Top 1200 Elephant Man Quotes & Sayings - Page 2

When eating an elephant take one bite at a time.

Don’t try to eat an elephant for lunch.

The common thread of the series is that these are the books that Elephant and Piggie like to read. Elephant and Piggie are retired, so this is what they do in their spare time. What will they end up wanting to read? Time will tell. We've got to let that evolution happen as the series goes on. Any return of a character would have to be organic, would have to be, for example, Laurie Keller saying, hey, I really want to do this, and me feeling that there's a story there, rather than just saying, yeah, we can get three books out of these characters.

I have a face like the behind of an elephant.

When there’s an elephant in the room introduce him.

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.

May an elephant caress you with his toes

It was so easy for me to see that Anthony would be a superb Dr. Lecter because he had been such an amazing good doctor in 'The Elephant Man'. He had been as believable a doctor as you can imagine, and he was good.

Let's get the elephant out of the room. I'm a conservative Democrat.

There is only one way to eat an elephant, a bite at a time.

The elephant, the huge old beast, is slow to mate

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.

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

How hard can it be to find a girl and an elephant for Christ's sake?

To be without God is to be a snake / who wants to swallow an elephant.

I wanted to work with an elephant.

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

But what humans forget, cells remember. The body, that elephant

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

Every Man being conscious to himself, That he thinks, and that which his Mind is employ'd about whilst thinking, being the Ideas, that are there, 'tis past doubt, that Men have in their Minds several Ideas, such as are those expressed by the words, Whiteness, Hardness, Sweetness, Thinking, Motion, Man, Elephant, Army, Drunkenness, and others: It is in the first place then to be inquired, How he comes by them? I know it is a received Doctrine, That Men have native Ideas, and original Characters stamped upon their Minds, in their very first Being.

Pointless. . . . Like giving caviar to an elephant.

The knife flaying the elephant does not have to be large, only sharp!

Elephant Man [movie] was much more difficult physically. This had a couple of days. It was quite tricky. I had my leg strapped up behind me and I am a little older now. It was all marvelous, though. He [Bong Joon-ho] is one of the most fabulous directors in the world.

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.

The law of nature gives a man the right to defend himself when he's attacked. And God's law itself gives a man the right to defend himself when he's attacked.so, peaceful suffering and passive resistance and all of that stuff is all right maybe in India somewhere, where the people in India outnumber the whites - about a million to one.But here in America, when you tell that's like an elephant sitting down on a - on a mouse in India with [Mahatma] Gandhi.

'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.

I couldn't hit an elephant's ass with a bull fiddle.

They couldn't hit an elephant at this dist...

Mediocrity is the elephant in the room.

A camel makes an elephant feel like a jet plane.

I'll do anything to keep everyone laughing. Things get too intense on film sets. I remember on The Elephant Man, I used to imitate a cat without moving my lips. David Lynch would say, "Cut! Sorry, we've got a noise somewhere on set." Everyone would be looking around for this cat.

You can eat an elephant if you do it one bite at a time.

When an elephant is by himself, he can attack lions and get away with it.

The economy is the silent elephant in the room.

...the elephant smoked too much.

I feel like a carton of eggs holding up an elephant.

I had a probing mind and an elephant memory.

If size mattered, the elephant would be king of the jungle.

I'm real petty. I remember everything like an elephant.

when there's an elephant in the room, you can't pretend it isn't there and just discuss the ants.

Abrams's Advice: When eating an elephant, take one bite at a time.

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

It is better to own 10% of an elephant than 100% of a rat.

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.

You know, the last time America sensationalized an actor from India, the man died a poor, miserable soul: He was Sabu, the elephant boy. He came here and was the toast of Hollywood. And he just went back to India and died a pauper.

It is absurd for a man to kill an elephant. It is not brutal, it is not heroic, and certainly it is not easy; it is just one of those preposterous things that men do like putting a dam across a great river, one tenth of whose volume could engulf the whole of mankind without disturbing the domestic life of a single catfish.

You can eat an elephant one bit at a time.

Do you have any idea how much an elephant drinks?

All the religions are true, they just see a different part of the elephant.

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.

Race in this country is still the elephant in the room that no one wants to discuss.

When you hear the elephant music you're hearing what they mean to make.

If you've got a great crew it's intense, but its quite short. 'The Elephant Man' was longer than most, for an independent film. That was a 14 week film. But it was because of the intrinsic difficulties. We had to invent a different way of filming, because the makeup was so long. A working day for me with a full makeup on was nineteen hours. So obviously you couldn't do that twice running.

Education isn't everything, for a start it isn't an elephant

Love will draw an elephant through a key-hole.

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.'

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.

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

The rider evolved to serve to the elephant.

Did I ever say an engagement was an elephant, madam?