Quotes by Elephants 'Helping industry' is the elephant pit of socialism, a deep hole with sharp spikes at the bottom, covered over with twigs and fresh grass. Enoch Powell pits elephants helping I had a probing mind and an elephant memory. Ethel Waters elephants mind memories Starting with a party scene for 600 cast and end up singing on top of a giant elephant...does it get any better than this? Ewan McGregor singing elephants party Although elephants are far more distantly related to us than the great apes, they seem to have evolved similar social and cognitive capacities. Frans de Waal apes elephants social Unlike the primate hand, the elephant's grasping organ is also its nose. Elephants use their trunks not only to reach food but also to sniff and touch it. With their unparalleled sense of smell, the animals know exactly what they are going for. Vision is secondary. Frans de Waal elephants animal hands Do we really want to know how Michael Jackson makes his music? No. We want to understand why he needs the bones of the Elephant Man -- and, until he tells us, it doesn't make too much difference whether or not he really is ''bad. Frank Zappa elephants differences men Dealing with the State Department is like watching an elephant become pregnant. Franklin D. Roosevelt elephants government states In desperation I asked Fermi whether he was not impressed by the agreement between our calculated numbers and his measured numbers. He replied, "How many arbitrary parameters did you use for your calculations?" I thought for a moment about our cut-off procedures and said, "Four." He said, "I remember my friend Johnny von Neumann used to say, with four parameters I can fit an elephant, and with five I can make him wiggle his trunk." With that, the conversation was over. Freeman Dyson elephants cutting agreement I wore bell bottoms in elementary school. Never wore elephant bells. Remember, this was middle Oklahoma in the '70s. Garth Brooks oklahoma elephants school I was driving pretty much the way everyone drives in LA, like elephants dancing on each others’ backs at a circus. Gary Reilly circus elephants dancing My stepfather used to be a clown in The Shrine Circus. He took me backstage when I was 23. I saw three elephants chained to the cement floor in the warehouse of the Michigan State Fairgrounds. Sadness, hopelessness and fear were emanating from their eyes, from their bodies. They were swaying neurotically from side to side. A monkey was screaming in his cage, grabbing the bars of his prison. Two tigers were pacing feverishly in their tiny cages. Cruelty was staring me in the face. I knew something was wrong. If you pay attention to energy, you can tell when a fellow being is in peril. Gary Yourofsky sadness elephants eye If you cannot find a good companion to walk with, walk alone, like an elephant roaming the jungle. It is better to be alone than to be with those who will hinder your progress. Gautama Buddha buddhist progress elephants The Internet is like a herd of performing elephants with diarrhoea - massive, difficult to re-direct, awe-inspiring, entertaining, and a source of mind-boggling amounts of excrement when you least expect it. Gene Spafford computer elephants mind The pointes for girls, I always say, have to be like an elephant's trunk; strong and yet flexible and soft. George Balanchine elephants girl strong Do not carry with you your mistakes. Do not carry your cares. Travel on alone. Like an elephant in the forest. Gautama Buddha elephants care mistake The United States should not jump around like an elephant frightened by a mouse. George F. Kennan united-states elephants should As an elephant in the battlefield withstands arrows shot from bows all around, even so shall I endure abuse. Gautama Buddha buddhist arrows elephants Be wary of passing the judgment: obscure. To find something obscure poses no difficult, elephants and poodles find many things obscure. Georg C. Lichtenberg poodles obscurity elephants Awake. Be the witness of your thoughts. The elephant hauls himself from the mud. In the same way drag yourself out of your sloth. Gautama Buddha mud elephants sloth All the religions are true, they just see a different part of the elephant. George Lucas elephants different «1234567891011»