The Elephant In The Living Room Quotes

#1. A room without books is like a body without a soul.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

#2. I wasn't a bad basketball player, but I was far from the world's greatest. Good defense, no offense - that was me.

Chuck Connors

#3. All that is great in man comes through work; and civilization is its product.

Samuel Smiles

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

Dinesh D'Souza

#5. I realise that, strutting around in power corridors for political coverage, a journalist becomes half a politician.

Rajeev Shukla

#6. Like Lincoln, I would like to believe the ballot is stronger than the bullet. Then again, he said that before he got shot.

Sarah Vowell

#7. We have eyelids but not earlids, for the ears are the portals of learning, and Nature wanted to keep them wide open.

Baltasar Gracian

#8. From my standpoint, being an artist, I want to see what the new construction is between artist and audience.

David Bowie

#9. I frowned at the eye in my palm. "What, literally shout at the tattoo?"
"You could try rubbing it on certain body areas and I might come faster.

Sarah J. Maas

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

Patricia Heaton

#11. I have an insatiable desire to be the center of attention.

Howie Mandel

#12. I adore themes of hope and courage and the ways we find meaning through suffering.

Ruta Sepetys

#13. The business of the country is business.

Calvin Coolidge

#14. Education in the West, particularly higher education in America, has lost the ability to see the universe from very far away.

Charles Van Doren

#15. 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

#16. For what seemed a long time Mat knelt there with his father's dead wrist in his hand, while his mind arrived and arrived and yet arrived at that place and time and that body lying still on the soiled and bloodied stones.

Wendell Berry

#17. Conservatism is the blind and fear-filled worship of dead radicals.

Mark Twain