1999, and I was trying to research the Columbine-massacre kids, and they had played video games, and I, at the time, had never really seen one. It was a world I didn't know.

Everybody who went to Vietnam carries his or her own version of the war. Only 10 percent engaged in combat; the American elephant, pursuing the Vietnamese grasshopper, was extraordinarily heavy with logistical support.

At my cabin I got so jumpy after saving my young heroine from three older men who resembled my friends that I flipped and conceived of a highly illegal meal, a thirty-pound elephant's asshole shipped FedEx from Zimbabwe, cooked for three days in a rock-lined fire hole in a bleached gunnysack soaked in 151 rum, to which is added thirteen pounds of garlic and an equal amount of fresh hot chiles. Serve with plain white rice. A Bordeaux is a possibility.

But…" said the lion "you had told us that elephants never jump…"."I know…" said the elephant shyly "But I forgot".

Making films is about having absolute and foolish confidence; the challenge for all of us is to have the heart of a poet and the skin of an elephant.

surveyed the floor below-in the center of which stands the famous stuffed elephant with his absolute majesty entirely visible to all who take a moment to consider

In winter when I put a quilt over myself its shadows on the wall seem to sway like an elephant.

The zoologists who came from Germany to inseminate the elephant wore bicycle helmets and protective rubber suits. So as not to be soiled by effluvium and excrement, which will alchemize to produce laughter in the human species, how does that work biochemically is a question to which I have not found an answer yet.

In the wild, a female elephant would not separate from her male calf until he was ten to thirteen years old.

There are lots of animals in the house. There's an elephant in the hall, a seal in the bathtub, a crane in the laundry, a tiger on the stairs, and a polar bear by the fridge. Does this have anything to do with you?

The only reason a great many American families don't own an elephant is that they have never been offered an elephant for a dollar down and easy weekly payments.

Nature's great masterpiece, an elephant; the only harmless great thing.

So oft in theologic wars, / The disputants, I ween, / Rail on in utter ignorance / Of what each other mean, / And prate about an Elephant / Not one of them has seen.

They couldn't hit an elephant at this distance.

If you've never seen an elephant ski, then you've never been on acid.

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

The only reason a great many American families don't own an elephant is that they have never been offered an elephant for a dollar down and easy weekly payments.

Currently poaching threatens the very existence of the African Elephant, and my worry is that if we do not act NOW, we could be looking at a future in which this iconic species is wiped out.

Já vím, kamaráde. Snažím se tohle všechno nezapomínat, ale je to stejn? snadné jako sprchovat slona ve van?." "Hezká p?edstava, ale já mám spíš dojem, že sprchujeme hejno opic.

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

You were cute in a tutu." Desiree scowled. "Why don't you ever forget shit?" She turned on her heel without waiting for an answer. "Should've been an elephant instead of a leopard.

I saw myself founding a religion, marching into Asia riding an elephant, a turban on my head and in my hand the new Koran that I would have composed to suit my needs.

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

A jolly young fellow from Yuma Told an elephant joke to a puma; now his skeleton lies beneath hot western skies- the puma had no sense of huma