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Elephant Quotes

In 1255, Louis IX of France presented an elephant to Henry III of England to add to the menagerie of exotic animals he kept in the Tower of London.

Elephant Animals London Tower Exotic

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.

Society Elephant Talk Human Room

Learning to play with a big amplifier is like trying to control an elephant.

Ritchie Blackmore

Learning Control Elephant Play Big

I feel like, if there's an elephant in the room, I'd really like to start off by introducing the elephant in the room. And sometimes it's funny.

Funny Start Elephant Feel Sometimes

We'll be back to our nature documentary, 'Baggy the Anorexic Elephant' in just a second.

Nature Elephant Back Documentary Our

Living next to you is in some ways like sleeping with an elephant. No matter how friendly and even-tempered is the beast, if I can call it that, one is affected by every twitch and grunt.

Elephant You I Can Beast Living

Only those with skin as thick as elephant hide can hope to sail through their teens unscathed by self-doubt and bouts of depression.

Mariella Frostrup

Hope Depression Sail Elephant Hide

Seriously, a smaller, leaner, cleaner, tuskless and more secretive elephant is exactly what is needed. It definitely would live longer.

Live Elephant Seriously More Cleaner

A few dozen changes to the genome of a modern elephant - to give it subcutaneous fat, woolly hair and sebaceous glands - might suffice to create a variation that is functionally similar to the mammoth. Returning this keystone species to the tundras could stave off some effects of warming.

George M. Church

Hair Elephant Fat Create Returning

I have a face like the behind of an elephant.

Charles Laughton

Face Elephant Behind Like

Love will draw an elephant through a key-hole.

Samuel Richardson

Love Elephant Will Through Draw

But my mother loved The Elephant Man, and my father gave David Lynch a scholarship to study in Rome.

Isabella Rossellini

Father Mother Man Elephant Loved

I'm not a Republican, but I was one once - when I was 7 years old. Not my fault. The symbol of the Republican Party is an elephant, I'm a Hindu - I was confused.

Elephant Confused Party Republican

The unspoken thing, the elephant in the room, is the war against terrorism, it's tainting everything.

War Elephant Terrorism Everything

Prior to Elephant I'd taken about six years of acting classes in Portland, but there's not a huge market there. The only thing we have is commercial stuff, and that didn't really appeal to me. So this is really a dream come true.

Me Elephant Dream Acting True Years

While I had often said that I wanted to die in bed, what I really meant was that in my old age I wanted to be stepped on by an elephant while making love.

Love Age Old Age Elephant Die Said

'Bowling For Columbine' and 'Gus Van Sant's Elephant' really intrigued me. With 'Bowling For Columbine', I think Michael Moore just gave the perfect exploration of both the mass media interpretation of the event and going into the minds of these kids. These were messed-up kids who had hit a point of no return.

Me Think Elephant Media Perfect

I always think I look like the Elephant Man - I can't get used to my own image.

Man Think Elephant Look Image Own

I'm for conservation, but it's mostly a con. That's the trouble. It's sentimental. Buy an elephant a drink, a lion an acre.

Lion Elephant Trouble Drink Buy Con

People are so difficult. Give me an elephant any day.

Day People Me Elephant Difficult

Like the proverbial elephant in the room, American anti-Europeanism has loomed large for so long that few trouble to notice it.

Elephant American Long Trouble Room

Our brains have been designed to blur the line between self and other. It is an ancient neural circuitry that marks every mammal, from mouse to elephant.

Elephant Self Blur Line Brains Been

Words are cheap. The biggest thing you can say is 'elephant'.

Charlie Chaplin

Words Elephant You Say Cheap Thing

There's an academic tradition called the 'Last Lecture.' Hypothetically, if you knew you were going to die and you had one last lecture, what would you say to your students? Well, for me, there's an elephant in the room. And the elephant in the room, for me, it wasn't hypothetical.

Me Elephant Die Tradition You Say

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