Top 1200 Elephant In The Room Quotes & Sayings - Page 4

The two symbols of the Republican party: an elephant and a big fat white guy who's threatened by change.

If you want a measure of how private a place the dressing room was when I was growing up at Manchester United, consider this: even Sir Alex Ferguson would knock before coming into the dressing room at the Cliff, the old training ground. The dressing room is for the players - and the players only.

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.

The U.N. bureaucracy has grown to elephantine proportions. Now that the Cold War is over, we are asking that elephant to do gymnastics.

It may surprise people to learn that one elephant is killed every 15 minutes for its ivory.

The United States should not jump around like an elephant frightened by a mouse.

I feel I must have been an elephant in a former life. I love the sensitivity and peaceful force of these creatures.

The elephant needs a thousand times more food than the ant but that is not an indication of inequality.

I imagine the film ["300"] as if I was a Spartan and I had never seen an immortal or a Persian, or an elephant or a rhino for that matter.

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

In America you have the mouse now trying to sit down on the elephant, thinking that he's going somewhere. And it's - and it's absurd.

I think the lion, besides the elephant, was the one animal that I just started thinking about so much.

If you walk into a room that's bro'd up, and you're in power, bring more women into the room.

God is not troubled by one who is conservative or liberal, and He certainly never inclines His ear toward a donkey or an elephant.

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.

I get an urge, like a pregnant elephant, to go away and give birth to a book.

There is room for everyone; there is room for every culture, race, language and point of view.

You wander from room to room Hunting for the diamond necklace That is already around your neck!

In a sick-room or a bed-room there should never be shutters shut.

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

I'm just getting settled as a responsible man - but if you split the elephant into little mouthfuls it will be fine.

It was a challenge with 'In My Room,' because I was the only person in that room making the record, to maintain perspective.

An elephant is the king of the jungle for the simple reason a lion is only brave when there is loads of them.

Our elders say that an elephant does not find its own trunk heavy.

Our party's symbol is the elephant, and its weight, size and strength symbolize Uttar Pradesh.

When the bull's-eye becomes as big in your mind as an elephant, you are sure to hit it.

Publishers are in business to make money, and if your books do well they don't care if you are male, female, or an elephant.

When you appear on the screen, often enough you become sexy, even if you look like an elephant.

I doubt if a charging elephant, or a rhino, is as determined or hard to check as a socially ambitious mother.

You can't build a relationship with everybody in the room when you don't care about anybody in the room.

The pointes for girls, I always say, have to be like an elephant's trunk; strong and yet flexible and soft.

That's my idol, Elvis Presley. If you went to my house, you'd see pictures all over of Elvis. He's just the greatest entertainer that ever lived. And I think it's because he had such presence. When Elvis walked into a room, Elvis Presley was in the f***ing room. I don't give a f*** who was in the room with him, Bogart, Marilyn Monroe.

I believe everybody should have a room where they get rid of all their releases. So my room was a stage.

Use a sweet tongue, courtesy, and gentleness, and thou mayest manage to guide an elephant by a hair.

You got to always take advantage of getting your room cleaned. You may think it's nice not to have anybody in your room, like your privacy's not being invaded. But there's nothing like walking back into a clean room. You've got to remember that.

During the downtime on tour, I simply walk from room to room, staring into my computer.

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

I can't stand those people, speakers in a room, they say this all the time, "If I can just help one person in this room, I've done my job." You have an audience of 500 people and your standard of success is one person? That's terrible. If you help one person in the room, you're an abject failure. You have to change something.

And the elephant sings deep in the forest-maze About a star of deathless and painless peace But no astronomer can find where it is.

The library is not, as some would have it, a place for the retiring of disposition or faint of heart. It is not an ivory tower or a quiet room in a sanitarium facing away from the afternoon sun. It is, rather, a command center, a power base. A board room, a war room. An Oval Office for all who preside over their own destinies. One does not retreat from the world here; one prepares to join it at an advantage.

If thou art of elephant-strength or of lion-claw, still peace is, in my opinion, better than strife.

The first private space of my own wasn't a dorm room; it was a hotel room in Tulsa, Oklahoma.

If I am to write, I must have a room to myself, which shall be my room.

When the elephant decides to walk through the village, all the dogs come out and bark.

In the sallies of badinage a polite fool shines; but in gravity he is as awkward as an elephant disporting.

When you look at elephant herds that are nonstressed, the males are never around. They mate, they go; they're loners.

As an elephant in the battlefield withstands arrows shot from bows all around, even so shall I endure abuse.

I don't have to convince everybody in the room. I just need a critical mass of the people in the room.

The night before 'The Elephant Man' opened, we had a sleepover for 12 kids. Being organized is the key.

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

Even the elephant carries but a small trunk on his journeys. The perfection of traveling is to travel without baggage.

There were times that we'd be in the locker room there before everyone else, and a guy would walk in, say, 'Is this the Kliq locker room?' So we'd draw with a sharpie on the back of a program and write 'Kliq locker room'. I can promise you that none of those signs were ever on WWE letterhead.

I've been told I looked like I swallowed an elephant or a pig, whichever was more fitting that day.

The elephant smoked too much.(explaining why the keys of his piano were so yellow)

Jackie had a keen eye for talent, and like an elephant never forgot. And, he was always right on the mark.

The strong creation created by God in the world is not the lion, not the elephant, not the tiger - the girl.

I really wanted to work with David Lynch. I was a big fan of The Elephant Man and Eraserhead.

The elephant is never won by anger; nor must that man who would reclaim a lion take him by the teeth.

I want a room that I can definitely pack out. I don't want to sweat that part, "Am I gonna have enough people?" So I usually pick like a hundred, a relatively small room. Also, I'm looser in a small room. I don't want to record an album in front of a thousand people, not that I could draw a thousand, but I just want a room that I can really work back to front. That's just a very comfortable place for me to be loose.

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