Elephantine Quotes

#1. elephantine in their midst, pulled up her

C.P. Snow

#2. Even in a time of elephantine vanity and greed, one never has to look far to see the campfires of gentle people.

Garrison Keillor

#3. The Elephantine papyri - written as some of the books of the Bible are being written - is true social and legal documentation, and to historians overwhelmingly powerful and moving, even when ostensibly about trivial things.

Simon Schama

#4. Different persons growing up in the same language are like different bushes trimmed and trained to take the shape of identical elephants. The anatomical details of twigs and branches will fulfill the elephantine form differently from bush to bush, but the overall outward results are alike.

Willard Van Orman Quine

#5. Shifting from one hip to the other in his lumbering, elephantine fashion, Ignatius sent waves of flesh rippling beneath the tweed and flannel, waves that broke upon buttons and seams. Thus

John Kennedy Toole

#6. But that's her problem, not mine. No, my problem is elephantine. How do you eat an elephant, sir? Bit by tiny bit.

Sally Gardner

#7. The male ego with few exceptions is elephantine to start with.

Bette Davis

#8. The U.N. bureaucracy has grown to elephantine proportions. Now that the Cold War is over, we are asking that elephant to do gymnastics.

Madeleine Albright

#9. plan to take a fertilised egg-cell of a present-day elephant, replace the elephantine DNA with a reconstructed mammoth DNA,

Yuval Noah Harari

#10. Joyce is a poet and also an elephantine pedant.

George Orwell

#11. It scared me when she said perfect. Perfect was always too much to ask.

Janet Fitch

#12. No matter how much you know a human being, you don't know him enough.

Isaac Bashevis Singer

#13. Power in and of itself is neither worthy of respect nor fear; it simply is. It is how power is employed, and towards what ends, that ennobles or denigrates the wielder of power.

Raymond E. Feist

#14. Do a loony-goony dance
'Cross the kitchen floor,
Put something silly in the world
That ain't been there before.

Shel Silverstein

#15. There is no result in nature without a cause; understand the cause and you will have no need of the experiment.

Leonardo Da Vinci

#16. Yet it would be your duty to bear it, if you could not avoid it: it is weak and silly to say you cannot bear what it is your fate to be required to bear.

Charlotte Bronte

#17. What is to be got at to make the air sweet, the ground good under the feet, can only be got at by failure, trial, again and again and again failure.

Sherwood Anderson