If elephants didn't exist, you couldn't invent one. They belong to a small group of living things so unlikely they challenge credulity and common sense. — Lyall Watson
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
I do believe that the party has a bunch of elephants running around in donkey clothes. — Al Sharpton
The male ego with few exceptions is elephantine to start with. — Bette Davis
Don’t make an elephant out of a mosquito. —
The debt is like a crazy aunt we keep down in the basement. All the neighbors know she's there, but nobody wants to talk about her. — Ross Perot
The man who has mounted an elephant will not fear the bark of a dog. — Indian Proverbs
Your Room Quotes
Fear is the cheapest room in the house. I would like to see you living in better conditions. — Hafez
O YOU whom I often and silently come where you are, that I may be with you; As I walk by your side, or sit near, or remain in the same room with you, Little you know the subtle electric fire that for your sake is playing within me. — Walt Whitman
Remember, when something leaves your life, God is making room for something much better to enter! Get ready! — Paula White
Every time you subtract negative from your life, you make room for more positive.
Keep some room in your heart for the unimaginable. — Mary Oliver
You're always working to improve, and you're always being critiqued on your next performance. It's not about what you've done. There's always room to grow. — Misty Copeland
Everything you do right now ripples outward and affects everyone. Your posture can shine your heart or transmit anxiety. Your breath can radiate love or muddy the room in depression. Your glance can awaken joy. Your words can inspire freedom. Your every act can open hearts and minds. — David Deida
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.
Medicine is learned by the bedside and not in the classroom. Let not your conceptions of disease come from words heard in the lecture room or read from the book. See, and then reason and compare and control. But see first. — William Osler
Sometimes,' said Pooh, 'the smallest things take up the most room in your heart. — A. A. Milne
If you have a milkshake and I have a milkshake, and I have a straw and my straw reaches across the room and starts to drink your milkshake... I drink your milkshake! I drink it up! — Daniel Day-Lewis
It is not always possible to be the best, but it is always possible to improve your own performance. — Jackie Stewart
Room Quotes
I prefer drawing to talking. Drawing is faster, and leaves less room for lies. — Le Corbusier
Even a room which must be dark needs at least a crack of light to know how dark it is. — Louis Kahn
If I told you that a flower bloomed in a dark room, would you trust it? — Kendrick Lamar
The loudest one in the room is the weakest one in the room.
Man is equal to man. There should not be exploitation. One should help the other. No one should harm anybody. Generally there should be no room for grievance or complaint from anybody. Everyone should live and let others live, with a national spirit. — Periyar E. V. Ramasamy
You see, everyone in that locker-room gotta pager. And everyone that looks at that pager, sees the three-one-six, so their ass belongs to me. — Stone Cold Steve Austin
Typography must be as beautiful as a forest, not like the concrete jungle of the tenements It gives distance between the trees, the room to breathe and allow for life. — Adrian Frutiger
Dont fill you head with worries, there wont be room for anything else
Religion is like a blind man looking in a black room for a black cat that isn't there, and finding it. — Oscar Wilde
Affirming words from moms and dads are like light switches. Speak a word of affirmation at the right moment in a child's life and it's like lighting up a whole roomful of possibilities. — Gary Smalley
There was a knock on our dressing-room door. Our manager shouted, 'Keith! Ron! The Police are here!' Oh, man, we panicked, flushed everything down the john. Then the door opened and it was Stewart Copeland and Sting. — Keith Richards
If you are neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor. If an elephant has its foot on the tail of a mouse, and you say that you are neutral, the mouse will not appreciate your neutrality. — Desmond Tutu
The question is, are we happy to suppose that our grandchildren may never be able to see an elephant except in a picture book? — David Attenborough
With four parameters I can fit an elephant, and with five I can make him wiggle his trunk. — John Von Neumann
There is no room in your future for your past to tag along.
The problem is that during the 1980s, a decade of heavy poaching, the elephants retreated to safer areas. And now people have moved into the corridors once used by the elephants. — Richard Leakey
The Christian icon is not the Stars and Stripes but a cross-flag, and its emblem is not a donkey, an elephant, or an eagle, but a slaughtered lamb. — Shane Claiborne
A camel makes an elephant feel like a jet plane. — Jackie Kennedy
Confidence isn't walking into a room thinking you're better than everyone, it's walking in not having to compare yourself to anyone at all.
We humans are better at pointing out the elephants in other rooms than in our own. — Lex Fridman
I find it striking that the quality of the urban habitat of homo sapieans is so weakly researched compared to the habitats of gorillas, elephants, and Bengal tigers and panda bears in China…you hardly see anything on the habitat of man in the urban environment. — Jan Gehl
When you look at an elephant, look at its tail. When you look at a girl, look at her mother. — Thai Proverbs
Ghostface, catch the blast of a hype verse,
My glock bursts, leave in a hearse, I did worse.
I come rough, tough like an elephant tusk,
Ya head rush, fly like Egyptian musk. — Ghostface Killah
Dark Room Quotes
The hardest thing of all is to find a black cat in a dark room, especially if there is no cat. — Confucius
Gazing into the mirror, I saw myself as I was-a black silhouette in the room, a woman whose darkness had completely leaked through. — Sue Monk Kidd
A mathematician is a blind man in a dark room looking for a black cat which isn't there. — Charles Darwin
Service to others is the rent you pay for your room here on Earth.
I could hear my heart beating. I could hear everyone's heart. I could hear the human noise we sat there making, not one of us moving, not even when the room went dark. — Raymond Carver
I think anything you listen to is going to be different. You're going to listen to a song differently if you're just sitting around somewhere listening on your phone as opposed to sitting in a dark room listening to a vinyl album. It's going to be a totally different experience. — Brendon Urie
Film as dream, film as music. No art passes our conscience in the way film does, and goes directly to our feelings, deep down into the dark rooms of our souls. — Ingmar Bergman
A room without books is like a body without a soul.
The trouble with photographing beautiful women is that you never get into the dark room until after they've gone. — Yousuf Karsh
It is a mistake for anyone to think he has lived too long in his old, unsatisfactory ways to make the great change. If you switch on the light in a dark room, it makes no difference how long it was dark because the light will still shine. Be teachable. That is the whole secret. — Vernon Howard
My whole life is a dark room. One big dark room. — Beetlejuice
Poetic justice, poetic justice.. if I told you that a flower bloom in a dark room would you trust it. I mean I write poems in these songs. — Kendrick Lamar
Sometimes a whisper in a noisy room is the most effective strategy.
when there's an elephant in the room, you can't pretend it isn't there and just discuss the ants. — Ellen Wittlinger
Let's point out the elephant in the room: Actor bands are not notoriously successful enterprises. I can't think of any. — Sayings
When there is an invisible elephant in the room, one is from time to time bound to trip over a trunk. — Karen Joy Fowler
If you are filled with pride then you'll have no room for wisdom.
Plastic surgery is like a big elephant sitting in the Hollywood living room. — Patricia Heaton
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
Life after death is the elephant in the living room, the one that we are not supposed to notice. — Dinesh D'Souza
Race in this country is still the elephant in the room that no one wants to discuss. — Lenny Kravitz
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
We all know the big elephant in the room. The big elephant in the room is African governments. Africa has been totally mismanaged and misruled, but nobody wants to talk about that because of political correctness. — George W. Bush
What I love about comedians is their instinct is always to go against the grain. Their whole existence is pointing out the elephant in the room. Already you can see audiences are pushing back, but we're the ones who really can take it more than anybody. — Colin Quinn
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
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
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
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
It's not the best between my family and me. There are so many crimes left unpunished, debts unpaid, white elephants in the middle of the room that no one will even offer a peanut to. We are in the red, emotionally speaking. — Margaret Cho
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
Knowing what you need doesn't always mean you know how to get it, though. I'd spent a long time hiding in my cave. No matter how much I might want to come out into the light, I knew it would hurt my eyes. I was a fool. A fool, but nevertheless too smart not to know I was the architect of my own demise, that it was time to put my past behind me. It was time to stop allowing the white elephants to stand unspoken of in my living room. — Megan Hart
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
That don't look good," Kramisha said. "Not good at all." She paused and then her eyes went from me to Heath, whose attention was so focused on me I swear he didn't look like he would notice if a giant white elephant in a tutu danced around the room. "Ain't that the human kid who was down here before? — P. C. Cast
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