Funny White Elephant Sayings

#1. I'm a technologist by origin and by training, but I'm focused on philanthropy.

Pierre Omidyar

#2. Detail is the heart of realism, and the fatty degeneration of art.

Clive Bell

#3. For the walk of shame the next morning, I had to run two miles in flip-flops to make it back to the car pool to go donate plasma. University was an interesting time.

Tyler Oakley

#4. Mum always says the right thing. She always makes everything better.

Sophie Kinsella

#5. You are right. I have no idea, and it is none of my business, and I was taught to obey my parents. But sometimes it is just impossible to obey blindly.
Sometimes a child must strike out on her own. A child cannot be a child forever, whether that means not touching a spindle or ... or ...

Alex Flinn

#6. There was so much to do and not enough buckets.

Hugh Howey

#7. The trouble is, you cannot grow just one zucchini. Minutes after you plant a single seed, hundreds of zucchini will barge out of the ground and sprawl around the garden, menacing the other vegetables. At night, you will be able to hear the ground quake as more and more zucchinis erupt.

Dave Barry

#8. The deceitful misquoting of scientists to suit an anti-scientific agenda ranks among the many unchristian habits of fundamentalist authors.

Richard Dawkins

#9. Most assuredly Zen is a religion, but it is a religion without scripture, without doctrine or dogma and without sin.

Howard Fast

#10. If you want me to do something else useful, you had better show me what that something else is.

Joanna Russ

#11. When you can't create, you can work

Henry Miller

#12. Edward Heath and Richard Nixon took personal awkwardness with each other to new and excruciating levels.

David Cameron