Elephants Quotes - Page 7

• Man is a distance runner as a consequence of hundreds of thousands of years of chasing antelopes, horses, elephants, wild cattle, and deer.

  Paul Shepard

  Horse, Distance, Men

  Paul Shepard (2011). “The Tender Carnivore and the Sacred Game”, p.114, University of Georgia Press

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• Finish this lecture, go outside, and unexpectedly get gored by an elephant, and you are going to secrete glucocorticoids. There's no way out of it. You cannot psychologically reframe your experience and decide you did not like the shirt, here's an excuse to throw it out - that sort of thing.

  Robert M. Sapolsky

  Way, Lectures, Excuse

  "Stress, Neurodegeneration and Individual Differences". Robert M. Sapolsky's lecture at Washington State University, October 10, 2001.

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• It is better to live under a tree in a jungle inhabited by tigers and elephants, to maintain oneself in such a place with ripe fruits and spring water, to lie down on grass and to wear the ragged barks of trees than to live amongst one's relations when reduced to poverty.

  Chanakya

  Spring, Lying, Water

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• Hannibal rode elephants into cartilage

  Mike Tyson

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• Genies rarely have nightmares, for the same reason that elephants don't usually worry about being trampled underfoot. With the possible exception of bottles, there's nothing in the cosmos large enough or malicious enough to frighten them, or stupid enough to try.

  Tom Holt

  Stupid, Worry, Trying

  Tom Holt (2012). “Djinn Rummy”, p.79, Hachette UK

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• The elephant which supports the world is called Muha-pudma, and the the tortoise which supports the elephant is called Chukwa. In some of the Eastern mythologies we are told that the world stands on the backs of eight elephants, called Achtequed-jams.

  E. Cobham Brewer

  Eight, Support, Jam

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• I've always had enough, even if my enough and your enough are as different as an elephant and a minaret.

  Catherynne M. Valente

  Different, Had Enough, Ifs

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• Never let the guy with the broom decide how many elephants can be in the parade.

  Merlin Mann

  Guy, Parades, Brooms

  Twitter post from Apr 20, 2010

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• Remember this, for it is as true as true gets: Your body is not a lemon. You are not a machine. The Creator is not a careless mechanic. Human female bodies have the same potential to give birth as well as aardvarks, lions, rhinoceri, elephants, moose, and water buffalo. Even if it has not been your habit throughout your life so far, I recommend that you learn to think positively about your body.

  Ina May Gaskin

  Pregnancy, Thinking, Giving

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• 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

  Emotional, Clouds, Feelings

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• As a toy fruit or a toy elephant reminds one of the real fruit and the living animal, so do the images that are worshipped remind one of the God who is formless and eternal.

  Ramakrishna

  Real, Animal, Fruit

  Ramakrishna (1916). “Sayings of Sri Ramakrishna: the most exhaustive collection of the sacred and inspired utterances of Bhagavan Sri Ramakrishna”

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• I was driving pretty much the way everyone drives in LA, like elephants dancing on each others’ backs at a circus.

  Gary Reilly

  Dancing, Circus, Way

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• If he be so resolved, I can o'ersway him; for he loves to hear That unicorns may be betrayed with trees And bears with glasses, elephants with holes, Lions with toils, and men with flatterers

  William Shakespeare

  Men, Glasses, Tree

  William Shakespeare (2016). “The New Oxford Shakespeare: Modern Critical Edition: The Complete Works”, p.1631, Oxford University Press

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• Books were my window on the world. Growing up at the Elephant and Castle, which was very rough, my paradise was the library.

  Michael Caine

  Growing Up, Book, Library

  "This much I know". Interview with John Hind, www.theguardian.com. September 12, 2009.

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• Isimangaliso must be the only place on the globe where the oldest land mammal (rhinoceros) and the world biggest terrestrial mammal (elephant) share an ecosystem with the world's oldest fish (coelacanth) and the world's biggest marine mammal (whale)

  Nelson Mandela

  Marine, Whales, Land

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• If you want to shoot rare, fast-moving elephants, you should always carry a loaded gun.

  Warren Buffett

  Moving, Gun, Investing

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• Now the freaks are on television, the freaks are in the movies. And it's no longer the sideshow, it's the whole show. The colorful circus and the clowns and the elephants, for all intents and purposes, are gone, and we're dealing only with the freaks.

  Jonathan Winters

  Purpose, Gone, Television

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• Letter 1
  To the princess of the elephants,
  I disappeared exactly one year ago. On that day I received a letter. It called me back to the place where my life with the elephants began
  Please forgive me, for the silence between us has been unbroken for one year.
  I will never be more of myself than in these letters.
  They are my maps of the bird path, and they are all that I know to be true.

  Gregory Colbert

  Princess, Years, Bird

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• Every culture from the Egyptians to the Mayans to the American Indians to the Bedouins created bestiaries that enabled them to express their relationship with nature. Ashes and Snow is a 21st-century bestiary filled with species from around the world. Nature’s orchestra includes not just Homo sapiens but elephants, whales, manatees, eagles, cheetahs, orangutans, and many others.

  Gregory Colbert

  Eagles, Whales, Snow

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• I'd like to see animals removed from the entertainment business. Chimpanzees and apes won't perform unless you beat them. Circuses keep elephants in chains 90 percent of the time. Elephants need freedom of movement. In circuses, they live in cramped quarters, which is not the life intended for them by nature. Some are beaten daily, forced to do ridiculous tricks and robbed of every shred of dignity.

  Bob Barker

  Animal, Circus, Apes

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• I saw David Lynch’s “The Elephant Man” (1980) when I was 15. I was completely bowled over. I found it so beautiful, strange and mesmerizing that I went back to the cinema every night for a week to see it.

  Ben Daniels

  Beautiful, Night, Men

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• What you newspaper and magazine writers, who work in rabbit time, don't understand is that the practice of architecture has to be measured in elephant time.

  Eero Saarinen

  Practice, Rabbits, Magazines

  Eero Saarinen (1962). “Eero Saarinen on His Work: A Selection of Buildings Dating from 1947 to 1964 with Statements by the Architect”, New Haven : Yale University Press

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• The truth is a fog, in which one man sees the heavenly host and the other one sees a flying elephant.

  Terry Pratchett

  Men, Fog, Flying

  Terry Pratchett (2012). “Dodger”, p.132, Random House

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• With four parameters I can fit an elephant, and with five I can make him wiggle his trunk.

  John von Neumann

  Four, Fit, Trunks

  Attributed to John von Neumann by Enrico Fermi in "A meeting with Enrico Fermi" by Freeman Dyson in "Nature", Issue 427 (p. 297), www.nature.com. January 22, 2004.

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• I could not extrapolate some emotion from any song after 1997 so I bought a drum machine and popped pills. The pink ones make me funny like elephants!

  Thom Yorke

  Song, Pills, Machines

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