Elephant In The Room Quotes:

When there’s an elephant in the room introduce him.

- Randy Pausch

source: YouTube Channel "Carnegie Mellon University"/"Randy Pausch Last Lecture: Achieving Your Childhood Dreams", www.youtube.com. December 20, 2007.

topic: Elephants, Rooms, Introducing, Elephant In The Room

when there's an elephant in the room, you can't pretend it isn't there and just discuss the ants.

- Ellen Wittlinger

source: Ellen Wittlinger (2012). “Blind Faith”, p.70, Simon and Schuster

topic: Elephants, Rooms, Ants, Elephant In The Room

When there is an invisible elephant in the room, one is from time to time bound to trip over a trunk.

- Karen Joy Fowler

source: Karen Joy Fowler (2014). “We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves”, p.135, Serpent's Tail

topic: Elephants, Rooms, Invisible, Elephant In The Room

Mediocrity is the elephant in the room.

- Kevin Spacey

topic: Elephants, Mediocrity, Rooms, Elephant In The Room

Race in this country is still the elephant in the room that no one wants to discuss.

- Lenny Kravitz

topic: Country, Race, Elephants, Elephant In The Room

Let's point out the elephant in the room: Actor bands are not notoriously successful enterprises. I can't think of any.

- Michael Shannon

topic: Successful, Thinking, Elephants, Elephant In The Room

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

source: "'I'm considering a revolution'". Interview with Kira Cochrane, www.theguardian.com. October 9, 2007.

topic: Elephants, Rooms, Planets, Elephant In The Room, Patriarchy

I am trying to call attention to the elephant in the room that everybody is too polite - or too devout - to notice: religion, and specifically the devaluing effect that religion has on human life.

- Richard Dawkins

source: Richard Dawkins (2017). “Science in the Soul: Selected Writings of a Passionate Rationalist”, p.237, Random House

topic: Elephants, Trying, Attention, Elephant In The Room

And that is how Goodwin problems were always fixed. Fix them on the surface but don't go to the root, always ignoring the elephant in the room. I think that morning was when I realized I'd grown up with an elephant in every room of my life. It was practically our family pet.

- Cecelia Ahern

topic: Morning, Thinking, Elephants, Elephant In The Room, Family Pets

In my family, my fat family, none of us ever say the word 'fat.' 'Fat' is the word you hear shouted on the playground or in the street - it's never allowed over the threshold of the house. My mum won't have that filth in her house. At home together, we are safe. ... There will be no harm to our feelings here because we never acknowledge fat exists. We never refer to our size. We are the elephants in the room.

- Caitlin Moran

topic: Home, Elephants, House, Elephant In The Room

The elephant in the room time and time again when it comes to work and promotions is maternity leave. We need to work with businesses so they work with women and make it easy and supportive for them to come back into the workplace.

- Mary Portas

topic: Elephants, Supportive, Needs, Maternity Leave, Maternity

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

source: Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

topic: Fun, Elephants, Rooms, Elephant In The Room

I think that the reason that people are so up in arms about movies that have historical inaccuracies is because now that we've trashed our education institutions beyond repair, people fear that the only people are getting their histories is through the movies, so the elephant in the room is that no one wants to talk about why we're so passionately obsessed with accuracy.

- Nicholas Meyer

source: Source: collider.com

topic: Thinking, Elephants, People, Elephant In The Room

Time magazine put Chris Christie on the cover with the caption, 'The Elephant in the Room.' And People magazine named him 'Sexiest Garbage Truck in a Suit.'

- Bill Maher

topic: Elephants, People, Magazines, Elephant In The Room, Time Magazine

People of conscience in our leadership in Washington have been scared off by the right and the fossil fuel lobbies. They won't even use the term "sustainability" or "climate change" in an energy bill, which is ludicrous on its face. It completely ignores the elephant in the room that we're all dealing with. The average American doesn't even believe climate change is real, they think it's all a hoax.

- James Cameron

source: "James Cameron: The ‘Avatar’ sequel will dive into the oceans of Pandora". Interview with Patrick Kevin Day, herocomplex.latimes.com. April 20, 2010.

topic: Real, Believe, Thinking, Elephant In The Room