Quotes by Elephants OK, the rule is, you can [make love to] an elephant if you want to, but if you do you can't cover the circus. A. M. Rosenthal making-love elephants want They say an elephant never forgets. Well, you are not an elephant. Take notes, constantly. Save interesting thoughts, quotations, films, technologies…the medium doesn't matter, so long as it inspires you. When you're stumped, go to your notes like a wizard to his spellbook. Mash those thoughts together. Extend them in every direction until they meet. Aaron Koblin get-well elephants technology When you have got an elephant by the hind legs and he is trying to run away, it's best to let him run. Abraham Lincoln elephants acceptance running They can't expect anyone to actually pay for a shirt that says, 'I (picture of an elephant) the San Diego Zoo.' What does that even mean? Adam Rex elephants zoos mean Elephants can remember, but we are human beings and mercifully human beings can forget. Agatha Christie elephants forget remember 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 elephants fun rooms When the bull's-eye becomes as big in your mind as an elephant, you are sure to hit it. Alejandro Jodorowsky elephants eye success Elephants are highly emotional. Whatever they are feeling, they let it out immediately, and the histrionics are over and forgotten in a moment, lasting no longer than the cloud formations that are constantly coming apart and re-forming overhead. There is no guile in pachyderms. Alex Shoumatoff elephants emotional clouds We are having to pull money into site-level protection for elephants just to keep them alive. But there isn't enough money to go around. The people involved in protecting those elephants, like rangers on the ground, are so under-resourced. They have very few vehicles, they have very poor weapons (if any weapons at all), and they are treated as the bottom of the tree when it comes to law enforcement priority. Allen Crawford elephants law people Kat had been picking things up since her third birthday, when Hamish and Angus's father took them all to the circus because he needed to "borrow" an elephant. Ally Carter circus elephants father I am persuaded that if the brutes even--if the dog, the horse, the ox, the elephant, the bird, could speak, they would confess, that, at the bottom of their nature, their instincts, their sensations, their obtuse intelligence, assisted by organs less perfect than ours, there is a clouded, secret sentiment of this existence of a superior and primordial Being, from whom all emanates, and to whom all returns. Alphonse de Lamartine horse elephants dog Making wishes on the elephant is emotionally dangerous, because inevitably one's hopes rise abnormally high, unhealthily high, and when the wish does not come true, one's high hopes get crushed more painfully than if one had not asked for the help of supernatural powers. Therefore, one should always try to make the wish casually and forget about it instantly after making it, which is what I try to do now. Amanda Filipacchi elephants wish trying 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 knives elephants science The knife flaying the elephant does not have to be large, only sharp! Andre Norton knives elephants doe The worst place to be is in the middle. When elephants fight, the grass gets trampled. Andrew Vachss elephants fighting grass Elephants and grandchildren never forget. Andy Rooney grandchildren grandmother elephants 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 planets elephants rooms Amid attempts to protect elephants from ivory poachers and dolphins from tuna nets, the rights of children go remarkably unremarked. Anna Quindlen elephants rights children To be without God is to be a snake / who wants to swallow an elephant. Anne Sexton snakes elephants god I was called 'Dumbo,' like the elephant, as a child because I couldn't understand things at school. Anthony Hopkins elephants children school 1234567891011»