Quotes and Sayings About Elephants
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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 -
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 -
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 -
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 -
When the bull's-eye becomes as big in your mind as an elephant, you are sure to hit it.
-- Alejandro Jodorowsky -
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 -
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 -
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 -
The knife flaying the elephant does not have to be large, only sharp!
-- Andre Norton