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We'll be back to our nature documentary, 'Baggy the Anorexic Elephant' in just a second. -- Colin Mochrie
The Elephant Man claimed his head was big because, it's so full of dreams. Actually, it's because his skull was shaped like a turkey. -- Dana Gould
Band of Skulls is joining Cage the Elephant as my new musical caffeine. -- Michael Koryta
I always think I look like the Elephant Man - I can't get used to my own image. -- Brian Cox
The night before 'The Elephant Man' opened, we had a sleepover for 12 kids. Being organized is the key. -- Scott Ellis
I really wanted to work with David Lynch. I was a big fan of The Elephant Man and Eraserhead. -- Sting
But my mother loved The Elephant Man, and my father gave David Lynch a scholarship to study in Rome. -- Isabella Rossellini
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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
I had seen a herd of Elephant travelling through dense native forest ... pacing along as if they had an appointment at the end of the world. -- Isak Dinesen
I first got involved with Mel Brooks through 'The Elephant Man.' Everybody knows now, but they didn't know at the time that he was the producer. -- John Hurt
I watched a film called 'Elephant' recently. Its not stylish in the sense of expensive suits and Italian cars, but the styling on every single character is spot on. -- Tinie Tempah
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
There is no creature among all the Beasts of the world which hath so great and ample demonstration of the power and wisdom of almighty God as the Elephant. -- Edward Topsell
So oft in theologic wars, The disputants, I ween, Rail on in utter ignorance Of what each other mean, And prate about an Elephant Not one of them has seen! -- John Godfrey Saxe
It was six men of Hindustan To learning much inclined, Who went to see the Elephant (Though all of them were blind) That each by observation Might satisfy the mind. -- John Godfrey Saxe
There are 13 Asian countries that still have elephants, and Elephant Family is looking to invest in further projects that will be the most critical for saving elephants while there is still time. -- Mark Shand
I have been called a Rogue Elephant, a Cannibal Shark, and a crocodile. I am none the worse. I remain a caged, and rather sardonic, lion, in a particularly contemptible and ill-run zoo. -- Wyndham Lewis
It's amazing how quickly human beings adapt, isn't it? It was such a great crew, and David [Lynch] was wonderful to work with [on 'The Elephant Man']. It was a very thrilling time, actually. -- John Hurt
Currently poaching threatens the very existence of the African Elephant, and my worry is that if we do not act NOW, we could be looking at a future in which this iconic species is wiped out. -- Yaya Toure
'The Elephant Man' was hugely enjoyable to do. I thought the one stage, when Chris Tucker did the first makeup and it took 12 hours, I thought they'd actually found a way for me not to enjoy filming. -- John Hurt
I saw David Lynch's 'The Elephant Man' 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
I was never a great reader, but there were two stories I loved best: Kipling's The Elephant's Child and The Jungle Book. Deep down, I've always wanted to write a book about a wild child and an elephant. -- Michael Morpurgo
I often say, with something like 'The Elephant Man,' had it been an American series for television, where you have to sign your life away for seven years...well, maybe I would never have made 'Sailcloth.' -- John Hurt
I was never a great reader, but there were two stories I loved best: Kipling's 'The Elephant's Child' and 'The Jungle Book.' Deep down, I've always wanted to write a book about a wild child and an elephant. -- Michael Morpurgo
Always drawn to the theatric, Bowie also performed in stage productions of "The Elephant Man" and just recently collaborated on "Lazarus," an off-Broadway musical that's a sequel to his 1976 role in the film "The Man Who Fell To Earth." -- David Bowie
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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. -- John Robinson
Do we really want to know how Michael Jackson makes his music? No. We want to understand why he needs the bones of the Elephant Man -- and, until he tells us, it doesn't make too much difference whether or not he really is ''bad. -- Frank Zappa
Unlike the primate hand, the elephant's grasping organ is also its nose. Elephants use their trunks not only to reach food but also to sniff and touch it. With their unparalleled sense of smell, the animals know exactly what they are going for. Vision is secondary. -- Frans de Waal
Elephant populations in India and also in the whole of Asia are under severe stress. The captive ones are rendered jobless due to changes in the mode of transport and lifestyle of people. The ones in the wild are also no better off, as the forests are shrinking. -- Mark Shand
I do not now so much as wish to have the Strength of Youth again that I wish'd in Youth for the Strength of an Ox or Elephant. For it is our Business only to make the best Use we can of the Powers granted us by Nature. -- Marcus Tullius Cicero
The reason I know about 'Tomb Raider' is from when I was researching 'Elephant.' It was 1999, and I was trying to research the Columbine-massacre kids, and they had played video games, and I, at the time, had never really seen one. It was a world I didn't know. -- Gus Van Sant
Yeah, Kubrick's a big influence. In something like 'A Clockwork Orange,' he is trying to use the practical light - I mean, at least he says that in his interviews, like they're not using traditionally Hollywood lights. In 'Elephant' we basically used no lights; we never really adjusted. -- Gus Van Sant
The four movies I can remember seeing as a kid were 'The Elephant Man,' 'The Magnificent Seven,' 'The Good, The Bad and The Ugly' and 'Mad Max!' Two of those are westerns. So the western genre is emblazoned on my memory from childhood, and those are two great movies. -- Casey Affleck
The elephant can survive only if forests survive. -- Mark Shand
Love will draw an elephant through a key-hole. -- Samuel Richardson
Nature's great masterpiece, an elephant; the only harmless great thing. -- John Donne
People are so difficult. Give me an elephant any day. -- Mark Shand
A camel makes an elephant feel like a jet plane. -- Jackie Kennedy
Words are cheap. The biggest thing you can say is 'elephant'. -- Charlie Chaplin
I have a memory like an elephant. In fact, elephants often consult me. -- Noel Coward
I have a memory like an elephant. I remember every elephant I've ever met. -- Herb Caen
One morning I shot an elephant in my pajamas. How he got into my pajamas I'll never know. -- Groucho Marx
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
God is not troubled by one who is conservative or liberal, and He certainly never inclines His ear toward a donkey or an elephant. -- Max Lucado
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
The U.N. bureaucracy has grown to elephantine proportions. Now that the Cold War is over, we are asking that elephant to do gymnastics. -- Madeleine Albright
Primate and elephant and even pig societies show considerable evidence of care for others, parent-child bonding, solidarity in the face of danger, and so on. -- Christopher Hitchens
God is really only another artist. He invented the giraffe, the elephant and the cat. He has no real style, He just goes on trying other things. -- Pablo Picasso
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. -- Frans de Waal
I feel as if I go to Africa, I may never come back. I'm just going to live with the animals and adopt an elephant, and it's going to be my friend. -- Dianna Agron
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. -- Pierre Trudeau
I don't know how many lions and leopards I've shot. I've shot two elephants, which was enough - never again. It's a melancholy and moving thing to hunt an elephant. It's like shooting an old man. -- Wilbur Smith
I've never liked the moment of seeing something beautiful - a sunset, a moose, an elephant - and then raising a camera and trying to capture it for some future moment. That's always struck me as strange. -- Joseph Monninger
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
Most people know that forests are the lungs of our planet, literally playing a critical role in every breath we take. And that they're also home to incredible animals like the orangutan and elephant, which will go extinct if we keep cutting down their forests. -- Chris Noth
Some animals are cunning and evil-disposed, as the fox; others, as the dog, are fierce, friendly, and fawning. Some are gentle and easily tamed, as the elephant; some are susceptible of shame, and watchful, as the goose. Some are jealous and fond of ornament, as the peacock. -- Aristotle
Some kinds of animals burrow in the ground; others do not. Some animals are nocturnal, as the owl and the bat; others use the hours of daylight. There are tame animals and wild animals. Man and the mule are always tame; the leopard and the wolf are invariably wild, and others, as the elephant, are easily tamed. -- Aristotle
There were times, especially when I was traveling for 'Eat, Pray, Love,' when, I swear to God, I would feel this weight of my female ancestors, all those Swedish farmwives from beyond the grave who were like, 'Go! Go to Naples! Eat more pizza! Go to India, ride an elephant! Do it! Swim in the Indian Ocean. Read those books. Learn a language.' -- Elizabeth Gilbert
...the elephant smoked too much. -- Victor Borge
An elephant is almost a unicorn! -- Laura C Goodwin
I wanted to work with an elephant. -- Robert Pattinson
Mediocrity is the elephant in the room. -- Kevin Spacey
Pointless. . . . Like giving caviar to an elephant. -- William Faulkner
They couldn't hit an elephant at this dist... -- John Sedgwick
Eat like a bird, poop like an elephant -- Guy Kawasaki
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The rider evolved to serve to the elephant. -- Jonathan Haidt
When there's an elephant in the room introduce him. -- Randy Pausch
I had a probing mind and an elephant memory. -- Ethel Waters
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I have a face like the behind of an elephant. -- Charles Laughton
When eating an elephant take one bite at a time. -- Creighton W. Abrams, Jr.
Do you have any idea how much an elephant drinks? -- Sara Gruen
The elephant, the huge old beast, is slow to mate -- D. H. Lawrence
You can eat an elephant one bit at a time. -- Mary Kay Ash
I couldn't hit an elephant's ass with a bull fiddle. -- Babe Didrikson Zaharias
Did I ever say an engagement was an elephant, madam? -- Elizabeth Gaskell
But what humans forget, cells remember. The body, that elephant -- Jeffrey Eugenides
Education isn't everything, for a start it isn't an elephant -- Spike Milligan
Dividing an elephant in half does not produce two small elephants. -- Peter Senge
If size mattered, the elephant would be king of the jungle. -- Rickson Gracie
I feel like a carton of eggs holding up an elephant. -- Sherman Alexie
He who mounts a wild elephant goes where the elephant goes. -- Randolph Bourne
Every worm has to turn and every mouse must bite the elephant -- Michael Basman
What is true for E. coli is also true for the elephant. -- Jacques Monod
If you've never seen an elephant ski, you've never been on acid. -- Eddie Izzard
Abrams's Advice: When eating an elephant, take one bite at a time. -- Paul Dickson
Thy impudence has a monstrous beauty, like the hindquarters of an elephant. -- James Elroy Flecker
It is better to own 10% of an elephant than 100% of a rat. -- Arthur Mutambara
Dealing with the State Department is like watching an elephant become pregnant. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt
A novelist is an elephant, but an elephant who must pretend to forget. -- Mary McCarthy
Oh, it's you," Curran's voice said quietly. "I thought it was an elephant. -- Ilona Andrews
Shallows where a lamb could wade and depths where an elephant would drown. -- Matthew Henry
When you hear the elephant music you're hearing what they mean to make. -- Dave Soldier
Plastic surgery is like a big elephant sitting in the Hollywood living room. -- Patricia Heaton
He laughed. The laugh could strip the skin off an elephant in seconds. -- Lilith Saintcrow
The knife flaying the elephant does not have to be large, only sharp! -- Andre Norton
Our elders say that an elephant does not find its own trunk heavy. -- Zakes Mda
Learning to play with a big amplifier is like trying to control an elephant. -- Ritchie Blackmore
He frowned as he struggled to remember. It was like watching an elephant crochet. -- Val McDermid
All the religions are true, they just see a different part of the elephant. -- George Lucas
There is only one way to eat an elephant, a bite at a time. -- Desmond Tutu
Nothing appeases an enraged elephant so much as the sight of a little lamb. -- Saint Francis de Sales
If you do not have a memory like an elephant, leave impressions like one. -- Uknown
You can eat an elephant if you do it one bite at a time. -- Robert Christopher Riley
The United States should not jump around like an elephant frightened by a mouse. -- George F. Kennan
The elephant smoked too much.(explaining why the keys of his piano were so yellow) -- Victor Borge
Miracle means; when a South Asian Woman does not turn into an elephant after marriage. -- M.F. Moonzajer
My roommate got a pet elephant. Then it got lost. It's in the apartment somewhere. -- Steven Wright
How hard can it be to find a girl and an elephant for Christ's sake? -- Sara Gruen
To be without God is to be a snake / who wants to swallow an elephant. -- Anne Sexton
I do not have a single white note on my piano; my elephant smoked too much. -- Victor Borge
When the elephant decides to walk through the village, all the dogs come out and bark. -- Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
I couldn't have been more shocked if he pulled a pink elephant out of his ass! -- Tamara Rose Blodgett
Make no friendship with an elephant keeper If you have no room to entertain an elephant -- Saadi
One elephant having a trunk was odd; but all elephants having trunks looked like a plot. -- Gilbert K. Chesterton
It may surprise people to learn that one elephant is killed every 15 minutes for its ivory. -- Li Bingbing
I'm like an elephant, ok? If I walk into a room, it's like, OK, he's in there. -- Aziz Ansari

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