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• I had to wait for someone special. Someone who would make my heart feel as if it's been trampled by elephants, thrown into the amazon, and eaten by piranhas.

  Lisa Kleypas

  Heart, Waiting, Special

  Lisa Kleypas (2010). “Love in the Afternoon”, p.165, Macmillan

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• Courage~ What makes the flag on the mast to wave? What makes the elephant charge his tusk in the misty mist, or the dusky dusk? What makes the muskrat guard his musk? Courage! What makes the sphinx the seventh wonder? Courage! What makes the dawn come up like thunder? Courage! What makes the Hottentot so hot? What puts the "ape" in apricot?~Cowardly Lion from the Wizard of Oz

  L. Frank Baum

  Dawn, Hot, Sphinx

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• Frank stared at him. "Unfair? You can breathe underwater and blow up glaciers and summon freaking hurricanes-and it's unfair that I can be an elephant?" Percy considered. "Okay. I guess you got a point. But the next time I say you're totally beast-" "Just shut up," Frank said. "Please." Percy cracked a smile.

  Rick Riordan

  Blow, Underwater, Next

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• Oh, it's you," Curran's voice said quietly. "I thought it was an elephant.

  Ilona Andrews

  Voice, Said

  Ilona Andrews (2012). “Magic Bites: A Special Edition of the First Kate Daniels Novel”, p.87, Penguin

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• Right now I've got just two rules to live by. Rule one: don't taunt elephants. Rule two: don't stand next to anybody who taunts elephants. -Sergeant Schlock

  Howard Tayler

  Two, Rules To Live By, Next

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• We have been led to imagine all sorts of things infinitely more marvelous than the imagining of poets and dreamers of the past. It shows that the imagination of nature is far, far greater than the imagination of man. For instance, how much more remarkable it is for us all to be stuck-half of us upside down-by a mysterious attraction, to a spinning ball that has been swinging in space for billions of years, than to be carried on the back of an elephant supported on a tortoise swimming in a bottomless sea.

  Richard P. Feynman

  Swimming, Men, Past

  Richard P. Feynman (2005). “The Pleasure of Finding Things Out: The Best Short Works of Richard P. Feynman”, p.76, Hachette UK

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• He frowned as he struggled to remember. It was like watching an elephant crochet.

  Val McDermid

  Remember

  Val McDermid (2010). “Kick Back (PI Kate Brannigan, Book 2)”, p.9, HarperCollins UK

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• Just in case you thought elephants were all sweetness, I can attest to the fact that this one had the time of her life scaring the bejeezus out of those dudes.

  James Patterson

  Facts, Cases, Sweetness

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• I'm an elephant today. I will need to have lots of room and also a bowl of water on the floor.

  Jesse Ball

  Water, Needs, Today

  FaceBook post by Jesse Ball from Aug 05, 2012

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• Onyx is angry," Damian says. "Onyx has a right to be angry. You've got to remember, for many elephants, their life is that of a human in a war-torn country. Ravaged homes, killed relatives, separation," Damian says. Here's another thing I've learned over two months--every elephants here has a sad story. Every captive elephant's story is one of loss and separation. Something to remember every time you see happy people getting elephant rides.

  Deb Caletti

  Country, War, Home

  Deb Caletti (2010). “Nature of Jade”, p.88, Simon and Schuster

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• Southampton's barrage balloons floated gleaming in the moonlight like the ghosts of elephants and hippos.

  Elizabeth Wein

  Balloons, Ghost, Moonlight

  Elizabeth Wein (2012). “Code Name Verity”, p.164, Egmont UK

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• Ella is nervous,” the harpy muttered from her perch on the railing. “The elephant. The elephant is watching Ella.

  Rick Riordan

  Nervous, Harpies, Percy Jackson And The Olympians

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• 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

  Father, Circus, Needed

  Ally Carter (2011). “Heist Society”, p.120, Hachette UK

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• 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

  Hurt, Smart, Mean

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• It wasn't that I hated being asked a bunch of questions. I had nothing against questions. I just didn't like listening to them, because some questions take forever to make sense. Sometimes waiting for a question to finish is like watching someone draw an elephant starting with the tail first. As soon as you see the tail your mind wanders all over the place and you think of a million other animals that also have tails until you don't care about the elephant because it's only one thing when you've been thinking about a million others.

  Jack Gantos

  Animal, Thinking, Waiting

  Jack Gantos (2011). “Joey Pigza Swallowed the Key”, p.34, Macmillan

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• Leo couldn't help smiling. "That could be fun." "Fun" she said unhappily. "Blue elephants." "Blue elephants." "Kiss me you fool." "You fool.

  Rick Riordan

  Fun, Kissing, Blue

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• She is the elephant’s eyebrows,” Evie whispered appreciatively. “Those jewels! How her neck must ache.” “That’s why Bayer makes aspirin,” Mabel whispered back, and Evie smiled, knowing that even a socialist wasn’t immune to the dazzle of a movie star.

  Libba Bray

  Stars, Knowing, Jewels

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• How can we satisfy ourselves without going on in infinitum? And, after all, what satisfaction is there in that infinite progression? Let us remember the story of the Indian philosopher and his elephant. It was never more applicable than to the present subject. If the material world rests upon a similar ideal world, this ideal world must rest upon some other; and so on, without end. It were better, therefore, never to look beyond the present material world.

  David Hume

  Looks, Stories, World

  David Hume (2013). “Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion”, p.31, Courier Corporation

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• There is little or no magic about them, except the ordinary everyday sort which helps them to disappear quietly and quickly when large stupid folk like you and me come blundering along, making a noise like elephants which they can hear a mile off.

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Stupid, Magic, Everyday

  J.R.R. Tolkien (2012). “The Hobbit”, p.8, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• The Elephant Man would never have gotten up and gone, ‘Oh, God. Look at me hair today.’

  Karl Pilkington

  Funny, Men, Hair

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• As big as an elephant is, a whale is still larger. Everything's relative. Even gods have their spot on the food chain.

  Jim Starlin

  Whales, Bigs, Chains

  "Jim Starlin Kills The New Gods". Comicon.com, August 2007.

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• I have not seen any Christian sparrow or Muslim lion or Jewish elephant! Animals are lucky as they have not yet invented the religion!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Christian, Animal, Lucky

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• An elephant is vastly more efficient, metabolically, than a mouse. It's the same for a megacity as opposed to a village. But an elephant can break a leg very easily, whereas you can toss a mouse out of a window and it'll be fine. Size makes you fragile.

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb

  Break A Leg, Growth, Village

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• Everything is 'colossalized' - events, fortunes, accidents, climate, conversation, ambitions - everything is in the extreme ... They can't even have a tram run off a line, which in England or France might kill one or two people, without its making a holocaust of half a street full. ... The thing which surprises me is they should still employ animals of normal size; one would expect to see elephants and mammoths drawing the hansoms and carts!

  Elinor Glyn

  Running, Ambition, Animal

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• 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

  Home, House, Feelings

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