Top 100 Quotes About An Elephant
#1. Injun Joe studied the body for a moment, his eyes sad. Then he said, "I'd rather go in my sleep, I think." He glanced back at me. "What about you?"
"I want to be stepped on by an elephant while having sex with identical triplet cheerleaders," I said.
Jim Butcher
#2. When the bull's-eye becomes as big in your mind as an elephant, you are sure to hit it.
Alejandro Jodorowsky
#3. Generally speaking, we are w-a-y too hard on ourselves!
I used to place enough pressure on myself to crush an elephant!
Daniel Petra
#4. I am not an animal! I am a human being! I ... am ... a man!
Joseph Merrick
#5. I had a probing mind and an elephant memory.
Ethel Waters
#6. Took myself to Byculla. The area around the elephants is very soothing. I wish I were an elephant. I would be so composed.
Jerry Pinto
#7. The gate, probably built to accommodate an elephant procession, opens slowly and reveals an abandoned city dreamed up by a doomed king.
Mohammed Hanif
#8. He frowned as he struggled to remember. It was like watching an elephant crochet.
Val McDermid
#9. It wasn't until I had been writing on and off for maybe ten years that I started to establish any kind of routine, thought I couldn't put a finger on an exact date, and this routine relates simply to the aphorism 'How do you eat an elephant? One bite at a time.'
Neal Asher
#10. Nature's great masterpiece, an elephant;
the only harmless great thing.
John Donne
#11. I have a memory like an elephant. In fact, elephants often consult me.
Noel Coward
#12. I could perform ballet in combat boots more gracefully than that, George said. But then, so could an elephant, so that's not really saying much, now is it?
Jenn McKinlay
#14. When an elephant walks, it kills many small creatures; when we walk, we kill many small creatures; we are all random killers!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#15. He wears a mask, and his face grows to fit it.
George Orwell
#16. Shut up sergeant. You're a free troll. That's an order
Sam Vimes
Terry Pratchett
#17. Do not carry with you your mistakes. Do not carry your cares. Travel on alone. Like an elephant in the forest.
Gautama Buddha
#18. Soft fantasy worlds have a much looser cause-and-effect relationship. Alchemists can turn lead into gold and nobody wonders about how it will impact the currency system. Someone waves a wand and turns an elephant into a mouse and nobody worries about conservation of mass.
Patrick Rothfuss
#19. The wind stilled a bit and he blinked the sand out of his eyes. Before him stood nothing less than the god of the Scrape. It had to be a god. He was huge, muscled, hung like an elephant, and sandy gold, just like his domain.
Erin Kellison
#21. You may as well bid an elephant fly in the air, as a covetous man live by faith.
Thomas Watson
#22. The world is hollow. It's a lot to take in. Like cracking an egg and finding nothing inside. Or a full grown elephant.
Geraldine McCaughrean
#24. Living next to you is in some ways like sleeping with an elephant. No matter how friendly and even-tempered is the beast, if I can call it that, one is affected by every twitch and grunt.
Pierre Trudeau
#25. Have you ever been bitten by an elephant? How about a mosquito? It's the little things in life that will bite you.
Darren Hardy
#26. To sweeten the hours we share scandals from the city, how curators removed an elephant's heart from the museum because it began beating when anyone in love looked at it, how the coroner found minnows swimming in a drowned girl's lungs.
Traci Brimhall
#29. I don't know how many lions and leopards I've shot. I've shot two elephants, which was enough - never again. It's a melancholy and moving thing to hunt an elephant. It's like shooting an old man.
Wilbur Smith
#30. OF course they did,' she snapped back. 'According to them, you single-handedly won a dozen battles, restored the Spanish throne, and infiltrated Napoleon's inner circle, after which you rode an elephant, wrestled a crocodile, and swam the Straits of Gibraltar.
Eloisa James
#31. People think that it is strange to have a turtle ten thousand miles long and an elephant more than two thousand miles tall, which just shows that the human brain is ill-adapted for thinking and was probably originally designed for cooling the blood.
Terry Pratchett
#32. ...as to try to interest me about the less carnivora, when I know of what is before me."
"I see," I said. "You want big things that you can make your teeth meet in? How would you like to breakfast on an elephant?
Bram Stoker
#33. And that is how Goodwin problems were always fixed. Fix them on the surface but don't go to the root, always ignoring the elephant in the room. I think that morning was when I realized I'd grown up with an elephant in every room of my life. It was practically our family pet.
Cecelia Ahern
#34. The mind is divided, like a rider on an elephant, and the rider's job is to serve the elephant.
Jonathan Haidt
#35. Learning to play with a big amplifier is like trying to control an elephant.
Ritchie Blackmore
#36. There is only one way to eat an elephant, a bite at a time.
Desmond Tutu
#37. Giving advice is like seeing an elephant in someone's path and suggesting they remove it. Heeding advice requires forcing the elephant to budge. Huge difference.
Richelle E. Goodrich
#38. You have heard the old question, "How do you eat an elephant?" The answer is "One bite at a time!" How
Brian Tracy
#39. An elephant until never pretend to be something she's not
Jodi Picoult
#41. She was white, perhaps too white. Her eyes, which were almost always cast down, when she raised them testified to the purest of souls, and when she smiled, revealing her small, white teeth, one might be tempted to say that a rose is merely a plant, and ivory just an elephant's tusk.
Jose Rizal
#42. There is no such thing as a perfect leader either in the past or present, in China or elsewhere. If there is one, he is only pretending, like a pig inserting scallions into its nose in an effort to look like an elephant.
Liu Shaoqi
#43. For me to put a look together, if it's going to be a boy look or a girl look or whatever, is quite a tricky thing to do. I'm not doing drag because drag is seen in a certain way and my comedy has got zero to do with what I'm wearing. I could wear an elephant suit and say the same thing.
Eddie Izzard
#45. We must have bearers, and outriders, and perhaps an elephant - they are so imposing, nothing says 'Get out of the way' quite like an elephant in the front . . .
Neil Gaiman
#46. When there's an elephant in the room introduce him.
Randy Pausch
#48. I had seen a herd of Elephant travelling through dense native forest ... pacing along as if they had an appointment at the end of the world.
Isak Dinesen
#49. I do not now so much as wish to have the Strength of Youth again that I wish'd in Youth for the Strength of an Ox or Elephant. For it is our Business only to make the best Use we can of the Powers granted us by Nature.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
#50. The question is, are we happy to suppose that our grandchildren may never be able to see an elephant except in a picture book?
David Attenborough
#51. An ant can't define shape of an elephant solely from its' point of view.
They have to unify all views. It's a way for ant to understand elephant.
In order to understand true realities, men need to do mental blending.
Toba Beta
#53. Always drawn to the theatric, Bowie also performed in stage productions of "The Elephant Man" and just recently collaborated on "Lazarus," an off-Broadway musical that's a sequel to his 1976 role in the film "The Man Who Fell To Earth."
David Bowie
#54. Education isn't everything, for a start it isn't an elephant
Spike Milligan
#55. The two symbols of the Republican Party: an elephant, and a big fat white guy who is threatened by change.
Seth MacFarlane
#56. Q: What's the difference between a tweaker and an elephant?
A: The elephant will eat all your peanut butter.
Bucky Sinister
#57. I have a memory like an elephant. I remember every elephant I've ever met.
Herb Caen
#58. I showed the grown ups my maasterpiece, andI asked them if my drawing scared them. They answered why be scared of a hat? My drawing was not a picture of a hat. It was a picture of a boa constrictor digesting an elephant.
Antoine De Saint-Exupery
#59. I'm an elephant today. I will need to have lots of room and also a bowl of water on the floor.
Jesse Ball
#60. You live in a damnably twisted and convoluted world," replied Mathias. "And you are trampling accross it with all the delicacy of an elephant in a glass shop!" -Conversation between Mathias Munster and Giacomo Foscarini
Riccardo Bruni
#61. Of course, Jules was not a wolf. She was an elephant. But Jules was a very young toy and she had never been to school to learn the difference.
Julie B. Campbell
#62. A hydrogen atom in a cell at the end of my nose was once part of an elephant's trunk. A carbon atom in my cardiac muscle was once in the tail of a dinosaur.
Jostein Gaarder
#63. As an elephant in the battlefield withstands arrows shot from bows all around, even so shall I endure abuse.
Gautama Buddha
#64. PROBOSCIS, n. The rudimentary organ of an elephant which serves him in place of the knife-and-fork that Evolution has as yet denied him. For purposes of humor it is popularly called a trunk.
Ambrose Bierce
#65. God is not troubled by one who is conservative or liberal, and He certainly never inclines His ear toward a donkey or an elephant.
Max Lucado
#66. If its about the existence of god, you may as well ask me, what the square root of an elephant is?
Steve Merrick
#67. 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?
John Burningham
#68. Ghostface, catch the blast of a hype verse,
My glock bursts, leave in a hearse, I did worse.
I come rough, tough like an elephant tusk,
Ya head rush, fly like Egyptian musk.
Ghostface Killah
#69. What's beautiful, grey and wears glass slippers? Cinderelephant. Why are elephants wrinkled? They don't fit on the ironing board. How do you get down from an elephant? You don't. You get down from a goose. Why do elephants have trunks? Because they'd look funny with a glove compartments
Jodi Picoult
#70. A pregnancy tore up our lives. It's going to tear up hers. There's no hiding from that. A pregnancy's one of those things that doesn't hide well. It's kind of like trying to ignore an elephant in the living room.
Jennifer Greene
#71. As to forming any plan for the future, I could as soon have formed an elephant.
Charles Dickens
#72. If you are neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor. If an elephant has its foot on the tail of a mouse, and you say that you are neutral, the mouse will not appreciate your neutrality.
Desmond Tutu
#73. I'm sorry I didn't know it was an elephant; I thought it was part of the furniture!
Stephen King
#74. It is curious how there seems to be an instinctive disgust in Man for his nearest ancestors and relations. If only Darwin could conscientiously have traced man back to the Elephant or the Lion or the Antelope, how much ridicule and prejudice would have been spared to the doctrine of Evolution.
Havelock Ellis
#75. How do you make an elephant float? Take one elephant, two tons of ice cream, and one ton of soda. Blend. ***
Various
#76. May the bird of paradise fly up your nose, may an elephant caress you with his toes, may your wife be plagued with runners in her hose.
'Little' Jimmy Dickens
#77. Publishers are in business to make money, and if your books do well they don't care if you are male, female, or an elephant.
Margaret Atwood
#78. I've never liked the moment of seeing something beautiful - a sunset, a moose, an elephant - and then raising a camera and trying to capture it for some future moment. That's always struck me as strange.
Joseph Monninger
#79. Every theory in philosophy, which is built on pure conjecture, is an elephant; and every theory that is supported partly by fact, and partly by conjecture, is like Nebuchadnezzar's image, whose feet were partly of iron, and partly of clay.
Thomas Reid
#80. The elephant needs a thousand times more food than the ant but that is not an indication of inequality.
Mahatma Gandhi
#81. The undisciplined mind is like an elephant. If left to blunder around out of control, it will wreak havoc. But the harm and suffering we encounter as a result of failing to restrain the negative impulses of mind far exceed the damage a rampaging elephant can cause.
Dalai Lama XIV
#82. It's one thing to be helpless as one tries to lace a corset or to mount an elephant, quite another to be helpless as a bandit pushes a black steel knife against the flesh of your throat while his brother comes to join him.
John Speed
#84. In 1255, Louis IX of France presented an elephant to Henry III of England to add to the menagerie of exotic animals he kept in the Tower of London.
Karen Maitland
#85. Kalaj would say, "I've got the eyes of a lynx, the memory of an elephant, the instincts of a wolf ... "
" ... and the brain of a tapir," would interrupt his nemesis, the Algerian.
Andre Aciman
#86. The Buddhists have a story about blind men trying to describe an elephant by feeling it's various parts, and each describes the elephant according to the part he touched. That is the way we can hope to know God.
Kent Nerburn
#87. Ignoring Gray Porter is like ignoring an elephant in a tut. A really hot elephant in a tutu ... a very manly tutu. -Jess
Anne Eliot
#88. My first yak was fairly quiet and looked a noble steed with my Mexican saddle and gay blanket among rather than upon his thick black locks. His back seemed as broad as that of an elephant, and with his slow, sure, resolute step, he was like a mountain in motion.
Isabella Bird
#89. She owned the road
as an elephant owns the veldt
and like a big blue elephant
moved with massive grace
and dignity.
David Drake
#90. Media people should have long noses like an elephant to smell out politicians, mayors, prime ministers and businessmen. We need to know the reality, the good and the bad, not just the appearance.
Dalai Lama
#91. We can't have these great corporations crowding competition off the sidewalks. It's like an elephant saying, "Everyone for himself," as he dances among the chickens.
Emanuel Celler
#92. I would rather have an elephant with a flatulence problem sit on my face.
Samantha Young
#93. To be without God is to be a snake / who wants to swallow an elephant.
Anne Sexton
#94. Life is difficult for an ant, for a cat, for an elephant, for us, for birds! Everyone needs a helping hand, if not today, tomorrow for sure! Keep your hands ready for helping! Keep yourself ready to be helped!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#95. The arrow increased without motion, then in a quick swirl the trout lipped a fly beneath the surface with that sort of gigantic delicacy of an elephant picking up a peanut.
William Faulkner
#96. I recently turned fifty, which is young for a tree, mid-life for an elephant, and ancient for a quarter-miler, whose son now says, "Dad, I just can't run the quarter with you anymore, unless I bring something to read."
Bill Cosby
#97. It is small comfort to a mouse, if an elephant is standing on its tail, to say 'I am impartial.' In this instance, you are really supporting the elephant in its cruelty.
Desmond Tutu
#99. When there's an elephant in the room, you can't pretend it isn't there and just discuss the ants.
Ellen Wittlinger
#100. 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.
Kate DiCamillo
