Quotes About Elephant

One woman, however, was spared. Both Miran and his father asked for the hand of the famously beautiful Lutf un-Nissa. 'But she declined and sent this reply: "having ridden an elephant before, I cannot now agree to ride an ass."'87

The largest tusks are yielded by the African elephant, and find their way hither from the port of Zanzibar: they are noted for being opaque, soft or "mellow" to work, and free from cracks or defects.

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

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

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

I looked down at the brochure nearest me."We're going to Nigeria, " I threatened. "I hope you like elephant polo." -Liberty Jones

I watched a film called 'Elephant' recently. Its not stylish in the sense of expensive suits and Italian cars, but the styling on every single character is spot on.

The elephant can survive only if forests survive.

Indian democracy has often been likened to the stately progress of the elephant - ponderous in its gait and reluctant to change course, but not easily swayed from its new path when it does.

I'm not a Republican, but I was one once - when I was 7 years old. Not my fault. The symbol of the Republican Party is an elephant, I'm a Hindu - I was confused.

Our party's symbol is the elephant, and its weight, size and strength symbolize Uttar Pradesh.

nutmeg's inverted spade, gnarled baja elephant

Frank stared at him. Unfair? You can breathe underwater and blow up glaciers and summon freaking hurricanes-and it's unfair that I can be an elephant? Percy considered. Okay. I guess you got a point. But the next time I say you're totally beast- Just shut up, Frank said. Please. Percy cracked a smile.

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

The longer he marched, the more convinced Peter became that things were indeed hopeless and that an elephant was a ridiculous answer to any question- but a particularly ridiculous answer to a question posed by the human heart.

If the world held magic powerful enough to make the elephant appear, then there must exist, too, magic in equal measure, magic powerful enough to undo what had been done.

It was the pink elephant in the room, the thunderous fart in the elevator.

Shackleton made the decision on the spot: they would abandon the effort to reach Clarence or Elephant Island

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.

Hatch never forgives and he never forgets," Zeus said. "He's like an elephant with anger management issues.

Steel not only had an elephant's memory, he had the ears to go along with it:

I would love to to go somewhere else and pick peachy fruits in the early morning from the back of an elefunt.

Admittedly, what he had seen only the day before in this very room was just as intellectually stupefying as these later events—but the emotional impact was something else. A mouse was as much a miracle of biology as was an elephant; nevertheless there was an important difference—an elephant was bigger.

Shall we disembowel the pachyderm in the room?" Lothaire intoned as he took a seat in the billiards den. "Or discuss it? Or whatever one does when an elephant appears indoors.