The Elephant In The Living Room Quotes

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

Dinesh D'Souza

#2. 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

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

Mark Twain

#4. 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

#5. 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

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

Charles Van Doren

#7. The business of the country is business.

Calvin Coolidge

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

Ruta Sepetys

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

Howie Mandel

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

Patricia Heaton

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

David Bowie

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

Baltasar Gracian

#13. 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

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

Rajeev Shukla

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

Samuel Smiles

#16. 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

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

Marcus Tullius Cicero