Top 211 Trunk Quotes & Sayings

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

As the trunk is one but the branches are many, yoga is one but adaptations may vary.

I don't have a trunk of manuscripts.

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

That was interesting, riding in the trunk," Milo said, "but I wouldn't want to do it again.

I always thought jazz was like the trunk of a tree. After the tree has grown, many branches have spread out. They're all with different leaves and they all look beautiful. But at the end of the season, they fold back up and it's still the tree trunk.

I've got more junk in the trunk than most 5-foot-1 blonde girls, and I like it.

... Speaking of which, the boys weren't actually touching the breifcases in the trunk, I hope?" Wondering how Milligan knew, Kate stuck her head out the office door and gave Reynie and Sticky a warning look. They nodded and tried to close the trunk as quietly as possible. "They aren't now anyway." "Good," Milligan said, picking up his duffel bag. "I'd hate to have to speak sternly to them again. It embarasses me to be so ineffective.

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

It was so sweet backstage, you should have seen it - The Teamsters were helping Michael Moore into the trunk of his limo.

However long it stays in the river the tree-trunk will never turn into a crocodile.

Now he saw another elephant emerge from the place where it had stood hidden in the trees. Very slowly it walked to the mutilated body and looked down. With its sinuous trunk it struck the huge corpse; then it reached up, broke some leafy branches with a snap, and draped them over the mass of torn thick flesh. Finally it tilted its massive head, raised its trunk, and roared into the empty landscape.

Even as a tree has a single trunk, but many branches and leaves, there is one religion but any number of faiths.

I was self-conscious of what I would call my "tree-trunk legs" because they are very muscular... but now I've learned to love them.

You can date the evolving life of a mind, like the age of a tree, by the rings of friendship formed by the expanding central trunk.

From a small seed a mighty trunk may grow.

If my body were a tree trunk, the rings would surely reveal the time it has had to mature.

They have in me struck down but the trunk of the tree; the roots are many and deep - they will shoot up again!

Everything is always grungy in England, no? It's like a little shibboleth of the upper class, wearing something out of your grandfather's trunk.

I have a trunk containing continents.

Eventually, everything gets stuck between a pair of parentheses or buried in the bottom of a trunk.

My conception of it was that in a normal film you have a story with different movements that program, develop, go a little bit off the trunk, come back, and end.

You've got to get out of the car, take the keys around, open up the trunk lid, hand the keys to the Lord Jesus, get inside the trunk, slam the lid down, whisper through the keyhole, 'Lord look, fill'r up with anything you want and you drive, it's up to you from now on.'

The design of the gum is expressed in the flow of it trunk and limbs, and the design of the European tree mainly in its foliage. In Europe great masses of foliage first attract the eye, here the limbs and trunk, which, on account of their proportion and colour, make themselves felt first, and one thinks of the foliage as a secondary matter.

Before we left town, Antonio pulled into a strip mall and went in to get subs and salads, leaving Clay and me half naked and bleeding in the car, and Cain unconscious in the trunk. No wonder I was anxious to get back to Toronto. Spend too much time around these guys and you become a little too nonchalent about blood-soaked clothes and bodies in the trunk

I got dead bodies rotting in my Benz trunk. Trunk of funk, I call it.

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

We treat this world of ours as though we have a spare in the trunk.

The forest stretched on seemingly forever with the most monotonous predictability, each tree just like the next - trunk, branches, leaves; trunk, branches, leaves. Of course a tree would have taken a different view of the matter. We all tend to see the way others are alike and how we differ, and it's probably just as well we do, since that prevents a great deal of confusion. But perhaps we should remind ourselves from time to time that ours is a very partial view, and that the world is full of a great deal more variety than we ever manage to take in.

A particular disappointment is seldom more than an excrescence upon the trunk of a general good--a shower that spoils the pleasure party, but refreshes and enriches the earth.

And when I was in the trunk, I saw Jesus. And the Virgin Mary. And Ozzy Osbourne.

Seldom indeed does human virtue rise From trunk to branch.

What is a memory? Not a storehouse, not a trunk in the attic, but an instrument that constantly refines the past into a narrative, accessible and acceptable to oneself.

I thought I was having an existential crisis, but it was nothing. Please don't tailgate: body in trunk.

The canker which the trunk conceals is revealed by the leaves, the fruit, or the flower.

'Straight Outta Compton' is the album I'm least happy with. I threw it together in six weeks so we could have something to sell out of the trunk.

Elves are like trees, grounded and focused from the trunk down but graceful and agile on top.

The axe of intemperance has lopped off his green boughs and left him a withered trunk.

We do not make beams from the hollow, decaying trunk of the fallen oak. We use the upsoaring tree in the full vigor of its sap.

Our nation is like a tree of which the original trunk is swarajya and the branches are swadeshi and boycott.

Antithesis may be the blossom of wit, but it will never arrive at maturity unless sound sense be the trunk and truth the root.

A tree trunk the size of a man grows from a blade as thin as a hair. A tower nine stories high is built from a small heap of earth.

I'd be ashamed to see a woman walking around with my name-label on her, address and railway station, like a wardrobe trunk.

I was hustling out of shops kind of doing, selling music out of my trunk, selling grills out of my trunk, too. And then I teamed up with Johnny Dang, he was the local, the grill man who made them for the dentist.

I've always wanted to do a segment on a talk show. Jay Leno has been such a good friend, and if he would allow me, I'd have to get it all together, but I'd like to go on 'The Tonight Show' and do a set with no props. Or come out with a trunk and never touch it. Or come out with a clear trunk with nothing in it.

Generally, I like people's trunk projects, the things they were working on before anyone knew who they were. I think when people run out of their trunk items and they start doing stuff just to do a film next year, the quality goes down, the interest goes down. Maybe it feels commercial or something.

I hear them playing Elvis, they on they way to Graceland. But they don't scare me, I'm in the trunk.

I'm afraid to be on this shore a trunk without limbs, and what I most regret is not to have flower, pulp, or clay for the worm of my suffering.

When a man's dog turns against hime, it is time for his wife to pack her trunk and go home to mamma.

My trunk, valises and my mind are overpacked.

I'm gonna be making records anyway, even if I had to sell 'em out of the trunk of my car. I'm that kind of musician and singer.

After moving to the Premier League, I've realised that I need to limber up and strengthen my body trunk.

There's nothing sexy about skin and bone. You gotta have some junk in the trunk.

Trunk steady knocking/ Floating through the sky, Mary Poppins.

Important achievements require a clear focus, all-out effort, and a bottomless trunk full of strategies. Plus allies in learning.

I have an aluminium trunk that I came to Delhi with. God has given me a lot in the last 27 years, but that trunk remains with me. I can return to Motihari with that trunk but I have my family to support.

I have a GoPro in the trunk of my streetcar.

A tree nowhere offers a straight line or a regular curve, but who doubts that root, trunk, boughs, and leaves embody geometry?

There, there, baby. We'll hide her body in the trunk later. (Tory)

Some vices only lay hold of us by means of others, and these, like branches, fall on removal of the trunk.