Quotes About The Elephant In The Room

#1. Patriarchy is like the elephant in the room that we don't talk about, but how could it not affect the planet radically when it's the superstructure of human society.

Ani DiFranco

#2. Never ignore the elephant in the room. That's rude; play with it and introduce it.

Donna Lynn Hope

#3. Race in this country is still the elephant in the room that no one wants to discuss.

Lenny Kravitz

#4. Let's point out the elephant in the room: Actor bands are not notoriously successful enterprises. I can't think of any.

Michael Shannon

#5. There's an academic tradition called the 'Last Lecture.' Hypothetically, if you knew you were going to die and you had one last lecture, what would you say to your students? Well, for me, there's an elephant in the room. And the elephant in the room, for me, it wasn't hypothetical.

Randy Pausch

#6. She nods and the elephant in the room throws back its head and trumpets so loud I think the roof might come off.

Sharon Bolton

#7. Mediocrity is the elephant in the room.

Kevin Spacey

#8. I am trying to call attention to the elephant in the room that everybody is too polite - or too devout - to notice: religion, and specifically the devaluing effect that religion has on human life.

Richard Dawkins

#9. And that is how the 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. It was practically our family pet.

Cecelia Ahern

#10. Time magazine put Chris Christie on the cover with the caption, 'The Elephant in the Room.' And People magazine named him 'Sexiest Garbage Truck in a Suit.'

Bill Maher

#11. Money, you could say, was the elephant in The Room.

Greg Sestero

#12. 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

#13. The elephant in the room has always been simulator sickness and disorientation. That's one of the biggest challenges.

Brendan Iribe

#14. We are so used to the elephant in the room that sometimes we forget it is there

Aminatta Forna

#15. By the time you get to your sixth record, some of the benefits of being in a band are grander than ever, but some of the obstacles are just massive. You deal with these lateral subjects, and all that is left is the elephant in the room.

Josh Homme

#16. I don't know if you picked up on the elephant in the room ... but we're witches. Angela, Andrea, me, and Evelyn and Celia back home.
Aunt Maddy from The Ragtime Coven

Bruce Jenvey

#17. When there's an elephant in the room, you can't pretend it isn't there and just discuss the ants.

Ellen Wittlinger

#18. Daemon was the pissy pink elephant in the room with a bad attitude.

Jennifer L. Armentrout

#19. 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

#20. Even though the topic [of slavery] itself is the big, screaming elephant in the room, we still get a chance to have fun and enjoy what is on the screen, and we have moments where we're actually happy.

Aldis Hodge

#21. There is a vast asymmetry in the dynamic here that Billy can't quite put his finger on, even though it's the elephant shitting all over the room.

Ben Fountain

#22. When there's an elephant in the room introduce him.

Randy Pausch

#23. Plastic surgery is like a big elephant sitting in the Hollywood living room.

Patricia Heaton

#24. The zoo lost its elephant again. It never forgets where to go. I found it in the middle of my room.

Brian Spellman

#25. A few seconds of silence lapse, and I knew Carter was waiting for me to mention the huge "I'm pregnant" elephant in the room. Fuck that elephant! he can just sit there in the corner eating peanuts and shitting on the tile while giving me looks of disgust.

Tara Sivec

#26. St. Clair wanders around, picking up things and examining them like I did in Meredith's room. He inspects the collection of banana and elephant figurines lined up on my dresser. He holds up a glass elephant and raises his dark eyebrows in question.

Stephanie Perkins

#27. Life after death is the elephant in the living room, the one that we are not supposed to notice.

Dinesh D'Souza

#28. She looked up to see all three of them looking at her. She put her spoon down, knowing she wasn't going to be able to eat until they got the elephant out of the room.
What happened a year ago ... shouldn't have happened, she said in a low voice

Maya Banks

#29. And that is the real elephant in the room. The monkey in my wrench. The worm in my candy bar ...

J. Kenner

#30. When there is an invisible elephant in the room, one is from time to time bound to trip over a trunk.

Karen Joy Fowler

#31. It was like there was an elephant in the room. An elephant that expected us to have sex.

Morgan Matson

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

David Wong